I’ve seen those posts too, but can’t speak German. What does “ich_iel” actually mean?
e0qdk
I write code and play games and stuff. My old username from reddit and HN was already taken and I couldn’t think of anything else I wanted to be called so I just picked some random characters like this:
>>> import random
>>> ''.join([random.choice("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789") for x in range(5)])
'e0qdk'
My avatar is a quick doodle made in KolourPaint. I might replace it later. Maybe.
日本語が少し分かるけど、下手です。
Alt: e0qdk@reddthat.com
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How does this relate to Summer in Mara? Are you expected to play SiM first? (Or is it better if you don’t play that first if you haven’t already?) Is this an independent story in the same setting?
Thanks for the suggestion. Seems to be in Early Access still. I’ll keep an eye out for when it’s done though!
Thanks. I’ve already played Psychonauts (and Psychonauts 2!) but that’s a solid suggestion.
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll take a look. Toilet humor isn’t my usual goto, but I can enjoy it from time to time; I mean, that boss from Conker’s Bad Fur Day – you know the one, if you ever played it – is among the most memorable encounters I’ve ever had in gaming…
Edit: I’m a few hours in now, and I’d say it’s kind of like the developers took Conker’s Bad Fur Day and A Hat in Time, ground both up with a meat grinder, shoved the mix in a pie tin, added a dash of Ford Cruller’s Secret Blend of Psitanium and Spices, and baked in the oven at 350 degrees until well done. I’m enjoying it so far. Fair warning to anyone else reading who is thinking of trying it that it’s much more tuned to Conker’s style of cartoon violence (with blood and gore) than to A Hat in Time’s.
I could really use another A Hat in Time, honestly. Not the Death Wish part – I’ve still got Dark Souls 3 just sitting there waiting for me when I’m ready for that… – but the chill, cutesy, fun main game part. Anyone got some recommendations?
0·1 year agoI didn’t finish it because I wasn’t quite sure how to handle the data of trianglefan (looped) vs. trianglestrip
I went a good way down the rabbit hole of reading papers on triangulation before finding earcut.hpp which solved the “how do I triangulate polygons with concavities without going insane” problem effectively enough for my needs. It doesn’t do quite what I’d like for self-intersections, but otherwise was pretty good. (Good enough for all cases where I care about the output anyway; self-intersection and degenerate stuff being a bit weird was OK for my goals as long as it didn’t crash.) I’m not familiar with raylib (other than having heard the name before), so not sure how hard it’d be for you to integrate, but it’s something you might take a look at if you’re interested.
Self-intersection failure example: https://files.catbox.moe/tz38c8.png
Wireframe geometry example: https://files.catbox.moe/w59izh.png
Ah, I see. I wasn’t reading carefully enough.
Your links reminded me of some projects I was poking around at a while ago. I wanted to make tools for creating complex 2D shapes that could be interactively animated with OpenGL as well as for experimenting with different elements of things like anime-style eyes. I was thinking offline (for games on desktop) rather than for web, but maybe that stuff would have value for web if I ever get back to it… I got a pretty good way into it before I ran out of steam. You could dynamically click to insert new control points anywhere on the edges of complex outlines and really quickly translate/rotate/zoom with keyboard and mouse combos and it redrew everything every frame in realtime on my 10 year old desktop… but someone who’s actually good at art would probably have still been more effective just digging up an old copy of Flash than what I’d gotten working. :-/
Bezier curve chain editor screenshot: https://files.catbox.moe/bk4zhz.png
Eye example: https://files.catbox.moe/4ywrpi.png
I mean something like this probably could work live-rendered in the browser
It is indeed possible to emulate Flash in the browser now and people have already done it – e.g. Badger Badger Badger emulation
It looks like it’s ~10MB (w/ compression) + the SWF file to get all the WASM and whatever to run the player. Fullscreen (from the right click menu) seems to be buggy at the moment in my browser but YMMV.
You can search for other classic Flash stuff here: https://flashpointproject.github.io/flashpoint-database/ (use the “Play at 9o3o” link at the top right of an entry to launch something in the browser).
They are! There are US antitrust cases going on right now against Google (x2), Amazon, and Meta/Facebook. Some links that may be of interest:
- FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power
- U.S. and Plaintiff States v. Google LLC (2020) – trial began on September 12, 2023 (this case regards search, I think)
- U.S. and Plaintiff States v. Google LLC (2023) – complaint PDF (this is a second case against Google)
- FTC v. Facebook
I did this incredibly stupid procedure with Firefox yesterday as a workaround for a failing Google Takeout download:
[1] You can actually replace the new .part file with anything that has the same size in bytes as the old file – I replaced it with a file full of zeros and manually merged the end onto the original .part file with a tiny custom python script since I had already moved the incomplete file to other media before realizing I could try this. (In my case, the incomplete file would still have been useful even with the last ~1MB cut off.)
There are probably better options in most cases – like Thunderbird for mailbox as other people suggested, or rclone for getting stuff from Drive – but if you need to get Takeout to work and the download keeps failing this may be another option to try.