Aether (moved) @Taylor@awoo.space
I'm an artist and something of a game dev living in New Zealand.
I talk about personal things that can get tangentially NSFW. While I wouldn't call this an after-dark account, it's kind of a mishmash personal account and prefer to mingle with people I know or trust.
Joined Sep 2017
Today's experience in trying to understand XInput and seeing it does some Thing with something called bit and shift operators:
Music to softblock en-mass by:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0BNkw27o5E
social media is a mess
I've got a few followers on Twitter lately at random and I just look at their timelines and think... you're not going to be interested in me... why are you following me?
https://twitter.com/Tayruu/status/1208584714254045184
I kind of want to go through followers and softblock a lot of them if they don't seem like they're following out of legitimate interest because I don't like that I have 230-ish people following when maybe 30 of them regularly interact with me.
I realise "regularly interact" is a bit of a weird statement, because some people you just like to see on your timeline even if you don't reply or like everything. That's just a psychological trick the sites expect of you.
But... still...
Social media is just wrong. Remember when we all used Livejournal? People had like, 15 followers each. You didn't have this social obligation to care about thousands of inconsequential people, to allow to have a view and say into your life. You had forums for public space, and journals for privacy amongst friends. IRC could be either or.
There's just a certain "wrongness" to the social structure of social networks. It's not about personal connections, but being a walking, living advertisement. You're broadcasting your life for consumption - if you try to be more personal or social, you risk being thrown to the wolves.
There are straight up missing pixels in the small text when playing 3H in handheld mode. I don't think they tested their UI in 720p.
So, I generally presumed that Twitter converted gifs to video, because most gifs online were converted from video anyway, because memes, so doing so would reduce load time.
... yet now Twitter appears to be supporting apngs, circumventing the gif conversion, and rendering the prior logic null.
I'm not sure these two are supposed to have this sort of reaction to a sorbet.
On the one hand, I miss the simpler era where internet memes were animal photos with captions, motivational parodies, and rage comics.
On the other hand, the fact people are making well edited *videos* as memes now is just super impressive.
I keep staying up until about 4.30am playing Three Houses.
No wonder I feel like crap during the day. Come on, sleep cycle.
Twitter/internet mindset gripes
It's so frustrating to me that that original "lol look at this Paris artist they made a buttplug Christmas tree" tweet has FOURTY-THOUSAND retweets, yet any tweet clarifying it was someone in America, gets 4-5 thousand at the most.
Stop spreading misinformation just because it seems funnier that way, and that it gets you clout.
If I was particularly bitter, I'd call it a little racist. That is, people think foreigners accidentally doing something is quirky and entertaining, and the idea that someone - from your own country in particular - will do something with designed intent, loses that dehumanising appeal.
Re boost (re-awoo??): That's been today's experience. oh god please let it end
Sudden thought: so Twitter randomly showing people's likes in the timeline circumvents "turn off retweets", right? Since a lot of people fav and RT at once...
What a mess of a website.
It's likely I'm approaching this the wrong direction - I altered code that checks if Sprite graphics have changed, not the part that defines the graphics itself, which is in the Battler class.
The former point still stands though.
Really weird that RPG Maker XP has battle Sprites that make reference to their related Battlers (the data), but the Battlers themselves don't reference the Sprites.
This feels backwards to how things are normally handled.
Currently I'm changing the sprite graphics from the Sprite class, but since that doesn't update the battlers, referencing them to get the current sprite (as you would) doesn't work.
The walled garden's hedge grows ever higher. This sort of design would just make it next to impossible to connect to the device except through proprietary means.
Reviewing some of WTU's damage/stat algorithm stuff and I'm surprised still it let me do this thing.
"why isn't the current generation like MY generation", cry boomers over the sensitive college students, "society was good and definitely didn't need improving"
I'm an artist and something of a game dev living in New Zealand.
I talk about personal things that can get tangentially NSFW. While I wouldn't call this an after-dark account, it's kind of a mishmash personal account and prefer to mingle with people I know or trust.
Joined Sep 2017
