https://cohost.org/typhlosion/post/2947524-lets-make-a-game-for i forgot to link ep2 of my nesdev adventure on masto. well here it is
Something I noticed in these two weeks of Unity discourse is that developers are so immersed in their specific practices that struggle to grasp how different genres are dependent on, and entrenched in, currently available technologies.
8 bit platformer dude: "Just switch to Godot"
ascii game dude: "Just make your own engine"
Third-person shooter dude: "Unreal is clearly the best choice now"
Ok dudes (it's always a dude) but... it depends?
2832. Urban Planning Opinion Progression
title text: If they're going to make people ride bikes and scooters in traffic, then it should at LEAST be legal to do the Snow Crash thing where you use a hook-shot-style harpoon to catch free rides from cars.
(https://xkcd.com/2832)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2832)
i meant to start working on episode 2 of nesdevlog today, but kinda got waylaid by some stuff. i'll try to get it out over the weekend - it'll be a long one
i want to make games on linux and have basically no programming experience. if i were to start learning one, what programming language should i learn?
edit: am leaning towards lua! i have a tiny bit of love2D experience so i at least have touched it before, even if i don't really know what i'm doing or remember the syntax
we need a browser + extension that will show downloads in a bar at the bottom of the window like download statusbar, and that can open the downloaded files with a simple click or double click
we refuse to use chrome or anything chromium-based
does anyone have suggestions
-F
we need advice on browser stuff
we have been using waterfox classic ever since firefox updated and broke all the old extensions, because there is one extension we need for accessibility reasons (called "download statusbar")
waterfox classic is having increasing amounts of trouble with modern websites and the recent mastodon update means we might??? just have problems with plush.city, our main social media site, going forward
-F
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