After god knows how many years of work, the people behind the #StarWars 4K project have released the final installment. For those who don't know: a group of dedicated restorers, unhappy with the reworked Special Editions, hunted down, scanned and restored the original 35mm theatrical prints of the first Star Wars trilogy in Ultra High Definition. They're better than the official blurays. Incredible work, not only in terms of authentic content but even the picture quality is superior.

Happy "Captain Cook got stabbed in the chest in Hawaii" day to all who celebrate.

The more you know, the cooler you sound.

People don't talk about game architecture enough so!

💫 How do I ID things? 💫

Let's retrace how I reinvented the wheel!

Latest when adding your first 💾 Save Game 💾 system, you will find you need to ID your object types, cuz you can't store a reference to a Prefab

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I spend the morning documenting more issues with CharacterBody3D and providing really specific MPR's and use cases.

Character creation and movement is one of the issues that has been bothering Godot users for long time. If you want to help fixing this, whatever it is sharing the bug report, your experiences, testing or fixing the issues, please take a look at the Bug report:

https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/87946

#godotengine #Godot #gamedev #indiedev

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Stacy's mom
Has set up us the bomb
Her name is CATS and the main screen turn on
Stacy, you and I, make our time before we die
I know it might be wrong
Our base belong to Stacy's mom

"Error: Your password must contain at least two characters who talk to each other about something other than a man."

In the last of my posts about indie game mechanics, I've written about Apocalypse World (@lumpley) and the amazing tools it gives you as a GM.

I've learned a lot from it! It's solved problems I wondered about for years. #ttrpg

https://www.patreon.com/posts/apocalypse-world-97569435?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

deeply fucked that the version of the future we were sold was flying cars instead of no cars

Love this toothpaste label - let's roll it out across all products

FYI cis women/fems in tech - it's not just in your head. Misogyny is EXTREMELY real ALL OVER THE PLACE here. Having been the EXACT SAME PERSON with EVEN MORE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE in tech both BT/AT (Before tits/After tits), the amount of second guessing and pushback and mansplaining, and being told I'm "too emotional" or "I should be more polite" and whatever else has gone up DRAMATICALLY.

Seriously.

PS: And it's not just from men either. I've probably received at least as much misogyny from women in tech as I have men.

I recently mentioned blurry text rendering in @godotengine vs Unity using TextMesh Pro and turns out, YES, this is fixable!

When importing a font, make sure to have Multichannel Signed distance Field (MSDF) enabled!
Pro Tip: If you're using outlines, increase MSDF Pixel Range to 2x of your outline size.

Read more here: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/ui/gui_using_fonts.html#doc-using-fonts-msdf

#gamedev #godotengine

Inputty is now on the #godot asset library!

Check it out if you want easy action rebinding, icons, and/or local multiplayer :)

https://godotengine.org/asset-library/asset/2523

I just released my new article with it's companion asset!

A deep exploration of the proper use of mouse events to create responsive and reliable controls in both 3D and 2D games and the best Godot first person camera you can get to put it all in practice!

Read it here: https://yosoyfreeman.github.io/article/godot/tutorial/achieving-better-mouse-input-in-godot-4-the-perfect-camera-controller/

If you find my work useful, please consider sharing this post and supporting me on Ko-fi. My only income comes from donations!

My Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/yosoyfreeman

#godotengine #Godot #gamedev #indiedev

Google announced that starting in June 2024, ad blockers such as uBlock Origin #uBO will be disabled in Chrome 127 and later with the rollout of Manifest V3 (#Mv3).

The new #Chrome manifest will prevent using custom filters and stops on demand updates of blocklist. Only #Google authorized updates to browser extension will be allowed in the future, which mean an automatic win for Google in their battle to stop YouTube #AdBlockers .

#ManifestV3 is deceitful and threatening to your privacy, and now is a good time to switch to #Firefox (@mozilla) and/or #TorBrowser (@torproject) if you haven't done so already!

EFF (@eff) on Google’s Manifest V3:

⚠️⁠https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening
⚠️⁠https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-still-hurts-privacy-security-innovation

Chrome Manifest V3 Transition Timeline (2023-11-16)

🚩⁠https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/

EDIT for clarification: MV3 in Chrome will still allow some ad blocking extensions, but will severely limit their blocking ability and even restricts pre-set filters to 50 MAX.

Camembert is an endangered species! It relies on a mold that had lost the ability to reproduce sexually... and now, thanks to inbreeding, this mold has also lost the ability to reproduce using spores. Roquefort is also in trouble, but for Camembert it's worse:

"The world over, this other symbol of French gastronomy is inoculated exclusively with one single strain of Penicillium camemberti, a white mutant that was selected for Brie cheeses in 1898 and Camemberts in 1902.

The problem is that ever since then the strain has been replicated by vegetative propagation only. Until the 1950s, Camemberts still had grey, green or in some cases orange-tinged moulds on their surface. But the industry was not fond of these colours, considering them unappealing, and staked everything on the albino strain of P. camemberti, which is completely white and moreover has a silky texture. This is how Camembert acquired its now-characteristic pure white rind.

Year after year, generation after generation, the albino strain of P. camemberti, which was already incapable of sexual reproduction, lost its ability to produce asexual spores. As a result it is now very difficult for the entire industry to obtain enough P. camemberti spores to inoculate their production of the famous Norman cheese.

Worse still, while the Roquefort PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) standard retains a degree of microbial biodiversity, the PDO specifications for Camembert require farmers and other producers to use P. camemberti exclusively."

What to do about it? Switch to eating American cheese, or Velveeta? Read on....

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