Ash McAllan shared 3 years ago
...hoping to use THIS construction for accessing files, tho!
Ash McAllan shared 3 years ago
RT @80Level
.@Sakura_Rabbiter presented an impressive real-time global snow-covering effect set up in Unity and shared a breakdown explaining how it was created.
Details: https://80.lv/articles/a-global-real-time-snow-covering-effect-set-up-in-unity/
#unity #unity3d #madewithunity #gamedev #indiedev #3dart #gamedevelopment
Ash McAllan shared 3 years ago
A thunderstorm as seen from Space ..A towering thunderstorm lights up the night skies over Panama, as seen at 37,000 feet..Photo by Santiago Borja.
Ok so I made a thing. I know I wasn't going to but I remembered Tracery exists and it does a lot of the stuff I wanted my theoretical tool to do, including variable storage. This still doesn't do everything I want and I'm likely to iterate on it to make it nicer, especially if I get good feedback. But for now it at least... does the thing. You put tables in, you get rolled results back. The format is roughly compatible with Markdown without requiring me to do markdown's horrid table syntax and I don't have to type all the json syntax that Tracery wants.
The most impressive thing about Mastodon, really, is that in the year 2022 it's created a whole new kind of internet drama. Moderation and defederation drama is kind a whole new level of thing.
Hey, just a reminder, there are some sites that let you register/login with twitter. Have you ever used that option? Might want to go and see if there's a way to change your login option for those sites. You know, just in case.
Ash McAllan shared 3 years ago
Made a font for your cyber adventures.
I like making fonts that are less legible for reading and make creating cryptic symbols easier.
The big red symbols on the left say "ancient". On the right is says "futures". Just fun.
It's PWYW on hinokodo.itch.io for a week.
Ash McAllan shared 3 years ago
And my pride and joy: GOAT (Godot Open Adventure Template), a framework for making 3D interactive first-person games:
Ash McAllan shared 3 years ago
Yes donating to the admin is nice, but have you considered we can use this energy to build institutions for actual user power?
Large scale user unions which fund the systemic development and sustainability of this environment? That fund moderation labor across the network?
Democratic institutions that can push back simultaneously against Big Tech, BDFL like Mastodon and misguided legislation to regulate the internet?
Umbrella organizations that can shield users from arbitrary abuses of instances and simultaneously assist teams running instances with legal issues, know-how, funds and best practices?
We're currently only scratching the surface of what federated social networks can be and we need to be way more ambitious.
Anyone recommend me a really good actual play of Mork Borg? Ive tended to watch ActualPlay, Dimension20, and Roll20 Presents but I don't think any of them have played it.
Ash McAllan shared 3 years ago
At the beginning of this evening I was sure there was a standardized text format I'd used at some point for formatting rollable tables to be used for randomly generating dungeon stuff. I looked at Perchance, Last Gasp, Chartopia, Hexdescribe, Orteil's Randomgen, Rant and add-ons for Obsidian and VS-Code but nothing felt quite familiar and easy enough. Hexdescribe definitely has the syntax I like most but it's written in perl. I was sure I remembered something that I had used with wiki's for previous campaigns... Maybe something that was markdown based? I almost started writing my own tool and then I realised what I had been remembering: rollable table import scripts for roll20. They're not particularly good, certainly not outright better than any of the other options. That was just what had been familiar. So now I'm left being not quite happy with any of the available solutions and having to resist the temptation to write my own. 
Ash McAllan shared 3 years ago
I'm Adam, a traditional, pixel, and digital artist - I specialize mainly in landscapes, figurative work, and fantasy! I work full-time as a professor teaching art as well as selling my artwork on the side. Here's some of my work! #pixelart #art #artistsonmastodon
Ash McAllan shared 3 years ago
Ash McAllan shared 3 years ago
Hello y'all 👋 A quick #introduction
@h3r2tic and I are making this tiny chill building game 🏰🌱 with some audio magic from @OdaTilset and @lydmartin 🎶 More to come soon ✨
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Also, reminder, if you have disposable income, set up some kind of small recurring donation to your mastodon instance admin. Most have a Patreon or ko-fi or similar. There's no ads paying to keep the lights on here so help out if you can.
Ash McAllan shared 3 years ago
-This seems to be a nice and quiet place to have that cup of hot tea.
-Sure, I'm just wondering what that rhythmic vibration could be.
Ok my guess is that the thing that actually brings Twitter down will be the extra load on the systems from everyone trying to use the data export feature as they panic about the ship sinking 
Ash McAllan shared 3 years ago
Folks new to this: if you haven't done this yet, give it a crack. You'll like it.
Ash McAllan shared 3 years ago
