Is it just me or has webhosting and domain name registration not really gotten any cheaper in the last decade and a half? Isn't that insane? That feels like the biggest impediment to whatever utopian internet we'd all like to imagine.
When writing and looking for words I always fall into this trap of turning to thesauruses, reverse dictionaries, visuwords, or even chatgpt, all to just try to prompt my brain and every time its fuckin useless. But if I go sit somewhere with a notebook and a pen, put my phone away, and just ... go, let the words wander on the page I always end up with so much way better stuff. Machines can't even help prompt me to creativity properly. Instead, through practice I have turned myself into a thing that produces creativity, solutions, and design. And I don't think we have anywhere close to the tech required to be able to teach itself to become such a thing. I'm not even sure it's possible with silicon given the limits of physics and the crazy efficiency of the biological carbon solution.
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:
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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."
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
https://diyanddragons.blogspot.com/2024/01/xandering-is-slandering.html
Oh cool! The guy who insisted on deadnaming Jennell Jaquays in his very famous article about her wildly influential dungeon design techniques, for years after both her public coming out and his having been informed, has decided, while she was in a coma on her deathbed, to rename the technique discussed in the article after himself, replacing the text of the original article and any of his own references to it online. He presumably discusses the technique in the book of dungeonmaster advice he's just published because his article on her technique was a foundational work in the blog that got him the book deal though who knows if there's any reference to Jaquays there given his apparent need to claim all credit.
Jennell was one of the most influential and foundational designers in the ttrpg hobby and to know that she was my sister as a trans woman has been incredibly important for me and my work. Losing her has been a tragic loss for our community and now to have her name spat on like this just as we've lost her is horrific. Grief and Rage.
Nonlinear dungeon design is Jaquaysian or Jaquaysed or at most distant, Thracian. Making a dungeon more non-linear is Jaquaysing it. Let's agree that Xandering is just being an unbearably spineless white man, given the Buffy context and this one.
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
Inputty is now on the #godot asset library!
Check it out if you want easy action rebinding, icons, and/or local multiplayer :)
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/
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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.