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  Oh, apparently Friday was the Stop Cyberbullying Day. I don't have a platitude to bestow upon y'all, but please remember that people harassing and heckling you online are the miserable ones. Pity them and their envy, their vile hearts. You have something they don't: you are loved and cherished.

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  Looking at the past can be funny sometimes. You are here now, doing the things you do, because of everything that has happened to you. That includes all the terrible things too. Sometimes... these bad things almost want you to give them credit for all that you've become, your successes. It irks me to think that inadvertently I was put on this path by my worst experiences. That without them I wouldn't have experienced the good that came after, crossed paths with people that uplif...

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  No gamedev this week because I needed to reach a milestone in contract work and then I need to clear my head. Neating up organization of assets for GDQuest's Learn 2D and Learn 3D courses has been a pleasant task though. I like neating things up. I'd be a good librarian.

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  It is time to eat watermelons with a spoon again

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  On the subject of The Discourse, it does seem like a very minor change to wording around the same principles as before. I don't think that any of the already merged PRs would've been rejected under these changes either, which makes the whole thing moot. Would love to see that introspection though.

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  I wanna sub-post and push back against this so much. No law or policy is truly enforceable. The MIT license isn't truly enforceable. What you do is you codify your morals and then enforce that to the best of your ability. Mistakes will happen, you'll fix, improve, apologize. In practice, this might be true, none of it might be better because of a "moral policy" — when you only view the end result. But it sends the message. It reveals the intent. It puts your...

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  Why does the copyright on Google Maps say that imagery is from 2026 when it's not even from this decade sometimes? Does it mean that Maxar provides them old pictures anew, so the copyright year is just the last data fetch?

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  No more physical games media in 1.5 years, eh? 15 years ago I was ordering physical disks for my 360 by mail from game.co.uk (I was not in the UK) just so I could have an international version of the games I wanted. Literally impossible in the digital age.

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  The dilemma of recreation. After a few days of not touching any of my work I feel the urge to start doing things again. A part of me wants to capitalize on this boost of motivation, while another feels like I’m cheating myself out of the rest. Ugh, I miss being younger when the energy was infinite.

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  Someone should make an asset pack with custom node icons for Godot, fitting the style and using official colors for 2D, 3D, Controls, etc. 🤔 I like customizing things, but making custom icons every time is yet another sinkhole where time spent is not really paying off IMO.

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  Wait, Android???

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  I am once again being a master of unnecessary detail. #gamedev

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  Just realized that we get power cutoffs often enough that I maybe should buy an UPS for my laptop now. Which is just silly... With an external keyboard (because S on the built-in is permanently shorted) and a spiderweb of dongle wires (because all built-in USB ports bar one are dead) I get no convenience of a laptop and with the form factor I get no performance of a comparable desktop. The worst of both worlds!

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  Imagine this productivity, but spent on something useful and important to coding...

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  RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@yurisizov/116539966688586574 To compensate I devised a new plan for this week: spend each day a few hours on personal projects, then a few hours of contract work. And I think that experiment is a success! I made progress on art and code for my game, and also made some money – all without guilt in either direction! And I felt more productive too, working more hours total. Switching up midday also helped it all feel less draining. Even though I like to keep f...

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  What's the worst that can happen if I slot in a slightly different battery in my laptop?..

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  Feeling like blocking on sight people who refuse to understand that FOSS projects cannot exist without people being paid for their work, and your 5 bucks a month is, unfortunately, not enough to sustain something, let alone provide people with stability to plan for future.

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  https://www.blender.org/news/upcoming-blender-development-fund-and-ai-policies/ I guess that makes some people happy. I still think the outrage is ridiculous. Nvidia, a military-industrial complex giant, has been a sponsor since forever. AI-loving Meta; Grok's No.1 fan Timmy are sponsors as well. There is damn Meshy even, literally encroaching on artists... Anthropic is shit, but is it more shit than those companies? Many reacted like something unprecedented has happened, but that&amp...

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  What is the most recent game that you've played that has cheat codes?

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  According to Valve, they managed to run pretty much all x86 games (so far) on their new ARM-based PCs thanks to this FOSS project: https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX This runs together with Proton to seamlessly transcode Windows x86 games for Steam OS on ARM. FOSS is THAT cool! #foss #valve

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  Bluesky is all kind of down today, and I gotta be honest, it makes me very pleased that regardless of the source of all these issues regular people immediately associate a bad IT product with vibe coding and AI. That's the stigma that should always be attached to anything and anyone associated with those "tools".

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  Someone actually made a plugin for previewing parts of text shaders in Godot, like I've wanted for the longest time! https://github.com/cashew-olddew/godot-shader-previewer Personally, I'd love to see it further implemented like "breakpoints" on lines, with on-hover previews. But still, so cool!

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  Hey folks! For the three of you who do wild things with the Godot editor, me and @gdquest have a new library (WIP) to ease your woes a bit. Editor Interface Access is a library that enumerates ~380 editor nodes (for now), so you can access any of them with just one line of code! https://github.com/GDQuest/godot_editor_interface_access #godot

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  We need to separate “tech” companies from videogames. This level of ghoulishness is insufferable. This is not progress in visual tech. This is defacing of an art form by people with ugly souls. https://www.digitalfoundry.net/features/nvidias-new-dlss-5-brings-photo-realistic-lighting-to-rtx-50-series