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Hello, world! Just moving here from .lol
I'm Arne (any pronouns fine, they/them if you're indecisive)
I'm a senior in college, on my last semester for my B.S. in Computer Science. Exciting stuff!
I mostly post about video games, and reblog art that I like. To prove this, here are my new Tetris high scores!
So, this new Mario Movie trailer (?) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu57M7cjSD4) links to a promotional website https://www.smbplumbing.com/
On this page, clicking the "Call or Text Us" button on the top right of the page plays the GameCube startup sound. I thought that was a neat little easter egg!
The island's starting to come together! #NintendoSwitch #AnimalCrossing #ACNH
@PrintShopDeluxe LET'S GO COOL CRAB 🦀 🦀 🦀
My copy of Who Hunts the Whale by @LauraKBuzz just arrived!
I honestly wasn't expecting the level to end immediately after this. It felt like it was just starting to get going!
🍓 https://youtu.be/41NKRQ5HCdQ
#Celeste #CelesteStrawberryJam
Another level down!
🍓 https://youtu.be/Feu2Got0xcE
#Celeste #CelesteStrawberryJam
Modded Celeste is fun, but it might be more trouble than its worth. I just launched the game and somehow the A button is mapped to pause and I can't jump lol
Figured it out! It was because I had Steam open in the background (???). No idea why that would affect it, but closing Steam fixed it
How are you still alive? All the snow is gone and it's raining! ☃️☔ #NintendoSwitch #AnimalCrossing #ACNH
I think Treehive might be my favorite level in Strawberry Jam so far. I love the dream blocks, and the bouncing off walls mechanic they added makes them all the more fun!
🍓 https://youtu.be/GA1cYz4YxmM
#Celeste #CelesteStrawberryJam
Yeah, Celeste is pretty good... But what if it were actually VVVVVV? 🤔 (I should play VVVVVV one of these days...)
🍓 https://youtu.be/WIvdvTM6kMM
#Celeste #CelesteStrawberryJam
Spent some time today decorating my Animal Crossing bedroom. Thought it turned out pretty well! (I'm a little surprised about some of the stuff you can find on the custom designs portal. I didn't expect anyone to upload an ONRAC poster!) #NintendoSwitch #AnimalCrossing #ACNH
This isn't related to the room decorating, but I did find this giant fish a little later, so I wanted to share this as well. #NintendoSwitch #AnimalCrossing #ACNH
How do I put this Chadder... There's um... a text box in the way... #NintendoSwitch #AnimalCrossing #ACNH
So I'm starting to set up a kitchen area in #AnimalCrossing and for some reason you can use the refrigerator as a wardrobe. Gotta keep your clothes (looking) cool, I suppose! ❄️
@PrintShopDeluxe 🆒 🦀 😎 👍
I think this might be one of the most clever trolls I've ever seen in Mario Maker. The entire level is a dark level that's lit up so that you can't tell it's dark, all so that in this one specific moment, a pipe appears out of nowhere and sends you back to CP1!
I love this game! It was fun (if a little simple) murder mystery VN. Love the little Ace Attorney-ish pose here.
Only complaint was that the minigame you have to play after presenting evidence was way too hard (I managed to softlock it twice lol). Thankfully this game has an assist mode!
Incredible gameplay! #NintendoSwitch #GameBoy #Kirby
Hey, I 100% completed #Unpacking! #Steam #Gaming
This took way too long, but I got around to organizing all of my #Steam games into folders!
Biggest folders include: Puzzle, Half-Life and Portal (how are there so many???) and Unplayed (oops!)
@maxpearl The last folder is for The Stanley Parable. There's an achievement called "Super Go Outside", and to get it you can't play the game for 10 years. May 26, 2032 is the earliest I can launch the game again to get the achievement.
@thingsiplay I'm using them more like tags. Sometimes it's really hard to decide what exact category a game should go under lol. (Is a puzzle platformer a puzzle, or a platformer?)
Emojis are nice, but they mess with the sort order. I'm using them to make my special folders (current, unplayed, etc.) sort at the top, but I like the actual categories in alphabetical order. 😄
Well, that's one way to tell me I need to get rid of the flowers... #ACNH #AnimalCrossing #NintendoSwitch
@admin I wasn't able to use desktop for the past couple days, but did the recent update break the Explore tab? For me, it's only showing one post.
The Itch integration on the new Lutris update is really nice. You can install games from your Itch library right from Lutris. It creates a new prefix for each Windows game, too, which is really convenient.
But since it only lets you install games in your library, and you can't actually add free games to your Itch library, Lutris doesn't support installing any free games from Itch! Which is a little silly, I think. The free games are one of the biggest parts of Itch!
There's an issue to support collections, which would make it easier, but IDK if there's any progress on it. This comment points out Lutris does support installing free itch games, but it's just not exposed in the UI. If you make an install script for the game you can do it, though.
I've made a simple commandline python script to generate a Lutris install script for a game given its itch.io page. If anyone's interested in that, feel free to check it out: https://github.com/Rayquaza01/itch-lutris-script-generator
An interesting thing I found when working on this including the executable file in the script.
Looking at the HoloCure itch install script as an example, you need the path to the executable in order for Lutris to launch the game, of course. If you're making the script manually, HoloCure.exe is obviously the file you want.
However, what if you're making the script automatically, and you're doing it without knowing the contents of the zip file that will be downloaded? (All my script does is give Lutris the Itch id and tell it what platform. Lutris handles the rest)
Well, there's apparently a magic value you can put in the script in place of the executable path that tells Lutris to guess the executable. In Lutris's source these values are called AUTO_ELF_EXE and AUTO_WIN32_EXE, and their values are "_xXx_AUTO_ELF_xXx_" and "_xXx_AUTO_WIN32_xXx_" respectively.
The API for Itch is woefully undocumented. The official documentation only includes the v1 API, and even then is missing many endpoints. I found some unofficial documentation that's a lot better. It includes the v2 API, which has no official documentation other than the official Itch.io API library for Go
But even then, it's not perfect. I'm sure there's plenty of stuff not included in even the unofficial docs.
For example: Adding data.json to the end of an Itch URL gives you some basic metadata about that game: https://rayquaza01.itch.io/enchanted-gemstones/data.json From here, you can get the id number and use the API to get more info about the game if you want. But this doesn't seem to be documented anywhere! This github issue is the only place I've found that mentions it.
Well, that's not supposed to happen! But it certainly looks cool! (I forgot to reset the timer variable, so it started spawning enemies every frame instead of every second haha) #LinuxGameJam2023
#LinuxGameJam2023 Dev Log Day 2 - https://itch.io/post/7898996
I created a the basics of a level up system as well as added a sword!
#LinuxGameJam2023 Dev Log Day 3 - https://itch.io/post/7905667
A little slower on progress today than yesterday, but I got randomized upgrades on level ups working. On level up, the player is offered three random choices for upgrades, which may be to upgrade weapons they already have, or to equip new weapons!
#LinuxGameJam2023 Dev Log Day 4 - https://itch.io/post/7912135
Added an equippable axe and played around with enemy scaling.
#LinuxGameJam2023 Dev Log Day 5 - The Final Day - https://itch.io/post/7918682
Added health and experience bars, pause menu stats, compilation troubles, and a release version!
https://rayquaza01.itch.io/linux-game-jam-2023
There's still more I'd like to do, but I don't think I can get very far in another day, so I'm going to leave it be. It's working, but unpolished. That's what I get for starting late haha! But I think what I have is pretty good for just 5 days.
I know the #reddit blackout is going on, but I didn't expect there to be no posts at all! I might add that "Just don't panic" to my bio, though...
The second #AceAttorney trilogy is getting re-released on platforms that aren't the 3DS or mobile! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4M9VfoAC68
Last year I barely managed to finish my 12 book goodreads challenge. This year I already finished. Wonder what changed. (Hint: it's because I read a bunch of graphic novels)
Does anyone know if there's an inventory search mod for #Minecraft 1.20 yet? (Something like the old NEI inventory search, when you double click the search bar) I'm really disorganized and it's pretty much an essential feature for me. #MinecraftMods
EMI does what I'm looking for!
Ooh! I got my beta test key for Sokobond Express! Excited to try it!
Ah, /r/egg_irl is back, but only allowing pictures of actual eggs IRL 🤣
I'm kinda curious, when you read ebooks, how do you like to do it? Portrait (1 column, like reading an article) or landscape (2 columns, like reading a physical book).
Detective Pikachu Returns?! Let's go! #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch
And a Princess Peach game!!!
YouTube added a queue to their mobile app! Finally!
... but it's premium only :( And also they put it in the same place the Watch Later button used to be, so I keep accidentally pressing it.
I have no idea what this game is, but if Lena Raine did the soundtrack, it's going straight on my wishlist lol
@schrottkatze miou mrow
@PrintShopDeluxe Love you, cool crab! 😎🦀🥤
Welcome to the world's smallest Savannah biome #minecraft
There's a Minecraft Blahaj mod! It doesn't do anything gameplay wise, but it does let you hug a plush shark :Blobhaj_Hug_Blahaj: https://modrinth.com/mod/blahaj #minecraft #blahaj
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@elforesto Yeah, most of the time I don't even bother looking at the recommended specs because it's hard to tell if my PC fits them.
More games should have demos, too. That way you could just decide if it'll work based on how the demo performs
@Morgan haha it's all good :) I didn't come up with it, but I did see someone else call it "hashtag soup" a couple months ago, so I stole it too
@LivingCooki 🐈 meow!
Quick game rec for the Steam sale:
Can't Live Without Electricity is a fun puzzle game about connecting houses to their appropriately colored powerlines. It's definitely very similar to Mini Motorways, if you're familiar with that, but it's fully turn based so you can take as long as you want to rearrange your wires.
I also ended up picking up:
OBS replay buffer can be used to quickly save a replay of what's on screen, but it's kinda annoying to use since wayland doesn't support global hotkeys (yet?). Does anyone know about a workaround or different solution that lets you save save a replay with a global hotkey? #linux
@RAOF I'm on GNOME. Running a command on a shortcut seems like it would be helpful, but I don't think there's a way to tell OBS to save the replay buffer from a command. I found the --startreplaybuffer flag, but that makes OBS start the buffer, not save a replay.
Thanks for the help, though!
@xalvos@mk.absturztau.be Hey, a fellow SmallAnt fan! I've been binging a lot of his challenge videos this past week lol
@xalvos@mk.absturztau.be Yeah, the hide and seek videos are a lot of fun! I think I've watched all of them, but it's a little hard to tell since the're all on different channels
@Rasp This is by yamujiburo on tumblr, if anyone's wondering https://www.tumblr.com/yamujiburo/721902770631884800
@lashman Oh, looking on the steamdb.info page for the game, it doesn't actually have any depots listed. I don't think they actually intended to release it yet haha. I guess I'll be waiting :)
I am not an artist, and I haven't drawn much of anything in years, but I'm ok at drawing SpongeBob. I used my android tablet as a drawing tablet and drew this #SpongeBob in the glitch-soc drawing tool. Enjoy!
When you first sign into Threads, you get an option to automatically re-follow everyone you follow on Instagram. Since I haven't used Instagram since high school, it's basically a "Send a notification to everyone you knew in high school :)" button. Why would I ever press that???
Hey, that's my bio!
(The something that went wrong in this scenario is downloading the Threads app in the first place)
@julianwki Ooh, Mini Metro's really good. I got Mini Motorways and Can't Live Without Electricity during the sale this year. If you like Mini Metro I'd definitely recommend checking those out!
@jjongista I'm cautiously optimistic for what AA7 could have in store. I'm still a little annoyed about Athena getting pushed to the sidelines in AA5 (and then barely being in AA6 at all!)
@jjongista I was 100% expecting them to do the same sort of thing as the end of AA5, where all 3 of them are on the defense of the last case, and then they just... didn't? Athena even tries to get on the case and they don't let her. It's very odd!
@girlbaus I don't play TCG regularly, but I'm going to guess the Shaymin Vstar was banned. 120+ damage for only 2 energy is really good, and it even scales. Also, that Vstar ability... heal 120 damage for each Pokemon on the bench!
They finally did it... They deleted the site...
(Just the dashboard is down)
From the moment the window broke and the room started flooding, I wanted to make an OceanGate joke, and then the game just did it for me lol
@auroraflora Zigzagoon is my favorite! It's cute, and the pickup ability is just such nice flavor in the games. It's like Zigzagoon is giving you little gifts!
I've made a first draft for my neocities site!
https://arnaught.neocities.org/
It's pretty basic right now, mainly just links and an extended bio/intro post. I'm all ears if anyone has any suggestions on things to add or change!
just had a nap. it was nice :)
@RATFOOD I'd love to see your mod list. I've been making a semi-vanilla modpack for myself since 1.20 came out, and I'd love to find more mods to add! :)
@RATFOOD Thanks :)
Glad to see you have Ambient Sounds. It's become one of my favorite mods haha. It's such a small change, but it makes the world so much more lively!
I'll send my modlist too when I get the chance. There's a lot of overlap, but there's some unique stuff. I'm definitely going to check out Spyglass Astronomy and Immersive Paintings. Those two look really cool!
@RATFOOD Hey, just got to my laptop now haha. Here's my modlist: https://arnaught.neocities.org/blog/2023/07/16/minecraft-modlist
@RATFOOD Haha yeah, I was really surprised when I saw it was literally merged earlier today. Exciting times to be exporting modlists, I suppose!
10 years ago today, I created a signature for my Bulbagarden Forum account! This was displayed under every single post I made.
I also went ahead and made a modern recreation.
@RATFOOD Looking through your list a little more closely, I found Reacharound! I've been looking for that one, but I had no idea what it was called lol
Chuck Tingle's new horror novel Camp Damascus is out today!
A brief tour of my Minecraft 1.20 base. https://youtu.be/o9vmsk61QtY
My base is in a cave inside of a mountain. It's not very well decorated right now, but I like what I have so far!
(Not sure what I want to do with the floors, I have them partially as cherry wood right now, but I think I might switch them back to acacia. I really like the acacia / dark oak combo.)
Just installed #Linux Mint on a 10 year old laptop and, at least based on performance after first install, it's a lot snappier than before. I had Ubuntu on it, but it was still very slow. I like GNOME, but I think it's just too heavy for this laptop.
Trying to test what the limits are for the computer I mentioned yesterday, and I have determined that it can't play The Sims 4. Which is a little silly, since I played The Sims 4 on it 9 years ago!
Though, it's not too unexpected. The EA app hates running under Wine. I can barely get it working on my main computer lol
Fun fact: I own a "physical" copy of the Sims 4. I was hoping that I would be able to avoid using EA Origin if I got a physical copy.
You know what was on the disk? An installer for Origin and a download code.
what's the purpose of muting a server in discord if you still get notifications from it??? I think you have to change notification settings from "Only \@mentions" to "nothing", but then what is muting for?
I found this article someone linked in the Web Environment Integrity issue tracker, and WOW is it a trip. It's about a "security" software used for South Korean online banking that doubles as a keylogger.
https://palant.info/2023/01/09/touchen-nxkey-the-keylogging-anti-keylogger-solution/
Wait, I think this is wrong. I think you have to turn off \@everyone and \@here separately from other mentions.
This may be my new favorite #MarioMaker troll
New blog post: Displaying a Mastodon Archive on Your Website
I used Mastodon Archive Viewer to turn a mastodon archive into a static page with my old posts.
If you (for some reason) want to look through some of my old posts from mastodon.lol, you can now do so at https://arnaught.neocities.org/lol
@PrintShopDeluxe COOL CRAB LETS GOOOOOOO! 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
I watched a playthrough of SB Ruin yesterday, and I was not expecting them to be able to make the game so relatively bug free. I guess making the game linear will do that lol
Here's a nice video explaining the core mechanic, and the game's biggest glitch involving it. Pretty interesting, IMO! (Spoilers for SB Ruin, obviously)
@johto I didn't own Pokemon 2000 on VHS, but I did rent the VHS from the library.
I still remember this weird ad from it: https://youtu.be/qzAo9HzOgtQ
On the new #Thunderbird layout, does anyone know how to get the [Gmail] folder back? Drafts, sent, and trash are duplicated, because some of them are supposed to be in the [Gmail] folder, but this isn't showing.
@aspensmonster Thank you! This was very helpful! I had my "Copies and Folders" settings set to the first option (I think it was the default at some point, because I don't remember ever changing that...). I changed the settings to other, and deleted the "duplicate" folders, and everything seems to be working fine now.
I did run into the same issue you did in the video, where you can't move a message from Drafts to [Gmail]/Drafts, but luckily I only had one draft in the wrong place haha.
@aspensmonster One more thing on this topic: Looking through my Gmail filters, I found a filter I made a long time ago that automatically moves all messages in the Thunderbird created Trash folder to the Gmail Trash folder. Based on the other filters around it, my best guess would be I made that filter sometime around 2018. This means I was putting up with the duplicate folders in Thunderbird for 6 years!
@jc There's #breadposting, but it's definitely not as active as #bloomscrolling.
When I saw BBC joined fedi, I saw someone mention it was social.bbc. I thought they were just dropping the TLD (short for social.bbc.com, of course), but no, the BBC has its own TLD??? :Blobhaj_Thinking:
Apparently, there's a lot of these Brand TLDs, but I've never seen any of them used before.
They also don't seem all that useful, to me. I can't begin to guess what Google would want to use .gmail for. MS has .bing, but they haven't set up google.bing or even bing.bing! At least store.xbox redirects to xbox.com, so there's something.
@daya That's interesting. A lot of them seem to be used for pages that would usually be subdomains. I don't really get why they'd want this over something like global.toyota.com, though.
@psionicraposa A lot of the random indie games on Itch tend to work fine under Wine, at least in my experience. Especially anything built with a popular game engine, like Unity.
@psionicraposa Corruption is pretty rare, tbh. If you're dual booting, Windows and Linux are on separate partitions and for the most part don't touch each other.
You can mount and access your Windows partition from within Linux. If Windows didn't shut down correctly and left the dirty bit set, Linux will mount the Windows partition as read only to prevent corruption.
If you're really worried, you can always use an external drive to share files between the two instead. (Also, make sure you keep backups of all your important files, just in general.)
@erininstereo Clearly, this is the correct option. 🤪
#LowRezJam2023 starts today!
It's a game jam where you have to make a game with a maximum resolution of 64x64.
I'm looking for a team, so if anyone wants to, I'd be happy to work with you! I'm probably going to make something in PICO-8.
My #LowRezJam2023 Day 1 Devlog - https://arnaught.neocities.org/blog/2023/08/02/lowrezjam-day-1
I'm making a 64x64 drawing application in PICO-8. I'm planning on adding tools (like line and fill bucket), and I'm maybe thinking of adding a (mini)game platformer where the player will need to draw their own platforms to traverse the level.
feeling kinda sick today. I have a sore throat and a sneeze, nothing too serious. probably not going to do much today though
@patata_magicachan Thanks!
I forgot to include this in the blog post, but If you'd like to look at the source code in more detail you can view it here: https://github.com/Rayquaza01/pico-draw/blob/main/pico-draw/0.p8.lua
How long will he last? #celeste #trans
(I forgot I saw this video in my recommended a couple days ago lol)
@glowl Haven't watched the VODs in full, but skimming the day 4 one, he has B-sides done up to chapter 4 and just finished chapter 6.
#LowRezJam2023 Day 2 Devlog - https://arnaught.neocities.org/blog/2023/08/07/lowrezjam-day-2
Added tools, including a line tool, circle tool, fill bucket, and color picker!
A quick reminder to everyone to always keep backups of your files!
Even if you're careful to not delete anything important, you can still make mistakes, and backups make those mistakes less impactful!
(I may or may not be posting this because I just had to restore something from backup...)
@arcueid if they ever make a portal 3, valve should add the cut candlelit dinner scene back to the game, tbh.
Splitgate is now my most played game on Steam, barely surpassing Terraria, which has been firmly in its top spot since 2018 (when I last played it lol)
Just added the new neocat emotes to my neocities website! Now I just need something to write a blog post about so I can have an excuse to use them... :Blobhaj_Thinking:
Apparently, you can have an SVG that automatically changes color with dark mode by using a style tag inside the SVG. This works even if you include the SVG using an img tag, so you can have color changing SVGs without making them inline!
@esther Using img tags, it looks like no. It will use the styles inside of the SVG file, but it won't load any external stylesheets.
New Rare Achievement!
I reached and completed level 12 in Shapez.io in less than 120 minutes! I wasn't even trying for that lol!
I see that there's ones for in under 60 minutes and under 30 minutes, too. I might try to go for those, but it seems very tedious. There's also one for reaching level 12 without upgrading belt speed, which just seems painful.
(Level 12 is when you unlock copy/paste)
On my rarest achievement list, this is right above the achievement for pressing random buttons in Golden Axe, and right below the achievement for putting a custom t-shirt on Hatsune Miku (both also ~5% rarity)
Shapez is a little different than it was when I played it last. Level 14 is a watermelon shape that I don't remember at all. And you have to make 8/second.
I still have my old save file, and it doesn't look like I ever made the level 14 shape there, despite being on level 18. They must have changed it. I know the level 17 shape was changed because I got an achievement for making the old level 17 shape when I first opened the old save file back when the Puzzle DLC came out.
I'm a little surprised at how quickly I'm getting through it this time, though. My first save file I had around 18 hours of playtime and I only got to level 17. Now I only have a couple hours in the new save file and I'm already on level 14.
My #Shapez Level 14 solution!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw3-eYi1D2E
I already had it at 6/s (which was the maximum for the belt speed), so I just needed to upgrade the belt speed to get it up to 8/s. Luckily the shape needed for the upgrade is also the level 15 shape!
Featuring two painting modules, two cutting modules, and one stacking module. The cutting design I made is definitely not the most efficient space wise, but it but it still works fast enough to max out the belt speed!
Kokichi x Shuichi... Is it yaoi or yuri? The bots can't decide... #danganronpa
RE: https://botsin.space/@boys/110892930939855226 and https://buff.tomboyfan.club/notice/AYk9OzMwhhDHdjmoOu
What are your thoughts on motion blur in games? #gaming
#LowRezJam2023 Final Day - https://arnaught.neocities.org/blog/2023/08/15/lowrezjam-final
Pico-draw, my 64x64 drawing app, is now finished, and you can play it on itch!
I did a complete redesign of the front page of my #neocities site! I really like how it turned out (especially the gradients in dark mode :Blobhaj_Ani_Hearts:)
Check it out, if you'd like: https://arnaught.neocities.org/
Remember when Yahoo wanted Tumblr to become the new PDF?
What file format do you think Fedi should become? My vote's on ZIP.
@gaycats this is the average fedi user tbh
Lives inside the computer? ✅
Eepy? ✅
Is a cat? ✅
I know I said this just last month, but #MarioMaker trolls just keep getting better.
https://youtu.be/hYM0Qhi7wyw?t=1641
This one uses entity limit shenanigans to prevent the Checkpoint from spawning.
@capibarabot Capybara? More like... sussy baka
@Pokedex Nidoran Female (Male)
This Nidoran is Trans :Fire_Trans: ‼️
Something I learned last night: If a gravestone from the Gravestones mod touches flowing water, the gravestone gets destroyed along with all your items. I don't know why they would program it like that, the entire purpose of the gravestones mod is so that your items don't get destroyed when you die, but whatever.
Anyway, make sure you keep backups of your #minecraft world regardless!
@gamingonlinux Then there's the opposite problem: cutscenes that skip with no confirmation. You press esc once, and now you have no idea what's happening 😅
OK, I think I found one! SoundAura is a FOSS white noise app for #android. It has all the features I'm looking for (play multiple sounds at once, control volume of each independently, and presets).
The only problem is it doesn't come with any sounds, so you need to add them yourself. I downloaded the sounds that come with Blanket and added them to SoundAura, and now it's perfect for what I want!
Got a Discord notification that says I have a "new message". Checked it, and it was just an @everyone from a random server.
C'mon it's 2 am. Why am I not eepy?? I'm gonna have to break out the big guns: a Mario maker yt video. No idea why those always put me to sleep but they do.
It worked BTW :)
@pkmnframes Here it is! The famous shocked pikachu face!
@gaycats neco coneco
I really like CarlSagan42's new #Minecraft let's play. It's definitely a change of pace from the Minecraft LPs I tend to watch.
I kinda wish he wasn't doing hardcore, so he could spend some time in a world without restarting, but on the plus side he's getting pretty good at the early game.
New emotes on this instance! Exciting! :ablobcatattention: :blobcathearts: :blobcatsleep:
Watching the Nexpo Petscop video, I'm reminded of just how much I love the Petscop text sounds. The beepspeech is nice, and the snaps that plays after dismissing it is just so good
I really liked this YouTube video! It's a video essay about #MarioMaker troll levels and the design that goes into them. (I know I said before that I fall asleep when I watch Mario Maker videos, but I promise I stayed awake during this one 😉)
Ok, uhh, for the sake of completeness, it looks like there were two Mario Maker troll level video essays that came out within a day of each other?! And this one is 9 hours long, 3x longer than the one I linked above! Haven't watched it yet, but I'm sure it's good. Looking at the chapter list, this one seems like it goes a lot more in depth into specific levels, whereas the one above is more about general design patterns in troll levels.
Apparently Shutterstock is selling AI generated images (I found out from this Doug Doug clip)
Here's some of my "favorites":
What even is the market for this stuff? Who would buy these? They're not... good. It's not like Shutterstock is curating them first. Why would someone pay $14.50 for an AI generated image from Shutterstock, when you could just... use an AI image generator yourself? Or get a real stock photo from Shutterstock for the same exact price?
@JoeGrowling Ah, padding their numbers makes sense. I didn't consider that.
Bluesky doesn't even have hashtags?!
Oh cool, soft blocking doesn't work in bluesky. :blobcatwhat:
@mishabishi Yeah, I should've expected this when Dorsey agreed with Musk about the block button tbh.
Good night everyone! :blobcatsleep:
What does this even mean??? I don't want to look it up because I found all the others in this level without looking anything up, but I swear I've looked everywhere for this guy!
@bebatjof That's interesting, though I don't think the name is really that relevant.
I eventually found him, in a building next to a blank canvas. I honestly don't know how I missed the canvas, it seems kinda obvious now. (though imo it might've been better if there was something drawn on the canvas)
@tekeous I gotta play more of this game tbh. I played it for a couple hours last year then I just sorta stopped for some reason.
New Blog Post - Multi-Stopwatch
I want to share this quick webapp I made yesterday, Multi Stopwatch. It lets you have and control multiple stopwatches independently.
I wonder what's going to be in the #NintendoDirect? It's gonna be tough to beat elephant Mario imo
Ooh, mario vs dk seems nice. Never played the original, but I played the sequel on the DS as a kid #NintendoDirect
I don't think I've heard of Another Code before, but it looks interesting. I love mystery games, so it'll be fun
I don't think they said anything new about Detective Pikachu?
The Princess Peach game looks fun. Kinda reminds me of kirby?
FZero 99 seems like it'll be fun, assuming they don't kill it like Mario 35 and Pac-Man 99
And finally, the Thousand Year Door! Never played it, but people say it's the best one. (Though people also complain about Super Paper Mario, so what to they know?)
Overall, I think this was a quality direct! #NintendoDirect
@ProfThelos@mastodon.social Looking at the Bug Fables screenshots on Steam, it certainly looks the part of a Paper Mario game haha! I'll keep it in mind :)
I just finished #GoodOmens and... come on, you can't just end it like that!
#FZero99 is really fun, but I'm not super great at it haha. Best I've done so far is 28th place.
(Also throwback to when I got 1st place in #Tetris99 on my second ever attempt)
I didn't play this game when it was first added because at first glance it looked like a Tetris Attack clone. After playing it, I can definitely say it's not. No idea what a good score in this is, but I played for 43 mins and got a score of 1155!
(Also this reminds me that playing the switch in handheld mode for an extended period of time is kinda uncomfortable. My left hand fell asleep at some point while playing lol)
@js This might be a little cursed, but I once made a semaphore in JS using async/await.
Kirby's Star Stacker really is a lot of fun. I played a few more rounds and my hard mode high score is now 801.
Look at that combo!
@ady Thanks for that article! Atmosphere seems like a really compelling option. (it's fully offline, you can import your own sounds, and it's just a one time fee to remove ads)
I've been using SoundAura with the sounds from Blanket imported.
Thing that annoys me a little bit too much on windows: on the lockscreen shade (the thing you have to swipe up on, idk what it's called) if you start to type your password, the first character will be dropped. One of the keypresses will be used to dismiss the shade and the rest will go in the password field.
On linux (or at least on the lockscreen GNOME uses) you can start typing your password even when the shade is down.
It's such a small thing, but it means that basically every time I try to log into a windows computer I have to type my password twice
An hour long Etho video? Let's go! :ablobcatattention:
When he got hit by the ravager right at the exit and barely left the dungeon with half a heart... now that was intense! :blobcatscared:
Oh cool, my reserve for Cultish at the library just came in! I've had it on hold since February 6 lol
Poker has aces, and it has straights, so where are the gays??
@james luckily I saved it! ;)
https://gitlab.com/renere/spinny_blobs
Hey, I've still got it! (OK, maybe I'm a little rusty, but at least I beat one of my previous scores. Haven't played Galaga in a while)
In more high score news, I got 1,700,000 points in Pacman CE DX+! My previous high score was ~1,600,000 points, and I set it all the way back in 2017. I just need to get 1,800,000 points to get the last medal* and 100%* complete the game! #Gaming
* I'm actually missing 3 medals. One of them you get by sharing 5 medals on Facebook and the other you get by sharing five medals and all achievements on Facebook. I'm not going to do that.
@shram86 Wow, you were top 10? That's cool! But you're probably not on the leaderboards anymore. The top score on every map is the integer limit lol. On the Championship II map, the top ~300 scores are obviously cheated.
Another Etho video, just 3 days later? And it's 2 hours long this time?! Wow, he's really spoiling us!
One fun thing about Etho's videos is that sometimes he'll go through a part of his world and mention that he built something like 9 years ago. And I think "That can't be right, I remember watching the video where he built that when it came out! It wasn't that long ago!"
But it is right. I've just been watching Etho since I was in middle school.
@shram86 It looks like you have me beat on most maps except for Championship II (which tbf is the only map I've really grinded)
On the comparison page for Championship II is says your highest ranking so far is 46, so I think that means your score was once 46th place?
Also, I somehow never played the Big Eater map lol
@shram86 Just played a couple rounds of Highway II because you mentioned it, and I overtook you! 1.49m!
Speed 50 on that map is really tough. I keep missing my turns so I have to basically spam bombs to recover lol.
Davey Wreden's rant to the ChatGPT trivia game DougDoug did now lives in my head rent free. I've listened to the whole thing like 5 times. (https://youtu.be/HyqK2Tsujho?t=2193)
Some of my favorite lines:
"A lot's changed in my life and for you there's a lot of changes too. And one of those changes is that sometimes the creator of the Stanley Parable comes and fuckin swears at you. And I think we've all been through that stage of puberty before."
"I made Stanley Parable, and you didn't. And you'll never make the Stanley Parable because I already did it. Okay? And if you fuckin try, I'm gonna bring a DMCA on you and you're gonna feel it all the way over in [beanpoleopolis?] if that's where you live."
"You pass Doug in this fuckin class, or I will come over there and I will change every song on the Stanley Parable soundtrack to be the sound of you getting your ass beat."
"Cheating at trivia will only get you one thing and that's banned from the Stanley Parable 2."
@PrintShopDeluxe I LOVE YOU COOL CRAB!! 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
Watch for Rolling Rocks in 0 A presses?!
I didn't even get a loud noise on my phone. I got a popup, but because my phone was muted I didn't get a sound :(
But in all seriousness, from what I understood muting shouldn't have stopped the sound... :blobcatthink:
Wait, did they replace CS:GO with CS 2? I wouldn't have guessed that lol.
Wow, I have early access to Dropbox Dash, Dropbox's "AI powered universal search tool". Let's try it...
"The Dropbox Dash beta is only available for Windows and macOS"
ok.
Also it's just a keystroke launcher. I don't even see where AI could be used in this.
From what I see, you basically connect a bunch of services to it though their APIs and then you can search them all in one place. Certainly not that unique of a concept, even Launchy had a Todoist plugin.
Also, I think it's really funny that one of the examples that they give for using it is searching Google Drive. Did Dropbox forget that Google Drive is their competitor?
I somehow didn't know that Galpus was an arcade game originally. I only know about it from the NES demake from 2020. Apparently the actual arcade version hasn't been released since the Wii VC... But the demake does make the release dates on the Wikipedia article very funny:
1984 – Arcade (Namco Phozon)
1987 – Commodore 64
2007 – Mobile phone
2009 – Wii Virtual Console
2020 – Nintendo Entertainment System
Last year, on the cat wall calendar I had, the picture for October was a cat sleeping on a pillow that looks like corn. I love this image and I think about it all the time.
Anyway, I decided to look for the original source and I found it! (https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/cute-white-ginger-cat-sleeping-yellow-1737199091)
The photographer is Parfenteva Tatiana and if you look through her shutterstock profile you can find other images of the same cat!
Detective Pikachu Returns has a run button but you have to enable it in settings for some reason. Seems a bit odd. Also, I wish the game had beep speech. More VNs should have beep speech imo. #NintendoSwitch #DetectivePikachu
Today's free game on Epic is Q.U.B.E Ultimate Bundle
QUBE 1 is a pretty fun game. I played the director's cut version last year, and I'm excited to see what's changed in the 10th anniversary version (some of the late game puzzles were really janky, so I kinda hope they've reworked those ones)
This was kinda a pain to get running. I had an outdated version of wine (oops), needed to install MS Visual C++ runtime manually (don't know which I needed, because the error message didn't say, so I just installed them all with winetricks) and you need to set the -dx11 flag because the game defaults to dx12.
The only thing I didn't get working was the EOS Overlay in heroic, but I don't really need that tbh.
(QUBE 2 just works with no tweaking though, so that's nice)
Wait, I think I misunderstood something here. Whenever I launch the game, I'm getting an error message that says "Application Access Is Restricted". I thought it was being caused by the overlay, but it still appears even when the overlay is disabled... Weird. Doesn't appear to break anything though.
Just beat the main game for QUBE 10th anniversary, and they did rework quite a lot of the janky levels. The so called "hardest puzzle in the game" is completely gone. And they changed the magnets so that blocks moved by the magnet snap to the grid when the magnet is turned off making it much harder to get a block misaligned. #gaming
Wow, GPU Screen Recorder really does work! I'm seeing basically no performance loss at all when recording a game. I still just wish there were global shortcuts. I can record the last 30 secs on my Nintendo Switch with a single button press, why can't I do it on my pc? #linux
Clean Choices is a really fun #minecraft puzzle map!
Some of the puzzles are a little wonky though. Like, the moss one is kinda RNG dependent.
And the solution challenge difficulty immortal silverfish puzzle seems to be just dodge better, so I just skipped that one lol
Just posting about this one more time in case anybody missed it: today's the last day you can get the Q.U.B.E. Ultimate Bundle for free on Epic.
Wow, YouTube added the ability to prevent accidental touches while watching a video. Very useful!
Haha, Detective Pikachu said among us! #DetectivePikachu #NintendoSwitch
More QUBE posting. There's was an update, which fixed the application access is restricted error I was getting on the overlay. Now the overlay works, but it says there are 0 achievements? And if you look on the game's achievement page, the completion percentages are really low (0% for most of them, 0.1% for a couple of them). I guess achievements are probably broken for everyone, and this isn't caused by me running it on linux.
Also, they put out an update to QUBE 2 as well, adding achievements to that game. Epic didn't have achievements until 2021, and QUBE 2 was first given as a free game back in 2019, so it didn't have achievements on Epic originally. But it does now.
Anyway, something about that update broke the game on my system lol. I played it last year and it worked fine but now I'm just getting a black screen?
Wowie Zowie!
Just finished Detective Pikachu Returns, and I don't think this game uses the amiibo?
I couldn't use it in the first game because I have an Old 3DS, and now I can't use it because the new game doesn't support it lol. I'll never get to use this thing!
(All the amiibo did in the first game was unlock all of the bonus "Pika Prompts" in the menu. Pika Prompts are in the new game, but there doesn't seem to be a spot in the menu for it...)
Also, I don't think you get anything ingame for 100% completing all of the side quests, so I just want to note here that I did 100% complete all of the side quests.
Also, I felt like the 3DS one was longer than the new one, but it must just be me misremembering it. I just checked my 3DS save file, and I finished the first one in 11 hours, and the new one in 12 hours, so they're about the same length.
Why do a lot of social media apps have no/bad tablet support? Reddit, Tumblr, Bluesky, Threads, etc. It's not even like they'd need to have specific tablet support. Just let it run in landscape!
Reddit is particularly bad (which is sad because Slide had really good tablet support). The app is forced to run in portrait except for images. When you open an image, it switches to landscape! Why? If you're going to force the app to run in portrait, at least force it to run in portrait the whole time! :blobcattableflip:
Sync for Lemmy's tablet mode is really good! I definitely prefer kbin's web interface over lemmy's, though.
Early game #minecraft modpacks are always a little silly to me. There's all this cool modded stuff around, meanwhile I'm just getting blown up by a creeper while trying to set up a wheat farm. It's like you have to play a little bit of vanilla before it lets you play with all the cool mods.
Setting browser.tabs.firefox-view to false doesn't seem to work anymore
I disabled Firefox View right after it was added because originally it didn't work with browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab set to false. (Instead of making a new tab like normal, it would select Firefox View) At least that issue seems to be fixed now.
Nexpo Petscop part two! :ablobcatattention: https://youtu.be/a5kDs8I7brs
Oh, the Prism Launcher cat has a witch hat! Cute! #Minecraft
I found a fully natural tropical fish farm in a lush cave.There's a water pillar coming from the ceiling and tropical fish just keep falling down and dying. #Minecraft
@pkmnframes Hey, those aren't Pokemon!
Back to my semi-regular #MarioMaker posting: This troll forces you to collect the safety coin right before completing the last section: https://youtu.be/IGzWCRBFEsE?t=597
Come on, it really couldn't last one more trip? So close to 4000! #MiniMotorways #Gaming
Time to upgrade to Fedora 39! And it looks like all of the shell extensions I use are compatible, so that's really nice. #Linux
The keyboard backlight quick tile is a little weird on my machine. Instead of a slider, there's only 2 buttons, off and high (even though this keyboard actually has 3 levels). Interestingly, the high button in GNOME sets the keyboard to the medium setting, not high.
Also, WOW, searching in Nautilus is a lot faster now! According to the release notes, search should also be faster in Software, Characters, Clocks, and... Calculator? How do you search in Calculator? (I think it means calculator results in the overview search, but IDK. All of these apps provide overview search results, so it'd make sense.)
I can't seem to enable the service for Input Remapper from the fedora repos (I had a version from COPR installed before). Running the enable command just gives me this error. I am able to start the service though... #Linux
i still think that tumblr can become the new pdf, tbh
Ooh, https://phtn.app is a really nice lemmy web frontend! (And dark mode actually works lol)
I kinda expected Jerma to be involved, but I wasn't expecting tennis! Also, RIP that bear at the end.
Follow up on this: someone on that issue found a fix, to delete /etc/systemd/system/input-remapper.service. I think that that file was probably left behind by the old COPR version.
I wish the TTS voice in Hypnospace Outlaw worked on linux.
(I know about this guide, but I don't like the default speech dispatcher voice and I don't think it's worth it to figure out how to change it)
Google Chrome, or as I like to call it, GeForce Now client
Every time I use GeForce Now, I'm both impressed and disappointed. Like, it's a miracle that I can use it to play Control on this laptop, but also it's still not great. It upgrades the game from unplayable lag to bearable lag.
Wow, apparently the Jerma and tennis twist was foreshadowed on Jerma's Suika Game stream.
First time ever using Godot. Threw together the basics of a Suika Game clone.
There's a Vivaldi flatpak now!
Just built a desk!
150 Followers! Thank you! :ablobcatheart:
I have finally caught all 150 Fedi users and completed my FediDex!
...wait, what do you mean there's more than 150 Fedi users? :blobcatohno:
@Reb True, fedi users do love to make alt accounts! (If I were to ignore all the alt accounts that follow me, I'd probably be at like 120 lol)
@somecat You can set up the package tracker to send you an email when it's delivered.
That way, instead of repeatedly checking the tracker, you can repeatedly check your email!
Discord has started sending me email notifications for at everyones again!
From the email:
"Enable notifications - Download Discord on your phone and receive push notifications for Discord activities [...]"
I do have discord on my phone! Why they don't send me notifications there, I have no idea!
why work on a project when you can instead endlessly tweak your vim config? :blobcatthink:
On a rail really isn't as bad as I remember, tbh. #HalfLife
@arcueid I used a guide to figure out where to go the first time I played it. It can be a pretty annoying chapter if you get lost.
Gold Source Moment #HalfLife
I played this section like 10 times. There's a health kit right next to the door so I kept trying to get it. Then, I would take massive damage and reload. Eventually figured out that clipping the left corner of the door was what was killing me.
@mezz The HEV suit must not have very good finger protection! lol
Glitch-soc puts the hashtags at the bottom of the post now like Mastodon!
Prime Mover is a really fun programming puzzle game. I've somehow played 11 hours, even though I only bought it 2 days ago.
One weird thing about it though: it has a native linux version but it doesn't launch, so you have to use proton anyway lol
@Dianawastaken Glad you like it! It's definitely addictive like Factorio is haha!
(I found it from Patricia Taxxon on tumblr. She's been posting about it)
Everyone's posting their spotify wrapped and here I am using YouTube Music. :blobcatverysad:
And it looks like I'm not going to get a Recap this year. Last year, I had my watch history auto delete after 3 months, so I didn't have enough history to get one. I changed it to 18 months after that so I'd get one this year. But I just checked it now, and it seems that YouTube set it back to 3 months at some point??? Just set it back to 18 months now, so we'll see if YouTube lets me have one next year.
I do have my Pocket Casts recap though! (It's basically the same as last year's lol. Last year, I had Reply All in the Number 5 spot)
Why did they change the firefox view icon from the firefox logo to a drawer(?)
and apparently you can disable it again! It's browser.tabs.firefox-view-next in about:config
i may have solved day one of advent of code, but i had to do regex crimes to do it. so was it worth it?
@aliceif I did my solution in JS
For part 1, I ran /\d/g on every line of the input to get all of the digits.
For part 2, I wanted to change it to /\d|one|two|.../g, but I ran into the issue with overlapping captures.
I ended up forcing it to work by changing the regex to /^(?:\d|one|two|...)/ and running the regex starting on every character of every line (ie line.slice(i).match(...))
It's probably not the worst solution, but it feels a little dirty imo.
(Also, I don't think that right to left would work here. It would still have the same problem with overlapping captures. For the line oneight, going from left to right captures 1 but not 8, and from right to left it captures 8 but not 1. For it to work, it needs to capture both)
@aliceif Oh, that lookahead is clever!
And I'm pretty sure if you change two, three, four, five, six, and seven to capture the first two characters instead of just the first, you could differentiate between all of the digits without having to grab the full word.
Oh, you can do xdg-open . to open the cwd in your file browser. That's definitely a lot nicer to type than nautilus . >/dev/null 2>&1 &
Ok, day 2 was a lot easier than day 1.
Getting the numbers was just a matter of a simple regex. /\d+(?=red)/g gets you an array of all the red numbers, and the same for blues and greens. Then you just check that every element in those arrays is less than their respective given maximums.
And part 2 was just finding the max of each of those arrays.
I keep forgetting to launch tmux before vim lol
This one seemed a little daunting at first, but it wasn't so bad.
I used regex (I'm starting to notice a pattern here :blobcatthink:) to grab the indexes of all the numbers and symbols, then I checked for overlap between the two to find where they're adjacent.
Part 2 was basically the same as Part 1, but I had to switch the order of the loops (finding numbers adjacent to symbols and not the other way around).
My solution: https://github.com/Rayquaza01/advent-of-code-2023/blob/main/src/solutions/puzzle03.ts
I ran into a little trouble today, because my regex to extract the number was including the card number in the winning numbers list (oops). It was an easy fix though, just discard the first number.
For part 2, I took my part 1 solution and partly modified it to count the number of wins on a card instead of points. Then, I just processed it as a stack, popping a card every time and pushing duplicates if there were wins on that card.
https://github.com/Rayquaza01/advent-of-code-2023/blob/main/src/solutions/puzzle04.ts
I just noticed that the CA DMV bot died :blobcatverysad:. It hasn't posted on here or tumblr since July.
Despite the fact that I make webextensions, I have managed to avoid learning anything about manifest v3.
why is part 2 Like That?
Part 1 was mostly fine, you just had to look up the numbers within the ranges
But in part 2, I don't really see how I can compare the seed ranges to the ranges? I'm going to give up for now
https://github.com/Rayquaza01/advent-of-code-2023/blob/main/src/solutions/puzzle05.ts
Ok, I fixed it. I just ended up brute forcing it. Does it take 10 minutes to run? Yes. But it gets the right answer and doesn't run out of memory so I'll count it as a win.
So, I figured out the formula for the race is -held^2 + time * held. I figured out the maximum distance you can get from a race by taking the derivative -2held + time and solving that for held = time / 2. Then I realized that's not what it's asking me for. Oops!
I took the max held (since I already had it, I might as well use it), and scanned to the left and the right and stopped when both sides were below the target distance. I didn't think to use the quadratic formula lol. (Not that it really matters for this one. It only takes ~200ms to run.)
https://github.com/Rayquaza01/advent-of-code-2023/blob/main/src/solutions/puzzle06.ts
This one wasn't very hard, but it was long. For evaluating the hands, I did my usual method of counting the cards, marking flags for the hand based on the number of cards, and returning the highest set flag.
For part 2, there are a few minor changes. First, I made it treat J as a 1 instead of 11. Then I changed the evaluator to add the count for J to the next highest card to get J's wild card behavior. I did run into a little issue here. If a hand had 5 J's, it would never find the next highest hand so it would just delete the J count. Very minor fix, I just had to make sure it doesn't delete the J count unless it actually found another value.
(Also, somehow this is how I find out that Object.hasOwn was added. That's good, because hasOwnProperty was annoying to use)
https://github.com/Rayquaza01/advent-of-code-2023/blob/main/src/solutions/puzzle07.ts
First one I actually solved with math!
Part 1 I just walked the tree until I found "ZZZ", nothing special.
For part 2, I tried that, but it was way too slow. I noticed that it always takes the same number of steps for a starting value to reach the end, so I thought maybe just multiply all those values? (No, that's a solution, but not necessarily the first one. It works for the example data, but not the real data. The number it gives for the real data is way too big.) Then I realized I wanted the LCM.
https://github.com/Rayquaza01/advent-of-code-2023/blob/main/src/solutions/puzzle08.ts
Guess who forgot the minus sign in their regex! :blobcatohno:
Other than that, though, it was very easy. Part 2 was even easy, it's basically the same as part 1, but with the signs switched.
https://github.com/Rayquaza01/advent-of-code-2023/blob/main/src/solutions/puzzle09.ts
I open google chrome to debug a nodejs script. Google chrome informs me that the GeForce Now PWA has updated in the background. Every. Time.
Whew, day 10 was intense!
Part 1 was just a breadth first search to find the farthest point.
I spent a long time on part 2. It would have been simple if not for the squeezing between pipes. Basically, the way I ended up solving it is the same way you check if a point is inside a polygon. (ie if you collide with the loop an even number of times, it's outside; If you collide an odd number of times, it's inside).
You only count a collision if the entrance/exit was from a different side. (So, ╔╗ isn't a collision since it both enters and exits from the south, but ╔╝ is a collision because it enters and exits from different directions. ║ is always a collision.)
At least it looks pretty once I replaced all the symbols with box drawing characters.
https://github.com/Rayquaza01/advent-of-code-2023/blob/main/src/solutions/puzzle10.ts
Today was a lot easier than yesterday. At first I thought it was breadth first search again, but we have the coordinates this time, so it's much simpler.
The hard bit was duplicating the blank rows and columns. At first I tried actually duplicating them, but that was very difficult. I couldn't figure out how to do it. So I ended up keeping a length property on each Node in the grid. If a row/column is all blanks, I multiplied the length by 2. Then, the distance is just the sum of the lengths of each node I passed over.
Part 2 was extremely easy. Instead of multiplying the lengths by 2, I multiplied them by 1000000. Other than that, my part 1 and 2 solutions are identical. (Part 2 would've been painful if I actually duplicated the rows and columns, so good thing I didn't figure out how to do that lol)
https://github.com/Rayquaza01/advent-of-code-2023/blob/main/src/solutions/puzzle11.ts
Dang, picross has hands
I had to look at what other people did to figure out how to start. I finished part 1 using a recursive function. It finishes in about 200ms.
I don't think I'm doing memoization right. When using it, it actually makes part 1 slower (about 500ms). And it definitely doesn't seem to be helping in part 2.
Oh, well. Giving up for now.
https://github.com/Rayquaza01/advent-of-code-2023/blob/main/src/solutions/puzzle12.ts
I was a little demotivated after failing to finish day 12 part 2, so I skipped yesterday. That's why I'm doing it today ;) I also took this opportunity to switch from TypeScript to C++, to keep things fresh.
Day 13 wasn't very difficult. Part 1 I just needed to find two identical rows, and then fan out from there.
For part 2, I kept a counter of how many failures there were in the reflection check. If there were < 2, I continued checking. Then, if the check passed, we only count the reflections with exactly 1 failure.
It's like 2 days in 1 day!
Part 1 was simple. It was just shifting the "O"s until we go out of bounds or an immovable "#".
Part 2 was a little more complicated. Making it spin in the other directions was simple enough. It's just small variations on part 1. Getting to 1 billion is harder, but isn't that bad once you see the cycle. I just ran did the spin cycle 256 times (a lot less than a billion) and saved the sums. Then, I checked that array for a pattern and used it to get the billionth value.
https://github.com/Rayquaza01/advent-of-code-2023/blob/main/src/cpp/puzzle14.cc
Part 1 was really easy. Especially so since chars are their ASCII codes, so you don't even need to convert them.
Part 2 was also pretty easy. I don't think there were any tricks to it today. I just kept 256 boxes and inserted or removed as described.
https://github.com/Rayquaza01/advent-of-code-2023/blob/main/src/cpp/puzzle15.cc
This was a nice puzzle. I put the beam's current position and heading on a stack and processed that stack until it's empty. When I hit a splitter, I pushed two beams onto the stack, and when I hit a reflector I changed the heading.
The one problem I ran into is that a beam can get into an infinite loop. My solution for that was to keep a count of the energized tiles on the beam. If a beam crosses a pre-energized tile, we increase that count by 1. If it crosses a non-energized tile, we reset that count to 0. If we encounter 10 pre-energized tiles in a row, assume we're in a loop and discard the beam. (IDK what the best value for that is, but 10 worked for both part 1 and 2)
Part 2 was just part 1, but 440 times. My part 1 finishes in ~10ms, so my guess was part 2 would finish in ~4s, assuming every check was about the same length. I was pleasantly surprised when part 2 actually finished in ~400ms.
https://github.com/Rayquaza01/advent-of-code-2023/blob/main/src/cpp/puzzle16.cc
Yeah, that seems about right. I figured most of my play time was in Animal Crossing!
Discord just sent me a notification through the app?! I didn't think they knew how! It's better than the emails they usually send, I suppose.
But this does mean that there's a server I forgot to mute...
Oh, I see what happened. The recent discord outage unmuted every server.
While on the topic, I still don't get what "muting" does in discord. I expect it to disable all notifications from the server, but you actually have to set notification settings to "nothing" and check "supress at everyone and at here". Why isn't there just a simple "Don't send me any notifications from this server" button?
My Steam replay! Mini Motorways I get, but I honestly didn't expect Prime Mover to have such a high spot.
https://store.steampowered.com/replay/76561198177555937/2023
@Ariadne It really is a lot of fun! My goal is to 100% complete it. I got about half the achievements this year, but there really are a lot of them lol
I now have a few ultra-rare Mini Motorways achievements! (at least until more people play the update that came out on the 4th)
I just noticed that https://placekitten.com now has HTTPS! Not that it really matters, since it's just placeholder images, but still.
I didn't do day 17 or 18 because I had other things going on. I might try them later. They don't look too bad, but they seem a little fiddly.
For today, I switched back to TypeScript because my string parsing skills in C++ aren't too great. (The main reason I switched to C++ was because I don't really like dealing with 2D grids in TS haha)
Part 1 was simple. I applied the rules of the workflows until the rating was in workflow A or R, and counted it if it was A.
For part 2, I instead used ranges of values. When looking at a rule, I split the current range in two. The passing range is pushed onto a stack to be processed later, and the failing range is checked against more rules. When the range ends up in workflow A we add it to the sum. We stop processing once the stack is empty and all ranges are processed.
https://github.com/Rayquaza01/advent-of-code-2023/blob/main/src/solutions/puzzle19.ts
I did not do yesterday because I simply did not understand what it was asking.
Today's part 1 was pretty simple. Just a breadth first search, and count every tile with distance <= 64 and (distance & 1) == 0.
I'm not sure of part 2 yet. I know the even/odd state of each tile alternates for each duplicated grid. But I'm not sure how to figure out the distances on the duplicated grids...
https://github.com/Rayquaza01/advent-of-code-2023/blob/main/src/cpp/puzzle21.cc
@johto I just got around to reading this. I want to say this was an amazing interview!
I didn't recognize his name at first, but I know him from the Pokemon 3 commentary. There was a line from that that I think was pretty funny. "I have about 100 Pokemon committed to memory, which means I'm going to be committed soon". (I think it was Mike Haigney who said that, but it might have been someone else. I don't have the DVD on hand to double check)
I also didn't know about his involvement with the Pokemon Christmas Bash. That's really cool!
Did pretty good on today's Mini Motorways daily challenge. The purple building that spawned right next to the dark blue houses killed the run. I've still never gotten 4000 points in a level.
@slep Yes, I have played Mini Metro! Both games are very similar in terms of gameplay. I think if you like one, you'll probably like the other. Personally, I prefer Mini Motorways (though I don't have anywhere near 100 hours on either of them)
Decked Out is a lot of fun, but the hermits made it look a lot easier that it is lol! (I've completed 3 runs so far, and died in 2)
If you want to get the Decked Out map working, you can use Carpet mod. Basically, you need to go to the map, type /player Tango spawn to get a fake Tango. Then you need to type /player Tango hotbar 1 to make him select the first hotbar slot. Then just drop a map and he'll pick it up.
Twas the night before Christmas
And all through the house
Not a creature was stirring
Not even Meowth
The online mode in Mario Wonder is really cool. It's really fun to see other people playing at the same time as me. I had a nice moment where I died right at the end of a level, but someone was there to save me, so I didn't have to redo the level!
Segmentation fault. Core dumped.
Jokes aside, Advent of Code was pretty fun. This was my first year doing it. The puzzles were pretty fun (though some of them were really tough!). I think Day 16 was my favorite one. I ended with 34/50 stars.
I just started playing Neon White. I didn't know Ian Jones-Quartey was in this game! Cool!
I spent all day yesterday trying to get nextcloud running on a raspberry pi 3b+. What I've learned from this endeavor is that you shouldn't install nextcloud on a raspberry pi 3b+.
I don't know when this happened because I rarely use my laptop's touchscreen, but it looks like the firefox flatpak lets you scroll with the touch screen now! neat!
I 100% completed Snakebird Primer! It only took me 2 days! I've started on the original Snakebird but it's definitely a lot harder. I see why Primer is listed first in the collection haha
40 minute long tetris game!
@Zotmeister That's funny. I might have to make it a goal to break the timer, then! It seems doable, especially since the speed stops at level 15.
Since when does the YouTube android app have a drawer??
Maybe a weird question, but in Portal Revolution the portal gun disappeared from the HUD. I see there's an option in the menu to show/hide it, but I have it set to visible and it's not appearing. Does anyone know how to fix that? It's not that big of a deal since the game has the portal 1 style crosshair, but still.
@mezz Yes, I tried that, and it didn't work. But your reply gave me an idea. The restart console command fixed it. I guess my save file must have gotten messed up somehow.
Thanks!
I think I cheesed Chapter 4 Chamber 14 in Portal Revolution. I didn't use the breaker at all in this level.
So, Heroic's new update automatically applies fixes for some games, which is nice. I saw that QUBE 2 was included. Previously, an update for QUBE 2 broke the game on my system and I haven't gotten it working since.
I thought that maybe the fix Heroic does might fix it on my system. But nope, Heroic just installs vcrun2022 on the prefix, which I already did myself.
A little more experimenting, I found the game works on a clean prefix. So I figured something must be wrong with the save file / config. I tried deleting the config folder, but it was still broken. It only works if I delete the save file. I guess save files from the old version must not be compatible anymore.
On chamber 6-6, I set up the runway with the blue and orange gels and I completely missed. The runway makes me go too fast and I overshoot the bounce pad. Then I tried just jumping up without the runway and I got an achievement for solving it "the boring way".
Hey, I tried to solve it in the not-boring way! It's not my fault it didn't line up!
@mezz That's interesting. I would've thought that bouncing was the way... The white gel idea seems promising but idk how it would be any less boring than bouncing.
@mezz I just got it now! For the fun solution you need to bounce on the middle platform twice.
@mezz The instance I'm on is actually running glitch-soc, a fork of mastodon that supports markdown. Since mstdn.games is vanilla mastodon, you can't use markdown, unfortunately :blobcatverysad:
Hey, look at that! The portal gun disappearing was fixed in the newest patch!
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/601360/view/3966048907061077407
And with that, I've 100% completed Portal Revolution!
When I read the description for the "Fingerprinter" achievement, I was worried it would be like "Camera Shy", or "Transmission Received", or "Lambda Locator" where you can't use the level select and have to do it in one run (why does Valve like doing that so much??). But luckily, you can use the level select!
I was not expecting Sissel to be a cat in the end! But I suppose it makes sense. Most of his abilities involve knocking things over lol
@mezz Around when Yomiel first appeared, I was worried that it wouldn't all tie together nicely. I'm very glad to have been proven wrong there!
I wasn't planning on 100%-ing Ghost Trick, but when I saw I only had 4 achievements left, I figured I might as well!
(I did not actually solve the slide puzzles. I just used a slide puzzle solver. I don't know why this game even has slide puzzles...)
Portal: Forbidden Testing Tracks is a cursed game.
The game says it supports linux, but there's simply no linux depot...
The windows version does not work under proton...
The way I got it running was by copying it's files into Portal 2's folder and running Portal 2 with the -game pft argument. (I only know about this trick because Aperture Tag also had a botched linux release lol)
But then the menu doesn't work, so you have to load levels with the map command!
And then there are loads of missing textures and broken models!
You'd think at a certain point I'd understand that the game doesn't want to be played.
@mezz lol yeah, can't say there's false advertising
I knew it was bad going in but I was completely surprised about how hostile some of the levels are. This is probably a bad comparison to make because The Beginners Guide is actually good, but some of the levels remind me of Coda's games from The Beginners Guide. Like, at one point there's a literal giant maze!
Alright, another game 100% completed!
@natty That sounds kinda like vim-easymotion. Do you know if it does anything easymotion doesn't?
Another Code Recollection does a weird thing where the auto mode prevents you from pressing A to advance text. Auto mode is nice for voiced text, but otherwise I think it moves too slowly. So I need to turn off auto mode every time I encounter non-voiced text.
Why did they do it this way? Off the top of my head I can't think of any other visual novel that does this.
In Chapter 6 in the ANOTHER room, you have to "add a feature" to the DAS. The game just says "Use... the DAS...", and the hint highlights the control panel. So use the DAS on the control panel, right?
WRONG! You need to open the front facing camera on the DAS, for some reason!
Never would have found that without looking it up
Celeste 64 is really fun!
It looked like the external hard drive I have connected to my wii died. Neither the wii or my laptop would recognize it.
I took it out of the enclosure and blew on it and now it works again!
I'm making a backup now because I'd prefer not to lose all of my GameCube save files. I guess I should also back up the wii save files, too. Anyone know if there's a wii homebrew program that can dump all the wii's saves to the hdd?
Figured it out. SaveGame Manager GX is what I was looking for!
@nano oh I didn't notice there's a new one! I've been catching up on the quickstart videos lol
eepy mario maker 2 :blobcatsleep:
Nova Launcher just sent me a notification that they've been acquired by Branch. But when I check the article, that apparently happened 2 years ago...
I think I really like Google Cursor. I don't think I'm fully sold on some of the special cursors (like the window resize ones, and maybe the ibeam), but the main circle cursor is really nice!
I don't get why firefox doesn't let you bookmark the current page directly from a custom tab
New Blog Post - https://arnaught.neocities.org/blog/2024/02/05/january-review
Basically, it's just my thoughts on a bunch of games I played in January.
I forgot how much more chill minecraft feels with keep inventory on.
Do you know about the "Gender-Neutral, Polyamory-Friendly Partnership Policy" clipboard easter egg in Portal 2?
I feel like it's pretty obscure, but maybe it just doesn't come up? (Though looking up the exact phrase in quotes on google only returns 42 results...)
@pkmnframes There she is!
@Raeve It's Ashley!
In this episode, Ash got banned from the Celadon gym for saying perfume smells bad. So clearly, the only solution is to dress as a girl and sneak back in
@Raeve I had a feeling that was the case lol
But I agree, you're right about team rocket!
@183231bcb Wired Xbox controllers tend to work well on Linux. I have a first party one and a pdp one, and both work wired without any tweaking.
If you do want to use Bluetooth with an xbox controller, you'll need to install a driver (xpad-neo).
There were only 10 votes, but yeah, that's about the result I expected.
Honestly, I thought it was fake until I found it myself.
Here it is. It's in GLaDOS's chamber at the beginning of the game (sp_a1_wakeup). It's extremely easy to miss, and you can't really get a good look at it without cheats because you're holding Wheatley.
That said, it's not that hard to find once you know where to look. I made a short video showing exactly where it is.
@mezz I checked after finding it, and unfortunately no. There's a different clipboard closer to the incinerator that speedrunners tend to use instead. But I think the glitch should still work with this clipboard.
@mezz Yeah, it's very subtle. Valve adds some clipboards for flavor that most players won't ever see, and speedrunners use them to break everything lol
Apparently, the chicken clipboard from portal 1 is also in portal 2, but I have no idea where that is in game.
@EverBeyondReach Chell voice: [Never Posts]
@pkmnframes Pikachu has no idea what's going on. He's just happy to see Ash! ^_^
I got curious about Dropbox Dash again. When I try to use it, it tells me that my device is not supported, as only Windows and macOS are supported. Against my better judgement, I thought maybe I could try getting it working in wine?
I spoofed my user agent to get the download link, and it turns out it's just a Chrome extension??? It takes you to an unlisted chrome extension. (It doesn't appear if you search for it on CWS) Why is there an OS requirement?
Anyway, it's about what I expected. It lets you search for files across a few different cloud storage services. The "AI-powered" part of the search just seems to be a chatbot grafted onto the search bar. The search itself is not very good. I typed the exact name of a file in my dropbox and it doesn't come up.
@faaln Mine's a little disappointing. My profile was only saved once and it didn't save correctly. It's just an endless spinner
https://web.archive.org/web/20221129071740/https://mastodon.lol/@arnaught
Yes or No?
Do you think that maybe GeForce Now was updated?
@0xabad1dea I ran the test 10 times and got a boy every time.
I'm using a DS lite, the save file is a boy, and the internal battery is dead.
Goodbye, Sokobond Express Playtest! You will be missed.
And thank you @draknek for giving me the opportunity to test it! I'm excited for the full game to come out!
Apparently Chrome extensions don't support SVGs for toolbar buttons? How am I supposed to get an icon that looks good in dark mode if I can't use an SVG?
These notifications are still coming btw. I removed GeForce Now's notification permission, so I think that will stop it.
Writing a user style for a site that uses Tailwind is certainly an experience. Hm, what style does this element have that no other elements have?
Not sure what's worse, this or when sites use obfuscated class names.
This is neat! The progress bar on Warp is an aro pride flag this week!
Alive and Kicking has a Steam page now!
Would you sell your personal data for 12 cents?
(Context: I got a sketchy email offering to buy the user base of one of my Firefox extensions for $2000, which comes out to a cool 12 cents per user.)
@yorigami most of the screenshots I took are of jokes and references, and also of every time the cat appeared.
@yorigami Here's some of the joke/reference ones.
Most of the Wagahai screenshots I have are actually screen recordings (because Wagahai meows before coming on screen). Videos are a pain to get off the switch haha
Mother 3 on switch online, but only in Japan? Seriously, what do they have against localizing that game?!
Herlock Sholmes judges you for your text editor choice
Firefox View can't be disabled anymore, it seems :blobcatverysad:
Cool video showcasing every appearance of Hoopy the Hoop in #portal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIWKlO_2U00
@Suzie97 agreed. But if it were on mobile I might never stop playing it lol
Getting a black screen for the video player on the twitch website. At least there's celluloid!
Another spam message, this time trying to sell marketing for my extension.
With my marketing I can get 100-1000 reviews and users in a few days of my marketing
Wow, the extension has 16000 users, but with this marketing I could get 1000! Also I love this line:
NOTE: I DO NOT USE BOT OR FAKE INSTALL OF ANY KIND ALL IS DONE MANUALLY AND GENUINELLY
Hmmm... Do you think maybe they use bots?
(Also person who sent the first message offering to buy the extension sent me another. I don't know for sure, but I think these two might be the same person because the emails were within 10 minutes of each other lol)
I wasn't expecting Pokemon Legends Z! I guess I should actually play X&Y one of these days, huh.
The GeForce Now free tier having ads is a little silly. The wait times are so comically long anyway that I don't think anyone is actually going to look at the screen during the ads.
When I first saw the new mastodon UI, I immediately clicked on the moon button...
In hindsight, I should've known it was the unlisted post button, but I just saw a new button and I wanted to know what it would do!
Choosing a sleep aid video can be hard sometimes. It has to be a video I actually want to watch, but also one I'm completely OK with missing large parts of.
Did steam die for anyone else? Steam on my system is alternating between a silent crash, steamwebhelper crashing, and missing libc.so.6. (On both the native package and the flatpak package!)
Presumably whatever update valve pushed was broken. I just don't know how to fix it.
OK, I fixed it, but the solution isn't really satisfying. I did a clean install of steam 3 times and it works now.
My original installation died immediately after an update. Everytime I tried to launch it, I got an immediate crash with no error message.
I tried setting up the flatpak afterwards, but that also broke with the steamwebhelper crash. Every subsequent launch had the same issue.
I did a clean install of the native package, and got the same steamwebhelper crash that the flatpak got. After the second launch, though, the crash changed to the libc.so.6 crash.
I did a clean install again, and now it works. I didn't do anything differently. My guess is there was a pretty short period where valve pushed a broken update, and I was just unlucky enough to hit it. (Or maybe it was just completely random) I haven't seen any other posts about steam breaking today.
One slightly annoying thing is that, while I don't actually have to reinstall any games (because I backed up ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common before doing the clean install), there is no actual way to make steam autodetect what games are already installed. I have to click install on every game I had installed before steam notices it's there.
@EverBeyondReach Ah, but don't you see? Now that I've read this post, it's also inside my mind ;)
they should invent a type of blog post that writes itself
Some Stats:
I have 10 published blog posts, totaling 8967 words (897 words/post)
I have 16 draft blog posts of various degrees of completion, totaling 5837 words (364 words/draft post)
I figured out the issue here... It's a bug in Dark Reader. The twitch stream is actually working, but it's just drawing a black box over it for some reason???
An application error had occurred. This application has been termed.
I get it. It's called Mario Maker because Mario Makes You Go To Sleep :blobcatsleep:
The Nonary Games is now my fourth most played game on steam.
seriously, why does solitaire on windows have ads?
@mezz agreed. It just feels wrong for basic games like solitaire and minesweeper to have ads like that.
@aamurusko79 Ah, I didn't consider that it was to make it better! Makes perfect sense!
(Though, it's funny you mention Space Cadet Pinball, because that was actually a demo for Full Tilt Pinball. You'd just never know it because it never actually tried to upsell you)
I figured out how to do a global shortcut for GPU Screen Recorder!
According to the documentation, GPU Screen Recorder will save a replay when it receives SIGUSR1. So, you can save the replay by running killall -SIGUSR1 gpu-screen-recorder. Likewise, SIGINT will stop a recording and SIGUSR2 will pause or resume a recording. So I just set up a global shortcut for that command in GNOME and now I can stop the replay from a keyboard shortcut.
Something I noticed while setting this up is the trick that Gromit-MPX uses to get global shortcuts working in wayland. When you open Gromit MPX, it registers a bunch of global shortcuts in GNOME, and then removes them when you close it.
I've 100% completed Sokobond Express!
Libreoffice, please! The GTK file picker has thumbnails now! Why don't you have them??
Happy pi day! How many digits of pi do you know?
@el Well, I mainly meant this as a joke, because the options are the digits of pi. So you can interpret it how you like.
The way I sort of envisioned it being interpreted is:
That's why each option has an additional digit.
(I'll admit, not the most useful scale because most people will fall within the first 3 options.)
Oh! I just realized you can actually set this as a screensaver in #picotron Just save the cart to /appdata/system/screensavers, then you can set it as your screensaver in the system settings.
I just made this because it seemed like an easy project to make to try it out lol
#Picotron lets you make HTTP get requests using the fetch() function. That'll be really fun to play with!
I made a quick and dirty proof of concept for a picotron mastodon client. It fetches and displays a single status, given a server and status id. (All of the hard stuff is offloaded to a python server, so don't get too excited.)
You can also type print(fetch("https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/64317/pg64317.txt")) in the picotron terminal and read The Great Gatsby from inside picotron! This also causes picotron to get really laggy, so maybe don't actually do that.
A couple more things about #picotron I figured out by poking around in the demo programs and the readme:
To include multiple lua files in a cart, you can use include().
If you want to read the mouse cursor from a cart, you can do mx, my, mb = mouse() to get the mouse's xy coords and buttons.
You can make a cart load in windowed mode at a specific resolution with window(w, h)
You can change fonts in #picotron by doing poke(0x4000, get(fetch("/system/fonts/p8.font")))
The fonts provided are lil, lil_mono, and p8.
get() is required because the font is binary data, I think? fetch() returns a string when you use it on a url or text file.
More #Picotron Posting
You can create commandline utilities for picotron by placing lua files in /appdata/system/util. I made a couple of what I felt were obvious omissions from the included commands, such as cat, touch, tree, and download.
@merwok Oh, grep would be nice! But probably pretty difficult to do without a preexisting regex library lol
@merwok That's a good point! I was going to say you could just grep in the system, but that gives you wrong line numbers. I added a grep command that does exact search to the repo
I made a #Picotron wordle clone!
It uses an invisible text editor to let you type with the keyboard!
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=140727
load #wordle
@breadly I didn't expect to see someone else posting about the thing I made! :D
One of my private repos is apparently in The Stack. So that's fun...
Something I think is weird is that a bunch of my repos that are in The Stack aren't actually mine: they're forks of other people's repos.
So if I opt out, what happens to forks other people made of my repos? Do they also get removed when I opt out, or do they stay in because they belong to someone else according to the system?
#MarioMaker 1 is officially completed! 🎉
Trimming the Herbs was a TAS level.
Some sites make their log in pages way too heavy. It's just a simple form, why all this JS?
My phone can't handle having a heavy login page, a password manager, and an authenticator app open at the same time.
@james Probably the most popular thing I've made is History Cleaner
It's a simple browser extension that automatically erases your old browsing history. I started it back in 2017 when Firefox was first switching to Web Extensions.
Can you tell I don't know how to use the instrument editor? Sounds cool, though. No idea why higher notes are also playing faster.
Started playing Palia a bit today. It's a nice game to play while listening to a podcast.
I played it for like an hour last August, but I stopped because the performance was terrible. Luckily, that seems to be fixed now (though, I still have everything set to low)
When you close the last tab, I don't think the window should close.
Some applications behave like I expect (most code editors, Firefox with browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab disabled)
But a lot don't (basically every other browser, Windows apps like Explorer and Notepad)
I think the way the GNOME apps handle it is OK. In Nautilus and GNOME Text Editor, for example, the tab bar is hidden when there's only one tab open, so it's impossible to close the last tab; you can only close the window. With those, I never run into a situation where I close the last tab and accidentally close the window.
@james Alternatively to removing the free tier, you might get "We've taken this premium app and added a free tier! Also what was once a one time purchase is now a subscription!"
I had to reset my Firefox profile today (something broke and mp3s wouldn't play anymore...)
Everything went mostly fine, but all of the extension settings were erased in the reset. Thankfully I have backups!
The objects are no longer strange... they're CURSED! :Blobhaj_Ghostie_Surprise:
Eddy Burback's new video Apple's $3500 Nightmare is really good, IMO.
@james This is just a guess, but it might be because of fast startup in windows. With fast startup enabled (which I think it is by default), windows hibernates instead of shutting down.
The only April Fools joke I want to see tomorrow is The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
@dailyrandomscp imagine forgetting to refill the queue. couldn't be me. (it was :blobcat_astonished:)
Palia lets you sync your save across pc and switch, which is pretty cool. But the interface is so tiny on the switch! I can barely read any of the text!
This was a pretty fun April Fools video. It's Mario Odyssey hide and seek, but as a board game.
A couple new features I made for my tab switcher.
When tabs are sorted by last accessed, the second tab starts selected. (So you can switch between the two most recent tabs by just pressing enter).
The currently selected tab is now denoted by a star, and becomes transparent instead of hidden when it's not included in the search results. I feel like in the last accessed sort, this makes sense. Not sure about it when sorted by tab order...
You can move up and down in the list while the search bar is focused with ctrl + j, k, g, or G, and select a tab with ctrl+enter.
Previously, the cursor in the list was completely removed when search was focused. I have it set so that the cursor tries to stay at the same position if it can, and if the list becomes shorter, it moves the cursor to the last position. IDK if I'm fully sold on this behavior...
This is a quick test of webmentions on my blog. I think I set it up correctly. We'll see.
Edit: it works! If you want to try it out, you can reply to this post and it will appear as a comment on the linked post!
https://arnaught.neocities.org/blog/2024/04/03/webmention-test
@Rayquaza01 It works! If you comment on this post, it will appear as a comment on the blog post. Looks like I'll definitely need to write some CSS for it if I want to actually use it.
That doesn't seem quite right. I don't think I boosted this on June 28, 56266...
you're telling me a mario made this level?
I got a Balatro run with a swashbuckler (+Mult for sell value of every joker to the left) and a polychrome egg (+$3 sell value every round, x1.5 mult). Unfortunate, because to get the x1.5 on egg I have to put it on the right of swashbuckler, but to get the scaling I have to put it on the left.
My first Crypt of the NecroDancer zone 1 win!
@catboys see, this one's kinda funny because Sissel is actually a cat
This is cool. Even though "Trimming the Herbs" was found to be a TAS level, someone managed to beat it anyway!
This was a pretty lucky run for the Omelette challenge! It started with a double tag and a foil tag, so I got the foil credit card and half joker at the start. The Cloud 9 joker was a good find, for money and because I was going for 3 of a kind anyway.
the humane ai pin is answering the important questions, like "what if the cicret bracelet was real and also a pin instead?"
@james Every time someone says mother's maiden name, I always think of the one part in Lair of the Clockwork God where you have to find Dan's password.
You find out the password is his mother's maiden name (Margret Pass) + the name of his first pet (a snake named Word) + his locker in high school (#1)
Resulting in the super secure password "password1"!
Favorite song where Hatsune Miku says "oo ee oo"?
This was a good run! It was a straight build (on paper, at least) but it kind of turned into an everything build. I won on a random high card while searching for 5 kings. I got egg, gift card, and swashbuckler extremely early, so all I really needed was some times mult to get it going.
Yeah, sure. I'll watch a 3 hour 45 minute video about the invisible walls in Mario 64. Why not?
Indie World thoughts:
@cyrus Yes, from streetpass or badge arcade. I have a bunch of custom badges that I'm using for the folders on the homescreen.
It looks like I can just add them back, but it's kinda weird they get removed when switching accounts.
Edit: I couldn't just add them back. It removed all of them for some reason, and I had to re-inject them.
Watching a mario 64 livestream. The streamer hit an invisible wall, and everyone in chat started talking about pannenkoek2012's invisible wall video
Huh? "Save data is stored entirely online"? Very weird!
I was going to back up my Sonic Mania save because I noticed that there was no cloud save option for it in Heroic, but I could only find the config file. Apparently, the Epic Games Store version of Sonic Mania stores its save file entirely online.
One minor annoyance with GNOME 46: With blur my shell, I have "overview components style" set to "do not style" (because search results are illegible if they're on a transparent background). But now there's a background for each application icon too.
A minor thing I like is the notifications listing what app they're from. And I think the "Application is ready" notifications are less common now?
Skimming the release notes, Ctrl+Shift+Number to open a new window of a pinned app is nice. So are the quick timers in Clocks.
I don't think this is new, but is there no way to exclude a folder from search in Nautilus? You can exclude a folder from the overview search by adding a .trackerignore file, but Nautilus doesn't seem to respect that...
Just 8 more years till I 100% complete the Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe!
I saw the northern lights, but it wasn't very clear. Still cool!
I read online that you can use a raspberry pi as a steam link, so I decided to try it.
When I installed steamlink, it uninstalled the gui. lol
I tried on the 32 bit version of Raspberry Pi OS. That let me install steamlink without wiping out my desktop, but I got an error when I tried to launch it, that says X11 is not supported on this version of Raspbian(?), and to either downgrade to buster or run from console.
Running from console gives an error when it tries to install a dependency that isn't in the repos. And the Rasbperry Pi Imager doesn't even let you use buster anymore, so I'm not going to bother trying that.
I guess Steam Link on the Raspberry Pi just doesn't work anymore.
living in the future (using steam link to play balatro on my tablet)
I found Mini Airways on steam yesterday and it's a lot of fun. From the name and artstyle, it's very clearly inspired by Mini Metro/Mini Motorways, but it actually plays very differently. In those games, you set up the railways/roads, and the cars navigate themselves, but in Mini Airways, you have to direct each plane individually. It makes for a much more arcade-y experience.
I have an Xbox Series X/S controller paired with a computer (Fedora 40, KDE, X11), but it doesn't reconnect after a reboot for some reason. It works flawlessly once it's paired, but it I have to re-pair it after every reboot.
I think it's a KDE issue, because I've used this controller in the past with GNOME without this issue, but IDK.
I was trying to get the planet to move closer to the center, but I accidentally started drawing this star pattern. Completely unintended, but cool effect!
Worked on this a bit more. Spent way too long trying to figure out how to make elliptical curves, but it turns out it's easy.
The direction the planet heads is orthogonal to the vector towards the center. To make it an ellipse, you just have to multiply that vector by (the lengths of the major and minor axes)
Also, this is just the derivative of the ellipse equation.
r(t) = <a cos(t), b sin(t)> = <ax, by>r'(t) = <-a sin(t), b cos(t)> = <-ay, bx>
This is cool! You can use the GPU Screen Recorder systemd service with the flatpak. You just need to change one thing in the service file
(Specifically the command gpu-screen-recorder needs to be changed to its flatpak variant flatpak run --command=gpu-screen-recorder com.dec05eba.gpu_screen_recorder)
Also, it seems like GPU Screen Recorder doesn't require root anymore? Or maybe it's just something about how my system is set up?
Here's the playable version of this: https://rayquaza01.itch.io/planets
You can place planets with left click, and they'll orbit around the sun!
One thing in the code that's a little messy is that I have the planet's trail as a child of the planet, but Line2Ds use local coordinates, not global coordinates. So I have to save the coordinates as global and convert them to local every frame. I'm sure there's a better way to do that, but IDK what it is.
I tried finding an online match in Puyo Puyo Tetris 2. Wasn't expecting anything because there's basically never anyone online. I found a match instantly, but they were afk lol.
#NintendoDirect thoughts:
The fans really work fast, huh?
@erininstereo yeah, agreed. But I'm optimistic for some of the other names. I think Verity Gavelle fits better than Justine Courtney.
I got 11 emails from github over the course of an hour because someone decided to comment on basically every open issue in one of my repos.
I spent a bit of time cleaning up that issue tracker because of it. I closed 6 issues that were already resolved that I forgot to close, marked 4 issues as impossible (they're valid feature requests, but I can't implement them due to API limitations), and opened 2 new issues. Overall, pretty productive.
I commented on an unresolved issue that was opened in 2022. I got a reply from the person who opened it within an hour. I then noticed that there's another unresolved issue opened by that same person from 2018, so now I feel a little bad about not getting around to it.
I'm not going to respond until tomorrow because it's late and I've spent too much time cleaning up the issue tracker today. Here's hoping I remember to respond, otherwise I might accidentally wait another 2 years lol
I cleaned out my downloads folder yesterday. I went from 9 GB of free space to 95 GB of free space!
Does anyone know where GNOME (or maybe this is nautilus specific?) sources the apps for the Open With dialog from? I have a bunch of apps (most of them Wine apps) that are listed multiple times.
I don't have the EA App installed anymore, and I don't see Wine Internet Explorer or winebrowser in the app grid. I checked ~/.local/share/applications and /usr/share/applications but I can't seem to find desktop files for them either.
@hemish Ah, I guess I wasn't looking hard enough. I found them. They were named wine-protocol-*.desktop and wine-extension-*.desktop
Thanks!
OK, so I also figured out the non-wine related duplicated entries.
Rhythmbox provides two desktop entries. One runs rhythmbox %U and the other runs rhythmbox-client --select-source %U. I think the second one is for playing from a CD drive? But you can't tell which is which from the list because they have the same name.
"Software Install" is listed 3 times. These are from .desktop files named gnome-software-flatpak, -fwupd, and -packagekit respectively. Pretty obvious what these are for, but they all run the same command (gnome-software --local-filename %f), so I don't know why there are 3 of them.
Here's another weird one.
There's one entry named Game 430794... (it goes on for a while). This is from a desktop entry named discord-430794... Running it launches the steam game 504230.
Which is, of course, Celeste. No idea why it's named discord.
Steam Game Recording is really cool, but it seems to negatively affect performance on a lot of games, unfortunately. Guess I'm sticking with GPU screen recorder for now.
So, I open notepad because I want a blank text document.
Instead, notepad has like 10 tabs open from a previous session for some reason. This doesn't really make sense to me because notepad doesn't have a concept of "projects", so why would I want to restore tabs from a previous session?
Regardless, I close the tabs because I don't need or want them. I just want a blank text document.
Except when I close the last tab the entire window closes! So now I have to open notepad again! Very silly default behavior!
Apparently, the last time I had to use notepad was March 27, so at least I'm doing a good job avoiding it.
what even are passkeys?
LiveSplit has a server, so you can control it by sending it a packet
Such as: echo "startorsplit" > /dev/tcp/localhost/16834
I think cokeline is the plugin that's going to get me to switch to neovim
Coc has snippet support built in?! That simplifies my setup a little bit lol
Why do so many TUI apps insist on using powerline separators? I don't think they look good.
Also, it's misaligned by literally 1 pixel and it really annoys me!
legally distinct chibi robo!
Found this while looking for something else. Shoutouts to the 1.63% of GameFAQs users on linux in 2007!
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/2648-do-you-plan-to-upgrade-to-windows-vista
Google Play Books removed the sepia option from the web viewer? Very odd.
Apparently the book is DRM free, though, so I guess I can just read it with some other software
hmmm, I think Google Play Books might be the best app for reading epubs on android. Lithium seems really nice, but it doesn't have multi column support
I set up an old docking station for my laptop because I got tired of having to plug/unplug 3 different cables every time I move my laptop.
Now I only have to unplug 2 cables every time :yay_cheer: (It's still better though. The headphone cable and HDMI cable have a tendency to fall behind my desk, which is really annoying. The power cable and docking station cable are in a better position where they won't fall when unplugged.)
I haven't used this docking station since 2018, when I first switched to linux, because it didn't work on linux. Turns out, the issue is that I needed to install the proprietary displaylink driver.
The docking station has a big piece of duct tape on the front, because it has an obnoxious blue LED that never turns off.
@eveiswurzig yeah, I've heard electrical tape works well for blocking light. I actually have a folded up scrap of paper beneath the duct tape, and that seems to be thick enough to block any light from bleeding through
Why do different ebook softwares use such different ways of counting pages? (And why do none(?) of them give the option to change which method is used?)
Page numbers can be decided by the publisher (so they match up with the physical book). Depending on your screen size and font settings, 1 page might span several screens of text
Page numbers can be columns of text. 1 screen = 1 page (single column) or 1 screen = 2 pages (double column, side by side like a physical book)
Or they can be entirely screen based. 1 screen = 1 page, even if you're using two columns. The only one I know of that does this is hoopla. It also has a weird quirk where it refuses to ever have a blank column, so sometimes when you hit the end of a chapter it only turns half a page(???)
@matty You should probably just use it on windows. You can get it working in wine, but it's really a lot more involved than I'd like.
Here's the instructions to install it in wine, if you'd like to give it a shot: https://codeberg.org/wanesty/affinity-wine-docs
They : Them :: Gayer : Gamer
I figured out how to set the disc number tag correctly! I've had the tag set wrong on "The Essential 'Weird Al' Yankovic" since like 2011, when I ripped the CD and tagged it the first time.
Have I really had an extra [Version] on this track the entire time?!
![A screenshot of the tags for my mp3 of "The Night Santa Went Crazy [Extra Gory Version]" from "The Essential 'Weird Al' Yankovic".
The word "[Version]" is duplicated.](/assets/strangeobject/media_attachments/files/112/872/466/142/278/041/original/6fd1ccfe4710c246.png.webp "A screenshot of the tags for my mp3 of \"The Night Santa Went Crazy [Extra Gory Version]\" from \"The Essential 'Weird Al' Yankovic\".
The word \"[Version]\" is duplicated.")
Mouse with "7 programmable buttons":
I started reading Gideon the Ninth again, but with the audiobook this time. I read it first a couple years ago, but I feel like I kinda slogged through it. I dnf'd Harrow the Ninth partway through because I had trouble following it and I had to return it to the library.
I'm only like an hour into the audiobook but I think I'm liking it better. Seems a little funnier than I remember.
Not really sure what I'm going to do for LowRezJam yet. I'm thinking maybe something rpg-ish? Or maybe something sokoban-ish? IDK, but it'll probably have a top-down perspective.
I was looking into Dialogic for including dialog, and it definitely seems cool, but it doesn't work very well in a 64x64 resolution. It doesn't seem to give full control over the size of the text box, so the textbox goes offscreen. I'll probably just work around it by making sure each line of text is short enough.
Day 2 of LowRezJam! I got screen transitions and character collisions working, and I built a dialogue manager. It's pretty basic, but it should be more than enough for what I need.
I went through the effort of building up an ignore file for fd, and wow, now fzf can list all* of the files in my home folder in about a second!
* Well, actually about 14% of the files in my home folder. But who's counting!
Is there an automatic way to convert the pre-1.0 Pixelorama color pallets to the new JSON format it uses? Or am I going to have to do it manually?
Well, that wasn't so bad.
My first time playing DOOM was in study hall back in high school. I played it on my 3DS using prboom3ds. It's actually kinda nice because the automap is always shown on the bottom screen.
My submission for LowRezJam is complete!
I didn't get much progress done on what I was working on before, so I ended up scrapping all that and starting over a few days ago.
It's a space shoot-em-up, with a twist. You control the planets, and you need to dodge the space ship and its lasers!
Enjoy! 😄
@cariad Glad you liked it!
Could I ask what your highscore was? The best I've gotten so far is ~55
it's subtle, but i like the more-rounded profile pictures
Playing the Rift of the Necrodancer demo. I don't think this works well on controller. I started playing with the d-pad, but the second song requires you to press left and right at the same time, which isn't possible on the dpad/stick. So you have to either have both hands on the face buttons, or use both the face buttons and dpad at the same time.
A little surprising to me because I think Crypt of the Necrodancer is better on controller. (Using items is awkward on keyboard because they're mapped to a button combo like left+up as opposed to a dedicated button, which I find hard to get a hang of.)
Splitgate 2 alpha playtest doesn't work on Linux because of anti-cheat :(
Splitgate 1 works on Linux, so I just sort of assumed 2 would as well.
I migrated my blog from Jekyll to Eleventy!
https://arnaught.neocities.org/blog/2024/08/25/this-is-an-eleventy-blog-now
The Nintendo Direct has taught me that I don't actually know what they mean by "timed console exclusive"
How is Peglin a time console exclusive if it's already out on PC?
Hmm... do I want to remap Razer Naga Pro, or Razer Razer Naga Pro?
Brennan Lee Mulligan on Hey Riddle Riddle! That'll be fun!
Woah, I have less than 1 GB of space left! I didn't know that 3.5 GB is less than 1 GB!
(Why do cloud providers give you free space and then not factor in the free space they gave you in their nag emails. OneDrive does it too)
This was tough! This is the first hard mode clear I've gotten. I'm kinda surprised I got a B
I'm kinda impressed at how good the handwriting input in gboard is. It still gets it right even if my writing is sloppy. I think this is my prefered way of typing on my tablet.
The Joplin MacOS theme looks really nice, but it also freezes the app when using emojis as notebook icons, so I can't use it unfortunately.
Chiang Mai in Mini Motorways is so hard! I just can't get the 2000 trips achievement. I managed to get 1500 in expert mode, but my classic mode score is still 1200.
Chiang Mai and Busan are the only ones I don't have the 2000 trips achievements for.
0.8% of players have completed 500 trips in Chiang Mai expert mode
2.9% of players have completed 2000 trips in Chiang Mai
How?! Getting 500 trips in expert mode is definitely easier!
What's with Chrome's webextension APIs having tiny inconsistencies with Firefox?
So, I have a toolbar icon that changes color based on the theme. In Firefox, you can just use an SVG with prefers-color-scheme. SVG toolbar icons are not supported in Chrome.
theme_icons can do it, but that isn't supported in Chrome either. (According to MDN, it has been supported since Chrome 88, but I can't get it to work. The Chrome docs don't mention theme_icons at all, so I think MDN might be wrong here)
So, I need to set the icon with action.setIcon(). This works with Firefox, but on Chrome it errors out. This is because icons in Chrome apparently have a max size of 128x128, and I was trying to use a 256x256 image. This limitation is not present in Firefox, and doesn't appear to be mentioned on MDN or the Chrome docs.
A bit of a late start, but I've started making a Balloon Fight clone for Pico1k. I just have movement so far, but it currently fits nicely in just 620 compressed bytes!
The bouncing off walls was surprisingly easy to do. (Just multiply the velocity vector by <-1, 1> when you hit a wall, or <1, -1> for ceilings)
TOEM is free on Epic this week. Highly recommend playing it if you haven't already!
padding my goodreads numbers by reading a bunch of graphic novels
@admin @sudo_esther @james thank you for everything you've done with running this server! :Blobhaj_Heart:
