And those 5 minutes are some of the most rejuvenating minutes you get in your life.

Oof I got a lot of conflicting thoughts on this. Going to need another coffee to mull this one over.

I wonder if it can install/manage Unreal Engine yet. I don’t see anything mentioning it specifically so I’d presume not.

What would they be fighting over?

It was flawed and janky but I generally liked the first Outward game. Hopefully this one is good.

Dang, 190k subscribers and his source of income? That’s pretty awful.

Game of Thrones.

The movies do imply he’s a pretty savvy scrap engineer, so I’ll give him that.

Its just the environment he’s forced to work in.

Star Wars has a data transmission problem in that software isn’t easily distributed across the galaxy.

Its much more likely Anakin found the programming or just a part with the “OS” installed and put it into a bunch of spare protocol droid parts. Maybe it took some tinkering but I don’t think he did a bunch of low level stuff as he’s a slave without real education, and I don’t believe anything of that level of skill comes up again.

Also noted, I don’t think the droids in Star Wars are 1 for 1 “operating systems” as we know them as they (can) have advanced personalities in a way that our software certainly doesn’t do.

So for a game I published, there are male/female characters with what I called undermeshes, which is basically underwear that’s painted onto the skin texture. By design, there is no “nudity”, as the underwear is the most exposed you can get.

At the time, there were two torso ‘top’ textures, both created from a base design. One was a sports bra looking thing for women, and just a bare (notably not hairy) chest for men.

Things were getting crunchy and I had a few NPCs that I was trying to dress differently for a town to make them distinctive. There was an unused semi-low-cut dress asset so I put that on a single NPC, but it looked funky with the sports bra.

So I assigned the male torso top texture to the lady so the bra wasn’t showing, made sure nothing scandalous was visible, and moved on.

Game gets released.

Weeks later, I’m troubleshooting a quest dialogue bug, and recalled this particular NPC has different lines (and animations!) if you’re a specific sex/race.

I swap races and do the whole quest again, only to (re)discover that the reason the dress was unused was because it wasn’t 100% properly set up. So when the NPC moved about with the different animations, the dress didn’t move with her, making her temporarily very topless and with the bare male texture, showing a lot more than she was supposed to be able to.

In short, this is quite bad and could have resulted in a not-too-happy e-mail from Valve if someone else found it.

Fortunately (AFAIK) I’m the only one who caught it but it was a cold chill followed by an absolute panic hotfix.

This is how I’m rolling into this Steam sale. Let’s find the good stuff.

I intended to buy a server for my game dev stuff like my locally hosted ForgeJo, file server, etc. I currently have a scrappy little box made from spare parts.

But they’re so expensive now and I don’t want to blow my entire budget on a new one when the current one “works”.

So I was actually on Mastodon a long time ago in ~2016, where someone very programmer recommended it to me. I didn’t get it and so skipped out but I was aware of it.

Years later, before the API-pocalypse, I was getting frustrated with Reddit and then-Twitter and so bailed out on them. A friend had brought up trying to ditch Facebook and algorithms, and I recalled Mastodon and went to looking at it again, this time giving it a proper try.

Well I stuck around obviously and went to browse around at other Fedi-stuff and stumbled upon Lemmy/PieFed, joining it a short while later.

Being generally inactive for most of the day, just sitting and reading your phone/computer.

I become a sexy love interest for the protagonist(s). This gives me enough plot armor to become unstoppable.

If Steam got rid of removing messages after two weeks, it would definitely be more viable.

I stepped away from Discord months ago and I must admit, I haven’t found a good replacement yet. And if it is decent, no one else I know will jump on it.

Its frustrating.

(I know someone may feel compelled to offer a solution by pointing me towards a Discord-like. I assure you, I’ve already tried or looked into it.)

I intended on uploading content but many instances (as far as I have seen) have limits.

This is fine and makes sense, but I have no idea how long/bulky any of my content will be, so I’m wary to get started.

Ok this looks great lol

Sometimes you do plan ahead but then the delicious smell hits you and then the stomach suggests a tasty new plan.