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sako

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draw stuff, make stuff | ものを描くものを作る
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sako, to pixelart
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My last minute entries to nokia art jam 2

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sako,
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@thepoodge 96 x 65 px

sako,
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@thepoodge there's less than 2 hours left if you want to enter the jam!
https://itch.io/jam/nokiaartjam-2

sako, to random
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I like the place I live in (perth, australia) but in terms of jobs I could apply for that are relevant to my skills, there's like nothing here. there's no game studios (there used to be a couple, I don't know any that are still around). All the tech or engineering jobs are either for mining companies, the police, or casinos, and I don't want to work for any of them.

sako,
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good thing that remote jobs exist, but I've been stuck in my room for enough years. I want to go out. I want to do work in an environment that isn't my bedroom with all its distractions. I'd rather talk to people in person than through video calls (voice calls are okay though).

sako,
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maybe I'm fantasizing. I don't know what it's like to have a full time job, or even a short gig at a physical location. all my gigs have involved me making stuff on my computer, in my bedroom. It's fine I guess, maybe better than having a soul-draining office job. But I want to feel like a human being, I don't want to live in my computer forever.

sako,
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(Not job searching right now, I have something I'm lined up for after I'm done with my course that I'm pretty excited about. But of course, I'll be doing it from home.)

sako, to random
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kinda sad to me that a lot of people seem to be learning programming without having a passion for it

sako,
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I guess I love coding because I learned as part of learning game dev. I learned through experimentation and making stuff I wanted to make. I can kinda see how learning it as part of a formal curriculum can be miserable. Being a complete beginner that barely understands how a for loop works and being told to make a program that reads a csv and prints a table or whatever. that's boring man. no wonder all the other students on the campus I go to seem to hate programming

sako,
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A lot of students in the electronics course I'm taking are fumbling through the units that involve writing code, using chatgpt to write barely working code that they don't understand. During a lunch break, I overheard someone talking about how they don't really need to learn programming because soon AI will be able to write all the code for them anyway (good luck with debugging I guess).

sako,
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It's frustrating when I help someone with some code, and then later when I'm asked for help again, the code is completely different. different variable names, completely different structure, I have to re-understand how it works. because it all keeps getting re-generated

sako,
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To be fair, the electronics course I'm taking is very compressed and somewhat poorly structured, it does a bad job at teaching absolute beginners how to code. I have the advantage of already having experience programming. I can kinda see how they're trying their best to scrape by, using a tool they know how to use. It's sad to see though

sako,
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@shanie I don't like being mean to others. but I always tell my classmates that they should learn how to write their own code and understand how their code works

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@DominikDammer yeah I guess so, to get a job and earn money. that's a very foreign way to approach programming to me. I've never had a salaried job, don't make money from programming, and didn't learn programming for that reason. I've also always been a bit selfish and have never pursued anything that I wasn't interested in. the idea of pursuing something you don't enjoy seems miserable to me, even if it makes you a living

sako,
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@Andre_LA yeah. I get that a lot of people learn to program becuase they want high paying jobs, but don't the high paying jobs require them to be good at programming, and doesn't that require them to have some passion for it? I've never had a programming job so I don't know what they're like. Half-heartedly pursuing something you don't enjoy seems miserable to me.

sako,
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@Andre_LA I guess I'm lucky that I'm able to pursue what I want to begin with

sako, to Arduino
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I'm having so much fun making rotating cubes
#arduino

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sako, to random
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I've been taking @pikuma's incredible 3D graphics programming from scratch course. I reached the part where we've made a basic spinning cube and I wanted to try implementing it in

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sako, to random
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don't make a cell-shaded anime-styled highly acclaimed game with "rush" at the end of the title if you're a first party studio for a company that makes consoles. It is apparently a curse that will shut down your studio no matter how amazing the game is

sako,
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@freeplay gravity rush

sako, to random
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"creative industry" is an oxymoron. those two words don't go together

sako, (edited ) to random
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anyone here have experience interacting with web APIs over https using love2d/lua (on windows)? I just want to be able to post to here or bluesky, I don't know why I thought it would be easy lol

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@poetaster I haven't wrote any of the web API interaction code yet, don't really know where to start to be honest, still in the research phase. I have little to no experience with this stuff, other than making a test post to here from windows command prompt using curl a while ago and that was easy enough, so I assumed this would be easy too.

It seems like the built-in luasocket in love2d only works with http and not https, so that's a roadblock already.

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I've looked up how to make requests over https in love2d and most of the answers go over my head. There are some libraries out there but they require the use of github actions or cmake and I don't know how any of that stuff works (I'm not a "real" programmer). Maybe I shouldn't be trying to do this in love2d, or wait until there's proper https support (coming in love2d 12.0 apparently).

sako,
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@poetaster Yeah I've looked at that, don't really know how to install or include it in my project. can't find any guide for it

sako,
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i could try to do what I'm doing in python instead since there's a lot more support and documentation, but I don't want to use python...

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