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raptor85

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Just making the games I want to, linux/gentoo enthusiast, addicted to C++.

I block stupid people, life isn't long enough to talk to a brick wall.

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raptor85, to gamedev
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More fun with math, the texture mapping isn't perfect, I have some corrections to do to it still, but my little renderer now supports off-grid objects of arbitrary sizes and positions (only real restriction is they have to be convex). While the game itself is intended to be grid based I thought it'd be nice to be able to do some more complex scenery outside of billboards, sprites, and texture tricks.

#raycaster #gamedev #indiedev #sdl #sdl3

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passthejoe, to random
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World Exclusive: We tested the first 2TB microSD card and no, it's not a fake — AGI's card defies laws of physics with record-breaking storage capacity on pinkie-size surface area | TechRadar https://www.techradar.com/pro/world-exclusive-we-tested-the-first-2tb-microsd-card-and-no-its-not-a-fake-agis-card-defies-laws-of-physics-with-record-breaking-storage-capacity-on-pinkie-size-surface-area

raptor85,
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@passthejoe falling 12% short on size off the initial format is somewhat concerning, i wonder how it fares with write cycles. (I've had so many cheaper "high capacity" cards essentially start losing sectors after the first write....and no I don't mean just the amazon knockoff chips using smaller bits of memory in a ring buffer)

At that initial degradation it's barely bigger than the sandisk 1.5tb cards.

narohdethan, to random

So I want to play Fallout New Vegas, need to install mod because 64 bit, install mod, thing doesnt work properly because I use an AMD GPU.

Sometimes I fucking hate PC.

raptor85,
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@lashman @narohdethan I do kinda enjoy the irony that linux has become by far easiest way to play most windows games.

passthejoe, to random
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I spent just $30 on a mechanical keyboard to prove you don’t need to waste your money | Tom's Guide https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/peripherals/i-spent-just-dollar30-on-a-mechanical-keyboard-to-prove-you-dont-need-to-waste-your-money

raptor85,
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@passthejoe they've come down a lot in price everywhere! i think it's mostly just mechanical switches are more the norm now where before they were only made in small batches. Only things I don't like about the one you listed are I'm not a fan of the layout with the extra windows keys but I could live with that, but it also only comes in brown or red linear switches (no tactile click on either, my error rate would be through the roof...) and lacks a keypad (which I use a LOT)

raptor85,
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@passthejoe it just seems theres no real middle ground with keyboards anymore, nobody ever has an option that has the proper tactile keys and a keypad, but in good quality, without throwing in everything rgb and the kitchen sink.

Like I love everything about my WASD keyboard but I absolutely did not need nor want backlighting, it's just it's "there" if you want the better keys and better base....

raptor85, to ethelcain
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I love how in so many indie games you can get a pretty good read on how young the author is just by how badly they misunderstand how old certain things are, I love playing games supposedly in the 80s/early 90s and seeing all the flat screen tvs, cell phones, and http web pages on the internet. Doesn't really kill the game for me or anything, just gives me a good laugh. Was looking the new "No Players Online" and I love that the old 80's computer you log back into is more mid 2000s

raptor85, to random
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So on the apparently all the overscan options are gone, removed because WAYLAND doesn't support it, so now those of us running X11 with screens that need those settings are also stuck with bad overdraw and unusable menus, with a note that it'll unfortunately remain broken until wayland has equivalent support...

WTF is it with people who love wayland literally telling everyone to deal with broken systems while they "catch up"...just let us use what already existed..

raptor85, to linux
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My dream phone that nobody makes.

  1. Flip phone
  2. no external screen
  3. physical buttons for dialing and navigating
  4. small
  5. replaceable battery with long battery life
  6. runs mainline linux
  7. supports full rcs
  8. decent camera for basic pictures and QR code scanning
  9. full 5g/extended range LTE modem support
  10. speakerphone that's loud and decent voice pickup
  11. doesn't cost more than a fucking 4090 and require most people to finance it....

#phone #enshitification #linux

raptor85, to llm
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The Code Llama 34b model isn't half bad! Been toying around with it integrated into clion having it explain my own code to me and generate small functions and it's been so far around 90% successful, with most of the errors being minor, the bug detection does have a decent amount of false positives though. I also like that it's aware enough of api's to give doc links

Bonus points for it going off on a tangent once on why console applications are better than gui.

#LLaMA #LLM #CLion #cplusplus

raptor85, to linux
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#Grub 2.12 warning!

For anyone doing some regular #linux system updates (especially since 2.12 got flagged "stable" on #gentoo), grub 2.12 changes the EFI install directories and enables shim lock by default, in the news update it tells you about the install directories (simply blow away your /boot/EFI and let grub rebuild it, way better than their instructions), the shim lock is a bit more tricky, it seems to not be working correctly in 2.12 and even with SB disabled trips up.

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raptor85, to random
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Minor gripe about #opendkim

The startup scripts will not run if any users are added to the opendkim group for security reasons, but it uses those groups to create the local socket, so if you use mail services like postfix which run as their own users there's no way without modifying the scripts or modifying permissions after every restart to grant postfix the ability to use it. minor annoyance as it's just something I have to fix after every update but you'd think it's such a common pairing...

mttaggart, to random

There are basically two irreconcilable camps in the Threads debate here.

  • Camp 1, understandably, wants nothing to do with Meta and view them as an existential threat to the Fediverse for plenty of well-precedented reasons.

  • Camp 2, also understandably, sees potential in connecting a managed platform that appeals to entities like news outlets and other services to the Fediverse, enabling us to access that information without requiring an account on a Meta-owned platform.

Camp 1 will not cede ground because they view the issue as existential.

Camp 2 will, I dunno, deal with it or move to a server where they can see what they want to see?

But given the scale of Threads already, widespread blocking of it will create a pretty noticeably weird gap in the federation graph, and make onboarding for new potential Fedi users even more confusing. That part, by itself, kinda sucks.

raptor85,
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@mttaggart @ShredderFeeder as we've seen before though if you're a large enough majority of some piece of tech (web browsers, etc) you become de-facto standard even if you're not playing nice. We could very well see the situation a year or two in where threads starts adding their own extensions and the choice for other servers is comply or defed, pissing off their users who won't understand why they suddenly lost 3/4 their friends list.

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    raptor85,
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    @psychicparrot42 pictured: nintendo's method of determining if you can publish on switch and how many months delay you'll have to wait.

    raptor85, to linux
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    My thoughts on the new jetbrains UI in a nutshell.

    (if you haven't seen it, it's your standard modern "we hid everything 3 levels deep in menus to make it look pretty!" modern design)

    https://www.jetbrains.com/clion/new-ui/?utm_source=product&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=new_ui_release

    As a long, LONG term customer I swear I'll drop them in an instance and write my own IDE if I have to if this ever stops being optional....

    raptor85, (edited ) to gamedev
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    Anyone know of a good gimp or aesprite plugin that lets you use an arbitrary resolution/position onion skin? At some point I used to maintain my own custom image editor I wrote to do this but it's too old to run easily and honestly I don't really want to rebuild it on modern QT/TK, would make things a hell of a lot easier to work with. Using layers or the built in onion skinning seems to only allow using pv/nx frames of the same resolution/position.

    raptor85, to Youtube
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    Uh oh....

    I just had an ad on youtube manage to sneak past both noscript AND ublock origin, looks like they're testing out some new methods to bypass ad-blockers....thankfully about half the channels I follow now also post on other sites but I really wish others would follow, if made to pick between watching ads and not watching any of the content I'll choose to just not watch anything any time.

    brycedixon, to gamedev
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    Kind of disappointing when I'm reminded by people outside the #gamedev industry that the vast majority of people don't know the tools necessary or available to them.

    You don't need to spend any money to make a game. #GodotEngine is free and open source. #Krita is free and open source. So is #Blender3D.
    I feel like a lot of people assume you need to buy tools and an engine and assets because "making a game is hard" and "tools to do hard things cost money because the problems are hard to solve."

    I wonder if there are better ways we as developers can do outreach and raise awareness of the tools available for people who want to be developers but have no clue what to even search for.

    raptor85,
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    @brycedixon You don't even need an engine, even a lot of gamedevs get into the mindset that it's "pointless" to make games without an engine, and that's been argued since unity/ue4/gamemaker/etc started getting big, but it's not true and has NEVER been true, and as a matter of fact when you look at steam a HUGE portion of successful indie games use no engine at all! Anyone willing to learn can make a game with a free compiler and a library card in a few months.

    raptor85, to gaming
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    I need a new "downtime" game, looking for suggestions (even if it's your own game, hell I'd PREFER if it was someone's project!)

    preferred:

    • city builder
    • factory
    • rts
    • faster paced FPS (more quake/unreal than CoD)
    • farming
    • mouse/keyboard controls
    • if it has a linux native build i'll give preference

    avoid:

    • mobile games
    • f2p
    • multiplayer-only
    • early access
    • games that don't understand the difference between darkness/jumpscares and horror

    #gaming #videogames

    raptor85, to gamedev
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    Man, I'd love to submit for but the fact that it's windows and web builds only sucks...

    raptor85, to random
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    System update day! You know what that means!

    #IHatePython

    raptor85, to random
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    Nothing reminds me of how much I hate people than the fourth of july...county gave a BIG warning this year that due to the massive drought fireworks were a BAD IDEA, literally didn't stop anyone, massive damage to the local convention center, fire engines screaming all night putting people's houses out. (aerial fireworks are illegal here without a permit but the cops don't do shit, they're too busy power tripping on other things)

    raptor85, to random
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    I know my opinion on it's not exactly the most popular but with all the drama over FF16 right now I do have to say, while I understand the accessibility items and why they exist, I also do get the other side as well and I think the hate people are getting for not liking them is a little undeserved. When you play a game for the challenge and the thrill of finally beating it having an "easy" button to essentially beat the game for you really does cheapen the experience, 1/2

    raptor85, to gamedev
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    I swear I die a little inside every time our entry (which is a very on-the-nose parody of dragon quest) gets comments on. "How much they liked my take on the undertale battle system" or comments on how it's "a 2d rpg like zelda!". I'm 37 but these comments are making me feel like I'm 200 years old O_x...

    raptor85, to gamedev
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    Another ludum dare down! (Teamed up with a friend of mine for the art again) Once again...planned WAY too much and spent a good portion of the time cutting everything back. Ended up making a fairly complex Dragon Quest 1 style game in C++/SDL2, ended up just being single file. One of these day's I'll actually scope right. But hey, it has some rough edges but it does play fairly well!

    https://raptor85.itch.io/dragon-express

    #C++

    raptor85, to random
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    @PixelBandits Honestly I could never get into the CoD games past the original two (single player) ones, the multiplayer in them just felt so slow, glued to the ground, and boring to me (I'm not a fan of the "move up slightly and shoot from cover, get hit twice then respawn" gameplay they tend to have.) I'd love to get back into online FPSs but nobody makes one that's appealing to me anymore, you're forced to choose between "hero's" and lootboxes" or "realistic", both with loot grind now.

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