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@livingshredder@furry.engineer
@livingshredder@furry.engineer hey this is really cool! Thanks for building this and sharing
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Low-key game maker. Still making games but very slowly. Currently hobbying at street and other photography, writing, and music.
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@dangoodin@infosec.exchange
@dangoodin@infosec.exchange I looked at the first one and although I don't know the codebase at all so am missing context, I think I understand it partly (I am a good c++ programmer ) and it certainly looks real to me. There is also discussion on the bugzilla where a developer acknowledges they introduced the bug when doing code cleanup.
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@lachlancooper@mastodon.social
@lachlancooper@mastodon.social I think sometimes about how one of the biggest constraints on GB in particular is the small screen size + low resolution. E.g. comparing Zelda LTTP with Links Awakening. LTTP is pretty densely laid out but LA suuure takes that up a notch! Really interesting and powerful constraint.
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@lachlancooper@mastodon.social
@lachlancooper@mastodon.social @jplebreton@mastodon.social ahh! I will look forward to reading this, thank you!
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@nothings@mastodon.gamedev.place
@nothings@mastodon.gamedev.place Also it's interesting to me: I can't think of a game *other* than Ultima VI that does floodfill visibility. (Except like Ultima VII, and maybe VIII which I haven't played, I guess...)
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@nothings@mastodon.gamedev.place
@nothings@mastodon.gamedev.place Thank you. It's really nice to know this is being read and sharing interesting ideas. Makes me want to write more like this!
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@lachlancooper@mastodon.social
@lachlancooper@mastodon.social @jplebreton@mastodon.social I'm glad this was an interesting read-- it's really satisfying to know. Also: I didn't know about these GB ultima games until now. I am *super* intrigued by the design choices they made, who developed them, and so on. Thanks for the reply :)
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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place
@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place @jplebreton@mastodon.social thank you both! It's so nice to know this was interesting.
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@kayserifserif@sunny.garden
@kayserifserif@sunny.garden acquiring physical objects sometimes has little fun adventures associated with them, that I like (e.g., just got a Henry James book at the library. I liked it there!) but I think e readers are great too! (I have used one only a bit but I liked it!)
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@kayserifserif@sunny.garden
@kayserifserif@sunny.garden note my post is NOT snark it is physical books that reduce my smartphone use --
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@kayserifserif@sunny.garden
@kayserifserif@sunny.garden go to a used book store and just ask the book nerd behind the counter for a recc! It will be a good time guaranteed!!! Books! Got DAMN they are good :)
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@jorendorff@federate.social
@jorendorff @mhoye thank you-- I will refresh on Taylor series first (background: I am currently re-reading my university calc textbook from way back)
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@jorendorff@federate.social
@jorendorff @mhoye ah! I was wondering how you got a cyclic function out of ln and exp. I am not superstrong at math-- I just like it :)
The core idea does seem pretty cool. The paper is annoyingly wordy in a slop-machine-wrote-this way-- the author discloses as much. Lately I have been thinking about how functions (e.g. sin()) are actually implemented (did some baby level numerical integration stuff lately which made me curius.)
Also wonder: is this idea similar to Taylor polynomials?
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca
@mhoye I skim read it. I'm not totally sure if the solutions are proven exact from algebraic identitied or what. The prose parts feel like slop-- the author admits to this but... For instance I didn't see any derivation for sin(x).
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@PsySal@mastodon.social
Another one from that set, this is probably my favorite of the day and I got a *lot* that day.
#photography #streetphotography
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@nicknicknicknick@friend.camp
@nicknicknicknick@friend.camp it ... Requires a certain mindset. I can't always do it.
I have finally got to where I am posting photos again. Here is a big collection of people pictures from last May. It was a great day, in Calgary spring kind of actually arrives in May and everybody gets so silly and happy . This was a great day for me too.
https://kittylambda.com/?p=pictures_2025-05-03_princes_island_and_river_walk
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