✨anotak✨ @anotak@witches.town

@Angle so what, that's absolute worst case M*log(N) or something? i'd have to sit down and math harder than i want to to give you an exact one. the thing is that the solution can get better. going further, you could store things as ranges instead of raw bits ("run length encoding")

@Angle N posts, M users:
a naive solution is to have N-size array of M-bit values = N*M size.
assuming to some degree that users will share seen or unseen posts, you can categorize them.
one possibility is to have a tree where each node represents a group of users who have a certain range of seen or unseen posts. the worst case that I can think of, is you have M unique posts and N unique users, with each post being seen by exactly 1 user. So your root node is the set of all users, your 2nd level are 2 nodes, 1 for the set who have unseen the lower M/2, one for the upper M/2. next you have 4 at M/4 each. at each level L you only have to include M/L bits

@Angle find a way to group seen posts together, possibly w some kind of tree structure. alternatively, create groups of seeing/unseeing users that can be grouped together. you'd have to probably test empirically which would tend to use less memory.

it's odd that games don't have anything like the collage

@galaxgal a lot of this actually really bothers me about how we teach programming, like, just there's so much stuff hidden behind awful jargon and etc. there's also just the huge problem of which students grew up with computers and which students didn't

Despite there being good Unity games, I can't blame players for being ignorant of how things work and associating it w/ bad. There's a billion low effort shovelware games w/ a Unity logo flashing in ppl's faces on startup. On the other hand, if people got the fancy version of Unity, the logo isn't there!
And besides, it really doesn't make sense to blame players for misunderstanding how games are made. Especially after considering how it has been intentionally obfuscated by the corporate culture of games.

once you have the right skillset, writing your own game engine will take less time than struggling to adapt a "general solution" to your specific problem. quotes because general solutions just, generally, don't exist.
tools always affect your output, they affect how you think. it's important to be aware of that

that said, getting that skillset for most people isn't worth the time investment. it's good that stuff like Unity exists, and there are good Unity games.

@konomikitten ty

@konomikitten it would be nice if this was behind a content warning

it's p cool that they announced the new doctor who at evo

something got me thinking about music that had some popular usage outside of it's own creators' contexts. like propellorheads - spybreak, more commonly known as the theme from the lobby shootout scene in the matrix. like for me i have memories of my brother putting on the album with that track while we played n64 games, but to other people it's "that song from the matrix". kind of weird??

@mauve i know social media is kind of designed for you to feel bad/guilty/apologetic for not being "active enough" but tbh you don't need to apologize. because like maybe that's a not-okay thing about these places.

i like what you post! but would rather you take your time and post it on your own terms in a way that makes you feel okay.

@uma i know i'm several days late to this (i dont know how i ended up here), but i often think about the comparison to my internet experience growing up before social media, being part of like small tight knit communities on forums and ircs in the ranges of maybe 10 to 300 active people. it often felt way more positive but maybe that's just the rose tinted glasses talking

@yams_gamgee communism. i'm maybe? some kind of ancom? sort of? i don't really know, i'm bad at these things tbh

i was in my computer ethics class doing a group project, and my 2 assigned group members from the class both say they're libertarians and they ask what my political affiliation is, and i said "uhh, some kind of far leftist anarchist but i dont really like any of those terms and i also dont exactly know" (i dont say the c-word in alabama politics bc i dont want to die) and they say to me
"isn't that the same thing as libertarian"

i always try my best to make the "tedious" things in life into something that i can view as a fun challenge but just some weeks it's hard

i have a whole bunch of things i have to do and i want to do like absolutely none of them.

@Trashbang i had to contact the author on irc bc i remembered who made it but not where the finished wad ended up. it's TTV!Zone-Season1.wad MAP37

@Trashbang
this is really weird to see this today because a friend of mine told me this about Doom2016 a couple days ago and I thought it was the strangest thing I had ever heard. (i still haven't played it). i had this sort of probably-unfair gut offended feeling of "that's not doom!!!!!"

also, believe it or not, i've seen the spider mastermind used very effectively as well.

that thing where i want to help someone but i have so much trouble helping myself