y'all remember this indie gem https://witches.town/media/UR8hz-YCbb0RLTg6Z1M
jeff gerstmann has probably my favorite tumblr, which is admittedly a low bar, but he exceeds it by a lot.
https://witches.town/media/FWGdJwVRUOJDLULdOWQ https://witches.town/media/KHDyJvRk49Ml_bj-Do4
jeff gerstmann with the good opinions
like i think about how after the nick robinson Thing happened people went on and on decrying "soft boys" and "soft boy culture" as if either of those things had anything to do with nick's creepiness (as evidence for their disconnectedness i'll submit that griffin mcelroy, whether or not you like his work, has also been described as a "soft boy" and appears to be a pretty stand-up guy in a way nick robinson never did), but the process of listening to victims and actually making a nuanced judgement about the quality of someone's character is so much more difficult than just saying "man fuck soft boys"
like we (and i'm including myself in this) frequently say things like "never trust anyone who [has some character trait or owns some object or looks some way or has some opinion] because our pattern-hungry brains just love to assume that our experiences are universal and that correlation implies causation
and i want to be 100% clear this is largely unrelated to like, actual bigotry, it's just a way in which our brains are stupid and lead to us taking an easy way out rather than developing a nuanced moral philosophy
i'm slowly becoming more and more annoyed at simplistic attempts to determine "good" and "bad" people, and at similarly simplistic attempts to determine the criteria for being "good" or "bad" or worth trusting and admitting to your spaces
tfw the latest humble bundle https://witches.town/media/TbAyo1l3FOIuE7UNEoo
they came with a CARRYING CASE
and like a billion ear tips
also they're super comfy and sound great
my new earbuds have arrived: they are significantly fancier than i anticipated
let's play... something??? with @MegalLobsterFace and @Efi !! #gameing
gonna be playing some video games with @MegalLobsterFace and @Efi over at https://www.twitch.tv/lycaonsgames in ~1hr!
(there's an issue with the minecraft server so we won't be doing that 😅 ) https://witches.town/media/GfH_SSpUorEa9WifUqg
straight people are so confusing
that sunglassses emoji got put in the wrong place but yknow what i don't even care
that's the last major issue fixed and now i can move on fully to new 😎 projects.
im fucking done!!!!! (probably)
patch for nullpointer is out, fixing a couple of bugs. leaderboards have been wiped. https://lycaon.itch.io/nullpointer/devlog/9237/post-release-patch-2
mfw i got a payout from itch.io https://witches.town/media/l7z0-HxdwcmG_LB5UyY
also some graphical stuff to figure out. i want the planets to have atmospheres but how that'll work is still unclear. i have a bit better of an idea how i want water to work though.
hmmm trying to figure out how to design the actual mechanics of this tiny planet game. i want(ed) to have planets orbiting stars and stuff but the orbits make hopping from star to star weird and also doesn't gel with the progression that i want.
designing this game is tricky since i'm not entirely sure what i want from it apart from "chill" and "pretty" and "cool". i want to have this loop of like progression -> exploration -> progression, but *not* a survival game. but like exploring gives you tools to explore more things which gives you tools etc