🌾 ivan 🌱 @ivan@coolkids.house

the funniest thing about Starfield is space pirates using your correct pronouns when they ambush you in space

some kid called me a god in a counter strike competitive match and boy did it ever feel good

@grapefrukt or render to a buffer and then draw it with an alpha of 1. (The issue is probably that when doing alpha blending the incoming alpha value is written into the buffer its writing to)

@grapefrukt if you have control over the swapchain framebuffer you could set it to a non alpha pixel format

is there an Audacity but with better interface?

what do people use for sound effect editing? i've just been using Ableton, but the export is kind of clunky from it

i've been using Visual Studio for 25 years and i just discovered bookmarks. lifechanging stuff here, folks

@lorenschmidt good tshirt

@moopet i have many of the same reservations with all engines, Godot included

that is to say, i wish there were more beginner oriented engines that focused only on getting things up on the screen quickly and didn't bother so much with optimization, deployment and extensibility (Processing is a great example of this) and professional engines were closer to what they used to be: just collections of low level libraries that made the job of rolling your own tech accessible to people who already know how to code (this is my current personal goal)

i strongly believe that it is impossible to build a tool that is both friendly to beginners and useful to professionals. the needs are on the opposite parts of a pretty wide spectrum. i feel like this is doubly so in the game engine space and the confusion between the two needs has turned every engine into a soup that is too much for a beginner and too inflexible for professional development

the worst thing Unity ever did was convincing a generation of game developers that rolling your own engine takes more time and effort than dealing with their bullshit

i cannot tell you how many times in the past 10 years someone poked fun at me for writing my own engine instead of just using Unity so every time they do something predictably shitty i can't help but feel that sweet sweet schadenfreude