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Mercury Wave @mercurywave.bsky.social · 6d

Dead mouse 😩. At least it wasn’t messy, and at least I wasn’t asleep

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Mercury Wave @mercurywave.bsky.social · 6d

Also pictured: The Great Hunter

A silly cat with one back foot way over his head, licking his butt. Facing away, sitting on owners lap in family room.

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Mercury Wave @mercurywave.bsky.social · 6d

Oh joy! The Great Hunter has left me a gift! A blessed day!

Pictured: The Great Hunter

The most handsome cat you’ve ever seen. A perfect lynx point Siamese, standing atop a field of victory (a gray couch)

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Mercury Wave @mercurywave.bsky.social · 10d

Michael Shannon's Gunpla Closet Picks

Michael Shannon looking into the camera and holding a gunpla kit in box for the camera to see. Standing in a narrow hallway between stacks of gunpla boxes that are starting to fall over. Traffic cone on the ground behind him where the stacks are falling inwards and blocking the way

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Mercury Wave @mercurywave.bsky.social · 13d

That’s too much storage
<slaps another 8tb drive in the enclosure>
*sobbing* it’s too much
<slaps another 8tb drive in the enclosure>

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Mercury Wave @mercurywave.bsky.social · 13d

Nooo. I don’t want to put the docker image behind a reverse proxy. Don’t make me

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Mercury Wave @mercurywave.bsky.social · 13d

Man was not meant to manage SSL certificates

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Mercury Wave @mercurywave.bsky.social · 13d

Slowly and begrudgingly becoming one of those homelab people

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Mercury Wave @mercurywave.bsky.social · 20d

It *mostly* works now. The camera control is a little flaky on iOS and I’m not sure why. When you open a level is starts off-center and you have to pan and zoom a little to get it to behave reasonably, but after that it seems to work 🤞

Mercury Wave @mercurywave.bsky.social · 21d

If I had a nickel for every time my phone decided not to charge on the wireless charger the night before I travel, I’d have three nickels, which is a statistically unlikely number of nickels compared to the expected baseline

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Mercury Wave @mercurywave.bsky.social · 22d

If you aren't in the jam and just want to play, it's on itch here mercurywave.itch.io/criss-cross-.... (Note: it's not really playable on mobile at the moment - you need a mouse until I fix it)

Criss Cross Catacombs by Mercury Wave

Spell your way through the dungeon

mercurywave.itch.io

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Mercury Wave @mercurywave.bsky.social · 22d

What? I finished a #LDJam game on time and didn't massively over scope? Will wonders never cease? ldjam.com/events/ludum...

A video game screenshot. Main view is a grid with a map drawn over it, with a number of wooden letter tiles placed on the map forming words in a grid pattern. A score shows in the top left. A rack of tiles is at the bottom of the screen, with a set of larger wooden letter tiles on them. Below that is a pass and shuffle button. A cloth bag is the in the bottom right with a number superimposed (the number of tiles in the bag)

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Mercury Wave @mercurywave.bsky.social · Feb 18

There are no D1 women’s programs in the state of Michigan. Minnesota has 6. This was a factor in Minnesota being selected for a team

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Mercury Wave @mercurywave.bsky.social · Feb 3

Why do I always write my best code after 10pm on Sundays

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Mercury Wave @mercurywave.bsky.social · Jan 28

Windows 11 has an emoji picker. This MS keyboard has a button that opens it. Is this picker compatible with MS’s “new” Outlook? No. That has its own custom emoji picker under the right click menu. This worked with outlook before…🤦‍♂️

Mercury Wave @mercurywave.bsky.social · Jan 6

Continuing to noodle with spaceships. #gamedev

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Mercury Wave @mercurywave.bsky.social · Jan 1

Pathfinding with directionality and turning constraints is maybe a bit complicated. Also, how did it get to be 4am? Starting the new year off right, I guess. #gamedev

Game dev prototype of two spaceships in a hex grid, with markers indicating how one will maneuver

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Mercury Wave @mercurywave.bsky.social · Dec 31

Really dislike these new tv ads trying to normalize cr*pto. -- "Don't worry, it's totally normal to send a relative money that way when they call you from a foreign country and need cash suddenly. This is definitely safe. And normal. This happens every day." F. That.

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Mercury Wave @mercurywave.bsky.social · Dec 21

The weird color thing I was seeing was actually Windows turning on an "enhanced" color mode somehow. It does a real nasty job with solid green. I eyeballed the difference here with sRBG mode to show how dramatic this looks. The one on the right is just unpleasant to look at.

Two versions of a playing card with different shades of green background.

Mercury Wave @mercurywave.bsky.social · Dec 16

Updated Fourpenny Zoo. Some of the buildings were a bit of a player trap because they didn't do anything unless you also had a way to score cards. Giving them an alternative use makes them wordier but avoids the trap and actually opens up some fun new lines of play. mercurywave.itch.io/fourpenny-zoo

Fourpenny Zoo by Mercury Wave

A solitaire deckbuilding game of balancing animals, guests, and staff

mercurywave.itch.io

Mercury Wave @mercurywave.bsky.social · Dec 15

I've been out of town and haven't opened my zoo game in a week. I opened it up and suddenly the shade of green I used for all the animal cards seems extremely obnoxious. It's impossible to ignore now - how did this never annoy me until now?

Mercury Wave @mercurywave.bsky.social · Dec 10

Saw a massive Christmas village display and am once agin trying to think how I can bring this game to life

Miniature Christmas village display with model train under blue lights

Mercury Wave @mercurywave.bsky.social · Dec 7

Low poly or voxel graphics with real 3D rendering would solve a lot of rendering problems, but that requires a virtually complete reset and probably a switch to a new engine.

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Mercury Wave @mercurywave.bsky.social · Dec 7

It's visually pleasing, but it has so many problems. It's at odds with itself between a sim and an idle game. Elevation, 2d pixel art, and lighting all create interweaving problems. I really feel like it needs trains and maybe cars, but the world scale and pixel art make that a serious hurdle.

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Mercury Wave @mercurywave.bsky.social · Dec 7

I got inspired last night and tried to revive an old, abandoned project and see if I could salvage it. I am blown away by how much sheer stuff I crammed into this project. I just kept adding features and polish.

Pixel art Christmas village from a video game. A person is thinking to themselves that it "Looks like snow later".

Pixel art of an advent calendar from a video game

Pixel art screenshot of a model Christmas village catalog in a video game

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