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DemonBismuth

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James. Queer, gender-diabolic, he/they. SCAD grad. Programmer and game dev. Indie ttrpg player and designer. Personal account

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DemonBismuth @demonbismuth.bsky.social · Sep 22

I'm still looking for work! I'm a game developer and coder with 4 years of experience in the industry. I'm a proficient user of Godot, Unity, Unreal, and their respective programming languages, and have a love for system design, UI, and editor tools.

DemonBismuth @demonbismuth.bsky.social · Sep 22

TorchBear v0.2 is now live! This update doesn't add much content, but it does add the following:

- The (much requested) tutorial
- Under-the-hood changes and bug fixes
- Gorgeous new background art by the talented @arithetonberry.bsky.social!

Play for free at demonbismuth.itch.io/torchbear

TorchBear by DemonBismuth

A Card Game Prototype/Demo

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Smeesh 🌿 Illustrator for hire @asmeesh.bsky.social · 2h

Happy Hallowe'en, all!

digital illustration in vector style, of a werewolf in dark plaid, hunched over holding a small spade. The expression is happy with a single white eye. Fur is orange. He stands in a graveyard under a full moon, with a border in the shape of a headstone.

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DemonBismuth @demonbismuth.bsky.social · 13h

but truly, just having optimized queries would change how I structure everything, so I may end up in a similar boat lol. My latest attempt at an event stack did as much as it could to avoid unnecessary listeners to events, but theres a limit to how much it can react naturally

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DemonBismuth @demonbismuth.bsky.social · 13h

RIP me its c#, my project is gdscript

though previously i had not even considered there would be godot ECS so i didnt bother looking it up. looking now i even found one for gdscript called GECS that looks promising

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DemonBismuth @demonbismuth.bsky.social · 13h

is this Unity? I could've sworn I saw you use Godot before in prev posts. If it is Godot, did you make your own ECS, or have you been using a plugin? god ECS in godot would be cool, though how it would be optimized for it idk

DemonBismuth @demonbismuth.bsky.social · 14h

i've been attempting an event stack for my own game, but its compromised and limited, so im just curious how others handle it

DemonBismuth @demonbismuth.bsky.social · 14h

how does a reaction differentiate steps? does it listen to every step with a conditional "if step is DoDamage && step's target is self", or do you have a way of listening for only DoDamage steps?

DemonBismuth @demonbismuth.bsky.social · 15h

would you be able to abstract it to work for other stats besides hp? like a "drain enemy MP" -> "my MP is being reduced reaction". not saying will you, but could you hypothetically with how you're implementing it rn

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Caio Almendra @caioalmendra.bsky.social · 1d

This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio.

In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.

CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.

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yazikus @yazikus.bsky.social · 1d

🧵 Awful awful massacre in Brazil

Caio Almendra @caioalmendra.bsky.social · 1d

Gente, é o maior massacre no Brasil desde o Araguaia. Entendo quem quer puxar pra Canudos ou Contestado ou etc, mas não podemos livrar a ditadura de 64 só porque ela escondia melhor seus corpos.

Morreram 41 guerrilheiros comunistas e mais de 1200 camponeses no Araguaia.

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DemonBismuth @demonbismuth.bsky.social · Sep 22

TorchBear by DemonBismuth

A Card Game Prototype/Demo

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

It should go without saying that these mass internment camps will be much, much more expensive to operate than just giving the homeless free or subsidized housing would be.

Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 2d

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

www.nytimes.com

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 2d

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Shoshiroll @shoshiroll.bsky.social · 2d

Valve being privately owned and not publicly traded is 100% the reason they haven't shat themselves fatally.

Every publicly traded company ends up shitting themselves to death to get more and more profit at the expense of existing. Like a tumor.

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Shoshiroll @shoshiroll.bsky.social · 2d

Valve isn't nice or your friend, its just that no one has a gun to their head demanding they meet some made up growth goal every year or else. So they just do what works and makes money with as little risk as possible. Like a normal fucking business.

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 3d

To add clarity to this:

Influencers in China that discuss topics such as medicine, law, education, or finance must prove they are qualified or certified to do so, in an aim to clamp down on misinformation.

Right now it impacts large influencer accounts (1m+ followers) + bans false advertising.

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🔞Martini Art (Commissions open) @martiniart.bsky.social · 2d

And no, I am not saying that we shouldn't point out if AI has been used.

But we should be mindful before accusations and picking-apart someone's work and progress.

I seen huge artists accused of AI when it was recognisably manmade to anybody who makes art themselves.

🔞Martini Art (Commissions open) @martiniart.bsky.social · 2d

AI witch hunts are more damaging to our community than AI itself.

I see much false info on how sketches and timelapses are "supposed" to look like as "evidence".

There's many ways to make art.

Though a general consensus to progress exist, it doesn't apply to every progress.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

By @deldeib.bsky.social

This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

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Leslie Levings @leslielevings.bsky.social · 8d

Possum jar in progress

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Diell ✨🦦 @sunclown.bsky.social · 2d

Bath time 🫧 #op

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Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 3d

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have.

Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.

If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

Python Software Foundation @python.org · 4d

Please read our statement, share it with your networks, and support us if you can. www.python.org/sponsors/app... psfmember.org/civicrm/cont...

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3d

Yes. There is a near-unanimous bipartisan conventional wisdom about the Democrats becoming 'too woke' even though — again, objectively — they avoided prioritizing social issues in the 2024 campaign.

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 3d

one of the reasons voters believe the caricatures of the democratic party pushed by republicans is because the democratic party itself believes in the caricatures of the democratic party pushed by republicans

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 3d

Duh. Those of us on the ground last year actually speaking with middle class/working class voters and who heard from these voters every single day the same - “Trump is an asshole, but Democrats are out of touch” - could’ve saved my new political party a lot of time & money producing this “report.”👇

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sylvia @sylvibullet.bsky.social · 3d

not disagreeing but i want to say there are plenty of actual plays with trans women involved but its a lot harder to get traction when you're not doing video AP (and in turn means less of us end up joining in with those) when the barrier to entry for audio only or audio first productions is lighter

🪼Jellyfishlines is Haunting You🪼 @jellyfishlines.itch.io · 5d

The actual play scene is disgustingly risk adverse and it shows in ways of almost a desert of trans women in the scene, a lack of darkly serious actual plays that deal with more serious real life themes and systems of violence and power, and cliques that perpetuate the status quo.

Marren's Musings is thinking about Moons 🌙 @marrensmusings.bsky.social · 20d

Think the TTRPG space needs to come together and everyone post 99 Hot Takes and then cause a schism.

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Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d

I am once again reminding folks that Democrats continuously voted to increase funding to ICE, paid lip service to the panic over illegal immigration, and campaigned on being tougher on the border. This shit isn’t happening in a vacuum.

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Matt the Starting Over Guy @theinfinitedadness.bsky.social · 3d

Colin Allred was attacked by Ted Cruz for being “pro-trans” and instead of standing up and defending trans kids he said “I don’t want boys playing against girls”. And he lost to Ted Cruz, one of the most loathsome creatures in the Senate, by a way higher margin than Beto in 2018

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 3d

show me one (1) ad run by dems in 24 that focused on lgbt issues…show me a dem who gave a full throated defense of trans people rather than hem and haw

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An American Catbus in London @hayao.lol · 4d

Wal*Mart has a whole program to get their employees on federal aid because nobody can afford to live on their dogshit wages

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 4d

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

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Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · 7d

you know what it's been long enough. let's post the whole #bowuigi zine to the public

#bowser #luigi

illustrated book cover that reads "bowser + luigi are in love, so just try and stop me, n*intendo". bowser grips a swooning luigi in his meaty paw.

an illustration of bowser in shock that the princess peach he kidnapped is, in fact, a luigi in disguise with clever use of a face mask.

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