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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 1h

I'm told, in cricket they also do the smart thing of trying to hit the round thing with a flat thing, instead of another round thing, but I might have been mislead.

Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 1h

The only non-AI explanation I have.

(But no, it's definitely AI.)

Louis de Funes in Fantomas raising his hands in surrender. His left hand is fake, and he has his real left hand stick through the opening in his rain coat, pointing the gun at someone in the direction near the camera.

Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 2h

Eep. Hope everyone's alright. Even if false alarm, that's an ordeal at an event that size.

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Jazzy Oliver - Voice Actress @ladyjazzington.bsky.social · 6h

BUT HEY!

THAT'S JUST A Segway to remind you that the FNAF creator/this movie's screenwriter, Scott Cawthon, donates the money he makes from FNAF stuff to far right politicians, many of whom are currently trying to make things worse for everyone, specifically trans people. Don't support this film.

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 6h

MatPat has been cast as Toy Bonnie in ‘FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDYS 2’

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 4h

So to clarify, the democrats are going, "Lets at least make sure the soldiers are paid," and the guys organizing a coup are going, "Nah?" This whole authoritarianism thing might be shorter lived than we dared to hope.

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daryl "shut down, ass up'" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 5h

*back to the future spit take gif*

Elliot 🥕 @nameoftheyear.bsky.social · 7h

LOSING MY MIND AT THE PHONE NUMBER ON THIS BUS IN FRONT OF ME

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 18h

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Ankle Megami Tensei @stochasticooze.bsky.social · 12h

Jesus christ even with these screenshots as warning I still had a moment of panic reading that headline

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 13h

CEOs: 50
COO: 100
CFOs: 2000
Art: 0

can someone who is good at the game development please help me. my art is AI

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 13h

Just opened up mage guild interface, and that's definitely going to be a new thing to learn. There are upgrade trees here as well. Going to reserve my judgement until after I figure out how it works and how the new resource (alchemical dust) factors into it.

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 13h

Heroes OE first thoughts. (🧵?)

Crunchy. Hard to judge balance yet, and a lot will come down to maps (will custom be a thing?) but solid start. Not sure what I think of the law system yet, but having two upgrade options for units? Yes! I like this. Not sure I'd ever pick not archers here, though.

Unit upgrade window from Heroes Olden Era. The window is captioned, "Choose a creature to upgrade" at the top. Two options are presented. One on the left is captioned "Skeleton Warrior" and shows a skeleton wearing tattered armor with loose arrows stuck in it, and carrying a large sword. Option on the right is captioned "Skeleton Archer" and shows a skeleton in much lighter, but equally tattered armor, and holding a bow. Both of these skeletons are shown to stand on a stone platform, almost like they are miniatures for a board game. There is a cost shown below each unit, each with an icon of pile of golds and a number "340" next to it.

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah, you're right. Embed doesn't help you across lib boundaries... I suppose, the only advantage is wrapping file once vs individual structs/classes.

I did play with using module data, and it is compiler-dependent, but supporting 3 major ones isn't so bad.

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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 14h

Service members, TSA workers, and air traffic controllers are working without pay because Republicans shut down the government. My Republican colleagues in Congress need to come back to DC and vote to protect health care and reopen the government.

Jewish Family Service gives free groceries to federal workers during government shutdown

San Diego nonprofits are preparing for the long haul as the government shutdown enters its sixth day.

www.10news.com

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 14h

I've done reflection with macros before, but requiring special markup is unsatisfying. The fact that you can reflect any PoD struct opens up a lot of possibilities in code. E.g., you can use it in a library and not need the user to know to add a macro.

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 15h

I need to play with this to see how much reflection is doable in a compliant-ish way now.

Structs are more or less reflectable in C++26 now, but getting to member functions is a pain. Parsing source isn't the most elegant, but it is pretty universal as an approach.

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🦇🩸Hexavier🩸🦇 @xavierck.com · 11d

Hey!

Need 3D character art for your project? I'm opening up for freelance and commissions in October!

With almost 15 years of experience across over a dozen games, I'm comfortable in both stylized and realistic work, as well as mobile and VR

Drop me a line!

🎨 xavierck.com
💌 [email protected]

A highly detailed corduroy jacket in Unreal 5 on the Quinn model

A stylized knight in red armor with his helmet off, showing rough textural and painterly detail

The Spider-Punk suit from Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)

Over 30 individual avatars I created for Creature Crew

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 15h

Seems to be diectly related, though.
- "Don't fuck with it."
- "Oh, I fuck with it."

The latter seems like it starts with rejection of the premise that it's not something to mess with. The phrase has taken a bit more general of a meaning, bit this seems like the progression.

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 1d

a fighter jet with flames coming out of it 's wings .

Alt: Animated clip of a Viking unit from Star Craft 2 in flight. It is a futuristic-looking jet with engines leaving a flaming trail.

media.tenor.com

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 1d

It can be more fun and/or faster, yeah. But bottom line, if you think a lock will stop someone, no it won't. A locked door buys you between 5 seconds and 1 minute, depending on the door, and anyone counting on it doing more is foolish.

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 1d

Your honor, my client is innocent.

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 1d

Good platforming is deceptively tricky. It's not hard to get basic movement and collisions, but making it tight, consistent, and responsive is eqial measures art and science.

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 1d

(I did use an actual lock pick, though. Used to lock my keys in places all the time, so I just carried a set in my wallet.)

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 1d

Or you can just rake the lock with a paperclip...

I accidentally got my parents to invest in an alarm while visiting one time by just casually raking the lock out of boredom instead of using the key.

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 1d

"Through the magic of buying three of them..."

Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 1d

It's 2025. It's just the like button.

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