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@clueless-and-quirkless suffer with me

no punctuation we read like romans

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Project RBH Devlog 0090

I fixed the screen tearing and I am mad about it.

After all this work trying to figure out what was wrong with my camera, all the random tweaks to the code to see if there would be an effect, all that effort, and what actually worked was making the game fullscreen.

It’s fine! I probably need to tweak all that camera work now so that the fixes I’ve introduced don’t cause problems with resolution, but it’s totally fine and I am not furious at all.

(I also made it so that hitting Escape closes the game, since, well, fullscreen.)

To celebrate getting the screen to stop tearing, I decided to beef up the enemies. They kind of sucked, to be honest. Not that I thought they were bad or boring, but they didn’t feel as good as they could have. I wanted to make a few small tweaks to improve game flow.

First thing I did was adjust their pathfinding. Before, to make sure they could navigate obstacles, I had them using a navigation grid. The problem with that is that they could only move in eight directions, which didn’t really look very good. Now they run a quick check to see if there is an obstacle between them and the player, and if there isn’t, they don’t need to use the navigation grid, and thus can move in any direction towards the player. I then improved on that by adding some interpolation, so that they don’t snap to a new direction but make a very small turn as the player moves. It’s a minor thing, but it looks so much better.

The other problem I had with them is that they aim where the player is and not where they’re going to be, which makes them come across as highly inaccurate. Getting them to lead their target wasn’t actually as hard as I expected it to be, once I understood the theory behind the math.

However this led to another discovery. Once they started leading the target, they’d have to shoot way off to the side because their bullets were so slow, which also made them seem highly inaccurate. To fix this, I simply upped their bullet speed by 50%. Now the enemies are way more dangerous! And fun! You’re welcome.

Until next Devlog!

-DeusVerve

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trying to get will right

Kofi / Twitter

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ok so being a parent IS really hard but not the way you think. well its probably hard the way you think but its ALSO really hard because my toddler pronounces peanut butter like "peepee yaya". and see, because he learns from me, i can't say "peepee yaya", no matter how much i want to, because i have to teach him that it is actually pronounced "peanut butter". and dont even get me started on how he pronounces "shaun the sheep" (shit the shit)

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when the lyrics you've been mishearing are more clever than what's actually in the song

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Here, have the top ten video game fandoms on The Archive of Our Own every year since the archive started

These tables show the current number of extant works (including archive locked works) on the AO3 created before Jan 1st of each year.

This is just the top fandom lists from a much larger project. For graphs, full details on methodology, a separate section on the Dragon Age tags, these lists in text rather than screenshot format, and more, see the full work here here

https://archiveofourown.org/works/62226781?view_full_work=true

EDIT: First error spotted! Legend of Zelda was missed in the 2024 list, I've updated the screenshot and it now correctly appears in ninth place

EDIT 2: Somehow the screenshots for 2019 and 2020 were missing? I'm blaming Tumblr, they're here now.

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Keep your messaging simple:

“Trump fired everyone in charge of airplane safety, and a week later planes started crashing into each other.”

That’s it. That’s the messaging. Don’t get bogged down disputing Trump’s false claims. Just blame him, in short and repeatable sentences.

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An ex-colleague of mine was complaining to me the other day about the ai problem in her students' papers, and I told her, "Just make your students hand-write them in class. Easy." She looked at me like I was insane and tried to explain how that would never work, but I just said,"That's how we did it for a thousand years. The invention of word processors doesn't erase all that."

To me it seems obvious. Readings are done out of class, handwritten essays are done within it. No more ai papers.

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"nonbinary people are just confused" YOURE DAMN RIGHT IM CONFUSED. I DONT EVEN KNOW WHATS GOING ON ANYMORE. WHO THE FUCK IS THIS XEHANORT GUY AND WHY ARE THERE FOUR OF HIM

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I've been listening to the Lore Dump episode on Batman: Arkham Origins a few times, and figured that more people need to witness the hilarity that is the Alfred Christmas Dinner running gag.

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Finished something new! Which of these do you recognise from your shelves?

Shop

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happy unease and uncertainty day

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Fruits that are awesome list

1- Watermelon

2- Passion fruit

3- Umbu

4- Guava

5- Mango

6- Cherry

7- Acerola

8- Açaí

9- Limão Taiti (actually a lime but whatever. I know her heart)

10- Cacao

11- Green grapes

12- Orange

13- Banana

14- Tangerine

15- Papaya

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🔵🟠COVER REVEAL🟣🟡

There are three weeks left to pre-order PSYNCRONIZE: An AITSF Fanzine focused on ABIS's four Psyncers!

Here's a look at the full cover created by Head Mod @reiokt!

Pre-order now to see the zine in all its printed glory!

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touching grass isn't enough some of y'all need to drive out to the countryside and look at the stars

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I feel like pirating media that isn’t sold or offered anywhere legally anymore shouldn’t be called piracy. Girl thats archaeology