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I think they prefer sanitary (sewer) pipes to plumbing. Or leachfields are just easier.

fascinating. i was really confused bc i didnt understand you were talking about this post

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event log on the other side

world machine updates are impossible what do you mean those lines in the corner took 2 days to do and almost made me snap

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improved version 😎

world machine updates are impossible what do you mean those lines in the corner took 2 days to do and almost made me snap

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world machine updates are impossible what do you mean those lines in the corner took 2 days to do and almost made me snap

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I think that is called a weeping willow. Funerary and will fk up buried pipes looking for water. I remember sth like that happening to my grand parents.

crybaby tree will wreck your plumming for a sip of water

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Programming is just finding ways to cope with the soul crushing job that is debugging your own mess

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Writing updates on the world machine is so weird. What am I supposed to say? Oh yeah I rewrote every line of code and now migrant caravans can travel from city to city

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happy birthday! that dither scale you made back in the summer - was that a 4x4 bayer matrix? Also, what image editing software do you use? and for your maquina do mundo, do you have any systems in place for further generation on an extant dataset, such that you could grow an extant world or even specify city locations and build the world around them?

ok lots of questions!

for drawings i use Krita. its open-source and easy to use. for coding i used to use processing, a version of Java with amazing documentation, but now i do everything in C++, using the openFrameworks library

i assume you mean this dither scale. at the time i indeed tried some dithering algorithms but i prefer the Floyd–Steinberg methods. this one instance is a set of tiles. the algorithm averages the luminosity of a small portion of the screen (i think 8x8 pixels) and replaces it.

im not sure what you mean datasets. extant is a funny word tho

the World Machine always generates maps from scratch and then simulates populations based off the existing resources (currently the only resources it looks into is land/sea and rivers).

the starting location for each population is hardcoded, tho it tries to find the best place near it. im currently developing a way to organicaly evolve the population across the map, using the amount of neighborhood tiles in a city and the amount of other cities its connected to, to decide if a city should expande, send migrants to another city or creates a new city

theoretically i could make it load an existing map and keep evolving that, or make it so you can pick the starting locations of each population. however that is not my objective and as such not something im focused on doing

this is going to be my final project for college, and it should run completelly autonomously

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happy birthday! can you tell me something memorable that happened to you this year, even if you think other people might find it boring or unimpressive?

a lot of stuff happened last year 🤔i started dating @1o1percentmilk ☺️ its long distance and one time he sent me a bunch of candy he likes. cue to my mother and my father almost crying at my door after i called them bc of a problem at customs. and oh its drugs! its 5 years jail!! he's tricking you by sending you drugs he's being tricked into sending you drugs!! and thats how i learned i can't trust my parents to not overreact to the most basic shit

anyway i was strong harmed into not accpeting the package and it went on a TRIP. it jumped between the countries, travalled across them and one day it was at my door. insane

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What's your favorite tree?

I don't have a favourite so I'm just gonna list the ones I like/think are cool

Ginkgo biloba. Considered a living fossil, and it has cool leaves. But I do have an emotional connection to it. I spent my school life in a private religious school and one of the congregations symbols was the ginko leaf

Triplaris americana. it has lots of names but I know it as devil tree. Ants live inside of it, creating a mutualistic relationship. I read about it in a mediocre sci-fi fantasy book years (with annotations about what is real and what is sci-fi. That was the coolest part of the book actually) ago and thats why I know it by its most badass name

Salix babylonica, this one species is called chorão in Portuguese, which roughly translates to crybaby and I think that's kinda funny. I also think they're really pretty

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hbd!!!!!!!!!

have a skateboarding snail :]

so cool B]

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Feliz aniversário 😊 Would you ever get severed and why or why not?

NOPE! for starters it's hours of my life I'm wasting and never will get back. Boss makes a million I get a penny that why I fuck around on company time. I would also be super curious about what the fuck is happening down there.

I would also like to have a job in a creative field, so if that was the job I'd be severing myself for, it would be counterintuitive

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What's the backstory to your username?

Sorry I don't have anything too exciting. Around 8-9th grade I kept drawing small umbrellas on my notebooks. This one time I made a massive one ate the end of the notebook and just kept decorating it. Painted, shaded, and added water droplets coming out of it

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Happy Birthday! I'd love to know what your favorite thing about Thad is and your favorite personal headcanon about him.

My curse with Thad is that I know had his editorial history not been like that I wouldn't really care. a compelling story cut short by the powers that be (dan didio when i get you). knowing that his story would never be solved in canon used to keep me up at night

he has a lot of wasted potential in his relationship with Bart, Helen, Max, Iris and so many others. its very easy to find the base for a good story in the existing material (mirroring bart, time traveller, connection to all Allens and Thawnes, etc)

for my favourite silly headcanon i'd like to say BALD. after mercury falling he got rid of his bart hair by shaving his head (something something something mirror bart shaving his head)

for a serious headcanon, Thad hates Iris West with a burning passion and even if he were to be redeemed he would never stop. i like to think that he kidnaps iris and blows up her house bc subconciously he was jeallous she saved bart. after Mercury Falling he blames her for saving bart but not him, cursing him to a loveless life. everything is her fault

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It's my birthday so if anyone would like to do a Q&A id greatly appreciate 👉👈

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taking a break from coding the simulation

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Urgent help to buy medicine

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