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I've basically been forced into doing all the stuff I was doing when I was 14 and honestly it's not that bad.

This is totally going to end with a bailout for tech companies because the US government will gladly overpay for a bunch of empty data centers in the middle of nowhere, and convert them into rows of holding cells instead of GPU racks.

Tried to debug why Astro wasn't importing and updating images properly, considered putting everything in /public/ and ignoring good practices. Turns out my browser cached the old images and a shift-refresh fixed it.

Spent an hour trying to fix a text animation not playing on page load, considered changing the entire structure of the project to do view transitions. Turns out I forgot I did a gradient effect that relies on text masking, and the animation put a span around the text which made the box invisible.

Griped about Astro not loading npm modules properly and having to import it in every component. Turns out I wrote the imports into the bottom of the layout component and not the top.

Did a deep dive on ScrollTrigger mechanisms to figure out why the animations would refuse to play. Turns out I lost a bracket somewhere and was writing all the code inside of an unrelated mouseover function.

De-rusting on web dev adventures (1/?):

Spent half an hour tying to debug a forEach function that assigned an "active" class on hover, but never did. Turns out I had accidentally named it ".active" in the if else statement.

there was alot of discourse about the "2-minute meta" in FF14 a couple of years back where the reliance on rigid burst windows was flattening alot of the combat design.

I took a break from that game to play FF16 and laughed when I realized it had the exact same problem.

as we know the best propaganda is the kind you need an expensive VPN to access

listen, if you want to fight illegal detainment you're gonna need the guy who literally guarded Abu Ghraib

I loved the GRID/Dirt2 era of Codemasters so much

Excalibur.

Absolutely, one of the best games of all time.

Have you played 4 or 5?

also the size of the American cultural footprint means people outside the US can't see it as a monolith and are forced to distinguish between its resident demographics and/or its government, whereas Americans don't really need to do that for other countries.

I saw the reviews and then felt a shiver down my back as I remembered their next game is set in pre-war Imperial Japan.

❌ Japanese Margaret Thatcher
✅ Japanese Boris Johnson

Same gameplay and story (volcano fight and jungle primitives etc) but set it in Connecticut

I went from "maybe I won't have a new RGG game to play this year" to "maybe I won't have a new RGG game to play ever".

Legit bummed at the state of things, the next mainline game might be 3-4 years away and the state of the studio is declining so rapidly.

With any luck these guys will also learn about personal consequences the hard way.

posting "what dumbass spends 200 dollars on jeans lol" while I sit in traffic in a 150,000 dollar Ford F150 Raptor.

I don't know why the Brits were talking all smugly about US politics when this guy is projected to win by a landslide the next time they vote

how did the game made by the evo founders not even make it to evo

Someone still has to make Arcane (or League of Legends) first, and it sucks that most of the actual damage to creative fields will be done by boosters who don't realize that.

feels like a bunch of agencies were given a brief with Amazon's branding concerns and they just collectively put their hands up and went "maybe lean into it?"

shit looks like reverse male pattern baldness

I'm glad I didn't try to draw professionally because I would've been miserable, but having hustle brainworms and getting "why don't you do this as your job?" whenever people saw my work meant I also didn't draw recreationally for a long time, which I do regret.

One thing I want to add to the "everyone can make art" discourse is that professionalizing your hobbies might be worse than just dealing with a shitty job. YMMV but there's alot of survivorship bias on one end and a bit of vicarious yearning on the other.

It is there where Zhuge devised one of his most sinister stratagems, the Pomelo Americano

we aren’t getting any updates the creators are already working on reality 3 third strike

I also think teachers (especially on the internet) sometimes want to present it as more than it actually is. These systems are really helpful to understand why something in your work doesn't look right, but it can't create the interesting parts on their own.