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a list of colours, generating a gradient. the lines with the "+" sign next to them and 000 in all values will be interpolated, whereas the other lines are the basis of that interpolation.

a proper gradient editor too now, small things but tbh they are going to be game-changing in terms of improving the backgrounds and having more variety in the palette

A ascii catacomb wall in blue shades.

A ascii catacomb wall in orange/green shades.

alright yeah i'm daft, but i've been hand-coding palettes, and often drawing art without the right palette loaded then only seeing it correctly at runtime...

now i have a palette editor, and finally i can save/load palettes for easy wysiwyg recolouring.

a rough sketch of a hex map for GRIST: there are several unusual locations, some labels that seem perhaps unconnected, i'm not sure, and a note that some red crosses are a "field of the impaled, pinned to cruciforms being constantly drained of grist"

found the forgotten sketches folder, so much gold

the desire to own a slave, without the stomach to look one in the eye

yes complete fearmongering, grossly and obviously so.

lol at the link, i was going to make a point about the websites they are sourcing from being ad filled spam pages with weird names, deleted it but the link to the made-up sitename persists. whoops!

body text really just reads like a caveat so IF anybody complains they can say "we're not lying, see we clearly said that..." knowing full well that the headline has already done all the damage necessary.

an acquantaince is sharing stuff on fb and yeah ok actually this is bad stuff. articles are all-

Headline: "Government announces plans to tax everyone 80%!"

Body text: "is what some people suggest could be the outcome of tax reviews across the globe!"

Who reads the body text? no-one, lol. ;_;

an ascii hex map, filled with forests, and a tree-covered hill with a cave entrance

BIG ICON

convinced that most CRT shaders have been created by people who have never actually seen a CRT screen.

yeah it was healing for 1 each time lol because i am so smart that taking damage and restoring hp both use the same "modify hitpoints" code path.

log text from an RPG showing damage reduced below 0. yes, if the incoming damage was low enough it would start healing instead..

when you forget to bounds check damage reduction...

Reminder that this website has NO ALGORITHM

a like is nice, but if you want others to see a post, you gotta repost it. Art especially.

seems only fair

it's been interesting watching the landscape change. 10 years ago using linux as my daily driver was unthinkable, both in terms of the software i need and of the hardware support for audio devices. So much has changed now that i think it's quite doable.

A list of characters showing their name, and an "Intelligence Ability" score as a star rating.

a list of characters showing name, and an ability score represented as a number of dice.

Stars (standard) vs Dice (new) to show the "number of rolls a character can make in a skilltest."

are the dice readable? i like it being more explicit about connecting the value to rolls, but for consistency every other time you see stat scores they are displayed as stars.

oh, visual studio for dev but i reckon vscode would be fine i'm not exactly a power-user.

realized that every game i want to play these days can be run on linux, and the sole piece of windows only software i run anymore is Cubase, of which i'm A: still on a 10-year old version, B: don't use as much more than a glorified tape-deck. I should be fine to replace with reaper..

The dark souls of chips

happy wednesday

*chaining 1 output across multiple inputs, whoops.

A screenshot of modular audio software, showing the output of a Sawtooth oscillator being fed to three filter modules. The second filter input is chained from the first filter, while the third filter is fed a mix of the chain from the second with a noise source

i use some old modular audio software that allows chaining across outputs like so ->

Image of a skill test box from a game. It reads: Skill Test: Agility 5+ x1 Unit Score [S] Britton * [A] Creech * [D] Redding * [ESC] Cancel

I'm curious - knowing nothing, what would you think "Score" indicates here?

shows a panel from an ASCII game where the expected blank background is instead black X's on a white field. it looks somewhat glitchy, in a retro way...

Every now and then i'll do something in debug which just tickles my brain in exactly the right way. eg checking the clear function on this window was working correctly. part of me would like the whole game to look like that, although i know it would get tiring fast - i might use it as an effect tho.

Tv has three HDMI ports. Two are right angled inside the recess. Third projects straight out the back.

All fine and dandy until someone pushes the tv flush with the wall and HDMI 3 snaps.

Second time this has happened 🤦‍♂️

Is that in the DSM?

Wanna thank Sam Altman personally for making me feel gross now when I'm writing "game AI"

Going to have to call them CPUControllers or some shit, JFC.

shows a text log from an RPG, the salient point is the chain of "Choose an action..." to "X playing Order", {order description}, confirmation prompt, and notice that you cancelled.

When playing some orders the text clears too quickly to read what they do - specifically, ones that don't require any further interaction like picking a target. Experimenting with leaving text in the log instead of clearing it, at first it was bad but some simple formatting is getting somewhere.

it's raining in a sci-fi ascii city, a gang?? of murderous??? robots is facing off against the player's party. a field generator device is protecting the robots.

a gang??? of tripods.

what's the collective noun for deathbots?

Gee, if there's one thing I really love in life it's Drinking Dew On-Stream. Just can't get enough of that one.