Benjamin Belland 💖

Time for a spooky season repost of this classic comic

Fiddling with my daily scripts. I love using these skills I've earned through years of trial and error. The dopamine burst from getting something right is hard to top.

a giant Wailord slowly cruises into the bay as several other pokemon watch

bon voyage!

Okay but they should probably keep making TRON movies as vehicles for cool auteur soundtracks

Having a ridiculously good time with Blender. After a week watching Humane Rigging, it's starting to fall into place. About halfway into the week I realised it was one of those problem solving type skills that I really dig. Woohoo!

Comic with two chickens and an egg One of the two chicken says "it's about to hatch!". The second panel shows an egg with cross hatching.

Comic

lmao watch da vid, it rules

It's toque and booties around the house time of year! Woo!

My phone updated and now it makes clicks that sound like they're coming from inside my skull. The future, man.

As much as I wasn't into Superwolf when it came out, that's an album that's been in regular rotation for me now. My home is the sea~

Screenshot Saturday, Sept 13th I had a lot of fun with this one. There were so many steps that I wished I had taken screenshots of, all my enemies piling up, different directions, etc... It would have made a good post. Alas, hindsi...

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#game-dev #screenshot-saturday

Comic. Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure. [mockup of “2x4” piece of wood showing the dimensions as 1½“ by 3 ½“] Dimensional lumber sizes are tricky. A “2x4” is actually 1½“ by 3 ½“, and a “1x8” is ¾“ by 7⅛“. [two tape measures: one is labeled 12’, the other 12’*] If you know someone into carpentry or woodworking, get them our *dimensional lumber tape measure*. [A “normal tape measure” with even increments and a “dimensional lumber tape measure” with increments at different lengths for each inch] *Don’t tell them you got it*—just leave it in their toolbox. They’ll appreciate the surprise when all their measurements work out!

Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure

xkcd.com/3138/

A blurry photo of Ollie the collie

Twizzler cryptid

Screenshot Saturday I just finished a thing called Ghost Boss, a month long project to learn Rust and Godot. It went well! I just published a bug free release! It exposed me to some ideas that I've had in my head and n...

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New post!
#gamedev #screenshot-saturday #gaming #rust #godot

With news of a reported settlement with Anthropic I went back to check the class action form and it now allows authors outside the US to input their address, so it may be worth adding your known pirated titles (from the LibGen pirate database) www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

He once told me, "Proteomics is my trade." And I just assume he was licking agar for money

I managed to install a MUD client and gag a user, then find out three years later that he didn't simply disappear one day. I had just never looked at the scripting side again.

First one to get free reign of for like half an hour to play 3D pong of was my dad's PowerBook from work. Never really saw it again but I was hooked. I believe the Macintosh Quadra Pro was the first computer I got to call my own.

Pomodoro I've always wanted to get a pomodoro that worked. I've tried a few things over the years, a little egg timer, a cube, a program I wrote. It always seemed like such a hassle, no matter if it was flippi...

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#game-dev #pomodoro #gnome #linux #productivity

Almost on the last week of this month's Year of Game. I think I'll have a passable prototype of the game, and that's good enough for now. Next month I'm going to start splitting my week into Code and Art days. Starting Blender tutorials and the Rustonomicon.

#gamedev #yearofgame #yearofcode

I managed to figure out where I was going wrong, scene selection-wise. The paths work absolutely and the difference between bind() and base() got me all hot and bothered. Game in a month, woo!

A horse struggles to exist

#art #animation #indieanimationday #horse

First game name reveal So the first game I'm making is called Ghost Boss, and it entails you possessing your employees to get things done faster in your little supermarket. I have four little minigames planned, and four or...

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I tried to use AI to make the change to a non-ai-supporting license and it crapped out on the second one, begging me to pay for it. Half a dozen clones and pushes later, freedom!

I'm trying to be more active, so I changed my licenses to CC BY-NC and will be doing so for each repository I make from now on. Free software! No more LLMs!

I totally forgot that for a while I was drawing in my weekly planner. Poked back through it looking for something and bam! Art. :3

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE is the name of my grindcore Kraftwerk cover band

a grey skinned person in a puffy black jacket that says Ass Kicker on the back. They are wearing jeans

I was trying to work out a plot point and I got lost in the idea that if you want friends to show up at your weakest moments to support you, you should join rollerderby