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accidentally included the same picture twice in the second post, so here's the corrected version.

last one is rather vile.

incoming jackbox highlights from a few days ago.

How the crossbow viewmodel appears when the player's view pitch angle is 0 degrees (looking "straight forward"/parallel to the horizon).

How the crossbow viewmodel appears when the player's view pitch angle is ~ 89 degrees (looking as close to "straight down" as the game allows).

How the crossbow viewmodel appears when the player's view pitch angle is ~ -89 degrees (looking as close to "straight up" as the game allows).

I've been going nuts lately trying and failing to find whatever chunk of code in the Source engine makes the viewmodels in HL2 adjust their offsets based on how far up/down you're looking.

It's made extra obtuse by the fact that (IIRC) very few non-HL2 Source games use this behavior.

Reason move_and_slide has been causing me grief in the first place is b/c I started work on a custom solution for handling upward stair steps—and needing to handle that logic either entirely before or entirely after the full move_and_slide call has made it that much more awkward to implement.

Yeah, I’ve been considering switching to a series of move_and_collides instead—I’ve just been dreading the thought of needing to reverse-engineer a lot of move_and_slide’s unique (and useful) quirks.

Like, it’s great how it can condense multiple loops of convoluted collision logic into a single function call. On the other hand, it feels like a black box whose inner workings you’re not allowed to tinker with. You want to insert your own custom code between the individual collisions? No. Too bad.

I am becoming increasingly disenchanted with Godot’s move_and_slide function. >:(

still haven't gotten any word back from any jobs but i'm trying my best. as per usual i don't really have rent to cover past october so i'm asking for help on a rolling fund again. speaking with a recruiter on wednesday so i'm hoping i'll see some movement there. anything helps.

Still from House on Haunted Hill (1959): Frederick Loren (Vincent Price) is holding a prop skeleton—which itself is connected to an elaborate puppeteering rig strapped to Loren's torso. He's looking past the camera toward something out-of-frame, smirking. Like, a sort of tastefully restrained shit-eating grin.

"One thing is certain: The arts keep you alive."
-VIncent Price
#kaseyart #penandink #halloweenie

Electric Dreams (1984) truly was ahead of its time. You'll find a video by some Gen X youtuber expressing agitated confusion; meanwhile most the comments are younger millenials/zoomers having fun and saying things like, "omg the autistic bisexual computer is just like me!!"

A computer twink with CRT head and power cord tail posing and pouting

The same computer twink but as a little devil and posing smugly

Have you heard of Electric Dreams (1984)

anyway I realized shortly after posting this that Class isn't even a valid Object/Variant type to check against. oops.

A screenshot of some GDScript code, transcribed here: static func Link_Member_To_Convar(Class_Or_Node:Variant, Member:StringNam[The rest of the line extends outside of the image crop] #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # Step 0: SANITY CHECK. #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ var It:Variant = Class_Or_Node # Shorter var name for my sanity. if not (It is Class or It is Node): # We can't help you, sir. push_error("WE HATED THAT.") return

me devolve into cave programmer.

now what you hear is not a test, i'm fapping to the beat

and me, the groove, and my friends are gonna try to use your feet

i was waffling between that and this

rejected by the majority.

I *know* about exports, but the sliders and text boxes are frankly annoying to manage when I'm setting up foundational systems and classes—trying to keep as much as I can neatly contained in the actual scripts, where all the other important stuff is.

I really wish you could just directly override the default values for inherited class variables in Godot. What do you MEAN every time I want to extend one class from another, I'm expected to do some klugey shit like re-assigning all the variables from inside _init or _ready???

i have some new music out in the form of seven vocaloid-led demos, comprising a variety of tones, timbres and titles. listen now, before i do something drastic!
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Grayscale photo from the “Bald Knobbers” Wikipedia page, depicting a group of the titular Bald Knobbers in their weird black-and-white, striped-horned masks. Caption below the photo reads, “Depiction of Bald Knobbers in the lost 1919 film The Shepherd of the Hills.”

Dead Rising screenshot of a crowd of the “True Eye” cultists—the guys that wear yellow raincoats + boots and green not-quite-Ghostface masks.

these guys are the same to me. like in their vibe.

Time Traveler, by cathode death ray 8 track album

Happy Bandcamp Friday! For the occasion, I have released a single and pre-order for my upcoming album, Time Traveler. I hope you enjoy the available single, disarmed. cathodedeathray.bandcamp.com/album/time-t...

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Obviously autoloads are still needed for things that only instanced objects can do. But if all you want is a function(s) to condense several lines of code into one line… you can just define a static function inside a custom named class. You don’t need an always-on, instanced node to hold that.

Weird in retrospect how when I was looking up how to make “global” functions in Godot (that is, functions you can access from any script), the results were all about doing so via autoloads/singletons—but no mention of static class functions.

@warning_ignore_start("INT_AS_ENUM_WITHOUT_CAST") # YOU ARE NOT HELPFUL TO ME.

hate this guy

yeah I only recently became aware of there being a meaningful difference between == vs 'is' (hadn't made a ton of code that needed to compare classes). Given the trend established by all the other stuff, I just assumed it was yet another, "type this operator however u want :)" thing.