Andrew Yoder

Like "why does entity class X behave differently from Y when they have the exact same definition function?!"... oh it's because some external functions do hard reference checks against the classnames 😆

One of the joys of modding is the script archaeology of trying to understand when, how, and why a thing works at all.

YouTube video by David Bowie - Topic Stay (2016 Remaster)

Current favorite Bowie era is his sad-disco era. youtu.be/eGuu7NiALvo

You know when an old record player reaches the end and gets stuck looping silence, waiting to be reset, or else stopped?

Then someone--who I vaguely recognize as a fellow regular but don't know--leaned over to me and said "Hey what are you guys working on now? I saw the new DLC came out". Which probably means I need a new pub.

At the pub heard "when I was a kid I used to do level design." I thought surely I had misheard, but the guy said "It's kinda like architecture, but [inaudible]."

starting a campaign of Impossible Landscapes for Delta Green today!

That is to say, my bad-idea budget, which is its own category, is used up. Not that my normal budget is used up on bad ideas.

Used up my budget for bad ideas.

Meanwhile there's a marathon run in town today. A continuous 40k run seems excessive, but clearly a lot of people disagree 😅

Got a new personal best running a 10k in 60 minutes, plus a minute of warmup. That's a 6 minute improvement.

90s fps map names as increasingly specific cries for help.

BSP hole keeps moving

Good call! A lot of the details are a close match with the bureaucracy. I think it's a little more centralized authoritarian 1984 though. I'm imagining a collapse into almost feudal decentralization instead.

In the paper-punk future, megacorps first begin to crumble under these transformational forces, but others adapt and survive by sloughing off their flesh (namely, salaried employees) and prowl the remnants of the globalized networks like hungry ghosts.

How hackers forced brewing giant Asahi back to pen and paper The maker of Japan's most popular beer, Super Dry, was hit by a major cyber-attack last month.

Forget cyber-punk, steam-punk, and diesel-punk: paper-punk is here. In a world wracked by autonomous ransomware entities and the degenerating ouroboros of llm AI, the world has gone offline to paper, filing cabinets, and card catalogs www.bbc.com/news/article...

Dreamed of a texas chili served with a layer of béarnaise sauce on top.

Sometimes life is good and I get to go out dancing until 3 in the morning.

woah, the studio is 15 years old, and I've been here for almost 6 of them.

collage with trump as golden statue, some meat and heart mixed in with US flag and other elements.

Very disorienting to me how this story I wrote in 2017 keeps rising and falling in terms of its topicality and whether it feels like weak tea or vaguely accurate. And whether it matters. For me personally, it's like waves of alternate reality keep disrupting. www.slate.com/articles/new...

Looks like I'm looking for work. If anyone out there happens to have a lead or principal level design gig in Austin or remote, I'm all ears.

"What if, instead of writing fiction, I wrote summaries of fiction and then packaged it up in cute frame narratives" -Borges probably

Qfwfq is an aspirational character

Thinking about Cosmicomics again.

Alternate theory is that Sweden shifted the baseline, and that my American-standard introversion is extroversion on the Swedish scale.

I have a theory that this is a side effect of my gradual shift from a technician/specialist role into a manager/lead role.

I think I've been slowly transforming into an extrovert over the last five years, but I am unprepared and unequipped.

All I want to do is go dancing 😂

The book did not, could not anticipate the journey we've been on. And that's great actually.

Tonight's session of Call of Cthulhu wrapped the second adventure in The Sutra of Pale Leaves.

There is no way to explain without spoiling, but one of my players has been on such an incredible journey with his character, and has now reached a glorious end to save the party.

hell yeah