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This is a sign, the world is returning to as it should be.

Every one of the main characters has a different name for you, and the routes (which it has) are fundamentally about who you choose to affirm and who you choose to reject.

It is structured EXACTLY the way a dating sim is, with an emphasis on allegiance and your feelings over plot.

90 minutes left !

Redid my rope model to be a little longer, thinner, and with more joints.

New version may need some work.

meme of just make it exists first you can make it good later. But the second circle has a drawing of a horny male face from the 'shall we do it' comic. The caption reads 'Just Make It Exists First. You Can Make It Horny Later'

Word on the street is they're calling it "the jankiest grappling hook of 2026."

I have a very simple and straightforward two-step plan to Save The Video Game Industry:

Step 1: Globally eliminate the concept of a classed society and redistribute all surplus resources among the populace, permanently enshrining social ownership of the means of production.

Step 2: Ridge Racer 8.

Look, I'd love to describe what this contains, but it's a disaster. It is a screenshot of a blueprint in Unreal that's just really bad, very shameful, and nobody should ever see it.

I think I should be banned from attempting vector maths ever again.

(I've worked out what I need to do, but god there must be an easier way [but I was too deep into it when I realised I was screwed to ask my maths teacher friend])

I need to do something about the *terrible* jitter, of course. And that may involve throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

Pretty happy with today's progress, even if three hours were spent spinning in my chair shouting "how does vector maths work?"

If you hit a rope while going down you'll slide down it. Swinging nearly works as it should. And you no longer get one frame of the shadow dimension when you grab a rope.

Found a fun bug, I wasn't clearing the player character's velocity when you grab the rope, so if you jump and then quickly re-grab it you could store momentum.

Me, writing code: "Commenting this is worthless, it's all self-explanatory."

Me, one year later, looking at my own code: "What the fuck, who the fuck, why the fuck?"

Not that I need to clarify, but just in case: This is not a criticism of other people. This is a me issue.

Nothing better than getting feedback on your game at 10:46PM when you know that addressing it won't happen unless you do it RIGHT NOW. I guess it's time to wait for everything to compile!

God, that's the dream!

I spent half the day attempting to implement this in a variety of different ways that did not work, so I haven't quite hit my goal for today, but the hefty de-jank this needs can wait until tomorrow.

Bluesky when I upload a video that I already turned down to 25% volume while editing: "YOU DIDN'T WANT EARDRUMS DID YOU? YOUR NEIGHBOUR WILL HEAR THE SOUND OF YOUR GAME LEAKING THROUGH YOUR HEADPHONES."

Drives me batty.

I thought it would be nice if these ropes could sort of unfurl when placed, to avoid collision issues at spawn.

I *may* need to go back to the drawing board for my implementation.

some people are stubbornly holding on to their beliefs and saying “that’s not how I remember it.” that’s okay because there is an easy explanation: you are wrong. I hope this helps you on your journey through life.

I oft think back to 2013, when he lost the leadership bid to the Labor-Centrist option, Shorten, and how disappointed I was at the time.

But since getting leadership he's proven himself spineless at best, or more realistically complicit in atrocities.

56% !!
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I think whatever you make will be different enough to stand out (though I must accept that I'm canonically dog-shit at the entire realm of marketing / market research, so take what I say with a pinch of salt).

Walking & running are maybe a smidge too heavy still, but transitions between the grounded states are a lot better now, and the slide movement's approaching fun already.

It's ropey as heck right now, but I've got a slide now that runs when you try to crouch but are moving fast, though transitions between "states" is rough. So it's time to buy some groceries, and then make a proper state system for it.

Quick prototype break discovery:

In Unreal 5.6, the crouch functions built into the default first person controller do not work, because of how things are parented.

There's an easy fix (changing parenting), but it breaks several other things.

Why would you do this, Epic?

I guess it's nice to know the Libs aren't winning the next election a few years in advance.

It would be nicer if Labor did anything with that, mind you.

No shade to the game, but I find it funny that this is the third God of War game to be released as a prequel to the rest of the series.

"Based on the novel The Bird That Drinks Tears."

Me, with a shrug: "Okay."

"The bird of the title is if Foghorn Leghorn took 'roids."

Me, with great interest: "Okay!"

Alright, the Anniversary Update for Careening is feature complete, just need to do some testing. It's already one week late, so another week isn't really going to hurt, probably.