This game I have been working on for three years, slowly calcifying around what started as a rapid-prototyping demo, has a very important function that draws a scene. The function takes two arguments, a scene, and "realBig". If "realBig" is true, the scene is drawn 4 times larger
I don't... I don't remember why realBig is there. I can't fathom why I'd need to sometimes draw it bigger than other times, much less by precisely a factor of 4. This function is called in three places, in two realBig is true, in the third it is false.
What.
This project has basically been me going in with a well-honed, carefully-thought-out mental list of mistakes to never make in a long-running game project, and then committing all of them
In the last month I have received two separate promotional beanies. The number of promotional beanies I have ever encountered in my entire life up until before this month is zero. I don't wear beanies.
By "Beanie" I mean those little ... the winter caps with the folded-back outsides, not the baseball caps with the little propeller. I don't know at what point the meaning of the word changed
Christine insists that latter thing, with the propeller, is not a "beanie" at all but rather a "Took", which I would assume is a Canadian thing but that's not Canadian, it's Middle-Earth
1. Vehemently, nationally dismiss the idea of people being able to prove whether they've been vaccinated or not ("papers") 2. Say it's fine to go unmasked if you're vaccinated 3. It is now basically impossible for any private business, church, etc to enforce any kind of mask rule
If we get unlucky & a variant mutates which is properly vaccine-resistant, & we suddenly see out-of-control community spread, 2 more things will happen 4. People will be personally shamed for failure to wear masks 5. It will be harder to reintroduce mask rules you lifted already
You know how a 4yo will stare at the bath for 10 minutes, then dip one toe in, yank it out, and yell "MOM I TOOK A BATH"? That's how America has approached pandemic safety
So we have spent the last half a year watching the entire original series of "Sukeban Deka" ("Juvenile Delinquent Cop"), a Japanese children's television show from 1985, and now we've finished I am now ready to declare it the greatest piece of filmic media ever made
This is not a joke. It is the most amazing fusion of high camp and wildly unnecessary directorial competence I have ever seen. It is just going at 200% every moment right up until the end
Like, the problem with loving bad media is a lot of it is… you know, bad. But Sukeban Deka dares to ask the question, what if bad television… were good?
Got recommended this on the grounds of it being a "compact" android phone and got excited, but I looked it up and it's literally a full 1.3 inches bigger than my current phone. We're converging on a point where the "compact" phones of today would have been a "phablet" last decade
On top of this THE SCREEN IS NON RECTANGULAR *AND* THERE ARE HOLES IN IT?? BOTH?? Why. Why would anyone pay money for a monitor that literally has holes in it, I literally cannot understand
Incidentally something that is really weird to me is its surprisingly hard to find out the size of a phone anymore, all they'll tell you is the size of the screen. ??? I guess it's assumed phones just don't have any space that isn't taken up by a screen anymore???
The 1958 version is the original theatrical release. The studio stepped in late, took the picture away from Welles, recut & rescored. And some of the changes were… good! Welles sent a detailed memo saying "I'll approve this version—IF" certain changes were made. (It was ignored)
The 1976 cut was, from what I have read, kind of a mistake. Sometime in the early 70s a workprint of "Touch of Evil" was found, and it wound up getting screened and released as the "restored" version. Unfortunately, it's just a workprint.