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4 Jun

I really, really hate using software that doesn't come with documentation

UPDATE: After a *lot* of fiddling I have managed to get to reduce the "unknown function code" from 0x935 to 0x7a. Is that better? It's going down. Is going down better?

What I'm trying to do is call this function. This is all the docs I have. Note the lack of a type on "key". In fact, the key MUST be a very special object created by an entirely other npm package, which can itself only be constructed with the output of a third npm package

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@mcclure111

3 Jun

So… this is odd.
Sublime Text did an update.
Now it is running like mud and pegging the CPU at 100%.
I eventually realized it was doing this "indexing" task.
Indexing… what?
I think it might be doing some parsing operation on multi-megabyte webpack-generated js files D: D: D:

Also the dock icon updated and now it follows the new Mac OS HI standards, which suck :/ They made every icon a rounded rectangle and now I can't distinguish them by shape anymore

It is SUCH an awful feeling trying to type on a MacBook which is overheating. The keys are made of lava

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@mcclure111

2 Jun

https://twitter.com/ahcastor/status/1400071430541357061

Hey so uh if this is for real: What are the chances we could successfully run a boycott threat campaign against Square and Sega demanding they cancel their planned NFT releases this summer

https://twitter.com/ahcastor/status/1400071430541357061

Sega and Square both made similar announcements around the same time (NFTs coming at a vague time this summer); the similarity suggests to me some specific common NFT vendor (in Japan?) got to them. But the lead time creates a sliver of a chance for organizing

(The logic of a boycott is hope Sega/Square may be willing to drop the thing if they realize profits are no longer worth the cost. But if a 3p vendor is driving the NFT campaigns, that might not matter—maybe Sega/Square get a fixed $N million regardless of what the NFTs sell for)

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@mcclure111

2 Jun

TypeScript is basically the only reason I'm able to write JavaScript. At all. Everytime I interact with a JS library that doesn't have typings I'm reminded of this at a deep level. "protocol.include()" "protocol.include" is not a function" How the hell was I supposed to know that

Anyway just lost a day or two of time because
1. Writing callbacks/async functions
2. Something in the guts of the system calling the callbacks was catching exceptions and not printing the errors
3. Called a nonexistent function in a callback because there's no typings or docs

4. Invalid function call throws an exception, callback caller throws away the exception, my debug printf on the line after the invalid function is not printed
5. I assume, because the debug printf isn't seen, that the entire function is not being called

THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE

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@mcclure111

2 Jun

So: I want to talk about Returnal.

What I want to convince you is *this is the Metroid Prime game you have been waiting for for years*. Assuming you've been waiting for a Metroid Prime game. There's elements of Hades and other stuff in there, but Metroid Prime sets the gamefeel.

Combat is pure MP. A combination of hitscan-for-you, projectiles-for-enemies and homing elements make shooting feel like the MP lockon. Since enemy projectiles are slow moving, you're mostly dodging while maneuvering terrain like you were in MP. Dash feels like target-jump.

You crawl a rainy alien planet while progressively unlocking upgrades. Instead of backtracking there's a sort of forward-tracking— you encounter rooms you can't solve yet, until you get an upgrade in the metagame and think "ah! I can now solve [x room] when it comes up at random"

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@mcclure111

24 May

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

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