Posts by cy@fedicy.us.to
 (DIR) Post #B4MaAT2Nj1JeNyRdOC by cy@fedicy.us.to
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       Learning about video game development be like:First, the developer wrote a design document bigger than Encyclopedia BritannicaThen they made lifelong friendships with people who'd contribute dozens of hours of work for free because they're basically blood brothers nowThen they filled up 400 sketchbooks full of carefully planned and very well drawn concepts more creative than the entire RennaissanceThey also pioneered a new branch of mathematics to get the game workingJust the basic requirements, really#vidya #programming #depressed
       
 (DIR) Post #B4MaAToEr5b4mOpqz2 by cy@fedicy.us.to
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       I've been trying to get a computer to draw a circle for a week now. I think I'm a lost cause. My idea is to have floopy floppy things jumping around. Some sort of platformer.CC: @light@noc.social
       
 (DIR) Post #B4MaAUBHTQ1pvrcFto by cy@fedicy.us.to
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       OpenGL, mostly. Been trying to figure out how to draw, or render, curvy shapes angled or distorted around some sort of abstract skeleton. So a "circle" sorta. Starting with a circle seems like a good first step. But using vertex shaders? Fragment shaders? Geometry? Precalculated circle approximation polygons? Shaders to smooth out the corners in those polygons? Subdivisions? Bezier??CC: @light@noc.social
       
 (DIR) Post #B4MaAUhXXTphXui1BI by cy@fedicy.us.to
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       Even just the math of it, I'm not sure whether to make preexisting shapes and somehow deform them to floop and flop around, or to generate the shapes on the spot from the skeletons and some bezier curves. Either of those you could do in a geometry shader, but... well it's tricky is all. I miss being able to just say pixel[x+y*stride] = white_if_inside_circle(x0,y0,radius);CC: @light@noc.social
       
 (DIR) Post #B4MaAV6M3DgMmsJprM by cy@fedicy.us.to
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       These days, SDL is just a wrapper on top of OpenGL. At any rate, neither one has support for soft curves.CC: @light@noc.social @randrews@somewhy.net
       
 (DIR) Post #B4P4zq714yH5f0wdAe by cy@fedicy.us.to
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       what did weasels ever do to deserve such slander...
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Z4iWC5p9SCXkevAm by cy@fedicy.us.to
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       The community pushed back hard on this one. The Arch maintainers are holding, Canonical backed away, and Artix Linux, the systemd-free Arch derivative, issued the clearest statement: they will never require any verification or ID. It's FOSS When someone opened a revert PR, Lennart closed it himself on March 19th. The birthDate field is in systemd and it's staying.It's funny because only Artix isn't actively enforcing this change. Arch are lying that they're holding (they're not). Canonical are lying that they're backing away (they're not). How can I tell? Both of them use systemd. Both of them require systemd. So anything that gets merged into systemd, they require, whether they want to or not.It's a fuggin disgrace to see people downstream of an important change saying "Oh no, no we aren't gonna comply with this nosirree," while forcing upstream compliance of it down our throats just by being useless tools.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5jh2wf8uTtq46Wqv2 by cy@fedicy.us.to
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       You're entirely right ya rat bastardCC: @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       
 (DIR) Post #B60dKQfRVddvuv4Mtc by cy@fedicy.us.to
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       password incorrectpassword incorrectpassword incorrect and you are blocked from our dumb game server, which doesn't handle a single bit of compromising data but we have to be sure Evil Hackers cannot guess your dumb password, (even though you just got the order of the letters mixed up) so it locks you out of the game, and you never come back.I am blissfully ignorant of the people I've driven away. I'm such a responsible admin!#FuckEverything
       
 (DIR) Post #B60dKR8rkFB9OAprl2 by cy@fedicy.us.to
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       ...Yeah!
       
 (DIR) Post #B6E20TBbSUxbqWAe1o by cy@fedicy.us.to
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       That assumes that computers that can pass Turing Tests will be cheaper than Koreans. I've never been overly worried about Sybil attacks, since they're so expensive to pull off. They find simpler ways to get at us, like making us move away from our friends, or making us agree to easily spoofed verification methods. ☑️