Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@computerfairi.es

@shaderphantom on my current laptop I have like three keys just not working at all anymore, not that it matters because bad case design put a lot of pressure on the corner of the screen until it finally broke so I just keep it shut and use it as a desktop. And that's just the start of the issues it's developed. :p

While I was in college, laptops were super helpful but now I could survive pretty well with just a desktop and a phone.

Sometimes I'll hear a note or two that feels familiar for some reason, and then my mind will just continue throughout the song based on just that.

@woob Supposedly ZZT's community was full of furries. I actually awhile back connected some dots and realized one cute sticker pack I've been using is a well-known ZZT person's fursona :p

@woob When I got into MegaZeux I found a lot of the ZZT and MZX in-jokes from years past funny without having been there myself, and that's where the ill-advised *bash commands in my IRC bot came from.

One of the things I make sure to preserve when upgrading from computer to computer is my backup of a music album of ZZT IRC quotes sung over a guitar.

It's @maple !

Improved mail system with the ability to preview a message before you send it, the ability to reply to and delete mail, and most importantly I fixed the ability to type spaces! #gamedev

After fixing a few minor things, the mail UI in Tilemap Town doesn't feel quite so bad. It's just *plain*.

A friend suggested that you should be able to include a gift with a letter, which sounds cute to me and I could probably implement it as including a copy of an inventory item that the recipient can choose to add to their inventory or not.

@Ontirus Evidently. No way I'm ever installing it again though.

Kik is trying to lure me back in with "Hey, friends are messaging you! Log in and see them!" but given my experiences with Kik they're 90% likely to be porn bots

Honestly with how I don't seem to be qualified for any local programming jobs I can find (and how college doesn't seem to have prepared me very well), that really hurts my self esteem. I wanted to eventually start a career programming and I was excited to finally graduate after four years but I don't know how reasonable that is anymore. It feels like no one wants me and my skills are unimportant. There will always be a better candidate than me and I won't get picked.

Sneak peek into my very terrible WIP mail UI for Tilemap Town because I do not have web design skills really

@Saxxon I just dove into game development myself and having to make all the assets myself required me to get a lot of pixel-art practice.

@typhlosion @marlyn It can actually turn out as something appealing without yeast?

@rainwarrior I get the impression most games just don't end up coming out and usually aren't heard about.

While all you really can do is guess, I do still feel like the SNES version had at least some role in it, even if it was just something as simple as being a higher priority than the NES version.

When I get a job I'm definitely switching to a different VPS company. I've been having connection problems recently and I guess I can't complain for $15/year but my projects deserve better than this.

@Digital_Poppy@mastodon.cloud I feel like its overall purpose ended up being showing off TowerFall and Duck Game to the world, which are both excellent games.

Here's a photo of some actual uranium I got from one of my favorite websites https://www.unitednuclear.com/ which is a site I realize I should have asked for stuff from for Christmas.

Speaking of nuclear stuff this is a sword I drew when I was talking to a fairy who said they were harmed by iron so they couldn't use a normal sword, so I was like "hey what about uranium?"

I'm the mayor who puts their house directly next to a nuclear power plant.

Because people originally guessed that SimCity for NES not getting released was due to being too expensive, I was expecting something with a bunch of extra RAM, but instead it's only got 16KB and the game makes a lot of compromises.

With this in mind, it makes sense to me. Why release an inferior version when the SNES version (which was a launch title) can be a system seller and a "proper" SimCity experience?