Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@computerfairi.es

One thing that sort of bothers me a little when watching Minecraft videos is when someone breaks a block and leaves an item on the ground, and then they just never pick it up so it's left to despawn.

Though someone who's playing so much Minecraft that they're doing it as the focus of their channel probably has so much of everything stockpiled that one single fence item going wasted doesn't matter. :p

Sometimes I'm about to go make a GitHub issue for a project of mine for a feature I want to do later, and then I'm like, "Wait, Nova get off your butt and just implement that right now. It's easy."

In short, Tilemap Town now lets you download an offline copy of any map you're on, though you can't use it for anything yet. It's nice to be able to have a backup of your work that no one can take from you.

@woob The Tildeverse uses them too. You've got http://tilde.town/ and http://tilde.club/ and of course also a Mastodon instance at https://tilde.zone/ and on and on with many other TLDs.

I think I've got a real problem with putting off eating for too long but in my case it's because what I'm doing is unlikely to still be there if I take a break from it to eat. I need a new laptop clearly.

@behold3r I talk to a mouse whose tail ends in a USB plug and whose ears make clicking noises when pressed down and I like it so much

@rainwarrior Haha yeah, on one brand of knockoff Jello it had like a whole list of fruit you shouldn't try to put inside because it would stop it from setting.

While I used to dislike gift cards for locking you into using the money on a specific store, now they're kind of nice since it's some money you can use to treat yourself without any guilt about not saving it. You're sparing the recipient from the pains of opportunity cost a bit, while not giving them something they potentially dislike since they choose what it is.

I wonder what happens when you mix packets of different Jello flavors together. Does it result in something edible? Honestly most of the time I try something weird it turns out baddd, like when I tried to use hot cocoa mix as chocolate powder.

@typhlosion obviously fix the huge mistake where there's a chipmunk emoji but not a squirrel emoji

@Freya The bigger worry for me is not wanting my timeline to get neck-deep in horny like it has before, on account of being asexual. Usually people keep that marked public though I think?

One issue I can see with Mastodon's follower-only toots is you don't actually get a full picture of what it's like to follow someone until you do.

I've had to back out before after someone's content turns out to be too much for me and I sorta worry about what it'd look like if I did that right after following someone. Probably just unnecessary worry though.

@Austin_Dern @frengers I had one part where I forgot how to take the integral of a certain kind of expression so I just wrote a note about that, did my best guess and moved on with the rest of the problem anyway, showing that I understand the steps of the rest of what I was being asked to do. My best guess ended up being almost correct and I got most of the points. Definitely always write something instead of nothing.

It's got a bunch of assembly source code on it for games I never finished and probably won't. One of them was gonna be a simple Sonic-inspired game, though who knows if that would have gone over well on an LCD that's slow enough that you can get grayscale like this.

I still have grayscale Handsome Squidward on my calculator. In fact it's pretty much frozen in time since high school aside from putting lots of calculus related stuff on it.

@woob ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ here you go woob

@Saxxon My own platformer game is mostly a mix of stuff from games I like, and I play a whole lot of 2D platformers so I have a lot of experience to draw from there. Perfectly fine strategy.

I'd be completely lost if I had to design a 3D platformer though, considering I've barely played any of those.

@Chel Thankfully nope! I'm actually in kind of a weird situation where my mom and her husband moved out instead of the reverse. Everyone who still lives here feels a whole lot better!

I feel sorry for my sister who had to go with them though. She actually recognizes transphobia and homophobia as a problem and doesn't like being around it.

@Saxxon I totally approve of 2D platformers of course. :p

Got any interesting ideas for mechanics?

@Chel My parents especially. My mom is extremely religious to the point where it feels like it's consumed her whole life and identity, and it was all over the place at both houses, making things feel very oppressive. There were all sorts of things like being unable to wear my hair long enough to prevent dysphoria without constantly having people tell me I need to get it cut, and having to keep dysphoria to myself.

Mastodon seems nice though it's got its own issues I suppose.

@Chel Actually they're very rare now, which is why I was initially excited to go. People live too far away from each other that it's not very easy to do, alongside not having a venue for it.

I deal with conservative family too, and it always made me feel like I had to be very quiet about my life and keep my parents out of it, which meant my family didn't feel like a family and I guess that's why I'm trying to find a place I belong online instead.