Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@computerfairi.es

Best part of walks is always looking at squirrels. There's a bit of snow falling though and it's cold so I think most of them are hiding in shelter.

It's strange how I've lived in this city all of my life and yet most of it feels new and unfamiliar to me, even stuff I can get to within walking distance while exploring. I guess for residential areas in general there's little reason to walk around neighborhoods you don't live in if you're not visiting a friend.

Oh no I forgot to buy post-Halloween heavily discounted candy. Probably a good thing since my health doesn't need a whole bunch of cheap chocolate.

Before I went to college I was told that there were more jobs for graduates than there were graduates but once I actually got out it's turning out no one wants you because you don't have professional work experience in the field. It seems like moving is a requirement to get anything so I've kinda given up for now and I'm trying to get something at the library if I can.

I read it and it was pretty trippy as expected. Layers and layers of trademark infringement and the setting keeps changing every few pages

Finally able to download that SBAHJ book I helped kickstart so I'm gonna read that. I'm curious to see what dril's writing is like

I wonder if I should embrace acorns as a symbol for myself, and maybe have my character enjoy them like Squirrel Girl does.

On the other hand Nova has a lot more to latch onto theme-wise than just "squirrel" and I've got kind of a star motif going on already.

I think beavers are totally underrated as far as rodent characters go. They're pretty good.

I put the accurate Tetris Attack physics from colour_thief's solver into NetPuzzleArena as another game type.

I still have some things to fix but it's 95% there and it feels great being a lot closer to the dream of an accurate no-lag multiplayer Tetris Attack/Puzzle League.

It's actually weird laying down -not- next to a plush a lot of the time now. It's just a lot more comfortable being able to cuddle something and show affection, even if it's one-way?

I just voted and there wasn't any line. Doing it at a random point in the afternoon has always worked well for me in that regard.

Okay it may be because I've been a kettle before but it's hard to look at this and not immediately think "inanimate TF"

http://novasquirrel.com/dl/NetPuzzleArena.zip Here's the most recent Windows build. It should be very easy to build from source on Linux (which is also included).

Most games included don't do anything yet but "Puzzle Frenzy" (Puzzle League), "Avalanche" (Puyo), and "Pillars" (Columns) are all mostly there.

Anyone wanna playtest my Puzzle League implementation and see how it feels compared to the real thing? I can upload a build somewhere.

Mostly I wanna nail down any final remaining differences with how chains work and having more eyes on it would probably help a bit.

The most terrible, most tempting button of all to press on someone else's car is the "M" button by the clock, that increments the minutes and must now be pressed exactly 59 more times to fix it.

Despite filters lacking some granularity I'm gonna give them a try and see if they improve the Mastodon experience for me.

I love how silly and absurd story modes in puzzle games tend to be. "Oh no you've beaten me at Tetris so you've now saved the world, somehow"

Pixel arted a Nova, not 100% sure it's done but I like the head at least. Inspiration was mostly taken from the kinda small versions of characters you usually have facing each other in an action puzzle game like Puzzle League.

I feel like playing around with pixel art again so I'll do that. Got some inspiration I need to unleash.

I kinda wish Mastodon filters were more specific, so you could have them apply only to CWs or only to post text, and most importantly include/exclude specific people. Maybe that's possible with a script client-side?