Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@computerfairi.es

I like how there's complaints of commercialization of holidays, and then Animal Crossing straight-up calls it "Toy Day"

I'm adapting the toy lexical analyzer and syntactical analyzer from college into something I can maybe use for a simple language for Tilemap Town scripting. I know there are generators for those kinda thing but I'd rather avoid learning and setting up a whole new system for now.

I'm keeping the scripting separated from the server itself so it should be mix-and-match once there's other options.

I seem to have a few specific songs that just trap me in, and I don't realize they've been playing for an hour because they're good and don't have noticeable starts or ends.

I poke fun at Second Life for passing everything by value and being wasteful, but actually trying to dip into that myself I can tell why they decided to just skip all the hassles that references come with for simplicity.

I'm personally gonna try to do reference counting though.

Forth is in a weird spot where it's well-established and easy to write an interpreter, but it's got a lot of awkward low-level stuff you probably wouldn't want in an interpreted language today.

You can fix it but then now you've just got a Forth-like language, like MUF, and you have to learn what each "flavor" is like. Not too different from the many C-like scripting languages in use I suppose.

Some things on my phone will fill the screen with the same color the screen turns while the call stuff is loading and I always dread being called before I find out it's a false alarm.

Let's learn Forth for real and actually get confident with that.

This is probably sending myself on a dark and dangerous path, but I wonder how hard a compiler is to write if you don't care very much about optimization.

Rocking a multi-monitor display except one of them is actually a TV and the other one is just sitting on the ground not really contributing, because I plugged it in to test it and then just didn't unplug it.

Here's an actual picture of my problem with going overboard with pickles

I like how if I plug both an HDMI cable and VGA cable into my laptop it'll just use both of them as additional screens.

Similarly the NES will output on both composite and RF at the same time and that's actually super helpful when recording a Zapper game because the RF connection can go right to your TV and not be affected by the lag of passing through and being processed by your recording device.

Starting to actually put floating windows into Tilemap Town. I think this design makes a LOT more sense than dumping everything into a scrollable pane in the lower left corner. #gamedev

I need to really work and focus on trying to get more involved in communities I'm in. Just it's unclear how.

Trying to figure out what Tilemap Town's virtual machine for running user scripts should look like. Maybe the simple way out (stack machine, Forth, add a better language later) is the best way since it gets things in a working state quickly.

Ideally I would just plug a preexisting language in there but people don't really write languages aimed at the needs of MU*-like projects.

Once upon a time my main music player was my Nintendo DS and Moonshell, with a 1GB (and then later 2GB) SD card, so to store a lot of different music I ended up mostly listening to midis and tracker stuff, so in many cases I'm way more familiar with midi versions of songs than the regular thing.

It appears someone is building something in what was an empty lot across the street from my house, so I probably can't tell friends to hijack that land and build their dream house right by mine anymore.

I'm really glad I bought the stuff to make cheeseburgers tonight. They turned out better than last time, though I need to do something about the pickles+condiments section if I want to have THAT many pickles without it being a sliding mess. A tasty mess though!

This is a pretty good example of what I mean with a nice ol' W

Oh no, I think Sonic Mania might be one of those games that requires Joy2Key.

Thankfully it's also one of those games where if I map my controller buttons to the 1-9 keys on the keyboard, menus will actually display the thing printed on the buttons.

I moved my Genesis and the cat still won't leave the area where it was alone. This may become a problem.