Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@computerfairi.es

Gadget Hackwrench is really neat and I would hang out with her

Microgame block editor in progress

Friendship is really rad and important

I think I had a really good interview today and they emphasized that it's a good place to start and that I don't need previous experience so I hope that will go somewhere nice.

Aside from my legs, 35°F seems fine for me to walk in without trouble. I don't even need gloves.

Reflecting on whatever life choices led to the current situation where I'm making the decision that Billy Mays is probably no longer canon

Now realizing that my worldbuilding is actually very messy and is actually split between a "game" universe, "roleplay/personal" universe, and "high school fake UN" universe, and my wiki makes no effort to differentiate between any of this.

I guess I need to go through my wiki and clean everything up. I've kinda already started.

I watched some Rescue Rangers with mousebyte and one of the big takeaways for me was that, wow, plots REALLY change with/without smartphones, don't they.

Also Gadget should've been the person to work on gummi ships in Kingdom Hearts, dangit. She's really good.

Now I'm actually rendering NES tiles with JavaScript instead of having the tileset just be a PNG, which means I can change their colors. I'm glad that unlike Twitter I won't automatically get followed for saying JavaScript here, too.

I got partway into writing a function for the microgame tool only to find that what I wanted to do isn't allowed by JavaScript's security model, so now I guess I'm gonna just stick a 8192-length array into the tool as a workaround.

I really like the change of artist for Squirrel Girl issue #41. I missed Erica Henderson's art a lot and I didn't care for the replacement all too much.

Try 2 at drawing Maffi. Better hair, better anatomy/proportions, making little improvements. Realizing I should probably just scan things instead of dealing with a camera.

I think I'm gonna name my SNES mouse character "Maffi" (M from "mouse", fused with the first four letters of "affine transformation" which is what Mode 7 really is) if I still think it's good later and not just at 5 AM.

Worldbuilding some more, I think she'd be very good at digital art, because she could plug herself in and just have the exact shape or cursor movement she's thinking of get drawn, no going over a curve several times until it's right.

Sample assets for my NES microgame creator thing. It's a mixture of graphics I reused from games I released, games that never saw the light of day or made any real progress, and new stuff. You'll definitely be able to add your own graphics too, but maybe not immediately in the first build of this I make public, since that will have to get into dynamically loading graphics per-game.

In statistics class whenever I saw "σ" I would notice that it looked a little bit like toilet paper, and I'm sure I used it as such in some TI-BASIC game ages ago

It's probably silly but I opened the freezer at my dad's house and saw that he actually made a big effort to get stuff for me too, and it means a lot to me in sending a signal that I belong here too and I'm not just a stranger that comes over sometimes

I read through most of the manual for Madcap and it actually looks like a tabletop RPG that I would really enjoy and that wouldn't make me uncomfortable. Now the difficult part will be actually getting a group together for something that isn't violent medieval fantasy.