Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@computerfairi.es

At my work we're gonna scavenge around and try and find the most cursed thing we can at the building in the abandoned spaces and vote for which is the best one

Welcome to the art museum cubicle, we don't have any walls and in exchange we have paintings

Sometimes I'll get lyrics stuck in my head but I can't quite remember how the syllables match up with the timing, and I guess my brain then tries to sort it out for awhile. And then I finally listen to the song again later and it turns out I didn't completely remember the words either so I wasn't going to have solved it with what I had.

I'm definitely going to order a stylus for my new laptop, and then add a Handsome Squidward figure into the same order because I need that in my life. I want to drawwwww.

I saw a deer outside the building at work today. I think that's the first time I ever saw a deer in real life.

My background converter is working and I've got that forest background inserted into the game now! I think I'll move the background and the level up 16 pixels though.
#gamedev #snesdev

Hopefully it stops raining by the point the delivery driver gets here though. Even if it doesn't they can probably figure out to leave it on the section of the porch right under the roof.

I think I've got a day of laptop installation tomorrow if it actually arrives like it apparently will be. I'm pretty excited for that.

A long time ago as a kid I remember just being amazed by the novelty of a font that had snow on top of all of the characters, like that was a super impressive thing

I think I got stuck in some sort of neverending winter somehow. It does not feel like it's almost June at all.

First attempt at a simple forest background, taking advantage of silhouettes and taking inspiration from other backgrounds I've seen #pixelart

Here's a mockup of what the small side game I want to make for Game Boy Color could be like, probably some simple forest-themed berry collecting thing. This one I'd probably try to fit into 32KB and I'd reuse the engine I started on for FHBG GB.

I have a print of Isabelle from Animal Crossing framed and displayed in my cubicle now. Gradually it will become the cutest cubicle ever.

Looks like I'm invited to travel out to another company development center in June so it's new laptop buying time. My current laptop is basically on life support and has a slow hard drive, a few nonfunctional keys, somewhat flakey power jack, flakey headphone jack, and more. Any advice for picking something good?

I feel like I really, really ought to get something with an SSD this time because I think I spend a huge amount of time waiting on the disk on my current laptop.

After figuring out the required logic for making the player go up and down slopes, it wasn't too much more effort to make enemies and other entities do it too. Doesn't seem very computationally expensive either, as long as the level data lookups aren't. #gamedev #snesdev

https://www.gofundme.com/uemchs-top-surgery-fund A close friend of mine is trying to raise money for top surgery

I love how when I reopen Uber after a bit and the car's position has changed by a lot, it will just interpolate and my driver will appear to be driving through buildings extremely quickly to get to me

The artist I reached out to (that I thought was gonna be a yes since they'd drawn similar stuff before) said no, so I might have to put the idea on hold.

I guess now if I do push through with it, maybe I should put less priority on just having a lot of cute art already drawn and more on willingness to draw weird transformation kink stuff. Maybe it doesn't matter if they have preexisting art that's as cute as I want as long as they can try the style upon request.

The concept of the Donkey Kong Expanded Universe amuses me. I could say Squirrel Girl is in the same universe as Donkey Kong because she's seen with Spiderman in the comics, Spiderman is seen with Ryu in Marvel Vs Capcom, and Ryu is seen with Donkey Kong in Smash.

I finally went and got a VPS at Digital Ocean because I was tired of my old one (at ChicagoVPS) just randomly halting the entire server for up to a few minutes. I've got almost everything moved over now, got my DNS and TLS stuff updated, and now the final stuff mostly involves moving over my wiki.

In addition to the higher reliability, the main important thing is I'll have a gigabyte of RAM instead of 128MB so maybe now things will actually compile!