Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es

If you follow me there's a good chance you're using/will use some of my pixel fonts: in that case, can I ask you a favor?

Can you please go and rate them on Itch? Thanks!

https://somepx.itch.io/

#fonts #pixelart #gamedev

It's frustrating how many organisations are still using Twitter to announce important info to the public. There is no way for most people to see this info! Most people aren't on Twitter, and Twitter now requires a sign-on just to view profiles.

If you want to announce stuff to the public, the only way to make sure it's visible to everyone is to use your own website, your own blog, your own social media server. Anyone with an internet connection can see them.

#GrowYourOwn #SelfHosting #Twitter

laziness isnt real and calling someone lazy is probably ableism

A lot of the people bashing "car-centric", whatever that means, fail to consider that traffic would be solved if we got rid of these socialist sidewalks and just added one more lane. Trust bro, just one more lane. It'll be double the speed, trust me.

My laptop stand is a computer

kinda going off the deep end here but now the car can cast its shadow onto the walls

it's kind of a ridiculously subtle effect, but it ties the mesh-geo, the raycaster-geo, and the skybox together, so uhhh maybe that's something

Disease and hunger soar in Latin America after floods and drought, study finds

Climate chaos is threatening food production, trade and lives, says World Meteorological Organization

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/disease-hunger-soar-latin-america-floods-drought-study

#LatinAmerica #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

#StopKillingGames.com aims to delegalize game publishers thanos-snapping games you've paid real money for when they feel like it. Exactly what Ubisoft recently did with The Crew.

MattKC has a great short video about it:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fwcj_tIm44k

Now is the best chance for us to have governments make laws protecting games from systemic destruction!

Australians - HURRY!
2 weeks left for you to ACT!
Read details on https://StopKillingGames.com

#RightToRepair #RightToReplay #Gaming #Games

#Caturday done, need to charge up my catteries!

73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need:

- Paid family leave
- Equal pay
- Universal childcare

(But get your mom flowers, too)

In May 1988, legislation passed in the UK "prohibiting the promotion of homosexuality" by local authorities. It was in effect for a decade and a half, with massive impact on the LGBT+ community. This is a brief history of Section 28.

In Fast Company, I wrote about how wild it is that Ford, GM, and Stellantis no longer offer any sedan models in the US.

That's bad for Americans -- and it's risky for the Big Three.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91123174/detroit-killed-the-sedan-we-may-all-live-to-regret-it

#cars #SUVs #transportation

scrolling fediverse is like this

smarter sampling on the floor...

when it samples the floor tex, it raycasts the texelspace grid to see how many screen-pixels it'll step along the scanline before hitting the next texel, and it can reuse the latest sample until then - fewer samples, sharper result!

it also does some smooth LOD, where it starts using a bigger and bigger "screen-pixel steps per sample" ratio as pixels get farther away

(before/after)

I can't stress enough how important it is to have a central API for coordinate transformations.

Tile grid coords, pixel coords, internal buffer pixel, screen pixel, viewport, world, zoomed/unzoomed, you never want to just transform these in-line anywhere. Take the time to write functions for going between them all especially if you're making a something like a map editor.

I also use typedefs to help document what function signatures expect and return.

#gamedev

"The Raw Milk Institute called the warnings "clearly fearmongering." The institute's founder told the LATimes his customers are specifically requesting raw milk from H5N1-infected cows."

This is an example of how minimizing COVID is destructive to public health far beyond COVID.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/anti-pasteurization-crowd-reaffirms-love-of-raw-milk-despite-bird-flu-outbreak/