@glassbottommeg I mean, I think it's also worth pointing out just how little jonathan blow understands what people want
he made the witness because he thought that the problem with myst was that the puzzles were too integrated in the environment and didn't feel like puzzles. he categorically misunderstood why myst is a good game. but people liked the puzzle design.
he's basically made so much off the witness he could last for 8 years, then panicked and had to release a game. he was so focused on his pet programming language project he didn't think about what do actually make
he decided to lean into the least appreciated part of the witness, the pretentious lore, when making the braid sequel. also, he has shit, right-wing views. of course it sold badly
the loops that form are very fragile. an open string will eventually break into little Ls. I need a cost function that discourages them from forming
instead of writing rules directly, I now have a cost function (energy) and saying a cell can move somewhere if the total energy (in a local region - up to 2 cells away) does not increase. this is fun because it can create some unexpected behaviour.
here the energy is defined as abs(2-num_neighbours), so having two neighbours is optimal. but they can join into pairs and still move around. the little L-shaped things are technically loops as all the cells have two neighbours, but I want bigger loops.
New firefox thing to disable
https://kitsunes.club/notes/9wbyqywt28
go to about:config
search for browser.shopping.experience2023.active and browser.shopping.experience2023.survey.enabled and set both to false
project 2025
you cannot overestimate the sheer amount of carcinogenic hatred that is distilled into project 2025.
as a document it is flatly terrifying.
as a set of goals it's a heinous amalgam of bigoted christo-fascistic eugenicist nonsense meant solely to further empower the people already holding more power than anyone rightfully should over others.
and it was written by people.
not gods or devils. people.
it not only can be stopped, it must be stopped.
I just realized a good argument against computer ads.
Contrary to regular ads, it is actually using your resources (your power, time on the CPU you bought, etc)
So, shouldn't ad companies paying you money for displaying their ads? Like they pay billboard owners or news paper owners, etc.
So until then, using ad block is just preventing theft.
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess