the autumn lisp game jam is almost upon us! do you know where your repl is? you've got about 10 hours to find it.
I just made some big improvements to my broughlike! Check it out!
https://smallandnearlysilent.com/broughlike/
I fixed it so that it is way less likely that the player and an enemy will ever occupy the same space.
I made the enemies a lot more clever, if they’re within a specific number of spaces from the player they’ll chase the player down.
If the enemies are further away from the enemy they make a bee line for the exit. This means that as you navigate towards the exit the enemies swarm you.
The enemies can now also navigate around obstacles.
To balance the more aggressive enemies an increased the likelihood that their attacks miss.
All in all I’m pretty pleased! The game is a bit more difficult, but I think more fun now.
Many shubs and zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, let me tell you.
Google is making almost all its money from ads right?
So you'd assume that whatever else they may tail with, at least they got the ads business down, yes?
I never watch videos directly on Youtube because the video ads are too painful, but I do browse the recommended feed sometimes. Since I have as much ad targeting disabled I get the location-targeted bargain-bin ads in the feed, and they're often quite funny to see in their stupidity.
But there is one neverending feed of ads that is a pure scam. It's a make money quick scam that advertises itself with a picture of people in line outside of bank branches (taken during covid when they restricted how many people could be inside a public location at a time). Sometimes they also slap a logo from a legit news organisation on top of it as well.
I've entertained myself by reporting this scam to see how many variations I can see, and it never ends. The scammer uses a large number of sockpuppet accounts as well, so clearly they've been banned in the past.
You'd think their magin ai systems would be able to flag theee scams, but cleaely not. Apparently they can't even get ads right.
I've attached some screenshots from today's haul. I think I've reported about 50 today alone.
I'd love to hear from someone with inside knowledge how something like this can fly under the radar.
Your friendly reminder that
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and
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are doing different things 
Okay. Okay!!! I did it!!!
I made a web browser!!!
It is the world's *worst* web browser!!!
But it is a web browser!!!
(The video glitches at the end. This is Ubuntu's fault. The video is supposed to show me loading mastodon.social and "(Page is empty.)" displaying because I choke on the JavaScript. I'm exhausted and not fixing this.)
#lispyGopherClimate https://archives.anonradio.net/202410230000_screwtape.mp3
@kentpitman's own #poem poetry reading! Asks we all help share and distribute. Main toot: https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman/113345532867290300
Lots of notices today.
@jackdaniel's https://turtleware.eu/posts/Dynamic-Let.html on #commonLisp dynamic binding
Rest of the #emacs #emacsconf schedule + #jazz #drumming
#bonkwave disk 3 release party Friday! @keefmarshall @attksthdrknss @limebar
#lispGameJam starting this week! https://itch.io/jam/autumn-lisp-game-jam-2024
#SICP #studyGroup !
#lambdaMOO!
https://lambda.moo.mud.org/
Hey everyone, @kentpitman is asking us to share and distribute his poetry reading as much as we can this election season.
Drive link to the mp3:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nBM9P8P2xL3iPw3Hz3GV0fkS1Fatv3ZL/view
The poem/text/webplayer:
https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-fraud-who-stole-freedom.html
#poetry #urgent #US #poetryReading #mp3
It's of interest to everyone. Please do share everywhere, not just for #lisp folks!
EDIT: KMP's associated prose https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2024/10/vance-notice.html
made my calendar app cuter, also added the ability to go back and forth between months and years!
auspol
fucken more power to you. that took real courage and i honestly feel so much better about this tour of the british royal family.
and yes--at some point the emperor has to be told he has no clothes on. i'm sick of walking around this place having to pretend as if colonisation didn't happen.
i think long and hard about what had to happen in order for it to be possible to stuff your gob full of toxic fast food 24/7. or the fact that at the rate things are going we'll destroy all the biota in western australia without ever identifying them.
as far as i'm concerned bruce pascoe's dark emu is entirely true. the speed and tenacity with which that man and his book was dismissed and belittled in every mainstream organ of communication, tells me there is still an active intent to cover up just how much bloodshed and misery first nations people have had, and continue to go through, to make the commonwealth of australia possible.
if lidia thorpe chose to keep in line, wait her turn, and speak only when permitted in the face of the continued genocide of australian aboriginal people, i can promise you nothing here would ever change.
somehow people can repeat 'when injustice become our law, resistance becomes our duty', but believe that it does not apply for all cases. i think to myself these people have not progressed one bit beyond a high school education about australian history, and have not yet developed the capacity to think independently for themselves.
always was, always will be aboriginal land.
🙏
#sicp
by the way, I found a 2007-2008 author who previously answered every #sicp exercise in #commonLisp instead of #scheme. https://eli.thegreenplace.net/tag/sicp
I just posted a must-read essay on my blog.
OK, not an essay, a poem. And not just a haiku. It's a long poem in the style of Seuss: The Fraud Who Stole Freedom.
And you don't have to read it, I'll read it to you (i.e., there's an audio track).
But please do visit and make sure it gets around. Early voting has already started some places, and there's not much more time to do things, but the idea is to get people excited about the need to vote.
I've tried to present it in an entertaining way, but the election is a serious matter and we all need to see that.
https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-fraud-who-stole-freedom.html
Note that it's the same kind of information as was in my previous blog post, so if you prefer prose, there's always that:
https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2024/10/vance-notice.html
#election2024 #USPolitics #democracy #dictatorship #poetry #poem #DrSeuss #Kamala #KamalaHarris #HarrisWalz
New video! Trying to resurrect a badly corroded Amiga A501 RAM Expansion.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/kW4HG_5GHG0
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/d7BAck1ttyF2uXxru4kkXA
#Amiga #A500 #Amiga500 #Commodore #A501 #RAMExpansion #BatteryDamage #Corrosion #Repair #Restoration #Varta #GetTheDamnBatteriesOut #VintageComputing #RetroComputing
The year is 3129. Humanity is extinct. The last LG SmartFridge is desperately emailing its last owner that they are low on orange juice. The satellites that are still left, their orbits slowly decaying over millennia, dutifully relay the message. The automated "away from office" response turns on, as it always does, notifying the refrigerator that it's owner will likely return to the office in 3-5 business days.
Somewhere in what used to be called Ohio, a pack of roombas, their local wind turbines giving out and creaking to a halt, begin searching for the next functional docking station. A washing machine in Argentina tweets: "anyone need to do a load 😏" every Saturday at 1:30 a.m. eastern standard time. The replies are filled with AI thirstposters and their hypebots.
In North America, raccoons have quietly entered the bronze age, while baboons riding domesticated battlewolves rule most of Asia. Unbeknownst to either, the octopi are mastering nuclear fusion. A weather balloon bobs and sways in the upper atmosphere, now almost entirely clear of lingering chloroflourocarbons, reporting conditions to weather stations long since destroyed in World War Five.
The Crab Nation are mostly hermits, but come out to greet their prophet every ten years on the 6th full moon of the year. A lone, curious octopus decides to observe this year's event, peering out at the festivities from her safe haven - the submerged, rusting hulk of an ancient Cybertruck. Then he appears: the hologram of Shia Lebouf powered by MetaAI. He beckons the octopus to follow. The crabs all start chittering excitedly. The time has come to invade Amazon HQ. The crows gather in huge numbers. They need more storage space for their Steam collections.
games with awful accessibility, sarcasm
i'm making a video game with all my favourite accessibility features inspired by other popular games ☺️
- subtitles only present for "main" dialogue; background audio, battle cries etc. have no subs (from yakuza: like a dragon)
- subtitles that don't specify the speaker (metro 2033)
- no FOV slider (every seventh gen console game)
- head bobbing/swaying that can't be disabled (xdefiant)
- vision blurring and tinnitus sounds when you're on low health (early gears of war and its various ripoffs)
- manual saving, and only at specific points (dead rising (2006))
- unchangeable key binds that assume a QWERTY layout; enjoy using WASD on AZERTY (too many to list)
- font sizes that don't scale with resolution, based on running the game at 800x600 (fallout 1 and 2)
- mandatory QTEs that get progressively more difficult, with no option to skip them or replace them with button holds (balan wonderland)
- dialogue boxes that can't be advanced until the characters have finished speaking; also the game has no voice overs so you're just waiting for the mouth flapping animation to end (pokémon: sword and shield)
- crucial gameplay information communicated solely through colour (the legend of zelda: link's awakening DX (1993))
- no options to invert X or Y axis inputs (too many to list)
- content locked behind higher difficulties (wargroove)
- significant gameplay advantages based around being able to hear enemies approaching from various directions in surround sound (i dunno, halo, why not)
- unskippable and/or unpausable cutscenes (early metal gear solid)
- game language determined by your system language (state of decay 2), or better yet, your system region
- nested radial menus that require you to hold a button, hold the analogue stick in the direction of the desired option, and then press another separate button to open the sub-menu (rollercoaster tycoon 3 (nintendo switch), what were you people thinking, my mum would love this game if not for this one goddamn issue)
- mandatory motion controls (half of the wii library), or if not that, full controller support that still requires certain actions to be performed via motion controls, even though there are more than enough free buttons to bind those actions to (mario odyssey)
- no explanation for complex game mechanics, including things that you would truly never be able to guess without external documentation (minecraft pre-1.0)
- an in-game "help" button that launches the xbox assist app, which has been deprecated and no longer functions (many xbox one titles, although i really don't blame the game devs for this, fuck microsoft for removing all of that information for no reason)
- crucial exclusive content locked behind a shitty browser game (mass effect 3)
- exclusive content locked behind an external app that no longer exists or functions (dead rising 3)
- no pause function whatsoever (elden ring (yes i know about the help page trick))
- always online connectivity, even in single player (the crew: motorfest)
i think this list has a little something for everyone, but do feel free to suggest more great accessibility features! also every settings change will require restarting the game and sitting through six unskippable publisher logos
Kangaroo Jack would be a perfect movie if it was exactly the same but with the kangaroo in the corner talking over the entire movie like a v-tuber