Notices by Oracle(tm) e-Business Social 🎃 (kitredgrave@socially.constructed.space), page 24

keep dreaming too large to ever reasonably make.

boids was something closer to feasible but i couldnt even get that right lol

what'd be really badass is a game where you start out having just gotten the ability to go back in time and decide things differently in your life, or go forward and see what'd already happen.

well, except for you getting the power itself is a fixed point in time you always have to go to one way or another... though the forced roads there could be pretty interesting

elm would be pretty interesting for visual novels and twines too. you can get a lot of latitude for customizing the ui, and it'd be easier to keep a log of the choices made and persist them somewhere, and later replay them

i think i remember some little game that was about savescumming nethack, but only just enough that you get to the end in a plausible manner.

the game plays itself, your only input is to step forward in events or step back and retry things. it also kept track of how likely it was that your game could have actually happened the first time around

nah, let's write some dumb little games with this stuff.

fuck, if only it weren't so late. i wanna go write a mastodon frontend client

@ultimape that would plug in pretty well, wouldn't it?

@srn also it has very bad bugs

@srn it's bad because it has magic numbers everywhere, some of the names are not helpful, and it just isn't organized very well

isn't elm, like, the gateway drug to haskell

also, technically, you're really just telling another system how to act. you're always doing that, to some extent, but it's really obvious in that you never have side effects in your code. you can only get subscriptions to get your own code called and send commands to the elm runtime

hacking on this kind of felt like hacking on softcode for a mush, tbh. the number of functions glommed together, but at least the side effects are actually accounted for in a type system here

okay okay, bad code is in this gist:

https://gist.github.com/KitRedgrave/1f5d74386ce3380e845c7068dcaf2b7a

^_^; @bea made me go and write a whole buggy implementation of boids in about ~4h. idk if i want to share the code yet because it's horrible

@Trev @bea 🤷

lol i get the bullet too, i admit it

vaporwave marx-engels reader plz

@Elizafox a lot of container deployments are like that

@shel @Devotedpupa cracked up soon as i saw the kitty leftist walk up