Notices by Spindley Q Frog (spindleyq@mastodon.social), page 5

I have taught my son that opening up the inspector on any webpage and adding "contenteditable" to the body tag allows him to freely type the word "butts" anywhere on that webpage and I have a strong suspicion that this knowledge will shortly spread to his entire school

@theoutrider *checks* yep, correct

@theoutrider cursed

@heathcliff heathcliff's back baby

@RobF I often think about how the huge shitty push to prove that games weren’t kid stuff left actual kids in the lurch

There’s a Commodore 64 game called “Where’s My Bones” and someone should write a book about old computer games that are actually shitposts https://archive.org/details/d64_Wheres_My_Bones_1984_Interceptor_Micros

@ajroach42 mostly Slade; the logic is implemented with a zdoom decorate script to define the custom tree and make punches ineffective, and an ACS script to control the player's starting weapons. Slade integrates with ACC for compiling ACS scripts, which is nice.

aaah I came up with a cool idea that fixes a bunch of story problems I was having. I wrote a _bunch_ of new stuff for the game today (in comparison to... literally any other time I've worked on the story)

might actually finish this thing someday after all

@ajroach42 I made a little gzdoom mod where you cut down trees with a chainsaw. https://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/11499

Added the ability to choose between conversational options / implement dialog trees. Hard to believe I’ve gone this long without it!

@six was trying to transform
public enum Thing {
A(x -> x != 0);
Thing(Predicate<Integer> test) {...}
}
into
public enum Thing {
A(s -> "foo".equals(s), x -> x != 0);
Thing(Predicate<String> test1, Predicate<Integer> test2) {...}
}
but Eclipse's autocomplete logic chokes on this invalid intermediate state:
A(s -> "foo".x -> x != 0);

@six I correctly guessed the particular convoluted invalid syntax that was giving it a conniption, added a comma after where I was about to insert code to force the parser to give up earlier, and it calmed down

@0xf0 thank you for saying so! There's still lots I want to cover with it, I will definitely be putting together more episodes at some point. I should figure out a way of balancing some time with my all-consuming 286 gamedev project....

@theoutrider did you ever see the video where he describes making a documentary with Prince and had the gall to say to Prince's face, "you don't really believe that white people stole rock and roll from black people, do you?"

@six ohhhh of course it is. I had forgotten but of course.

@oolongstains I only recently bought my Saturn and literally the only games I own are the Choice Cuts video demo CD and Feng-Shui Master which I don't have a region-unlocking method to play

@oolongstains this is the first I've heard of this device! Guess I'm opening up my Saturn tonight