Julian @ julianh @lemm.ee

Game dev and Linux user

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I probably should, I do have a blog but don't use it as much as I should.

I've considered it, although it'd be a situation where it would probably just be the game code without assets (sounds, textures, etc.), since those are under different licenses. Also, it's not really a "living" game like most FOSS games - once it's released it will pretty much be in its final form. So if I make the code public it'll mostly just be for reference.

Half-Life and Portal had a huge impact on my life. In high school I was in the source modding community, so I'm probably too familiar with valve's engines and games. I made a few mods, the most well known being hl2 classic, and it kinda got me into game development.

But needless to say, it's a fantastic series. I had a chance to play alyx and it was nuts. It's crazy how influential this series and its technology is on gaming as a whole.

And a fun fact: quake had a feature where level designers could make a light flicker with a pattern of brightnesses. There were some premade patterns you could select as well. These made it into the goldsrc engine, then source, then source 2 - so Alyx, Quake, HL1, HL2, Portal, Portal 2, and more have lights that flicker in the exact same way.

The thing with pushing stuff and it moving really fast was actually a bug in the steam release. It finally got fixed last November for the 25th anniversary update.

Oh weird, I suppose that makes sense for debian though where the goal is to be stable rather than be up-to-date.

huh, I've never heard that term before. Idk if that makes the name ableist though, since it clearly means something else, unlike the switch from master to main for git, where that name was used in the same way as the offensive context. Also the word "gimp" has another more well-known meaning... which I guess isn't that much better. Yeah idk maybe they should change the name lol.

What web browser requires you to add a repo to install it on Linux

How is the name ableist?

They're not interactive but Spec Ops: The Line's loading screens stick out to be. They start out as pretty standard tips and lore info, but then starts giving you stuff like the definition of ptsd, a fun fact about increasing suicide rates in the military, or just telling you you're not a good person. Occasionally the normal loading screen is entirely replaced with a ghostly image.

You can get a really cool, coherent story of any length you want by writing one or hiring a writer.

I use a switch pro controller regularly on mint, so it should work. I believe support got merged into the kernel a while back.

If not, joycond also works (although it's a bit janky in my experience): https://github.com/DanielOgorchock/joycond

Do not listen to the polls. Vote no matter what.

Tbf I think the way its federation works is inherently incompatible.

I could be entirely wrong though

Making this comment was literally more effort then it would have taken to change the setting.

The war is already happening regardless of what the us does. Would you rather we just sit back and let Russia destroy ukraine?

I don't think the propeties of semi conductors would be the biggest issue.

Pixar made finding nemo, not disney. It was released years before the acquisition.

Wow! Imagine if China implemented a policy to prevent people from having kids, or had a giant monopolistic corporation that didn't care about green energy! That would be horrible!

Normalize vectors.

These have both saved my ass on numerous occasions. Btrfs especially is pretty amazing.