ghosttie

Coder, gamedev, writer

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2026-11-06 18:46:43 GMT

I vote instead of Thanksgiving we do Halloween 2: The Hallowing

2026-11-06 14:58:08 GMT

I've never seen a doornail, maybe the saying should be "as elusive as a doornail"

2026-11-06 01:40:14 GMT

lol no
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/117/566/938/179/579/033/original/5ceca37f216e8c20.png

2026-11-05 16:58:08 GMT

Drop phone and run

2026-11-04 22:04:20 GMT

What does mastodon think about the Xbox Nano Controller?
https://www.xbox.com/en-US/accessories/controllers/xbox-nano-controller

2026-11-04 18:32:38 GMT

Several times today I've been asked how a feature in our product works and my answer has been "I don't know, I'll have to look at the code"
Not sure if this is a memory thing or because I keep getting bounced to different projects

2026-11-03 02:54:03 GMT

@fediwrapped_en

2026-11-01 14:38:40 GMT

Game design note: streaks aren't fun. They're just the stress of trying to keep one and the disappointment of losing it

2026-11-01 11:43:00 GMT

When a developer who has been using LLMs says "this one's on me" it makes you wonder whether you're taking to the organ grinder or the monkey
(this metaphor may not work in the 21st century because nobody's seen an organ grinder in about a hundred years)

2026-10-31 21:41:44 GMT

Not enough AP

2026-10-31 19:24:39 GMT

Game that plays a high pitched fan noise all the time

2026-10-31 18:12:13 GMT

I have the very uncomfortable awareness that every time my heart beats that's one less heartbeat left, and all I'm doing with that time is sitting here being uncomfortably aware
There goes another one

2026-10-29 14:22:39 GMT

Is there a German word for the lonely feeling of being the only person in the room wearing a mask?

2026-10-29 11:04:59 GMT

If you die in space you get an orbituary

2026-10-28 14:58:20 GMT

Why isn't there a fork of GIMP that just changes the name?

2026-10-27 19:31:13 GMT

No. Bad. Incorrect.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/117/514/527/431/936/634/original/d80f0574e789c2ad.png

2026-10-27 15:47:14 GMT

When $child says "that's so 90s" it means something completely different to when I say it

2026-10-27 14:35:32 GMT

Birthdays are kind of backwards - instead of people giving me things I want, I have to give people the impression they've given me things I want

2026-10-25 13:43:20 GMT

Pet peeve: in a game when you can see the individual sprites in a smoke trail

2026-10-24 00:43:00 GMT

I've always thought that Angel by Massive Attack has the "door is ajar" sound in it
How crazy am I?

2026-10-24 00:25:34 GMT

https://youtu.be/P-fCvqxzrDc?is=-i5rDP6NB8rV5bNb

2026-10-23 21:48:33 GMT

I just wanted to say, your momma's a nullish coalescing operator
So there

2026-10-22 22:56:06 GMT

OK I just thought of another reason why naming my programming language -1 is cool: the tag line could be "Now you've got -1 problems"
#-1

2026-10-22 00:43:58 GMT

I get a good view up here when I park my high horse on the moral high ground

2026-10-21 23:58:07 GMT

Why've software vulnerabilities got to be so critical? Can't we get a supportive vulnerability for once?

2026-10-21 20:02:45 GMT

I hate PHP so hard

2026-10-21 16:05:55 GMT

Favorite art? Statistical average.
Favorite music? Statistical average.
Favorite writing? Statistical average.
Favorite game? Statistical average.
Favorite application? Statistical average.

2026-10-20 22:59:58 GMT

Don't forget to tell your mother I love her

2026-10-20 22:54:35 GMT

I hope that nobody notices I'm really one human in a trenchcoat

2026-10-20 22:29:42 GMT

I recognize the impulse to create a jig to make sure I cut the oat bars into exactly even pieces as unhealthy, and I resist it

2026-10-19 19:32:45 GMT

I wonder if anyone's committed enough to correctness that they call it an AT machine rather than an ATM machine

2026-10-18 22:33:55 GMT

Eat recycled food. It's good for the environment and okay for you.

2026-10-18 19:37:41 GMT

This hydrogen peroxide isn't working - I may have to upgrade to hydrogen dioxide

2026-10-17 14:08:34 GMT

(every day) we can all have some bad news, as a treat

2026-10-17 00:35:40 GMT

Moscow is named after the famous Siberian Bryophyte Buffalo
#LowQualityFacts

2026-10-16 20:36:57 GMT

Today's weird bug in production was caused by non-breaking spaces instead of spaces in some of the data
Why?
How?
Who knows!

2026-10-16 14:19:07 GMT

Bad features that get added to a product are malfeatures, and adding them is malfeasance

2026-10-15 15:45:53 GMT

Does anyone have a recommendation for Android? I have a feeling that a lot of them are sketchy

2026-10-14 15:56:07 GMT

or I could just update the packages and not burn down a rainforest
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/117/439/696/227/263/743/original/a0f87c601580e67f.png

2026-10-13 21:14:21 GMT

Grimly keeping my monitor scaling at 100% as monitors get bigger and resolutions get higher and everything gets smaller and my eyes get older

2026-10-12 11:21:30 GMT

Oh, just one more thing - happy Columbo day
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/117/427/665/767/950/582/original/88d51fdf5447280f.png

2026-10-12 00:51:22 GMT

Sunderfolk is really good

2026-10-11 23:09:55 GMT

If you pee in the shape of a four leaf clover then urine luck

2026-10-10 13:36:50 GMT

This is fun!

2026-10-10 12:35:20 GMT

What number of pixels would you need for a pixel font to be able to do any language?
The pico-8 font shows that you can (barely) do English in 3x5, but what would you need to do Hanzi, Arabic, and Devanagari?
#GameDev #Font #PixelFont

2026-10-09 19:32:07 GMT

They're on to me
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/117/412/612/391/157/430/original/24bdc31bd6883840.png

2026-10-09 17:27:25 GMT

Couldn't remember the word nosebleed so I came up with "bloodshot nose"

2026-10-09 15:47:34 GMT

Free to pay

2026-10-09 01:10:40 GMT

Shut down anyway

2026-10-08 21:38:20 GMT

Apparently paying for an Azure support contract just means I have to talk to another damn LLM, except every exchange is an email so it's 1000% slower

2026-10-07 21:53:42 GMT

Why must I deckbuild roguelikely

2026-10-07 19:26:49 GMT

The number of people in my life who don't belong to That Cursed Machine is low and dwindling

2026-10-07 16:41:07 GMT

People need to stop messaging me just "wtf"
I don't know wtf, why don't you tell me

2026-10-07 02:09:10 GMT

Your mileage may vary

2026-10-05 20:37:58 GMT

Wow I love all of these words
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/117/390/219/104/525/381/original/ac5e363ed54548b9.png

2026-10-05 17:07:26 GMT

Does anyone else drink plain hot water or is it just me?

2026-10-05 11:09:16 GMT

This statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.

2026-10-05 00:52:42 GMT

Dear everyone on Mastodon: I will never know what your LB (last boost) was - it was mixed in with everyone else's posts. Why not use a quote instead?

2026-10-03 15:02:34 GMT

I've got to stop reading such grim books - they're unsuccessful escapism

2026-10-02 23:49:17 GMT

Wisdom of the crows. Madness of the crows. Crowsourcing.

2026-10-02 15:47:18 GMT

If any people younger than me want to know what living through the cold war was like, watch this video

2026-10-01 18:19:40 GMT

It's horrifying how many people are happy to "put aside ethical considerations"
It was bad enough finding out in 2020 how many people would rather kill someone then be inconvenienced by a mask, but now it feels like the majority of people just have no morals at all

2026-10-01 01:55:02 GMT

Trying to fall asleep, and I'm very aware that underneath my eyelids, my eyes are wide open

2026-09-29 00:57:22 GMT

This feels weird #My9Games
https://my9games.net/en/share/d322df61-fc92-4fc7-8b45-f6b4c20690d8
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/117/351/595/641/831/477/original/766fd17379066648.png

2026-09-27 14:39:53 GMT

Rule #1 of making TV shows: if you accidentally make a good one, cancel it immediately

2026-09-26 15:54:18 GMT

The emperor's clothes have gone rogue

2026-09-26 12:48:37 GMT

And did the Countenance Divine,
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these dark Satanic data centers?

2026-09-26 00:34:13 GMT

I wonder if people who believe in reincarnating ever just give up on their body and go "oh well I'll try again next time"

2026-09-26 00:14:40 GMT

Another Friday night pushing to prod

2026-09-25 20:55:10 GMT

noclip into my heart

2026-09-25 11:35:21 GMT

Continue to cancel

2026-09-24 23:14:06 GMT

I wonder if LLMs encourage people to invent weird terminology or whether people always had weird terminology in their heads just waiting for an excuse to come out
I always feel like I'm being gaslighted because I should know what the deluge of confident words I've never heard before are

2026-09-22 19:52:19 GMT

There are folders I sort by date ascending and folders I sort by date descending, and I cannot explain why

2026-09-20 18:53:56 GMT

We should start a "no bailouts" campaign now, so when the AI bros come asking for one every politician will already know that if they vote for one they won't get re-elected

2026-09-09 09:52:18 GMT

When a corpo allows you to react to a post with emoji, but only positive ones

2026-09-06 16:05:47 GMT

They should reboot Lethal Weapon at a low age rating with Non-lethal Weapon

2026-09-06 14:26:29 GMT

If you do something a lot then you get better at it
But also, if you do something a lot then that part of your body wears out

2026-09-06 13:34:59 GMT

Thinking about a name for my programming language that's consistent with my perverse sense of humor, and how about -1?
Difficult to talk about and impossible to Google
It's a terrible idea, but the longer I think about it the more I like it

2026-09-06 01:06:12 GMT

Pet peeve: voice lines in video games that keep playing after your character dies

2026-09-05 22:54:03 GMT

I like a good non-anthromorphic robot head
#TheMandalorianAndGrogu
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/117/220/863/104/907/024/original/b357f60d7b979f78.jpg

2026-09-05 19:02:21 GMT

I really like Ultrapool, except I'm really bad at it and I don't enjoy playing it. Wait, maybe I don't like Ultrapool

2026-09-05 18:22:19 GMT

I don't *need* to write my own programming language but I *want* to write my own programming language, and it's getting harder not to

2026-09-05 10:18:11 GMT

If they used the same naming convention for horse crossbreeds as for dog crossbreeds, you'd have thoroughponies, clydesbreeds, and draftaloosa

2026-08-29 20:55:11 GMT

A variant of the Zombies, Run! app for Linux users called Windows, Run!

2026-08-28 23:16:11 GMT

Effective Altruism implies Ineffective Egoism

2026-08-28 14:03:43 GMT

I guess it's not stable anymore?
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/117/173/491/161/757/888/original/f3bc0f64bd1ea942.png

2026-08-27 23:28:33 GMT

Shouldn't this be the part of capitalism where someone comes along with a good search engine or a RAM factory and eats the lunch of the idiots?

2026-08-25 13:22:04 GMT

The sign of a successful society is when everyone's miserable

2026-08-25 00:16:55 GMT

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@nprofile…v5q3 AI has made 10 billion for nothing look sensible by comparison

2026-08-24 17:58:01 GMT

It sucks being the only person who wants things to be correct

2026-08-23 22:01:21 GMT

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@nprofile…pfuj it's an investment scam, it doesn't actually have to make sense

2026-08-23 21:16:43 GMT

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@nprofile…7493 Patrol Boat, River

2026-08-23 19:12:36 GMT

If you own a tourist attraction on a cliff you have to name it "The Last Resort", I didn't make the rules

2026-08-23 18:34:47 GMT

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@nprofile…xl60 Canadian coffee?

2026-08-23 18:30:49 GMT

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@nprofile…glhu I have no idea how to get people with executive function problems to get things done, so the best I've been able to do is increase the estimate of how long some team members will take to get things done

2026-08-23 18:22:06 GMT

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@nprofile…yrxm whenever they ask me "how often does that happen?" I didn't know, so I keep track of it from then on but they never ask again

2026-08-23 02:03:08 GMT

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@nprofile…gdwa child was playing it windowed and I went into settings and changed it to full screen and they said thank goodness, so maybe he just doesn't know how to change it

2026-08-23 01:20:59 GMT

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@nprofile…8q5e reminds me of Mike Mignola's style

2026-08-21 19:08:07 GMT

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@nprofile…h2cr great, now I've got to check people's ears for lights

2026-08-21 18:28:17 GMT

Is it masking to not making this face 😫 whenever I'm talking to someone?