Account of Leonard Ritter (he/him, they/them). Arts, Maths, Metaprogramming & Nonsense; Game Developer at @duangle. paniq in the demoscene. Maintaining Tukan, nudl, Scopes & gently going NOWHERE.
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Last Notes npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR 📺 Lanterns npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR you can literally *feel* zuckerberg pulling the short straw in this whole tech bubble npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR waking up way too early because i have indoor plants, small flies breeding in the soil, coming over because the night is cold, landing on my back because i'm warm, tickling my skin, and SF nematodes to get rid of them are not to be delivered until thursday. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR 1K boosts. 1K! npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…wgz8 @nprofile…l4uj so it's more a hater's meme than truth i see. but that's ok. if the criticism is inactionable, all the better. we wouldn't want to accidentally help them fix their shit would we. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…wgz8 @nprofile…l4uj nothing that wouldn't fit the setting (one was meant to be "a golden forest", and so it is quite yellow). there are also blue ones. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR hello? npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR thinking about using FlatBuffers for my compiler's IR format. anyone using it? npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…e88d also vorher hat man viel mit so mood boards gearbeitet, image search und so. das geht eigentlich immer noch so. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…e88d kannst du vergessen. graphics leads wissen erst was sie wollen wenn sie es vor sich haben. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…q503 haha cabbage oh my god. what's next, wheat? npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…w2m4 i don't even know where to start? where is the entrance / exit? npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR how much water should i drink per day? npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR reichenbach im vogtland, DE npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…sfce hoping you'll fit a Marty PcFly pun anywhere npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR i now no longer see being apolitical as another form of politics. that's like saying "no laws" is a form of law or "no leadership" is a form of leadership. it's not. being apolitical means surrounding your decision to the whims of fate. it means being fine with potential chaos. but it also means not voting, not getting in the way of people coordinating together - because if you were, that would be not a- but anti-political. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR i always thought Nowhere would be a sim, on account of it being an existential game, yet this felt incomplete. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR a good way to look smart is to wear glasses npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…sm7s page blocked says my adblocker npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR The noganist movement. Noganists do not even eat plants, for plants can feel sadness and happiness, contentment and pain - anyone with a heart can see this. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR bioshock: not loving the fact that i can't change the gamma in the remastered version, that i had to restart one level because the game has a spawn bug, and that in another level they have me collect 7 things of three categories, walking in circles over and over trying to find stuff without any indication of where it is. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…24aw @nprofile…qa80 in anthrospace, only you have the narrative power npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…24aw @nprofile…qa80 you just decided that it is. blame no one else. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…24aw @nprofile…qa80 sorry lang barrier. i meant the nongender version of that. condescending? npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…24aw @nprofile…qa80 i didn't make this argument, you just did. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…24aw @nprofile…qa80 would be good to know human fail rates for comparison, to have objectivity. my guess is humans win on accuracy. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR i'm playing bioshock for the first time npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…q503 any fonts i know? npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…q503 no but ... i'm impressed. did you make little letters? npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…q503 @nprofile…faa8 only the best TrueType files were cast here npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR the existence of a minotaurus suggests the existence of a minoursus npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR another #GameMechanic npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…3vpz npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…q503 Shark Tale? npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…q503 A Fish Named Wanda? npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR next meta product, the Smart Hat, which is just a high cowboy hat with a huge camera lens in the front npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR 🐸 npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…c02c d-does it have a screen with pixels, able to show television programmes and news channels? npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…c02c how does a TV mow? npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…w4u3 i cannot believe these actually fit together npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…ck2y [1] if not measured on the surface, would we not also get the equivalent of a line as in [2], i.e. the unit circle? npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…nt5w my harvestmen all nest in spots they find cozy, but are highly unlikely to ever attract flies. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR Split Fiction is fun, but we think the pacing could be better. Too many breathless segments in sequence. Not enough puzzles. So instead, we find ourselves taking breaks early because it's quickly "too much for one evening". npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR if i was a gerbil i would probably not understand my life. i would just live it. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…7q7j you know what goes very well with that? https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@lritter/117003382456043540 npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR he promised her this guy npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR the roaring 20's. the swinging 60's. every decade gets its own adjective. i propose: the dirty 90's. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…4yeg i only know of the movie that's coming out. but in january i didn't know about any of this. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…hz9v i'm a loser baby npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…hz9v thanks for trying but i wasn't kidding. you seem okay but your lesson is wasted on me. i have disassembled the american problem like a clock. looked at all the parts. decided that the people are fine, just that inverse gaslighting is everywhere. y'all are ok, you just distrust each other to a level that makes no sense in a cooperative society. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…hz9v i live in germany so... npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…hz9v "supposed" was related to "exterior" rather than "threat". you are not in nazi germany. history is not repeating. this is a situation unique to the united states. your enemy is you. the red blue divide-and-conquer goes through families and workplaces. it compounds and it is being exploited. do not let the cynics and nutpickers play you. stop warring and build bridges. all this could end tomorrow - and maybe it will. midterms are up. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…hz9v whereas fearmongering in public is noble and valiant npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…c02c oh right. the astronauts on the ISS too. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR occasionally farting in bed so my wife thinks i'm asleep npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…c02c well what if my worldview is really cool npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…c02c can't sleep either eh? npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…hz9v if they want me dead, why don't they just kill me? npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…hz9v @nprofile…e9wg who is "they" npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR sylvia got me a box of chocolate candy and a sous vide vacuumizer for my birthday because i once said "i'd like to eat a single chocolate once in a while but then how do i preserve the remaining candy?" npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR Smart Home Tech Support does *almost* have the perfect acronym. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…atgf and, which is the craziest bit, i can resell them and recover most of the cost! npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR all seasons of eureka npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…gs3w thank you 🫡 npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR but frankly, if we're looking purely at cost, i doubt that growing tomatos is worth it. they need 2 to 3 months. the buckets themselves amortize, but i need to water them every day. i had to buy compost, perlite and coir. i also bought tomato fertilizer. there's a consumer tax on all of this. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR #gardenlog npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR I feel like I have to tie a bow around my life's work somehow, so I would not only have to be thankful for what I could consume. I have to Consolidate. Prune. Edit. Find closure. Prepare a hand-off. Ship it, and then, with some luck, watch it blossom elsewhere. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR I guess it is easy to get swept up in this embarrassment of riches, everyday something new to discover, gifts of such persuasive power that not only does it inspire you to plan with boundless ambition, but also engorges your appetite. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR My mum, who is approaching her 80s, recently told me in an e-mail conversation that she finds the secret to joy and contentment more important than "you are the prisoner, the warden, the cell and the key", an insight from a 70s self-help book which I discovered in her library, but whose title escapes me. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR bdbc npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…gj9s had the same idea. i think it's still viable to go against this, because in scale, human psychology still matters. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…mvvp i wish it were that easy. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…mvvp the context is red-blue tribalism, not "tribalism itself". npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR "The thing that breaks tribalism is inherently a small-scale, relationship-mediated intervention, and the thing that built the tribalism is inherently a mass-scale, relationship-free one. You can't fight the second with a scaled-up version of the first: it just becomes more of the second." npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…2guw @nprofile…jtp0 it was a *hypothesis*, now it is theory. that is exactly jürgen's point. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR me at 25 hearing this for the first time: i will *never* be in group 3 npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR "I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR The challenge of computer language design, it is said, is to connect earth and heaven: earth being the machine language and heaven being the lambda calculus. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR 1. "apps have too many freedoms. we need to sandbox apps." npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…22w0 watched first episode of GITS. it's very cyberpunk. nice. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR 🎞 Masters of the Universe (2026) npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR crosspost npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR so when i make salted popcorn, it explains the large salt crystals i find in the pot afterwards; and it's indeed both the corn and the salt exploding against the lid. a double decrepitation. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR aha. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR chemical observation: npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…24aw evidently, the world belongs to the brats. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…24aw well, in principle, me too. but in this case, it had already exploded on bluesky so it didn't matter what source i picked. i just took the top result, which happened to be some obscure bilingual blog ;) npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…24aw it's self-confirming so you will never see it fail. it will fail you, but you won't notice ;) npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…24aw these simple selective heuristics will increasingly fail you. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…24aw in this case the headline is correct. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR guess OpenAI is cooked, there is no way they'll be able to generate positive publicit- npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR you don't hear the term "post-AI" enough npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…jqg9 thank you. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR this event was the reason why atlantic records canceled the release of abba's "gimme! gimme! gimme! (a man after midnight)" in the states. npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR #outerwilds #s0up npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…e88d machst du da urlaub oder ziehst du dort hin? npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…e9wg hehe :) npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…e88d sardinien! npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR @nprofile…e88d wo um gottes willen bist du npub1xxe5vfe2p36pmknmgyzd2kerp4wn4mxtza76mgne9ka3sx55jh3smdn05t LR magenta TV bought exclusive rights to broadcast all 104 worldcup 2030 games in germany.
