Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org

You know that feeling in (older) Bethesda games where you finish the intro and step out into the massive beautiful world full of possibilities and you just feel a sense of magical wonder?

If you want that feeling in real life, get cataract surgery. Stepping out my front door this morning was quite a breathtaking experience.

Since I only have one eye done at this point, I'm able to easily compare the two and I made this mock-up, for those who have never experienced it:

Couldn't find my cat after 15 minutes of looking for him.

Then I remembered that I only made this bed with two pillows.

Prototyping a #boardgame idea with #3DPrinting #MiniaturePaint #SuperGlue and #Magnets !

Wow, this is a shockingly blunt and factual description of Trump from a major news source.

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/07/1217716577/republican-presidential-candidates-january-6-elections-democracy?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=news&utm_source=press.coop

Somebody's ready for the weekend.

I'm really enjoying #gamedev in #godot.

The theme system built into the engine made it really easy for me to create a dark mode in my game!

You can always tell when someone takes #GunSafety seriously. Sometimes they even break character because handling guns safely is so important that it becomes an automatic reflex.

Note: Drew Carey delivered his line seamlessly while performing this maneuver, but then again, he is a former Marine.

Strongly recommending the game #HighFleet.

I usually hate anything resembling a "bullet hell" game and sidescrollers aren't usually my preference, but this game is so singular and unique it needs to be experienced.

The premise is that you're in charge of a small fleet of gargantuan black-smoke-belching rocket-powered mountains of machines to run a guerilla war against a far superior force.

The graphics and sound design are superb, but the game itself is a masterclass on proper scoping. Everything that's included plays a vital part in making the game what it is and there's nothing extraneous.

The game is two-layer, much like XCOM. Half of it is frenetic dogfights between these massive rocket ships and the other half is a very challenging strategy/story layer about building your resistance.

Anyway, if you're a #gamedev and you want to see an example of an indie game done right, don't sleep on this one.

Was roughhousing with my dog this morning and after a brief accident, I now look like a video game character who just defeated a wyvern.

Some spooky shit going on in my backyard tonight.

"Reveal" is an interesting choice.

Made a map tonight for a game concept:

Well, that's disappointing.

Look, I get that marginalized communities are scared of the increase in far-right and outright fascist rhetoric, but enacting fascist laws to fight fascists is never going to be a good fucking idea.

The answer is not giving the government (which has fascists in it!) more power. The answer is #FreeSpeech and making sure that our arguments for inclusivity are more convincing than their arguments for hate.

Need to figure out how to get this metric lower...

Okay, #AI has become shockingly good at corporate logo creation (other than spelling/text).

Which actually makes sense since that's a vacuous field that has been nearly devoid of real creativity for a few decades now.

#Disney didn't need to kill all those #lemmings to try to capture footage of them shuffling mindlessly off a cliff.

They could have just filmed modern #journalists instead.

I was a little nervous going in, but today I ACED my Private Pilot Airplane written test from the FAA with a 92%!!