Derick Florian (he/him) @derickflorian@qoto.org

I'm new here and looking to follow some cool game development folks. I myself am making a retro fps called Hellscreen but I also do little game experiments including lots of blender stuff, all of which I like to share.

If you like what you see above, follow, and if you really like what you see, wishlist on Hellscreen!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1410090/Hellscreen/

#indiegame #gamedev #blender #vfx #gaming

What else can you expect on my feed? #Music especially #BlackMusic & #IndigenousMusic. #Books of all sorts, but especially #SmallPress & #IndiePress publications by #BIPOC writers. I’m a fan of #Zines & #Magazines. #Weather including #ExtremeWeather #Calgary #Chinooks #HailStorms #Thunderstorms & occasional #funnel. Some #abpoli #cdnpoli politics. I’m a #writing #instructor so will post #events & #workshops (maintained alongside publications in linktree). And I like to frig around, so jokes ❤️

People ask me why I spend so much time helping others with Linux when the ask me questions here on Twitter/Mastodon or on Discord and my answer is always the same:

Because I too have needed help at times. By helping when I can, I pass on that kindness.

Some advise for new peeps on Mastodon:

The people you're following would generally *love* to follow you back IF you:
* Post an #Introduction toot and pin it
* Fill out your profile's bio
* Put in a profile picture

Whenever I get a follow request and there's no profile pic, no bio, no intro, and no toots posted yet in general, I don't follow back, because I don't know anything about that person. It's like being introduced to a person wearing a bag over their head. ;)

#Boost please :D

I made a chiptune music visualizer world for #VRChat where all of the effects are driven by the raw data written to the sound chips. Some of you have seen my dev logs about this... It is finally released today with full PCVR, desktop, and Quest compatibility.

World link: https://vrchat.com/home/launch?worldId=wrld_36349389-4795-46ab-aded-71d73208d3fa

Python 3.11 introduces new features that make it possible to raise and handle multiple unrelated exceptions. My talk at PyConUK explains how these new features work and goes over some of the design decisions we made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uARIj9eAZcQ

First real toot so I want to be really clear:
Black lives do matter
Human rights extend to Trans rights
Gender is not binary
White/Christian nationalism/supremacy has no place in society

"Ask a programming question on the Web" is sometimes as difficult as doing the actual programming. Reducing a problem in complex real-world systems to an clean, minimal, answerable, reproducible example can take serious efforts.

Boss: "What have you done today?"
Programmer: "I asked a programming question online."

Rural private network with TIP's OpenWifi

@derickflorian I guess this is as close to me being a greybeard. It was one of the first two #Unix/Unix-like books that I got. The other was for #Solaris administration. #BSD #FreeBSD

I create open source robots as a hobby to inspire kids into doing (rather than just studying) STEM. Here's where I've got to with my K9 robot dog: https://youtu.be/tn8NwvOmrxw

Hello Mastodon,

I'm a software engineer who has lived in Dallas, Texas, USA my entire life until last year my wife, daughter, and I moved to Copenhagen, Denmark.

In my free time (when I have it) I play video games, board games, research flat earth conspiracy theories, watch other people play video games, learn Danish, and take on side projects usually involving data visualization. I also might talk your ear off about how cool the submarine fiber optic cables are.

My real name is Kevin. Welcome to Mastodon. Keep your arms and legs in the vehicle at all times and enjoy the ride.

Wattle #ECDA4A
Congo Brown #613B3F

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on a podcast about mastodon lmao, someone has never explored the fediverse very deep

Hey all, I encourage you to donate to @dansup who is building Pixelfed.

Pixelfed completely replaces Instagram, and has some *big* improvements:

1. Unlike Instagram, you can upload photos through a web browser
2. Unlike Instagram, you can look at all photos and videos without being nagged to log in
3. Unlike Instagram, you can receive updates from Mastodon, Pleroma, and Misskey

I love Pixelfed so much, I've been running an instance (peerverse.space) for 7 months!

https://www.patreon.com/dansup

i've always wondered whether you can procedually generate a game storyline, like

you write a whole bunch of plot snippets and character traits, and then you just combine it to make up a story

Mastodon has been sucking away all my time, it's worse than reddit!

(which is great, means there's a ton of interesting people here)