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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Last night I turned down a #gamedev opportunity to work with an artist. He let it slip early that he was transphobic, and wouldn't put up with any discussion about it. Probably a good call on my part, but... could really use an artist to work with.

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Tasha @toshyou.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

NO media 1000s are marching in DC to defend voting rights; 90 orgs signed on, Reuters sent photographers, but local media Bernie Sanders, AOC and Martin Luther King III attended Wa Post buried it A Black-led march is visible in DC only after somebody else reports it Repost the march they buried

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I saged my house today People don't get how & especially why one would sage a house How: Find a branch with a lot of leaves & a long stem. Cut it & slide it along the edges & corners of your ceiling. Why: It cleans the cobwebs! Leaves are good at collecting them. You can toss the stick when done ->

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

First results of my heightmap system for my #gamedev project Settlers & Warlords. It's... umm, a bit much. Guess there's lots more work to do, even from this point

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I'm still working to get height mapping working in my #gamedev project Settlers & Warlords. But I've just realized something: this won't work for swamp biomes, or ocean biomes. Guess I'll worry about that later. I'll finish getting this heightmap system working. Players can deal with swamps on hills

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

At last, I finally have heightmap data generating in my #gamedev project Settlers & Warlords. Now I need to apply it to the actual game. Which is going to be hard. Right now, a player's position is decided before the map is generated. I'll have to generate the map before I can place the player now

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I'm seeing #teachers with kids who have never learned how to read, or they struggle with math; and I think I know why. Hooked on Phonics was such a big success with schools, and businesses found an opportunity to sell new curriculum to school administrators for big bucks. All you had to do was ->

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

There's no reason to believe that Epstein's operation isn't still going on

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Doing #gamedev to try & get heightmaps in my game Settlers & Warlords. This is using a Diamond-Square algorithm. It's not associated with my game, but with this much working, I can apply it to my game

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This week in #gamedev I've been working on a structure that lets players to dig through rocks. Now that it's outputting items, I need to add a wooden crane, to get the boulders out (they'll be too big to move by hand). I gotta decide if a pivot point can be made out of sticks... or just go with it

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

We're cooking meats,now! This is from my #gamedev project Settlers & Warlords, a game similar to both Factorio and Dwarf Fortress. Players start out with 4 workers, a bunch of land, and nothing else, climbing a robust tech tree and interacting with a fantasy world. Hunting allows access to ->

A snippet of my game Settlers & Warlords that runs on a website, only showing the details of the campfire structure. It reads
Campfire
Fire is man's ultimate tool, even in primitive times. Not only does it provide warmth and light, it cooks food, unlocking nutrients that would otherwise be inaccessible to the body. Both of these advantages gives humans an edge over other animals.
Heat: 353
Fuel: 1
Cook Progress: 18
Task: Cook Meats Can't work: Fire Stable
Ingredients Needed
Small Firewood x1
Medium Firewood x1
Large Firewood x1
Raw Meat x1
Change Recipe
Delete Structure
Structure items
Raw Meat x4
Small Firewood x4
Tile Items
Cooked Meat x2

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Oh, of course Trump would pay for this by cutting aids to poor families. Trump doesn't understand what people do when they have no legal options to feed themselves

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I've had a copy of Doom II for ages, but I've only recently got a chance to play The Plutonia Experiment (it can be played as a mod, with the help of UZ Doom). Plutonia just... hits different than Doom II. Levels are built to place monsters where they cause the most pain, while preventing you ->

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It's the 7th of July, but our outside thermostat says it's negative 40 outside (it does that when it needs a new battery)

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Ouch... So, in my #gamedev of Settlers & Warlords, I'm trying to set up a Hunting Post, so workers can take a spear and hike into the wilderness & try to catch something to eat. Here is what the post looks like. The plan is to pick a point 100 tiles away from the building, plot a path there, ->

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I think there are far too many people who don't understand this part (#2). You can whine & complain all day about businesses raising prices and lowering quality in their product. But IF YOU STILL BUY IT, your complaints mean nothing because they're still making money off you. #corporategreed

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I think I've realized something: I'm trying to take over the world. But I can't take over this world, it's too hard. Instead, I'm making my own world in a game, with as much detail as I can muster - and then I'll take it over. In #gamedev you can do that

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Seriously; all it would take is for Trump to actually listen to someone who's an expert on the subject. But no. That's too much for Trump. It would make him look weak to follow someone else's advice. So now he's guaranteed to look weak by having no way to fix the Reflecting Pool, a mess he caused

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY THIS HERE,WAS,FOR MANY OF US, THE CELEBRATION WE NEEDED,AND A REMINDER, NOT TO GIVE UP HOPE ! THANK YOU, MICHELLE, AND PRESIDENT OBAMA...🎊🎉✨️ 👇👇👇

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I'm starting to think the whole purpose of the Iran war was to drain America's Strategic Oil Reserves. Trump couldn't get his hands on it directly, so he had to force us to use it

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

At last, I can finally dry clay bricks under a Thatch Roof! Now we can... umm.. well, maybe work on hunting? That's not related to clay, tho. I need mining, so I need to dig through dirt... and mapping out ores is hard, so I'm still avoiding it. But... Guess this is what happens in #gamedev

A portion of the screen in my game, Settlers & Warlords, showing the right-side panel. This shows details of the selected tile, which is the Open Dryer structure. In this structure there are two Wet Clay Bricks being dried. They take about 2.5 minutes but up to 10 can be dried concurrently

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Well, that was an easy fix. Turns out I had already planned to manage structure IDs, I even had a field in the database for it. I just hadn't... applied it yet. #gamedev bsky.app/profile/mind...

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I'm making good #gamedev progress with my Settlers & Warlords game. But I have been waiting for my workers to send items to a new structure, but they never do. The game even gives me a reason: the structure doesn't need any items to work. But that's not right. It's also referencing the wrong ->

A screen-grab of the Console Log (a debugging tool) in Google Chromium, showing the ID of all the structures. Note that ID 43 exists in the list. Also shown is the value of game.lastStructureId: 42. It should be 43, I don't know why it is 42.

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I was listening to a song today (A Lifetime Rolls By by annasara Rework - give it a listen if you can), and got thinking: In this country we've had millions of people go thru college, invest their time and savings to get a degree. Only to graduate and discover the job markets they're skilled in ->

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I think the biggest issue we had as a country was that once politicians got into office, we had no way to remove them until the next election cycle. They can go 4 to 6 years working against every promise they made when campaigning, lining their own pockets, and all we can do is vote in someone new.

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I finally fixed my Blender issues late last night & was looking forward to getting home & do more #gamedev on my Settlers & Warlords. I only had to export the model to .gltf format so I can use it in Javascript. Simple... but it doesn't work. All I can determine is my Blender version needs ->

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I've been doing #gamedev on my Settlers & Warlords game, and it's come to the point where I need a new 3D model. Having switched from Windows to Linux in October, I hadn't installed Blender yet; I didn't expect any issues. But after trying to use it, it started lagging bad & then closing itself. ->

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I'm trying to continue doing the #gamedev of my Settlers & Warlords game. But now I suddenly need to figure out how to manage online verses offline players. And I don't know what best to do. I could use some input from others on this

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I've been playing Heretic lately (from the 90's that used the Doom engine). The final boss fight is very unique. The boss's name is D'Sparil, a serpent rider wizard. He starts out riding a big green lizard that shoots fireballs at you (more fireballs as his health gets lower). When you kill him, ->

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 26/04/2026

MAGA accounts tweet in unison about the need for a White House ballroom following WHCD incident

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I feel the need to share this, because it's important imgur.com/gallery/mamd... The link there is valid. The GOP want to literally make it illegal to disagree with them. Yes, this goes against the freedom of speech. But will that really stop them? They'll be deporting thousands before the courts ->

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"The MAMDANI Act" - Fuck the GOP... - Album on Imgur

Discover the magic of the internet at Imgur, a community powered entertainment destination. Lift your spirits with funny jokes, trending memes, entertaining gifs, inspiring stories, viral videos, and ...

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I don't have anyone else to ask, so I'll ask here. My wife is needing more iron in her diet (pills don't help her), and I've been told broccoli has a lot of iron. My mom says raw broccoli will give you more iron than cooked broccoli. But iron is an element. Cooking something with iron -> #nutrition

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I had a bad dream last night: I was at work trying to log into my computer. And Windows kept auto-completing the text, while I was typing it, as if it was some AI bot that thought it knew what I wanted to type. Needless to say, it was impossible to enter the correct password.

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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

We elected you to Congress to be a check on executive power, not a spectator. You swore an oath to defend the Constitution, not to protect a man who threatens democracy, threatens war, and threatens the future. Stop hiding behind voters. Stop punting responsibility. DO YOUR JOBS.👇

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I found this video & wanted to share imgur.com/gallery/osso... Even though it's from July, he has a good point. Our political system is rigged to work for the ultra-rich in this country, and people voted for Trump because he promised to attack the system. Except, Trump works only for himself, not us

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Ossoff spits some truth - Album on Imgur

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Some might say I have a strange taste in music... but I grew up in band. I like to find music from movies and instrumental stuff, some of it can be very good. A song I recently found is called Meeting the Goddess, by Kyle Preston (give it a listen if you can). It gives me... ideas for creatures. ->

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I wanted to share this post of hope. imgur.com/gallery/marg... Minneapolis may be up against a great threat, but they are banning together. Whether Democrats help them or not, they'll get through it.

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Margaret Killjoy gors to Minneapolis

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

People keep trying to justify ICE's shooting of Good by saying she was going to run over an agent. That's irrelevant. After she was shot, they did not administer aid to her, and refused to let professionals administer aid. They denied her a chance to live. THAT is the crime we should talk about.

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

We need to take direct action against ICE - as soon as possible. We need storm into our state capitals & demand that our representatives 1) ban ICE from our state, & 2) arrest any ICE agents that don't leave in a week. #standup #abolishICE #MN #TimWalz This is OUR state, and OUR representatives! ->

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Had a weird dream last night. Trump was around his team & was like "You all know what'll happen if you don't do as I ask" So I'm like "Why don't you tell us what'll happen?" "I'll get them primaried" "That's down to the people to decide. Not you" "Then I'll make a scandal" "So you'll lie to them. ->

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I watched this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJqL... about #windows11 and it made a good point: Microsoft is selling to big businesses and corporations (who will pay millions for annual subscriptions); they have no need to pander to home users. But that will become a huge problem in the future. ->

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The (Overdue) Collapse of Windows 11

YouTube video by Catalyst

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I just found out about this on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8qH... but looks like Hampton Inn is refusing rooms to people who live within 50 miles of their hotels. This might not seem like anything, but it is really a way to keep homeless people from using vouchers to stay there, when ->

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The Hampton Inn Drama on Blue Sky highlights a HUGE problem in the US

YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture

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mindstorm8191 @mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I've been working on learning new things to cook from scratch. One thing that can help is to have a backup plan of what to eat, in case things don't work out. For example, I made flour tortillas today. They turned out good, but too small (like a 4" instead of 8"). So I had sandwiches with them.

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