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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 29/07/2026
It's been an almost cartoonishly awful few months. My partner and I have been dealing with some scary health stuff with multiple family members. On top of that, we've had to deal with biohazard cleaning, pest control, rehoming lovebirds, adopting a dog, and probably a few other crises I've forgotten
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Clastic Artistic @clasticartistic.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Just launched a shop on INPRNT with my Scottish Mammal vector/texture designs. Check the shop out and please share, all purchases help me to continue doing my art! www.inprnt.com/gallery/clas... #artprints #digitalart #artsky #creature #animal #shop #art #graphicdesign #inprnt
Text - Scottish Mammal Series now on INPRNT! Clastic Artistic
Image - Top Left to Bottom Right: 1. Castlemilk Moorit (Sheep), 2. Highland Cattle (Cow/Bull), 3. Red Deer, 4. Shetland Pony (Horse), 5. Eurasian Otter, 6. Harbour Seal (Pinniped), 7. Mountain Hare, 8. Scottish Terrier (Dog), 9. European Badger, 10. Pine Marten, 11. Red Fox, 12. Water Vole, 13. European Hedgehog, 14. Red Squirrel, 15. Scottish Wildcat (Cat), 16. Soprano Pipistrelle (Bat)
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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
i am always saying this, except i didn't really create any dark genies, I just helped some people out who i regret helping out
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 23/06/2026
kier starmer's wife looks way younger than him i don't think it's necessarily innately wrong to marry someone 10 years younger than you, but i do feel like it should legally preclude you from becoming a politician i refuse to explain my reasoning, but this my seriously held political opinion
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 22/06/2026
very exasperating that I watched the 3D animated circus show, didn't like it very much, and yet my entire youtube feed is now videos about it anyway
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 08/04/2026
Bikeshed request: What do you call "a thing that gets rendered"? So if you have some properties for rendering a thing (color, position, etc.) & those properties vary per-thing. Those are per-<what> properties? I want to say "instance" but instance has a more precise definition in rendering lingo.
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Clastic Artistic @clasticartistic.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Working on some new Scottish Mammal vector illustrations. Here's the first new one, a Red Deer. #vector #illustration #art #design #graphicdesign #deer #scotland #wildlife #fediart
Text - Red Deer, Clastic Artistic. Image - A stylised vector illustration of a red deer with a burgundy outline.
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 25/03/2026
If you're using AI to optimize your hobbies and to decide what to eat, you are genuinely spiritually bankrupt and I'm not sure what the point in you is.
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 22/03/2026
Say hi!
Games Talks Live in Edinburgh on the 24th!
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Cei @normalcei.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The Prisoner of Flames The Worldbearer 449 piece collage made mostly from magazine clippings Maybe I'll post more here in the wake of Tumblr making a Bad Decision #phainon #hsrphainon #collage #paperart #papercut #phainonhsr #hsr
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 08/03/2026
Why does Japanese fashion skew so hot. Like physically warm. Like I have clothes from Japan that I can't wear in Scotland, in WINTER, because I get too hot...
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 07/03/2026
the only thing that makes you more insane than game dev is engine dev
Four rainbow orbs surround three floating 3D cows against a white, red, green, and blue colour test background. There is a smiling happy face on the left. Stacks of red, green, blue tiles on the right. Bright green text at the top says "Layout space!" while at the bottom, there is some janky text that says "space ! World"
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 25/02/2026
"Once if I remember well, I got myself sent straight to hell, 'cause France is shit and the world is sick, and I really just want to suck some dick." - Arthur Rimbaud, 1873
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 20/02/2026
what I learned at Move art-chicken goes further with art-spices; 2D animation looks cool at weird angles; animals are more realistic with puppy eyes; jokes are funnier if they bypass your prefrontal cortex; lookdev is easier if you can see it on time; the best way to learn color is to stop using it
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 19/02/2026
I'll be at Move Summit today, say hi if you see me!
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 15/10/2025
i really shouldn't care what other people think, but the ubiquitous "they fixed yooka laylee!" angle is so depressing. they "fixed" it by cutting the soul out of it and filling the empty space with mario odyssey flavoured slurry. Like it's _fine_ - but it's also kind of just nothing.
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 10/10/2025
Not been using this account much lately but -
I'll be at games talks live in Edinburgh
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 03/10/2025
Game dev still on pause while I focus on health stuff. In news directly opposed to that: today I successfully made chips that surpass Edinburgh chippy quality 😔
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 18/09/2025
I just cleaned up all my old youtube subscriptions and... a shocking number of people I was subscribed to stopped uploading more or less exactly 1 year ago. Did something specific like... happen? To youtubers over the past year?
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 31/08/2025
I really dislike the all-or-nothing way that media criticism works at the moment. I saw Weapons and thought it was a little disappointing and flawed - but it's really hard to find any take on it that isn't to one extreme or the other.
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 28/08/2025
lmaooo my old Go code comments are very funny to me. I stand by them all, it is a bad language.
I have to _cast_ my integers to have them inferred as the correct bitwidth?? This is especially egregious when very common functions like strconv.ParseInt return non-generic non-default int types. So `i := 0; i += ParseInt(s)` won't compile! Batshit! Oh wait haha - it won't work anyway, because ParseInt returns an error that needs handled first~

Update: - `invalid operation: x += y (mismatched types int and int64)`.
I don't want to hear another fucking word about Rust string types.Why is there no shorthand for handling errors? Why do I need an if block _after_ the call? These should be one operation - otherwise that error checking can get moved around anywhere! And don't give me control-flow bullshit, I _know_ this language has `defer`.Is every import an implicit '*' ??????????? So I have no idea where anything comes from??Okay, I'm seeing a function being called here. Where is it defined? Is there actually any way to know??
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 27/08/2025
It's absolutely baffling to me that "download a big file without having to start over even if there are network problems" is not a universally solved problem, even though files are getting exponentially bigger.
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the story is true @dcellgames.com · 11/11/2024
this is why the economy is bad
post from our twitter. "pixel" "pedro" over here saying "loved everything about this trailer! i just wish the protagonist had abs..." and i said "what do you call these" and just posted beat's abs. just her abs. she got abs. they're literally right there. they're visible. right on her tummy. right there. she cut like a diamond. she got lines like a backer. she got muscles like the mollusk phylum, bro
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
theatlantic.com
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 07/08/2025
Had such a fun time at the game showcase! Really good turnout, and it was so cool seeing everyone's games get some well deserved attention 🙏 Thanks to everyone who played my game too ^^ if you couldn't be there (or wanna play again) you can try out the demo here: mistodon.itch.io/questa-fortuna
mistodon.itch.io
Questa Fortuna by Mist
A tarot-inspired psychic deckbuilder.
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 07/08/2025
I'll be at CodeBase today as local dev support ^^ If you're nearby, come and see the student game showcase! As well as some games from local indies, including myself. I'll be bringing along my current project (in demo state) Questa Fortuna:
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Cei @normalcei.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
When you want to go fast, go alone. When you want to go far, go together. #jingyuan #hsrjingyuan #ceiart #myart
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 06/08/2025
Okay, either everyone on the internet is wrong, or I'm going insane (which is more likely tbh). But playing flushes in round 1 of Balatro seems like a bad idea! Everyone says to do it! I don't think people should do it!
Success rate of winning round 1, with 1 hand and 2 discards, in Balatro. Over all flushes rank 10% to 25%. Full House runs between 50% and 75%.
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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Also, I'll be showing a pair of my games there too! We'll have Upfall – a free game about bouncing, dodging, and near death experiences with audio from a massive underground oil tank. We'll also have the latest build of CRT7 for people to explore the darkness and light up never-before-seen areas!
A screenshot from Upfall. It is dark, with a yellow outline of square in the middle. Inside of that are large letters saying Level Up, as well as several bubbles. A lizard-like person is bouncing off of one of them, while avoiding a stalactite that is falling. On the right is what looks to be a progress bar. The game is limited colour pixel art, with glow!A screenshot from CRT7. It shows a simple wooden desk with a spherical lamp to the left. Straight ahead is a strange radio with an odd tuning dial. A screen wired into it above reads "Message ends". To the right of that is a panel with three buttons on: +, ++, and +++. To the right of that is a traditional tear-off calendar which shows September 17, Thursday, and above that is an art deco style analogue clock made of dark wood and inlaid gold.
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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Next up we'll have Turbo 16 (and maybe a mystery game) by Socks Off Studio – a game that blends elements of arcade racing and environmental storytelling! Investigate Ellis Helsby's room, take part in races to unlock new artefacts, and explore this coming-of-age narrative!
A screenshot from the game Turbo 16. It shows an Indy 500 style sports car - blue with red and white stripes and a logo which says SPIRIT on it. It appears to be on a race track, perhaps the start/finish straight, as there are bright pink fan stands behind it, as well as pink/purple stylised trees. The visuals are dream-like and highly saturated.The logo for Socks Off Studio - it is orange, yellow, and greenish blue and shows the name of the studio over a simplified rainbow, a flower, and some flip flops!
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 03/08/2025
This is how you know you've designed a good audio API...
A line of code importing three things from the audio namespace: track set, track, and track settings.
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 03/08/2025
So annoying that I've spent 25 years building up good password habits, and developing mnemonics to remember them - and now literally everything has mandatory MFA. I promise you it is much more likely for someone to have my phone than my password!!
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 03/08/2025
Few things in this world feel quite as good as finding out that your game runs first try on all your target platforms 😮‍💨
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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
We'll also have Only Sliding by PortPonky (@portponky.bsky.social) – a logic puzzle game with only one mechanic (sliding). Solve puzzles in discrete areas to unlock pieces that can slide about the world you're moving through. Very clever, definitely tricky, and liable to give your brain a workout!
A screenshot from Only Sliding. The left half of the screen shows a discrete puzzle with large 'l' style tetris pieces (and one single green block), only the long legs are 5-tiles long instead of 3. There are four of them and it looks like you are supposed to move them onto yellow and black hazard-striped spaces! On the right is a monochrome area where the blue player is sitting that looks little like a complicated maze.Another screenshot from Only Sliding - this time it is quite reminisent of the sandy levels of Lemmings. There are beige pillars and six different plus pieces, three of which are free to move and three of which aren't. There are three exits from the screen (plus one that you can't get to), one near the player in the top right, one to the top left the player can get to, and one bottom right which seems to require the plus pieces to access.
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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Next we have Breadleg by Mary Tallontire (@marytallontire.bsky.social) – an absurdist, comedy game about running round a Scottish village as a piece of bread with legs. No, seriously it's as bonkers and fun as it sounds! Collect socks, cause mischief, and escape without being eaten 🧦
A poster for Breadleg. It shows a loaf of bread... on legs, and the legs have socked feet. In this case white with red toes and ankle stripe. In the background is a low-poly, colour-textured world, the main feature of which is a windmill for milling grain!A screenshot from Breadleg. It shows a loaf of bread on legs, and the legs have socked feet. In this case pink with magenta toes and ankle stripe. In the background is a low-poly, colour-textured world, the main feature of which is a building to the left. There is a minimap (in the shape of the sole of a foot) and a pair of white and black socks to collect!
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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Next up we will be showing Questa Fortuna by mistodon (@mistodon.com)! This is a single-player, tarot-inspired psychic deckbuilder where you use a combination of luck, strategy, and learning the whims of the deck to match cards and evade misfortune! Come play 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/mdesi...
A capsule/press image for Questa Fortuna. It shows a purpled-haired person on the right with one glowing blue eye visible, and one showing through their hair in a mystical fashion. The words Questa Fortuna are writen over a set of cards vanishing into the distance that are clearly inspired by tarot cards!
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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
So what developers are showing their work at the MDes Showcase? First off we have the latest version of Rare Episteme | Museum of Dead Card Games by Fallible Things! An "Anti-Trading Trading Card Game" where you design your own cards and bring them to a shared deck to fight with an opponent! 🃏🎴
A screenshot of Rare Episteme | Museum of Dead Card Games. The screen shows a green 'cutting mat' with cards above and below. Below the mat are 'your' cards, and they can be dragged into the middle in order to be played. Above are the opponent's cards, one of which is face up, and one is face down. To the right is a draw and discard pile!
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 01/08/2025
I think my parrot has renamed me 😭 whenever he sees me or wants my attention, he sort of sings one operatic note, like a vocal warmup It's so sweet that the main thing he associates me with is my singing 🥺
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 31/07/2025
Would vampires bypass facial recognition software?
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 29/07/2025
Blazingly fast linear interpolation function
int lerp(int from, int to, int time);
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 24/07/2025
TIL that the degrees sign I've been typing for years is actually a "masculine ordinal indicator". All the roman soldiers reading my linear algebra code comments must be really confused.
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 22/07/2025
Going to make a rubber duck "AI" tool that just asks you to re-read your prompt, then waits a long time and tells you to do it yourself.
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 11/07/2025
Fun fact: referring to people with any/all pronouns is turing complete.
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 03/07/2025
I know I have a bunch of other game projects on the go... but also I've been learning toki pona and playing Lingo, so fuck it, @shamu.bsky.social and I are making a pico8 conlang game 😔
A screenshot of a pico 8 game where two characters are talking surrounded by hedges. The speech bubble shows text in a mysterious unknown script.
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 01/07/2025
Was feeling a bit anxious about something, but then I read a lesswrong article that made me feel better. Not because it gave good advice or anything. More just that it made me grateful I'm not using "picoeconomics" to make decisions about my life
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Fallible Things @fallible.net · 28/06/2025
The progress isn't that visible but behind the scenes things are getting more managable #screenshotsaturday #rareepisteme
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 26/06/2025
Glasgow Lana girlies you were all beautiful today 🙏
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Mist ❤️🖤 @mistodon.com · 20/06/2025
it only just occurred to me how funny it is that howl pendragon has a thousand different bottles just to bleach his hair, and he only knows which ones to use based on their usual location on the shelf AND when he gets it wrong one time because Sophie tidied, he literally just gives up forever
Howl's bathroom
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Studio Élan @vnstudioelan.com · 18/06/2025
yuri could fix you. not sure if it will or not but you should try anyway
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