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How do I subtract a string from a color? What is the result of a matrix modulo a key-value pair? It's still WIP but I'm experimenting with some template specialization tricks that would let classes opt in to this functionality when appropriate and fall back to default/null implementations otherwise.

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That's a perfect use case for my new property class that can represent nearly any type. But the next problem is, if I'm using this thing without knowing its type, then any type it could subsume must necessarily implement any operator I might want to invoke on it, potentially against any other type.

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So last night I got the rest of this old scripting language fixed up and working as much as it ever did, and then I started looking into replacing my old "generic script value" type that contained an int, float, bool, string, and a hashed string, plus an enum to indicate which one it actually was.

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J. Kyle Pittman @piratehearts.com · 27/09/2026

Not a bad first run after all this time. I still have the muscle memory for checking certain spots in certain rooms but I've forgotten why. 😅

The summary screen at the end of each day in Blue Prince.

Day One

Mt. Holly
Garden Chateau
6 Green Rooms

Total Rooms: 41
Rank Reached: 9
Steps Taken: 80
Items Found: 8

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Might heck around and start a new game of Blue Prince tonight.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Still one of the greatest contributions that homestar runner ever made to culture at large is this image

The good graphics!!!! Still from homestar runner

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

youtube.com

Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press

YouTube video by People Make Games

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J. Kyle Pittman @piratehearts.com · 24/09/2026

Okay, I think I have my parser/lexer working again, this time reading from a file stream instead of loading the entire file into a char array and iterating through that. Still a lot of gross code though, probably needs a ground-up rewrite.

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 23/09/2026

It's like everyone who came on board to AI because "they can write code now!" thinks the primary argument the rest of us have is "no it can't" So I'll say it: yes AI can write code. I believe you. They can write code. It compiles. It even passes the tests that the AI also wrote. UNFORTUNATELY...

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J. Kyle Pittman @piratehearts.com · 23/09/2026

WHY IS IT ALL STATIC VARIABLES AAAAAA

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J. Kyle Pittman @piratehearts.com · 23/09/2026

Tonight I'm getting back to my old scripting language project in earnest. Starting with modernizing the code to bring it up to my current style and latest engine features before I get into implementing whatever I'd left unfinished.

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J. Kyle Pittman @piratehearts.com · 22/09/2026

Property serialization works now. 👍

C++ code that writes a three-component vector containing values {1, 2, 3} to a property object, serializes that property to disk, loads it from disk into another property object, casts that one back to a vector, and compares it against the original, confirming that they are the same.

J. Kyle Pittman @piratehearts.com · 21/09/2026

Beat the Taurus Demon on my first try but I don’t know if I’m going to have the patience to stick with this. It’s rougher than I remembered, lots of fps dips even in the just the first few areas.

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That's rad, I've never seen the booklet or lighter before.

I’m pretty sure I’ve only finished this version once, never even did NG+ or anything. All my replays have been on Prepare to Die Edition or Remastered.

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Dark Souls turns 15 years old this week (ish, NA release was Oct. 4), and I thought it would be fun to replay it on the 360 again, with 10 fps in Blighttown just as Miyazaki intended. 🥴

The Xbox 360 dashboard showing the Dark Souls disc is ready to play.

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It's inevitable and everyone's already using it and you're going to be left behind but pretty please can we steal your decades of effort to feed our slop engine.

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lol just got a message on linkedin asking for access to entire code bases to train ai on i have never hit the block button so fast absolutely not

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I had briefly played around with letting properties have their own member properties indexed by name or number, but it made the class a little more heavyweight than I liked (76 bytes, versus 32 without), it complicated operator implementations, and I probably have other ways to accomplish the same.

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look at me pretending to be a programmer caring about "virtual" "template" "functions" i just want to make video'd games

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J. Kyle Pittman @piratehearts.com · 18/09/2026

Getting property type conversion working. It's less automated than I'd hoped and I'm brushing up against the limits of C++ a little*, but it's still kind of magic. *virtual template functions pls i understand why it's not realistic but i wants it

C++ program code illustrating how a number of different types (integer, floating point decimal, and three-component vector) can be interchanged through a custom property system.

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Already on my wishlist! 😅 It looks so much like a game I was wanting to make a couple years ago.

J. Kyle Pittman @piratehearts.com · 18/09/2026

I feel like I might’ve heard about it, or maybe the cover just reminds me of Uketsu’s Strange Houses series. Sounds neat either way!

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J. Kyle Pittman @piratehearts.com · 18/09/2026

In secret lamplight hideouts

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Ready or not, here they come. It’s zombie time!

Selfie in front of the Resident Evil movie poster at Alamo Drafthouse

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wow a hit tweet anyway trans rights

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Reposting this one from the old site for no raisin.

A three-panel scene from an episode of Adventure Time in which Finn encounters a Demon Cat.

Demon Cat: Greetings, Frank the Human Boy.
Finn: How did you almost know my name?
Demon Cat: As an AI language model, I have approximate knowledge of many things.

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Without fail, every time I get back into working in my own engine, I relearn the muscle memory of reflexively hitting Ctrl+Shift+B to build the entire solution after every change, and then I go back to Unreal and accidentally do that there and no no no that's not what you want to do in unreal

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maybe this will finally be the first game i finish this year 😅

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THE BOARD: < Peak/Fire Emoji imminent >