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Sarsion @sarsion.net · 17h

you know you're stressed when the boss says your name for your turn during stand-up and you go "yeah, what's up?" 😭

Sarsion @sarsion.net · 19h

started work on a proof of concept for a game idea i'd had for 20 years. really wild being able to rapidly prototype something, can't believe i put it off for so long. i'm probably going to find reasons it's not as fun as i thought it would be, but i'm sure i can adjust.

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Sarsion @sarsion.net · 01/10/2026

regarding the jacob geller accusation. it’s unfair to the victim that a 3rd party aired this on their own. i’ve no words for the accusations but imo this sort of “mistake” *should* follow a person around. as for the shock, it’s no small comfort: it’s never the obvious ones you should be wary of.

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Sarsion @sarsion.net · 01/10/2026

100%. i resorted to figuring out the debug “watches” to step through code to see if the values were correctly being set to -1, 0 and +1. they kept jumping to the else condition when pressing left. but yeah it does come down to clunky code. not bothered, just learning GM’s function calls for now :)

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Sarsion @sarsion.net · 01/10/2026

for whatever reason, me and a bunch of other people in the comments were all having the exact same issue in gamemaker with this code, but only in the last month or so. i figure either the language changed OoO priorities or maybe it had to do with compatibility mode? it was maddening either way.

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i'm not generally a fan of if elses at any rate, but i'll stick with what they're giving until i can branch out. but if i'm having to review the code as i go i'm gonna get so drained.

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started following an official gamemaker tutorial and had to fix the first piece of code it gave lmao c'mon. the obj_player's animations wouldn't look left due to the "or" condition. with "left" being the final if, at that point, _ver is always 0, -1, or +1. so it skips over to the idle animations.

$The broken code: var _hor = keyboard_check(ord("D")) - keyboard_check(ord("A")); var _ver = keyboard_check(ord("S")) - keyboard_check(ord("W")); move_and_collide(_hor * move_speed, _ver * move_speed, tilemap); if (_hor =! 0 or _ver != 0) { if (_ver > 0) sprite_index = spr_player_walk_down; else if (_ver < 0) sprite_index = spr_player_walk_up; else if (_hor > 0) sprite_index = spr_player_walk_right; else if (_hor < 0) sprite_index = spr_player_walk_left; } else { if (sprite_index == spr_player_walk_down) sprite_index = spr_player_idle_down; else if (sprite_index == spr_player_walk_up) sprite_index = spr_player_idle_up; else if (sprite_index == spr_player_walk_right) sprite_index = spr_player_idle_right; else if (sprite_index == spr_player_walk_left) sprite_index = spr_player_idle_left; }$ $My fix for the code: var _hor = keyboard_check(ord("D")) - keyboard_check(ord("A")); var _ver = keyboard_check(ord("S")) - keyboard_check(ord("W")); move_and_collide(_hor * move_speed, _ver * move_speed, tilemap); if (_ver > 0) sprite_index = spr_player_walk_down; else if (_ver < 0) sprite_index = spr_player_walk_up; else if (_hor > 0) sprite_index = spr_player_walk_right; else if (_hor < 0) sprite_index = spr_player_walk_left; if (_ver == 0 and _hor == 0) { if (sprite_index == spr_player_walk_down) sprite_index = spr_player_idle_down; else if (sprite_index == spr_player_walk_up) sprite_index = spr_player_idle_up; else if (sprite_index == spr_player_walk_right) sprite_index = spr_player_idle_right; else if (sprite_index == spr_player_walk_left) sprite_index = spr_player_idle_left; }$

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i'll be in the trenches for a while as i get back to grips with things, but i can already tell i will need all the help i can get. it's been almost two decades since i start working on this game idea. only this time i'm coming back to it with actual skillsets :D

i’ve bought a keyboard for music production so i guess i’m making a game now.

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printers can get tae fuck

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it’s actually spelled chominium

i think the thing that bothers me most about claude is it’s blatantly named after claude debussy and all its models are named like artistic tiers of renown. haiku, sonnet, opus, fable, mythos. thing is, just like AI itself, they’ve hit a ceiling. if they make another, they should call it hubris.

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picturing the above as the opening soliloquy of a romance movie in which the climax is the main character realising that there are perfect words, which they run through fire and hell just to have the chance to say them. “i’m sorry.”

i’m tired of having arguments with people who hold fast to the belief that there exists a set of perfect words to prove themselves right. if words could be perfect we wouldn’t need to talk. everything that ever needed said would have been said before.

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colonel, i’m trying to sneak around, but i’m dummy thicc, and the value of my butt spheres keeps alerting the guards

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i wish there were a fun phrase or expression i could use to convey my reaction to this information

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also. all i could remember about it was it was fixated on virginity. google AI seemed to have a different idea of what i meant. so incredibly stupid. *why* would i mean this.

Google/
ffxiv virgin

It looks like you might mean "FFXIV free trial" or are referring to community memes (like "Virgin vs. Chad" job comparisons) or an in-game reference such as the quest The Virgin Homicides.

did this extremely normal fate in ffxiv last night that had this extremely normal description. why is this game like this sometimes.

More of Doma's many legendary demon dogs have appeared to terrorize the land's young virgins who, it appears, demon dogs prefer over young harlots, old virgins, and old harlots. Think of the virgins. The young ones.
— In-game description

and finally, look, this isn’t hard to spot, even without them putting in the tiniest inaccessible baked-in text about using AI. if they’re willing to use AI to make horrendous and superfluous graphics, they’re absolutely using AI to overengineer and underdevelop their website.

856 thousand additional people exposed to unprecedented heat
(Likely range: 508.4K-1.2M)
• visualisations above created with generative Al assistance

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i need people to understand and recognise that the biggest tell with these things are the font choices and emoji usage. if you see any monospaced fonts being used in places and ways that are in no way accessible but are in this weird “let’s use fonts to differentiate layers”, it’s AI. every time.

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boss’s boss to a colleague that’s been off for 2 weeks: “you should read the proposal document [your boss] wrote” me: “let’s be honest, he didn’t write it” boss’s boss: “okay, the document claude wrote” so draining having to gently nudge this sort of thing, but i refuse to let it be normalised.

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case in point: EXTREMELY weird situation where the site forces sessions on subsequent tab visits. why would you *ever* need this? i could understand if i was on a page for a session-controlled calculator but this is just the home page. i get the sense the entire site is handled with AJAX. awful.

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shame the site reeks of AI vibe coding and is covered in disclaimers about it not being reliable. this is what the world has become: creating the illusion of helping by using the very thing causing the problem to begin with.

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where am i supposed to keep the domino’s box

Nick Popovich @nickpopovich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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give me the wow forever version of this pls

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LIKE THAT'S LITERALLY JUST BAXTER PARK TERRACE IN DUNDEE LMFAO WHAT

Baxter Park Terrace, on the corner of Pitkerro Road.

A building that looks literally the spitting image of the corner of Baxter Park Terrace and Pitkerro Road.

like lmfao this is just what my first flat's closey looked like. i remember people thinking we'd get a GTA in scotland, but honestly it makes WAY more sense to get a silent hill i suppose. we're a buncha spooky bastarts as it is.

A screenshot from some YouTuber's play through of Silent Hill Townfall (okay it's Jacksepticeye I guess, whatever), of a part running through the closey (shared hallway) of a block of flats.

now the question is, do i get it? because if i get it i'm probably gonna be spooked walking around my actual area at night, and worse, i'm probably gonna get mad at SOMEONE'S inauthentic accent in the game.

i've never played a silent hill game before but i just found out townfall is set in scotland and that it's EERILY ACCURATE. everything i've seen is what places around dundee and broughty ferry looked like in the 90s. it's wild. i actually just looked it up and it's set in 1996! they nailed it.

what if i made a game

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i was maybe 4-5 when i first tried this out on the sega mega drive. something about it terrified me. it didn’t help when i got a little older and read the manual, thought i was actually acting as a real god and felt so uncomfortable and unqualified. yet i still think about it 30 years later lol.

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i’m so used to the last decade of british politics that i find it so fascinating that the USA has to go to this much effort to get rid of the president when all we have to do is criticise the our prime minister(s) once and they combust into flames.

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i don’t get what’s so infuriating about it. i absolutely live in a self-curated bubble, by design!

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i've been looking for this exact kind of canvas tool for years. didn't wanna use adobe or google stuff so this is great, thanks for the shout!

one of the weirder social media things is following someone you have a lot of respect for and then finding out they are obsessively angry about something they clearly misunderstood the point of. if i was my younger and more impressionable self, it would influence me. now i'm just embarrassed.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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