Fixed a major bug that was popping up in the new 'The Hunt' game type for today's Bloodborne Kart dev post!
I'll explain the bug in further detail below the cut, but now that the bug is fixed we have a fully playable game type, so check out a match!
The bug went like this: Randomly during gameplay during this game type, I found that some kart racers would seemingly forget how to drive and just ram into the nearest wall. Using a lot of debugging, I was able to narrow it down to 'the enemy I am targeting does not exist'
Loong story short I was able to detect when this 'brain dead' state happens & direct them to a new enemy target
This doesn't fix the source problem, (which is 'why are they targeting a null reference in the first place?') but it does address the issue, which is good enough for me!
literally the best part of this whole stupid book iwlove weird obsessed horndogs thee villain archetype of all time. he’s so silly. “we could’ve had a life together”, he says to his lesbian ex-neighbour who he’s just shot with a crossbow bolt meanwhile her girlfriend who he’s also just shot is half dead across the room. god i love it here he said me and the bad bitch im going to fumble
a quite simple outfit, trying to use the little blue and white apron thing (which is actually a dress I think, that I just leave un-buttoned in the back and added an apron-like tie to lol)
I've always been a little thrown off by the way the characters (the team and the passengers) react to Reid trying to talk down Ted, and I've never liked that the episode ends with Ted being shot (although I appreciate that he survives).
I'm not saying this to be critical of the characters: the team doesn't have audio, and the passengers (save for Elle and the incapacitated psychologist) don't have the knowledge to see Reid getting through to him, but:
I don't know. Look at Ted's face. I'm bad at reading expressions, but at the very least, this doesn't seem like the expression of someone unaffected by what's being said to him, or the face of a man who's about to start shooting people. During the conversation, Ted stops aiming the gun at Reid, and yells at Leo to shut up when he tells him to shoot Reid.
I really think that Reid was on his way to talking Ted down, and I wish he'd gotten to do it. I don't think Elle hitting Ted while Reid is talking him down makes a lot of sense*. She's one of the few passengers who can understand that Ted is calming down, and I think she's at the right angle to see his changing expression. I wish Reid had gotten the chance to keep talking, because I do think he was close to ending it without anyone else getting shot.
One other thing I noticed while watching this episode—throughout the episode, Leo has always been onscreen while he speaks, either in the same frame as Ted, or the camera cuts to him while he speaks. However, if you rewatch the scene, notice that whenever Leo speaks during it, not only is he always offscreen, but his voice has an echo to it that wasn't there before. I don't think most of the analysis I post is reflective of the writer's intent, but that seems very intentional to me, symbolizing that Leo is becoming less real to Ted and therefore losing his grip on him.
*this is a criticism of the writing, not the character. yes, elle is impulsive, but the choice to hit ted while he's being talked down and is no longer aiming the gun at anyone seems like a strange and risky choice.
little irl "obs" about my husband under the cut bc I know not everyone like the irl stuff!!
gnawing at the bars of my enclosure bc I called my husband about a work thing and he sneezed FOUR times in the two minute conversation & then stuffily said "you're welcome" after. sir, im about to come out of my fucking skin do not do this to me rn
unfortunately for me, after 7 years of being a lesbian i have discovered an embarrassing attraction to men with long hair who are good at my job (theater) and now im re-thinking everything
i hate that this website has location based ads now like it's one thing to promote the local grocery store chain to me but i am seeing ads for my workplace now :/
What if what if what if a pkmn masquerading as a human was an allegory for something something something about it not mattering what you're born as but who you truly know yourself to be?
i was at the coffeeshop today and mind you, today started off. Sad. like the hormones are doing their thing this month, i went to the coffeeshop, forgot my wallet and had to drive back, and the new barista accidentally upcharged me but i didn’t want to say anything bc he was having it Rough.
but i was sitting there, staring out while i listened to a recorded lecture, and noticed a man wearing skechers. they reminded me of when i used to wear them when i worked at my coffee shops. and i felt a kinship with this stranger just bc of it. and in that moment, i thought, ‘i hope life is good to you. i do not know you but you’re another person who’s had similar life experiences as me, as negligent and mundane as that particular experience may be.”
and i kinda realized i felt that way about all the people in the coffee shop. and it made me think about how i felt that way about you guys.
we’ve gathered in this little space, and know, i do think of you guys. and i love you guys. i sometimes miss the people who’d be in my notifications (just by liking my stuff. not even commenting or rbing) and i hope that they’re well, that they’ve found something else to be passionate about.
but anyways, i’m just being sentimental and i do this every so often. randomly declaring my love that it might get tiring but i’m gonna do it again. long winded or straight to the point.
i love you. and i’m glad that our paths have crossed the way that it has
ngl it bums me out how fast everyone hopped off masks not just for covid/communicable diseases but just the concept of revisiting personal safety equipment in general.
long post i guess
I've been taking a 5 week pottery workshop on wheel throwing (it's neat!) and we got up to glazing last week. When you glaze pots, the glaze starts as a a thick liquid and then dries really quick into a powdery form (on your clay piece). I was asking my instructor about clean up and she was like "oh you can just rub off the excess carefully, but try not to get dust in the air as it's a little toxic. obviously you're wearing a mask but the rest of us aren't"
(my partner and i wear masks b/c it's inside and that's just what we still do. it sucks but it's better than covid and also now inhaling dust/fumes)
I kinda wanted to respond "maybe we should all be wearing masks??" like if not for covid concerns, at least for the semi-toxic powder we're all just handling/some folks are breathing in O.O
(i didn't b/c tbh i'm still a little on edge with the going out/doing stuff in public thing/esp indoors and people misgender me/mispronounce my name constantly and honestly sometimes you just want to do ceramics and not fight with people. it also just didn't feel winnable)
I feel like there's so many things like that that people just disregard as a risk that don't need to be, but as a society (US at least), we just never wanted to have that conversation (it was at best, begrudging, at the height of government awareness of covid and now it's completely gone by the wayside). At this point people either respond negatively or aggressively to any suggestion of it.
But like we've all had that one art teacher/professor who was a little bit off b/c they'd just been inhaling toxic paint fumes their whole career and it was always written off as just a quirk/part of the job (maybe things are better now? new art students feel free to chime in) and not something that could have been mitigated.
idk, it just makes me sad that we never got to even have the conversation about how so many jobs/hobbies should use more personal safety equipment than they do (either b/c people feel inconvenienced by it or don't know).
(tangent but i remain appalled at how many people i see riding bikes/etc around here that don't wear helmets! it's fucking wild to me, like we had the "wear a helmet or your head will be shattered like an egg" demonstrations as early as elementary school in massachusetts. Like it's just silly not to, and yet so many people in cali are like "a helmet? i don't know her". Also adults will agree that children should, but they shouldnt?!? wear a helmet for biking/skating/etc is the hill i will die on, esp on pavement)
the main thing for me re: lady stoneheart is that she’s literally not alive. she’s not dead either, but she ain’t living by any decent standards. grrm confirmed beric’s heart wasnt even beating, his blood wasnt flowing, ect. its safe to assume the same for lsh. her name certainly implies as much. her heart doesnt beat. she’s a “wight”
"Lady Catelyn?" Tears filled her eyes. "They said . . . they said that you were dead."
"She is," said Thoros of Myr. (AFFC)
she’s not catelyn anymore either. catelyn died at trw. yes, there are pieces of her that remain within lsh and i dont think its exclusively her hatred, but not enough to justify leaving her in that state. her body is decayed. the wounds she sustained cannot heal. she’s a gaping wound. she was left in that water decomposing for three days.....she needs mercy and i think she will want it too. it sucks that it’s likely going to fall on arya, but she will never be the one who killed her. the freys did that.