#fuckin javascript

[godspeedmajortom]

why did you do it like thisssssss i hate it

[orcelito]

Oh yeah yesterday I went to my C programming professor's office hours to ask about what's being covered in class tomorrow. Since I can't go bc of my PT appointment overlapping with it & I'm apparently the kind of student that cares about attending every single class now.

While I was there, I ended up chatting with him about a few things, including my current standing in the class. He asked what I got on the midterm exam, & I answered it was an 87, and he told me I was one of the top 5 or 6 scores in the Whole Class (this being a like. Maybe 70 or so person class). Top score was a 92 or 93 (idr lol) & the class average was a 72. Apparently there were a few of us in the upper 80s/lower 90s, but most people got 70s or lower. And once he does the curve on the exam, he said I'd probably end up with a 97 or so on the exam. So yay!!!

And then he told me how he's noticed how I come to class every day and am really active with taking notes and answering questions. Bc I also sit up front all the time lmao. Hadn't even realized how much of a damned teacher's pet I've been being, but I've been Trying to be a good student this year. But he said I was the type of student that if I got an 88% or smth in the class, he'd likely bump me up to a 90% so I'd get an A lol. But he also said so long as I keep up with how I have been, I could possibly get a 100% in the class by the end (bc I've been there for all the extra credit questions in class and whatever).

And just. I went there bc I wanted to make sure I didn't miss anything important in class on Wednesday, and I ended up having my ego stroked for Real. Felt good to have my efforts be recognized.

[lizclipse]

genuinely, signals & control flow & the inject function have taken angular from being a "meh it has it's uses but it's not great" UI framework to one of my favs in the space. the way you structure components now is so unbelievably different to when i started with it back at like v6 it's like an entirely new framework and honestly it's really fun to use. i'm actually looking forward to new releases since it always opens the door to new and interesting ways of doing something that's easier than before, and i actually want to make UIs with it instead of pining for something else

[zombiesama]

Learning Javascript against my will

[paarthursass]

still waiting for javascript to be enabled for the sideblog but tentatively saying that @razumdars is where you will now find my rpg ramblings. follow me there for bg3, vtmb, dragon age, pathfinder, etc.

[ophexis]

Posting my exo today bc I miss playing this but. I was out of disk space.....

[realtasuantrai-arch]

i want to yeet a website because it won't let me do what i need to do.

[telnaga]

omg dithering compression. awesome. anyways webbed site ..... this was a lot harder than i thought itd be

[cool-retro-term-official]

Today's hot take (and rant) brought to you by your favorite terminal girl:

Web dev* should never have been a job in the first place. The web was supposed to be simple, accessible and free (as in libre). Not only is javascript a mistake, but it's whole ecosystem (libraries and community) is a mistake. Yes, im even arguing against the very website im on in a way. A bunch of simple forums managed by a few devs (and moderators), should be enough to fit all of what we use the web for.

"What about buying stuff on the internet", idealy fuck you, go to your local store (if you can), but in practice, no need for amazon and other gazillion dollar companies, just plain old simple custom stores with simple css and less ads (fuck ads).

"What about interactivity and buttons and all of the stuff that uses Javascript ?", use something else bitch. 2 years before javascript there was fuckin Lua and you didn't need more than that. Sure, use similar stuff, but why javascript ? i know they had their reasons, but there was alternatives and seemingly for no reason js stuck. (enlighten me on this if you want)

"What about electron !!! it's so nice for the programmers !" NO ! If you don't care at all about the power usage/performances of your program you shouldn't touch shit that will go into production. Yeah sure it's easy to spread your 'app' everywhere like a fucking disease.

It's not necessary to tell me how much im wrong, don't trust and care about what people say on the internet, don't trust me, don't even bother yourself with this. It's not necessary.

*some backend people do deserve some respect, front end people, huh... you're doing a shit job and idk how to tell you. But all devs ofc, noob or good, deserve respect. It's just that sometimes we make mistakes. And that im really angy ! >:3

[jbird-the-manwich]

one of my favorite args against ai is where people seem to believe you cannot do anything just for the sake of getting it done. You have to pursue absolute virtuosity. You can't just generate a background for your desktop that matches your vibe, because then you lose the vast artistic skill youd have gained by spending 12 years doing it instead.

You can't just have a text in a language youre learning generated so you can see the words in order, because then youre missing out on the cultural exchange of just moving to a country that speaks that language.

You cant just have an llm generate a css template because then you lose the character building of packing hand written css uphill both ways in the snow to become a master of aligning text to the right or left.

Whole genre of people pretending for an object to exist it needs to represent a personal character arc through the five stages of grief cuz by god those html tables are all your grandfather had when he died you ungrateful bitch.

You can't just have things that dont represent a meaningful distillation of your entire hardwon identity you fuckin pervert. its fucking CSS. Javascript. A pfp. Things that are definitely holy and exactly this big a deal.

[daisukoth]

why is Noelle seeing wing dings on a fuckin cookie

EDIT: actually, wait. The joke here is that these are cookies in javascript. Other characters see normal text because they're seeing the interface, but maybe Noelle is seeing the javascript CODE?? and the language of the code is in wingdings(?)

[cugareal]

im posting thru it right now cause im fuckin mad. right as i begin to find a community on here of likeminded trans women everything goes to shit as we start getting systematically chased off here. whats your fucking damage. i feel like i have so much to say but i dont have the words for any of it cause im incandescent with rage. why commit so much energy to harassing - with the FULL FORCE OF A SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM - a group of random fucking women who post random fucking jokes and the occasional kink. are you really that threatened? does every single one of you FAANG dickriders have some sort of personal vendetta against trans women because one of them said something to you angrily once? whats your fucking damage! all you people do is act like youre the paragon of society, that somehow you’re objectively the smartest of us all and that you’re destined to singlehandedly lead us into a glorious new epoch because you know how to implement a javascript framework and a REST API and you cant even stand someone who takes estrogen once a night taking a few pictures of herself whats your FUCKING damage

[question-marked]

"C#, sure! JavaScript, eh...not my favorite but it's not that bad of a language. But Pascal...can ya even code games in Pascal? Pascal fuckin' sucks, I fuckin' hate that language so much. It can go and die."

[aspens-dragons]

cant sleep so my husband's ninetails is hypnosising me so im falling alseep as i type but anyway like poison types poison types are so important to me i love them and they get too much hate. i don't think enough people realize that a LOT of modern medicine can be attributed to poison types. the sheer amount of antibiotics, antiviral, antifungal, etc. medications that are derived from poison types is incredible PLUS many poison types have an innate sense for knowing what's wrong with somebody if they're being poisoned in some way. there have been so many times where a poison type pokemon was able to cut an outbreak off at like patient 0 because it could literally just tell what was going on is incredible. there are literally toxel bred for no reason other than being hospital pokemon when they evolve. yall are so fuckin mean to poison types for no reason just cause like theyre scary or whatever the fuck. most poison types will not fucking poison you on purpose unless you're being a fucking ass and refusing to back off after being warned and like i jushy thinl its not fair that ywe give poison types so much shit but then just let fairy tpes walk around as if they can do no harms are hw just going to ingmore how sylveon is a fucking apex predator???? i dont think thats rfair at all ivr heard of more inceifents where a sylveon nearly killed a little kid than like a fucking garbordor or some thing also like poidon ytpe s being naturally resistant to pousons and being unable to be popusoned can be really gooiid for ecosystems because vertain pokemon are able to take toins in from their surrounding ebritonment and it oesnt hurt them if anything it helps them like in the case of irl spills yk who cleans that up???? usually fishmerman BUT POISON TYPE POKEMMON AIOFTEN HELP skslxxxxxzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Bzzt! This is JavaScript the Rotom speaking. Aspen is fine. He is just sleeping.

[ccorinthian]

When I started therapy I told my therapist that I really do feel like a bunch of different people & he replied ‘then I look forward to getting to know all of them’. And recently I’ve realised the importance of me getting to know all of them also. Like, I’m still cognitively me, i don’t ‘literally’ become different people, but it feels like… I run different code some days than other, or perhaps different scripts. I don’t know much about code but it’s a good allegory I think. Some days I’m running like, C# and other days it’s python and other days again it’s fuckin JavaScript. And instead of going around feeling frustrated that I don’t work the same way I did yesterday, getting to know and accepting those different varieties of my self allows me to solve problems with the tools and patterns I have on that day. Maybe it’s a bit more difficult for others to deal with but that’s why it’s important to always keep promises as a bare minimum.

[radiation]

How is RPGmaker compared to Unity? Would you recommend it?

I think its difficult to compare RPGMaker to a lot of other game engines. Unity is pretty open ended in what you can make but you gotta know programming, whereas RPGMaker is kinda hard coded to make a very specific type of game very easily and without programming knowledge — the game in question being extremely generic retro JRPGs. If you wanna make something that extends beyond that you are gonna have to mess around a lot with plugins which alter and augment the preexisting structure the engine has in place.

The crazy thing is, RPGMaker (at least MV) is lacking MANY features that it by all means should have. My game doesn’t have a lot of mechanics and was designed around scope in a lot of ways, yet I am legitimately using 70 or so plugins that other people made to make it feel good. Some of those plugins’ functions include -Adding name plates over the characters’ text boxes -Making it so sprites don’t flash in and out when switching -Allowing for ANY kind of complexity in character animations -Giving you any sort of camera control -Hiding combat related UI in the menus. All of this being shit the engine SHOULD support by all means but for whatever reason it just doesn’t

I think if you’re someone who knows a lot about programming, the engine is probably gonna feel kinda bad and itd probably just be easier and less frustrating to build a lot of functionality from the ground up in an engine like Unity, GameMaker, or Godot. If you lack some experience and feel pretty confident that your game can reasonably fit within what the engine is capable of then RPGMaker is probably a good choice. And personally despite the lack of features being frustrating at times, I find myself having a lot of fun with the goofy wraparound method of problem solving you have to use and have found myself making some really cool creative decisions by working within the engine’s limits

It definitely helps a lot to know programming fundamentals either way (I’m not great but I have some experience with Java and C# and I feel like it’s been very helpful with managing project structure) so that’s something I’d recommend looking into either way if you’re not too acquainted

And I’ve mentioned it but again. Since RPGMaker is so limited you definitely DEFINITELY want to plan your project very heavily around scope especially if you don’t have much confidence that you can really delve into JavaScript programming. For example I wouldn’t recommend planning for complex UI - you will fuckin hate yourself for that. And if you’re adding combat you’re gonna wanna be super realistic about it. What I did to plan around scope was play ~10 different RPGMaker games sorta like what I wanted like to be before I started getting too many concrete ideas about what my game would look like so I could get a pretty solid idea of what was doable and mold my plans around that

Also I wanna point out - most tedious, large scope thing about my game is by far the character animations. Once I figured out just how itd work it wasn’t too bad but is still a bit annoying - but know I worked in a very very wraparound way that is way way way more involved than most — or hell, ANY RPGMaker games I’ve seen. It’s doable, can be really worth it if you’re willing to put in the time and effort, and is something I’d be happy to explain if anyone was interested. BUT i feel the need to make it clear that complex animation is very much not at all a baseline functionality of the engine since it might be easy to assume otherwise with how much it’s used in my own game

Apologies if that was long but I love talking about this stuff, and if anyone is interested I am always happy to talk about and answer any questions about my process especially with RPGMaker in mind :D