Brave The Nott

Welcome to the first bracket of US Government Agencies! This is being run by the mod of @centers-for-disease-control.

Below we have the set up for round one:

Round One:

Nasa vs ICE

USPS vs MSHS

DEA vs NARA

DHS vs FDA

USGS vs DOC

Air Force vs USDA

NPS vs Navy

AMTRAK vs DOJ

DOL vs DOT

VA vs Coast Guard

OSHA vs DOI

FBI vs CIA

Army vs ED

NIH vs IRS

DOE vs BIA

DOS vs CDC

A compilation of my favorite responses to the bracket

Welcome to the first bracket of US Government Agencies! This is being run by the mod of @centers-for-disease-control.

Below we have the set up for round one:

Round One:

Nasa vs ICE

USPS vs MSHS

DEA vs NARA

DHS vs FDA

USGS vs DOC

Air Force vs USDA

NPS vs Navy

AMTRAK vs DOJ

DOL vs DOT

VA vs Coast Guard

OSHA vs DOI

FBI vs CIA

Army vs ED

NIH vs IRS

DOE vs BIA

DOS vs CDC

A compilation of my favorite responses to the bracket

Crunch culture isn't bad because it produces busted games, but it's nonetheless reasonable to connect the two phenomena because:

a. Learning how to recognise the external symptoms of crunch culture is important – publishers exercise tight information control about their employment practices, and there's often no other way to readily identify when it's occurring; and

b. It's been demonstrated time and time again that if you don't explicitly draw a line from a game's bustedness to its publisher's abuse of crunch time, folks will tend to conclude that the game is busted because the programmer are just lazy.

Let me show you something interesting.

When folks switch from Twitter to Tumblr as their primary social media platform, something they’ll often do in order to fill out their initial Tumblr dashboard is to follow a bunch of blogs whose names they recognise from having seen those blogs’ posts circulated as screenshots on Twitter. Consequently, any Tumblr blog that gets screenshotted on Twitter a lot – like this one – will typically see a jump in new followers any time Twitter does something that pisses people off. It’s usually not a big jump, but it’s definitely noticeable.

With that context, there’s this blog’s new followers graph for the past thirty days:

Hm.

It’s not terribly mysterious why shit like the load-bearing coconut happens. Usually it goes something like this:

Goal: the programmers have a bunch of data they need to have access to in every scene

Problem: the game engine they’re using does not support a global scope

Solution: create an invisible game object that holds all of that data in its attributes, and make sure it’s the first thing that loads in every scene

Additional problem: the game engine requires every object to have a texture assigned to it, even if it’s never rendered

Additional solution: assign this random stock photo we just happened to have lying around as the texture for the fake global scope object

Result: the resources folder now contains a random JPEG of a coconut that can’t be removed or else the whole game stops working

One might think that this understanding would make load-bearing coconuts less funny, but this is not in fact the case: it makes them much, much funnier.

mr-elementle

I had to make a point and click adventure game using an engine that tied music to sprites, so every location that used the same song was on the same map and you would just teleport around to the relevent area and only actually load a new one when the music changed, and the music was all tied to a picture of me wearing a vriska cosplay because it was the most recent image on my computer when i needed a coconut

#I guess I need to start tagging things now #queued

#im making a point and click and its Much easier to check for inventory item than to make progress checks #so everytime certain progressions are made theres a character that doesnt exist and an item that doesnt exist gets put in their inventory #i cant have it in the players inventory for fear of them accessing it and fucking something up #his name is jim #he is default sprite blonde man and he stands just outside of every room you are in (via @starry-sloth)

evbobevisgoinginsane

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#mood

hihoneyimdead

This week on Ghost Files, lead investigator Ryan Bergara has found himself haunted by the ghosts of his past*

*the fuzzy blue puppet man he accidentally got killed in exchange for a plastic trophy

whatmyhobbiteyessee

i would like to sue shane madej for psychological damages caused by that hippo song.

sweetaspiesammy

oh something is wrong

seasaltandvinegarchips

i would like to ask for stuart jinglehorn’s hand in mariage

levyfiles

Jean-Paul Sartre said "hell is other people".

Shane Madej said "hell is when the puppet you m*rdered comes back from the dead and acts like everything is fine."

setaflow

Hey Shane? What the fuck.

nyptagypta

HE DOESNT REMEMBER THE C DOGS BIT ( AKA THE BEST BIT) THIS IS NOT MY PROFESSOR.

sinharder

My prediction for Puppet History season 5: Ryan's going to win every episode, with each prize being something that will prepare his supple young body for eventual consumption (either eating or, more likely, possession) by the Professor.