Ava Raelynn

Ava Raelynn

@avarae.bsky.social

I do music things and make games sometimes 😗 https://brightmothgames.itch.io https://linktr.ee/avaraelynn

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Y’all, I’m freaking out! My silly little c++ framework can now build and run on iOS 😭 This one test game can now fully run on PC, Mac, Web, and iPhone. Still a long way to go, but man. It’s cool as shit to me 😤

Well on my way to having an Engine For Me By Me with no AI, Unity, no Unreal, to run on as many platforms as I can force it onto.

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molyneux like "you no longer need to involve these other amazingly talented people that bring their own ideas and creativity to the table, you can just do it in 5 minutes with AI!"

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fuck yeah 0% AI we celebrate for these now

Game Vecanti@gamevecanti.bsky.social

After 10+ years of development, an English fan translation of "Legend of Xanadu: Kaze no Densetsu Xanadu" for PCE CD has been released by John Brandwood & Samuel Innes: gitlab.com/legend-of-xa...

The meds were med’n last night and my game engine code now builds for iOS. It doesn’t WORK (the iOS build flattens the directory tree and I haven’t accounted for that), but it runs, and falls over at content load, and that’s huge!

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correct states further down the path of autocracy than us have had those autocracies overthrown by sufficiently large voting numbers recently we can do it here too

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

The US is not about to have a free and fair election. The state has put its thumb on the scale to favor the ruling party in multiple ways. It's a mostly free, somewhat unfair election. But still one where the ruling party can be overwhelmed by numbers. Hence the term "competitive authoritarianism."

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oh anthropic is profitable? i guess that makes theft of the commons at unprecedented scale and destruction of the environment to power the machine that automates the wholesale slaughter of meaning okay then and i will promptly reevaluate my position on AI is what i would say if i were insane

AI is for the people who don’t want to DO anything, they just want to HAVE things. It’s for the people who don’t value learning, personal growth, or experience. AI is for people who only care about the destination, and how to monetize everything. Not for those of us who enjoy the journey.

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it is my deepest and most fervent wish that the tech oligarchs suffer consequences for openly allying with fascism the world over maybe we can extradite zuck in 2029

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

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Trans people are fighting to keep rights they had ten years ago—in 2016. It is not the same as fighting for rights in the first instance. So please I beg of you, knock it off with this “purity test” horseshit.

Mike@doa70.bsky.social

You know, the purity tests when trying to change society only make things worse. Im old enough to remember the fight for gay rights starting in the 80’s. We didnt change hearts and minds by demanding 100% adherence to everything. It came by increments. All you are doing is helping the magats.

About 5 years ago, I learned about Emscripten and started working on some test code to refresh my very out of date c++ knowledge. A little while later, I learned of the upcoming release of SDL3 and migrated to that. Then I ate shit in a job interview for Mojang for said rusty c++ knowledge.

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As of now, my little platform is capable of having simple games built on it that run on Windows, Mac and Web and I’m just pleased with what I’ve done. Could AI have made this project move FASTER? Probably, but then it wouldn’t be MINE. I wouldn’t be learning from it and growing my skillset.

This whole thing started as an experiment and then interview prep and has grown into one of my favorite little things, and I love plugging at it when I get that Coding Itch. Hopefully soon I’ll finish my SDL_gpu based renderer abstraction and get CathodeRetro wired in 😁

About 5 years ago, I learned about Emscripten and started working on some test code to refresh my very out of date c++ knowledge. A little while later, I learned of the upcoming release of SDL3 and migrated to that. Then I ate shit in a job interview for Mojang for said rusty c++ knowledge.

From there I started writing more fervently until I got a new job that blocked me from making games on the side later that year. 2 years ago I realized that my engine code didn’t conflict with the work policy and was declared as prior art, so I picked it back up in my spare time.

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somebody shoot this guy in a videogame

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

@gabrielzucman.bsky.social: So let met get that straight: paying a wealth tax is impossible (“billionaires have no liquidity”, “it would be taxing unrealized gains”, “their wealth is virtual”) but one man paying half a billion to influence elections is possible. Did I understand well?

Have a screenshot of my old Pico-8 game Futari Nezumi, re-written completely in C++ on my WIP framework built on top of SDL3. (Builds for Mac, Windows, and Web)

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I am at Desert Bus all week long, starting tomorrow at 4pm Pacific time! I also made a Bell Beast that you can win! #DesertBusForHope

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too many people think code is a binary and it either works or it doesn't, when really it's a spectrum from "does it blow up (almost) every time" to "this will never have an issue" code that looks like it works can only *mostly* work, and that's often the worst code of all this is a post about AI

I can't STAND this I hate it I hate it I HATE it. It's such an upsetting ad. WORSE! Because it is targeted EXACTLY at the right kind of asshole to make it effective. 🤢🤮

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

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oh no, i don't use the ai for <thing that i am paid to do> it's terrible at that. it's great for <thing you are paid to do> though.

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I am exasperated with people accusing programmers of "gatekeeping" programming. We were practically dragging people through the gate. Do you know why a mindless LLM can tell you so much great programming information? It's because we've been sharing that information for free online for decades.

To whatever psychopath decided to set up a casino’s demolition explosions to go off at 2am, I’d like to wish you a very Fuck You. Went from dead asleep to filled with so much adrenaline, I’ve never even heard of tired. 🫨

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Replying to @slimemildred.bsky.social

The worst aspect of the social media age is that we all still have to live in the world and make nice with a bunch of dumbfucks knowing the things they'll say here.

Adult Swim. And they’re downing the kids in the pool. It’s okay. Cuz they’ve told you that those are the rules. Just comply. You don’t want to see more of those poor children to die. Close your eyes. Just comply, just comply JUST COMPLY JUST COMPLY!

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Black people staring into the camera

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: "I don't know. You kill a man and then you just leave? You're law enforcement and you just leave? Is there a single case in American history where you just, like, walk away and say, 'I guess that just happened and we're not going to clean up our mess'?"

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Kyle Rittenhouse was on Infowars the day after the Renee Good shooting saying he had heard on X that Renee was putting cigarettes out on her kids. This wasn't true. This is a government by and for school shooters and their apologists.

Christopher Mathias@letsgomathias.bsky.social

Remembering how cops tossed Kyle Rittenhouse - who was open carrying a semiautomatic rifle - a bottle of water and told him, “We appreciate you… we really do”

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Replying to @maxberger.bsky.social

The coordinated response here has been in the works since they occupied LA. They want to link Democrats with those that resist to call them domestic terrorists, and then purge voters

He wants the biggest deportation campaign in history. You can’t talk about that without talking about Indigenous folks since BEFORE the founding (accelerated under Jackson), the Chinese after the railroads, putting Jews in box cars in Germany, Indian partition, Mexican “repatriation” in the 30s.

THE CRUELTY IS THE POINT. These motherfuckers sell fear of the “different”, it’s gobbled up by the weak minded and the selfish, screaming “it’s the law” and then wanna act surprise-pikachu when the guns’n gaiters brigade starts shooting people in the streets. We told yall. Fukkn get it together.

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Replying to @pax-nw.bsky.social

Death camps involve mass execution at scale. But historically the majority of deaths in most *concentration camp* systems have come from disease, lack of medical care, hunger, and physical abuse. This is the stage we're at now, and we should shut it down before our system can devolve further.

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I'll be honest, I'm just never going to forgive anyone for not speaking up about Palestine but suddenly finding the remnants of a moral compass for one murder by the same fascism in their own lands. I'll tolerate them, I'll work with them, but it'll always remain a thing I'll think about them.

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Replying to @joewintergreen.com

"you sell twice as many copies at half the price" is presumably true at some point but it assumes a level of visibility that the author may not realise is hard to get now, and Steam visibility is obliterated the second you go down to Mixed, which happens sooner the cheaper your game is