unconvinced i’ll ever find “the vitamin” that makes me all better so i can get real work done but i do expect they’ll elucidate whatever my deal was post-mortem, after which what i did manage to accomplish with my life will be regarded on the level of Beethoven composing despite being deaf or Gordon Ramsay cooking despite being british

i believe an important kind of creative process is “i didn’t know that wasn’t allowed”

New technology discovered: 🦑🥪Squid sandwich! You may now craft 🦑🥪Squid sandwiches out of 1🍞bread and 1🦑squid.

New technology discovered: ♻️Recycling! You may now uncraft 🦑🥪Squid sandwiches back into 1🍞bread and 1🦑squid.

New technology discovered: 🥪Sandwich efficiency! All 🥪sandwich recipes now yield twice as many sandwiches.

i know you’re already typing “of course the cookie clicker guy would post that” but i really do have a fondness for exponential automation bootstrapping scenarios. one of my favorite old minecraft modpacks had stuff like solar panels and replicators. what you do is you painstakingly amass the components to create your first replicator (which involves rubber farms, ore quarries, processing lines, etc) and go to great lengths to power it through cranks you have to turn or coal you have to dig up. at some point you build your first solar panel. very slow energy output but it passively powers your replicator for free. what do you replicate? solar panels. you can then craft more efficient solar panels out of those solar panels. your energy output accelerates and so does your replication rate. eventually you’re producing so much extra energy that you can justify plugging in a second replicator, and then a third, which you replicated for free. your replicators replicate replicators along with the solar panels that power them. for fun, you drop one diamond in the system and your entire chest network fills up almost immediately with thousands and thousands of diamonds. you will never run out of anything ever again. i don’t think that modpack has replicators anymore

how does something like Pokemon evolve over thousands of years? once the construct of capitalism wears off, what’s left of an omnipresent world-spanning franchise? personally i think it’s gonna get religious. it’s gonna get syncretic

i started noticing it years ago but i’m a little let down by how much in AAA games seems to rely on “tell don’t show”. Sims 4 takes you on magical multi-steps adventures through text boxes. No Man’s Sky has your character go through all kinds of technomystical nonsense and it’s just text boxes. Paradox games are riddled with events that are just text boxes but at least they’ve got a little flavor picture to go with it usually

as a french kid i was very confused about Superman’s archnemesis being constantly referred to as “the former wrestler”

i believe this song is what being a single-celled organism must feel like. i just feel 10 microns wide listening to it

i sometimes miss being a completely naive novice programmer when i was like 13. never cache anything. recalculate everything every frame. endless faith in the computer. this thing can update 786,432 pixels 60 times per second surely it’s got time for my bullshit