Vacation is not helping. On Monday, I tried to fix my electric piano but didn’t take into account how heavy it is. I thought “weighted keys” was just a figure of speech, but they are actually weighted. Yesterday, I had muscle pain, probably because of this, and I had a nightmare, waking up at 4:30 a.m. My mood is at rock bottom, and my mind is spiraling, trying to find a way out. I don’t think I’ll be happy in any AAA studio—too much corporate bullshit. The only way out is to make my game successful, but I need a lot of energy, time, and knowledge. I don’t feel like I can create an appealing and successful game. Vacation isn’t helping—it’s even making things worse.
I ordered an Oculus Quest 3; it is in Illinois somewhere.
I am wondering if it would be possible to save on the size of the electric piano by instead of adding the real weight to the keys, having a solenoid to control the resistance of keys.
What if, instead of a gravity-heavy battery, we use the weight of the air? Store energy in a vacuum. It is similar to the gravity battery, where you need to raise a heavy weight up, but instead, you just pull the cylinder in the piston, like in a giant syringe. The apparatus by itself is not heavy; it has to be right and airtight.
Did I mention it? I took a one-week stay-at-home vacation.
I gave the list of games to ChatGPT and asked it to pick the most angry inducing and frustrating game. Number one was Get over it, which makes sense, but number 26 was Godot. LOL
Godot Engine & VRoid Studio:
Note: While not games, these are tools for game development and 3D modeling. The learning curve associated with them can be frustrating if you’re interested in creative challenges.
I guess I just keep making games. LOL
I have some observations: If I become very angry or frustrated, later on, I feel better in terms of long COVID symptoms. I wonder if I can do something artificial, maybe play games that induce frustration and anger.
Now I am concerned. ChatGPT o1 preview is so good at writing code; I am afraid I am going to be out of a job very soon.
I think I have a bug in the compiler. I read on forums and for(;;){} should not be undefined behavior, but indeed my program crashes. 🤔
I wonder if people doing reverse “pig slaughtering” while they are engaging with scammers, playing along to receive the comforting romantic fantasy, and at the end, ghosting them.
ChatGPT has an annoying bug; you cannot scroll using the keyboard. I found a workaround: you can press Ctrl+F for the search, and after this, you can scroll.
I read a bit about Zig. I kind of like it, and I kind of hate it. I cannot decide.
TIL: 1 light nanosecond is roughly 1 foot. 🤯
My first job was writing a graphic editor for a digitizer connected to a computer via the COM port in DOS, using C. The display was in VGA 16 colors mode, with a resolution of 640x480. I completed it in two months, working for two hours each day after my university classes.
What did I learn? VGA 16 colors mode is cursed.
Unfortunately, I lost the source code, and so did the professor. He approached me later because he wanted some modifications to the app and asked if I could do it. I replied, ‘Sure! Do you have my source code?’ LOL.
that earthquake was strong 4.7 in Malibu
An interesting thought: when implementing mobs in your game: you can populate them with loot upon spawning, on death, or at the moment the player opens the looting UI. I wonder if our universe does the latter. And this is why we need wavefunction collapse. LOL
How to open files in Russian old style encoding (Windows-1251) in Emacs?
M-x revert-buffer-with-coding-system
windows-1251
Hey, Apple or Discord! Why did the side button hang the call?
🌸 Mon, Sep 9, 2024 🌸
I implemented search across my blog posts: https://mika.global/search.html
🌸 Mon, Sep 9, 2024 🌸
My mistake is that I am trying to find help from other people or God. I should recognize what I am on my own and should find a way out by myself, nobody is going to help me.
🌸 Sun, Sep 8, 2024 🌸
The COVID-19 pandemic did not end. We should accept that fact. At the beginning of 2020, the world changed, and as a humanity, we failed to stop it. We had a chance to contain it, but now we need to accept it as a fact of life.
We cannot deny the reality that more and more people will die, and the quality of life for many will be ruined by COVID-19. It’s time to change our attitude and adapt to this new reality. We should start making remote work and remote study the primary option for companies and schools. Social gatherings and air travel should no longer be considered leisure activities.
We need to change our social norms to make it unacceptable to come to work sick. We should start taking action now, or else more people will die, and more will become disabled. The world has changed, and we cannot turn back the clock.
While research is ongoing, it is not well-funded, and it will take years to find effective treatments. In the meantime, we must learn to live with COVID-19 and take necessary precautions to mitigate its impact. By working together and embracing this new reality, we can find ways to minimize its effects and build a more resilient future.
🌸 Sun, Sep 8, 2024 🌸
do u know that feeling u are halfway though and u supposed to celebrate it and u are realizing u are going to experience the exact same amount of misery plus u already beaten up by first half
🌸 Sun, Sep 8, 2024 🌸
i dont think i am ready for another 1.5 year long COVID marathon
🌸 Sun, Sep 8, 2024 🌸
i cannot swim anymore, evrithing falling apart, long COVID, my wife devorsed me long time ago and keep living with me, evry day yelling at kids, i hate my job, my side projects are not susseseful, I dont have money, house is non stop mess, i cannot find a new job it is just too much
🌸 Sat, Sep 7, 2024 🌸
I am going to make a 1-minute music video duet between Clara and Marcus. Clara and Marcus are enemies in the game, and it’s going to be a slow, melancholic, romantic tune but with very tense lyrics. I am going to use the Canon in D chords, transposing them to C. It will start with just piano chords and then later on add drums and all that jazz.
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