Something something Ghosts Never Grow. Half baked ideas for a comic I’ll never actually draw. It’s Sandy from Fallout: Equestria – Better Days in some AU incarnation. And some really janky looking anthros.

It was a fun day. Got a bunch of coding done and learned some new tricks. Also met with adviser and passed in a revised resume.  I’ll admit, I’m not pleased to learn I should customize it for each job applied for, but I’ll live.

Looked around at pics of Fluttershy and whatnot for about an hour and a half on Derpibooru. I think I kinda-sorta get the appeal of the character now, but I think I’m just biased after spending two hours drawing her being a silly filly. Still not my favorite pony, but one who contributes more to the group than I typically give them credit for.

Was fairly pleased with the day in general, even if I’m not sure why.

I swear I remember these blogs being more fun in the past.

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Minor tweaks to the physics in Burst Party on Stable45. Half-way wrote one of the stories but haven’t added it to the site yet.

Added status indicators to units in Resonance. Found out that Unity3D supports MessagePassing and Message Broadcasting, so I can reduce the level of forced coupling between classes  if the code I need to communicate with is a gameObject component or a child-gameObject’s component. So instead of saying

public GameObject directReferenceToSomeGameObject; //You assign the object in particular via Unity3D's inspector. - Moore
VerySpecificScriptType theScript = directReferenceToSomeGameObject.getComponent<VerySpecificScriptType>();

theScript.MethodIWantedToUse(someValue);

I was able to use

BroadcastMessage("MethodIWantedToUse", someValue, SendMessageOptions.DontRequireReceiver); //Not requiring a receiver is optional, but it silences some errors if you know you don't need a response. When trying to test, it's probably not going to help to disable the errors, though.

Which is nice. If for whatever reason a level designer tweaks the scene but doesn’t put in the status indicators or whatever other object that we expected to have VerySpecificScriptType, the code will still run without having to run for a coder to fix it. It also means if anyone wanted to have a different kind of gameObject handle MethodIWantedToUse(someValue), they just slap on another MonoBehavior that has the method name somewhere in there as a component for the announcing GameObject (for SendMessage) or as a component of a child (BroadcastMessage). Though I’m pretty sure there’s a performance hit for being less direct, and it can be a nightmare to troubleshoot if the message has a mistyped argument as the message will simply fail and not be responded to instead of claiming the method doesn’t exist / has wrong arguments.

And PnP was today. I showed up 2 hours late, arrived in a combat, and didn’t really have any productive role in combat, so occasional Get Bonus made some silly comments and stuff. It was alright. Spent a lot of that downtime playing SpiritStones on my Android smartphone in the background. Makes me want to try developing for Android a bit more.

Though apparently Get Bonus has a relative  named Get Laid hanging out somewhere in New Unicornia’s House of Ill Repute (Which I had been misreading/writing as “respite” for two or three weeks now until I just looked it up on urban dictionary seconds ago. ) Whether or not they’re at all related to Get Lost is still up in the air.

Rewatched some of the season 1 episodes of MLPFiM. I don’t like it as much as I used to. Don’t know why.

I don’t know a practical way of implementing it, but what if all those Youtube Let’s Plays and whatnot of different video-games were bonus content that became available when a person buys a copy of the game featured inf the video?

Played around with Lua some more. Installed Lua 5.2 on Ubuntu. Wrote a short loop thingy that takes input until the user types ‘quit’.  Meant to work it in Computercraft but never logged into Minecraft to try it there. I might make a text adventure or something, but I also sorta wanted to make a text-based combat game. If I wanna do that, I first need to figure out a way to implement timing in Lua. Briefly looked at a 2D game programming library for Lua  https://love2d.org but did not install it.

Got no productive work done on TSHE, S45, or Resonance.  Played some Awesomenauts.  Still trying to adjust to the idea that PnP day is now on Tuesdays instead of Wednesdays.

Watched some Youtube. Played some Candy Crush. Candy Crush is frustrating.

Rendered this thing  in Digital Multimedia on Tuesday. I did not make these textures.

Yesterday was that holiday with the green stuff. The cafeteria had SO MANY BALLOONS. THERE SO MANY. It was somewhere between awesome and scary and super distracting. Also, they were making reuben sandwiches and stuff and it was freaking tasty.

Oh and I worked on schoolstuff too at some point.

Spent most of the day wanting to curl up and go back to sleep, but got into the swing of things… by nightfall.

Filled out new spreadsheets for SSE. Tried to animate an SVG hexagon. Didn’t work out. Traced a Griffon screencap and added a balloon. Because reasons.

Planning to take in my resume tomorrow for live crit.

Tried Black Liquorice for my first time. Was given to me by an acquaintance who usually works one of the shops I tend to buy snacks from every 2-4 days.  He got it from someone else. The feel was akin to that of mouthwash, but the taste reminded me of black jellybeans, rootbeer, and salt. It was interesting. The one I had was shaped vaguely like a curved fish. Was offered one that came in the shape of an *, but my teeth were kinda hurting from the first candy, so I declined. It was an interesting experience.

I talked up a case for buying pizzas so we’d have something to eat for the weekend. Aaaand after going through with it, we ended up spending $30 or what was completely consumed within minutes. So I feel like I picked it all wrong. And apparently my mother’s sugar level had dropped down to around 54. Seems like she was mistaking the breakfast she had yesterday for breakfast she had today. Tried to talk [family member] out of throwing a fit because reasons. Which just made her throw a fit about me talking to her.  My right hand hurts. I think I’ve played too much Awesomenauts and may have carpel tunnel syndrome or something going on.

On the other hoof, I drew some stuff. http://sta.sh/2k9ffob9m3l