#broken software

[netscapenavigator-official]

Welp, that's a wrap on my Mozilla VPN subscription. It's a shame, but I'm not paying for a service that hasn't worked for over a week on my daily driver machine. Especially when Mullvad is the exact same service, with a working Linux client, better pricing, and a MUCH better Kill Switch implementation.

#rambles #irl #vpn #online privacy #privacy #online safety #safety #online security #security #mullvad #mullvad vpn #mozilla #mozilla firefox #linux #ubuntu 20.04 #broken software #subscription #subscription services

[kitty4president]

artfight attack for @nomdaface!! cept i gotta confess i didnt really have the energy to do it so i just got duke to do it instead i hope thats ok 🖊️☢️

#artfight #artfight 2023 #team werewolves #duke nukem #retro fps #duke nukem forever #my art #ok so. u ever have this idea & ur like god this would be SO funny & u do it & it ends up being a generally painful experience #yea i would not actually recommend DNF as a drawing software this was a Bit difficult to handle LMFAO #anyway the sites still broken for me but that ain’t stopping me from putting things up dammit

[nyaagolor]

One of the things I find funniest about 5/6 is how much more insane the stakes get for the finales. Every AA game has had really broad themes but ultimately every final conflict in the trilogy+4 was pretty small in scope, with your villain representing a problem rather than literally Being it. Manfred and Kristoph represented corruption, but they were only ever a face, a consequence, or a symbol of it. Phoenix is taking down one specific symptom of a broader societal conflict within his world because This Specific Person has a personal connection to him in some way. Can you imagine if Engarde actually WAS the assassin? Or if at the end of AA4 we were trying to literally take down the bar association instead of just Kristoph? bc that’s how 5+6 feels to me it's honestly kind of hilarious

The finale cases of the trilogy really stand out to me because while the broader themes are represented through the villains, ultimately our final culprits are Just Some Guy and it makes the conflict so much more personal to Phoenix and resonant with the audience. Then 5 and 6 are like “we can and WILL take on international spies and overthrow the government”. Why. What about the villain as a representation of the protagonist’s grief? What about smaller scale conflicts as a vehicle to represent abstract ideas about truth, corruption, and justice? Why is there power creep in my lawyer game?

#ace attorney #mod vex #not including Gant here he's not technically a finale case #idk what he is actually #sorry I’m in a mood and my tracking software is broken at work so I’m just queuing a ton of posts

[blueskittlesart]

guy who is so overconfident about their ability to fix computer software with nothing but a reddit thread and a dream but has spent the last 2 years with a broken microphone bc the idea of opening up their laptop with a screwdriver is viscerally terrifying

#edited a dcode into my laptop's registry this morning with zero hesitation but god forbid i have to replace hardware of any kind. terrifying #i've built self-sustaining minecraft servers and full 3ds romhacks with no coding experience whatsoever. but broken mic scary #something something side effect of the digital landscape that im so confident with software but anything analog terrifies me. whatever #personal #weirdly enough this is NOT the case with most of my friends. one time i opened a command prompt on my roommates laptop and she almost cried #anyway. i hate windows 11 and i hope whoever decided that registry edits were the only way to turn off copilot dies and goes to hell foreve

[intercal]

so on linux, I use this tool called "tmux" that basically lets you have multiple terminals open at once. it's liked tabbed terminals, except it was before tabs were invented. it's just what I use because I like the hotkeys better. whatever.

well there's this safeguard that prevents you from opening your same tmux session inside of itself. it checks the presence of the TMUX environment variable, and if it's set, will tell you "don't do that unless you know what you're doing". nice little safeguard, easy and simple.

HOWEVER. I've been using python poetry (virtualenv manager), and I've been using "poetry shell" that will open up a shell with all of the environment variables set that target my virtualenv. today I accidentally ran "tmux attach" inside of the poetry shell and was greeted with a session attempting to nest inside of itself... whoops. for some reason the safeguard didn't take. I checked the environment and the TMUX variable IS being set, so for some reason tmux isn't reading this.

now if I was using a lesser operating system (cough windows cough), I would have no course of action. you're fucked. "doctor windows, my tmux session nests when I accidentally type 'tmux attach' inside of the session," doctor says "then don't accidentally type 'tmux attach' inside of the tmux session". well doc, accidents happen. but in LINUX, I can just write a script that *actually* checks that environment variable and flat-out denies me my footgun, at least as a temporary solution until I get around to checking out the tmux source code debugging it and figuring out why it's letting me use nested sessions - instead of begging volunteers on the microsoft support forums to PLEASE FIX THEIR SHIT (which obviously they can't do since there's 14 layers of bureaucracy protecting their sweet, innocent developers from doing anything useful).

once again, W LINUX, L MICROSOFT

#t #man i am tired of broken ass software #if it was me in charge i'd write it correctly the first time

[rusty-gloinks]

Solver ends up killing Uzi with its weird solver claws n stuff and N never got to give her a big ol smooch which is why hes mad in the teaser thumbnail thing anyways btw liam told me

#Anti Nuzi dni with this post also .sorry I keep making Nuzi related posts I’ve broken my containment guys (I do not care) #The thing micheal (n in this case) says in the stream is actually him fighting over ai software (solver) #That’s it guys I solved murder drones! That’s why all the ladies call me the solver #I’m sorry

[retrocgads]

USA 1997

#USA1997 #VIRGIN GAMES #REVOLUTION SOFTWARE LTD. #ADVENTURE #IBM #PS1 #BROKEN SWORD THE SMOKING MIRROR

[ramshackledtrickster]

Oh my god I hate MediBang paint

#It’s my primary art software and I already put up with all the extra ads they add on and the crashing but holy shit #every new update feels worse #Stop adding shit we never asked for it it isnt broken don’t fix it!! #sry I’m just mad because I lost hours and hours of work #delete later maybe

[aholefilledwithtwigs]

I do a lot of writing for someone who just tried to spell purchase ‘purchess’

#always been an atrocious speller #the fact design software doesn’t check is my downfall #i love english bc it is broken and all rules are fake #but fuck it makes everything hard when you’re supposed to follow the ‘rules’

[bmpmp3]

utaformatix... save me..

utaformatix

save me utaformatix

#genuinely such a godsend that website #in the far off year of like. 2015 if you wanted to turn a vsqx into a ust and all you had was utau you had to fight for your life #but you can do anything now. any vpr. any vsq. any ust. any xml whatever. you can turn it into an svp or whatever your heart desires #IN SECONDS. AND THERES japanese lyrics conversion with romaji and kana and vice versa #so so awesome utaformatix if my best friend #im doing my playing on my computer with vocal synthesis instead of sleeping at 2am thing again and like #i decided to finally check out the new voicevox song pitch editing update #review: pitch editing rules. unfortunately it seems to have broken the pitch line display tho LOL #BUT not entirely. if you draw notes directly in the program its fine #i also tested out a musicxml file and it worked fine too #its JUST the ust importing is what im learning. theres an open issue on the github about the problem #it also only displays in pitch editing mode which im not sure is intentional or not. i think it is. im preferred it when it showed in both #modes personally like it was in the old update but thats okay either way. more important is the ust importing sitch #but i dont speak japanese so i dunno if i should mention something. id feel a little bad like hello. sorry im machine translating this #entire convo because i know exactly 1 kanji (hito.....looks like ^ but big...) but im doing the scientific method on your software at 2am #i'll figure out if and how to bring it up later. now i should sleep because i have a shift tomorrow which ive been ignoring <3

[whmp]

What stage of development are you on for your game? Are you still modeling assets or animating? I ask because I model and animate as a hobby.

it's still very much in the early early early stages of development, where i'm setting up systems that will later be populated with actual content: time, health, a mood system. currently wrestling with shaderlab to make a shader that will allow me to overlay transparent textures on top of whumpee so he can accumulate scars and bruises. and yep, creating new assets and animations is a more or less ongoing process! if you would ever want to contribute anything, feel free to shoot me a message. animations and models especially! i can handle programming but the art and animating is. well. let's just say that whumpee's topology and skeleton rig are best kept hidden away from players. :')

#whumpdev #dear anon if you know how to do rigging you are a wizard #animating in 3d is a wild ride full of twisted spines and broken bones when you port them from one piece of software to another #i was considering doing a remodel and rigging whumpee from scratch tbh because UGH his armature is nasty and his hair gives me nightmares #but that would take ages so idk

[manga-and-stuff]

Problem: The tablet I use to read manga has no decent blue light filter function build in, and my eyes always get really tired when I use it at night.

All the blue light filter apps out there only make the black parts of manga yellow and the whites stay white, kinda like this:

My solution:

The result:

Admittedly, it's a bit more yellow than I would like, but I'll probably get used to it and this was more of a test than anything else.

But it works, my eyes don't get tired anymore, and since I pretty much exclusively use this tablet to read manga, the tint isn't really a problem for other apps.

#the and stuff part of manga and stuff #the manga is planetes btw #I know there are other software solutions for this out there #but all of them had one shortcoming or another that made them unsuitable #I also got a super strong yellow tint on my computer screens #so much so that people at work constantly ask me if my screens are broken #tales from the toolbox #I like unconvetional solutions

[merge-conflict]

the tumblr text editor having some ephemeral weird to pin down but easy to trigger off-by-one error in its selection tool Sure Is Something.

#render unto the fucking draft editor the actual mark-up you will be sending to my browser thanks #software was a mistake #it's funny how the hardest thing in the computing world remains moving text between applications without shitting the bed on formatting #at least it's not as bad as that program I used that had some mysterious silent timer on a page #and if you were on it too long it would expire and you wouldn't know until you tried to save the text you were working on #and if it failed it just wouldn't save. and copying and pasting was broken #so you had to race it to get the copy & paste & fix the fucky formatting before it timed out every time #fortune top 10 company software btw #rambler rambler

[stemmmm]

taz animated is being exported 🤞

#m.txt #its gonna be over #nearly 6 years.......................... yes im sure i said 6 years before but i fact checked and it started 2017 not 16 #1 hour of babysitting my old broken tablet that had the video editing software on it #and also is mysteriously no longer broken (the bitch...) #and then probably another hour to get it on youtube #and then probably a lot of time to add subtitles to the video idk how to do that #and then. then i'll be free

[freebooter4ever]

one of the biggest ironies of my life that i was thinking about yesterday - i know that drag and drop / node-based 'coding' helps a wider (usually more visual) variety of brain types learn to program. this was the entire basis of the research group i was on for seven years in the burgh, and i completely agree with and support it. but im not that way at ALL. im that stereotype who likes pure code, and finds it easier to read the language and find patterns in the words/numbers/formatted lines than in nodes. i HATE nodes, and sometimes even fellow programmers look at me like im crazy for it.

Like dont give me that pretty but controlled interface, i want to know whats underneath.

#Journal shit #Its kinda like how while getting my computer science degree i discovered that while i love programming #I HATE graphics programming \o/ #When im supposed to be the person combining visual art and code #Its always made me feel like i was especially broken #Like i liked the really intense programming conceptual courses and software development and the basics of how a computer runs on assembly #All that was fascinating #And even machine learning was mildly entertaining #But shaders and technical support for rigs and procedural visual design and particles all that stuff bored the ever living shit out me #And all that stuff was exactly what my professors expected out of me #Between that and my general lack of real artistic talent #It always left me feeling less like im bridging the gap between computer science and art #And more that i am simply failing at BOTH lol

[magicmalcolm]

NEW BROKEN SWORD GAME?! 😲

#so many of my favourite game series are getting some love in 2024 #broken sword #broken sword shadow of the templars #broken sword 6 #broken sword parzival's stone #revolution software #george stobbart #nico collard #point and click #point and click adventure #broken sword shadow of the templars reforged