stickyShift

u/stickyShift@midwest.social
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on So good! · c/foodcrimes · 1 pts · 340d

Hate to break it to you man, that's not Blue Cheese, it's blue cheese

on He's helping! · c/dogs · 6 pts · 362d

When cooking, it's important to wear the proper attire:

  • Apron
  • Boots

That's it, nothing else.

Some to check out, depending on what you're looking for:

Godot

Open-source 2D and 3D game engine. Very flexible and powerful, but also really easy to get started. Open source, so no dealing with licensing, etc. Easy to find tutorials and has built in tilemaps with collisions etc, some basic player control nodes that will auto generate a default script with input. Also has a nice animation player system that makes it easy to script up events. Write your game logic with C# or GDScript, which is basically Python with types and some other improvements.

GameMaker Studio

Another general-purpose 2D and 3D game engine. Trades a bit of flexibility for more beginner-friendliness. Supports drag & drop visual scripting for absolute beginners, or GML, a JS-like language, for more advanced scripting. Also has built-in tile editors and easy to implement player controllers. $100 dollar one time license fee for commercial projects (more for consoles).

RPG Maker

Much more focused and limited engine for building 2D RPGs. Going to be more plug & play, supports simple scripting with JS, but you're going to have a harder time customizing things that don't work how you want them to out of the box. Usually ~$80 but is on sale for $12 right now.

You can access hidden apps by searching for them in the app drawer. Afaik no way to add a gesture to an icon. Lawnchair is definitely not as customizable as the likes of Nova, its goal is to make the Pixel Launcher more usable with some commonly used customization features. That makes it significantly less bloated than other launchers, but it might be missing some things you're used to.

ELI5: what does it mean to cheat at golf? I've only golfed about 6 times in my life, and everyone I've golfed with does a Mulligan on every other hole, tosses a ball hit into tall grass onto the fairway, throws out a new ball if they hit it into the woods, etc. They'll usually add another stroke to their score for these, but what does it matter if you're only playing against yourself?

Obviously if you're playing in a tournament or professionally, doing the above would count as "cheating", but it's not clear to me where the line is

It doesn't help that media often portrays this incorrectly. Take the movie Lightyear, for example. Sure, it's a sci fi movie for kids so it doesn't have to be scientifically accurate, but the way they portray it is completely nonsensical. They show Buzz Lightyear trying to reach light speed in his space ship. Each time he flies around the sun, he goes faster, but more time has passed on the planet he left by the time he gets back. In reality, the faster you go, the less time it takes you to get somewhere (from some external reference of time). It's just your experience of time that changes.

Interstellar is at least a little bit closer (ignoring the whole time travel part)