I Think About This Post Every Time I Have Some Difficulties With My Linux Setup (basically Daily)

proud to be learning c++

hyperfixated on this game so hard i tried to recreate ac syndicate's animus database using html css and js👍

i will make this responsive though, i've only started doing the frontend but i'll also start doing the backend as soon as i finish this

basically this is gonna be a website that will allow you to create a database of your assassin's creed OCs (btw this was inspired by @gwen-the-assassin's idea <33) and help you with worldbuilding and making AUs (i know the ac fanon wiki already exists for that but i wanted to make the experience of keeping a database more immersive u know....)

this might take a while to be completed, but I'll try to post updates on it as much as possible! if there are any programmers/web developers in the ac fandom that want to contribute to this project plsplspls DM me!!

actual pic of the database for comparison:

ik it's not entirely accurate but this is the simplest database in the game that i could recreate lmao

also code snippets just cuz (+ me crashing out)

I don't expect porn games to have top-notch gameplay, but I do at least expect them to engage with the mechanical conventions of the genres they're pornifying. "RPG where you have sex with the monster when you lose a fight" bullshit – I want to see porn versions of those tedious filler puzzles every indie RPG is apparently contractually required to have. Let's see an erotic version of the Towers of Hanoi.

i post from here. if you even care.

every single thing involving a computer is designed to put something into our senses. until a human looks at it, and interprets it, it is nothing. it isn't 'data'. it isn't 'ones and zeroes'. it's just some electrons and photons moving around, as is their wont.

but if we arrange those electrons just so, and let them do their thing, we can create a pattern that someone will experience as bits, registers, numbers, letters, instructions, algorithms, messages, financial transactions, videos, thoughts, worlds, etc etc.

the whole project of computer programming is corraling the electrons into situations where they will obey rules we have in our heads. electrons are surprisingly predictable, so this isn't a fool's errand. but every layer of the stack of abstractions is something we built: arranging one thing to produce a pattern we want to see. the chip arranged so the 'high and low voltages' fit our idea of 'bits' and 'logic gates'. the screen whose lights create a 'field of colour' for an organism that has this level of visual acuity, this frequency response in its cone cells, this capacity to see shapes and edges. these bits and logic organised into an 'algorithm' that takes 'data' that we think of as 'vertices' and 'triangles' and produces the appearance of 'perspective rendering', which approximates our concept of a '3D object', of even a 'virtual world'.

we have gotten so very very good at producing these patterns that it's easy to see them as something natural, and miss all the layers of orchestration behind even the simplest operation. computers are a game played between humans.

I distinctly remember ranting on tumblr about a problem in my code like half a year ago and I was frustrated with arrays of strings in c++ and I REMEMBER a furry adding a comment that just said “you could try parsing the string uwu” and I did it and it WORKED and I was so relieved because I had been fighting with it for like a week.

The only problem is I can’t find that post and I think I dreamt it up. I think God came to me in a dream as a furry responding to my tumblr post to help me fix my code. I am going insane why did my brain do this.