Gemini Links 01/03/2024: OFFLFIRSOCH 2024 and Dark Streets Tech Demo
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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the value of relationships
I maybe value relationships more than the average person. My therapist tells me I over prioritize my relationships, and I mean… she isn't wrong. But I don't do this by accident, I don't do this because of something like co-dependence or misplaced feelings. I do this because its what I value in life.
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Technology and Free Software
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Announcing OFFLFIRSOCH 2024
It's the first of March, my smol friends! Do you know that that means? It means that the announcement for this year's Remote Outdoor Off-Grid Phlogging Challenge, aka ROOPHLOCH, is six months from now. Further, it means that the announcement for last year's ROOPHLOCH is six months behind us. Today, right now, is the furthest point on the calendar from ROOPHLOCH. Which means if somebody wanted to start, gasp, a *second* annual smol community challenge, and wanted to make sure people could participate in both it *and* ROOPHLOCH every year with the absolute minimum possible risk of burning out on self-imposed computing obligations, today would be exactly the correct date on which to start that second challenge! Hmm...
On an extremely related note, I am delighted to announce that today marks the beginning of the inaugural OFFLine-FIRst SOftware CHallenge, or OFFLFIRSOCH. That's right, I managed to come up with an *even worse* name! This may not even be my final form. In my head OFFLFIRSOCH is pronounced "Awful Fur Sock" (perhaps it's made of KangaROO PHur?). Yep, that's gross, but be grateful I didn't choose the obvious alternative involving discarded internal organs...
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Dark Streets Tech Demo 1
Dark Streets is a first-person shooter for PICO-8, mechanically most similar to Wolfenstein 3D or Blake Stone, but also inspired by Doom, Blood, and Ion Fury.
I have been slowly developing this game in my free time over the last year and a half. I referenced LoDev and a paper by Amanatides and Woo for some of the raycasting steps, but the rest of the code and graphics are mine.
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Internet/Gemini
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Nothing 🗨️
Sometimes I start a gemlog entry and give up because even I can't be bothered to read it. So here's some trivia.
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* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.