Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

It's X fortnight in our #BoardGamesAToZ challenge. We have exactly one game that starts with X:

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/82222/xia-legends-drift-system

It requires more than two players, though, so we'll have to wait until game night to play it.

Game night is scheduled for the very last day of the fortnight. Letting everything ride on that is just asking for us to come down with hemorrhagic gastroenteritis or Dutch elm disease or something, so we played a prophylactic game of Xiangqi on boardgamearena just to be safe.

#BoardGames #xiangqi #xia

No, it's not snowing. #Violet has just been underfoot during the pie-making. #DogsOfMastodon #baking

I've remapped my function keys so F1 makes a vroom noise and F5 spawns a tornado.

Want to see more gender diversity in tech? The National Center for Women & Information Technology needs reviewers for their Aspirations in Computing High School Award, which "honors 9th-12th grade women, genderqueer, and non-binary students for their computing-related achievements and interests, and encourages them to pursue their passions":

https://www.aspirations.org/get-involved/volunteer-reviewers

#ncwit #WomenStem #diversity #volunteer #education #ComputerScience #tech

Interacted with someone named "Chantheavy" and now I want to start a Gregorian metal band.

Unity mystery:

1) In a new scene, create a cube. Give it scale 5,5,5, a transparent material, and make its BoxCollider a trigger.
2) Create a sphere inside the cube. Give it a RigidBody with no gravity.
3) Attach this script to the cube:
public class Hark : MonoBehaviour
{
private void OnCollisionStay(Collision other)
{
if (other.gameObject.name != "Ground")
{
Debug.Log(other.gameObject.name);
}
}
}
When run, shouldn't the cube detect the sphere inside it? Why doesn't it? How can I detect that?

#unity #unity3d #GameDev

Unity: Visual effects should be updated once per rendered frame (Update), but physics should be updated at a fixed rate (FixedUpdate), so the speed of the machine doesn't affect the speed of the game.

Also Unity: Collisions are detected per frame.

(Is this accurate?)

#unity #unity3d #GameDev

Cleaning out some files at the top level of my Google Drive. For many, the verdict is "this might be useful someday, but re-deriving it from first principles would be easier than finding it". #yeet

If you are cloven in twain by Gondar's sword, that counts as a bisection, but if one of your limbs is bitten off by his steed, that's merely a clamputation. #WhatWouldGondarDo