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Hey everyone,
I made a simple #GUI dynamically-resizing-for-cells table using #McCLIM #commonLisp Interface Manager while working on my #NicCLIM #gamedev (help menu display). If you didn't know what lisp's nsubst was like, I certainly used that.

tfw forgot link screwlisp.small-web.org/lispga

Might be nice just to see it working like it says on the back of the box #programming #UI

I'm not contending to be a graphic designer, but at some point you need a table of things, right.

#emacs too I guess.

Ended up writing a tool in Godot which allows me to quickly iterate on & render out prerendered backgrounds. At runtime, a stencil buffer is used to composite the background with dynamic geometry such as players. Looks pretty darn convincingly like an old PS1 game I think, and workflow is very convenient!

BTW: I'm currently looking for work and I *love* working on tools like this in any engine. So if you need somebody who loves automating things to make other peoples' lives easier, consider: Hire me please!!

[P] "Everyone in BG3 is player-sexual! They have no orientational identity ehatsoever." — Redditor

Player-sexual. Ha. That's a funny way to put it. Entirely correct, too. It is demeaning. Astarion can't be gay despite being twink-coded because he has to be a sycophantic clone of the player's desires. It feels gross that no one in BG3 has any sexual agency, but the lemmings love that demeaning, dehumanising shit.

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[P] It's what I prefer, anyway. I don't want a bunch of clones with no agency following me around. No thanks. I feel thougb that soon the triple-A cesspit will figure out this secret sauce and it'll be a new golden age of gaming for lemmings as every character bends over backwards to kiss wnd blow smoke up their arse. For me, it'll feel lile being gaslit since I won't be going along with the routine...

#baldursgate3 #psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #gamedev

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[P] In a mutualistic state, everyone should benefit, even those I disagree with or don't share the preferences of. If I have to fight, it's from a place of decency, fairness, and justness, to counter someone who's exploiting others to have them suffer for their benefit and gains. This makes me "morally rigid" in lemming-tongue, because apprently injustices are just? Lemmings are möbius loops unto themselves.

#baldursgate3 #psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #gamedev

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[P] In a D/s relationship as I understand it, it's about mutualistic aid. It's what I see with neurodivergents. But with lemmings, it becomes... warped. It's hard to articulate but, in a way, it's not really D/s, it's more like two switches vying for what they want out of it. It's a hiverarchy struggle, but sexualised. It's more about figuring out pecking order and who the lower-ranked sycophant is. It's unhealthy.

#baldursgate3 #psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #gamedev

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[P] If a character brainwashes and conditions themself to be what I want? I find that VERY offputting. But lemmings like that. An ideal world for a lemming is where everyone does that, so they can "fit in" and be the boss. I kind of have to talk about D/s vis-a-vis lemmings too, because it's all selfish with them, both sides of that coin are "DO IT THE WAY I L8KE!" and it's an insufferable greed. No kindness.

#baldursgate3 #psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #gamedev

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