mimo @lyncia@pixie.town

pdas from thr fucking 90s are more productivity focused than todays cell phones

im not buying a cloud subscription suck my dick and balls google

it is 2025 and android wont allow me to write text in a text editor and then directly save to an external disk attatched via usb due to *squints* privacy and security reasons.

by the largest advertising company on the planet.

uh huh sure ok

just let me make weird trauma writings and play dress up and cards with my plushies

hate everything

computer (no)

google seriously why am i not allowed to write to external storage usb from like, a text editor app. what the fuck

continuing to kneecap android

the other thing was uh, backdrops! but I wasnt really focused on the space boundaries or walls and stuff at the time so I'd have to ponder that more.

I think I couldve solved it by plotting out on paper where things would go in the space, and looking for specific X value ranges to decide whether or not to show a sprite hidden from view, and when to hide them

so scratch is a very 2d thing. very strictly 2d. 3d had been done, but by people way way more skilled than i was.

I thought "well, I can make sprites smaller and larger in response to button presses right? and i can make 3d-ish backdrops that have the illusion of depth! so what if, you dont actually move at all, you're just scaling and moving sprites around to *look* like the player is moving around a 3d space."

I dont remember if I solved the problem of "how do I deal with objects that are outside or fall outside the vision cone and their positions, etc." but I did this much on my own and im super proud of it.

im really proud of how I figured out how to do an optical illusion of 3d (not true first person 3d, but it kinda looked like wolfenstein 3d a bit) in Scratch years ago without any help.

god i wish I had saved that. I do remember the main trick i used to do it tho

:(
*sad noises*

also im not dissing javascript itself, just the horrible things that its used for. I've done all sorts of small stuff on JS for resource limited platforms ( Hi KaiOS!!! :D )

the concept of not optimizing is so foreign to me because most of the programming ive ever done was within set resource restraints and limitations, so I had to be creative and looking for bytes to save

does anyone actually optimize their software or are they just not allowed to anymore

my computer isnt even *that* old I just dont have the money to have the latest hardware nor do i want to have the latest and greatest

i dont care about AI or raytracing or more cores, i just want to play old silly games, write, read, and talk to my friends

please upgrade from your perfectly serviceable machine, we wish to run more javascript

:(

im so tired of computational progress at all costs
and software always being so slow