BougieBirdie

Sometimes I make video games

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  • I don’t like it very much, but the price is right.

    I used to play Overwatch, and abandoned it shortly after the Overwatch 2 debacle. A bunch of my friends kept up with OW2, and when Rivals came out they made the switch so I figured I’d give it a go.

    Season 0 was rough. It’s on Season 1 now and things are a bit better.

    Hitboxes are bad. Maps seem confusing, although that might be that my game sense hasn’t figured them out yet. Lag is an issue a lot of the time, and the game crashes more than I feel it ought to - but I’m on Linux which I feel isn’t officially supported.

    I saw an article the other day criticizing that you can’t type “Free Taiwan” into the chat. I guess I haven’t actually tested it to confirm, but gosh that leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

    I don’t go in for the battlepass, but my friends usually do when they play a game and they say it’s fair. They do have a model that allows you to purchase the battlepass and then continue to fill it out even after it’s no longer the current season. So if it takes you a long time to finish content, you’re not forced into playing more games for fear of missing out.

    When it’s fun, it’s a lot of fun. When it’s bad, my goodness, it’s bad. I guess it depends on how willing you are to gamble with your feelings. But hey, I guess you’re coming from League, so you might be ;)




  • I would love to be able to gift my unplayed games to others.

    I guess you do get into a problem where a group of people might swap the game back and forth to avoid ever having to pay for the game. But people will abuse any system, so I guess that would just be a cost of it

    If a game is still within the refund window, then maybe it should have an option to gift it. The devs / publishers could keep their money and Steam doesn’t have to process a refund. Seems like a win-win






  • My approach would involve using some kind of polygon library. When you draw lines, you’re really defining polygons within your canvas. In the case of regions B and C, the edge of the screen make up the rest of the polygon.

    Once you have your polygons defined, you can compare the coordinates of the click event to the polygons. With a good library, it should be fairly trivial to check if a point is within a polygon.

    In the case of region A, you’d find that a click is inside both region A and region B, so I guess I’d also check to see if there are multiple polygons a click could be inside. If there are, then you need to also see if a polygon is inside another polygon to determine the specific polygon clicked. This is also made much simpler by using a good library


  • Honestly, that’s tough, but fair. No therapeutic tool is going to be a magic bullet solution for everyone.

    My wife struggles with something similar. When we try to walk through an exercise together she thinks it’s about saying that her problems are “all in her head.” For my own outlook, I liken it to thinking that although my thoughts might be faulty, my feelings are valid. But hey, I’m not an authority, I’m just another struggling human trying to make sense of it all.

    For what it’s worth, one stranger to another, I think that whatever you’re going through you’re totally valid. I hope you find or have found some relief - goodness knows we’re still looking


  • I highly recommend Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. CBT is the best medicine I can afford, because all you need is pen and paper.

    If you don’t think you can change your circumstance, then you can try to change how you react to it. The core model of the therapy is to analyze your thoughts and look for patterns in which your brain tries to fuck with you. Identifying distortions and fallacies helps to replace your automatic thoughts with more positive ones.

    Example:

    Thought: I hate my job, everything about it sucks

    Distortions: Overgeneralization, All-or-Nothing Thinking, Feelings as Facts

    New Thought: I hate certain parts of my job, but I like X part of it

    The whole thing only works if you believe in it, and the important thing is that you’re not just putting a sunny face on things that make you feel terrible. You’re working to restructure your thought based on objective truth.


    I’ve struggled for a long time with the Sunday Scaries. Sometimes it feels like it’s never going to get easier, and I’m going through it right now, but I know if I take the time to untangle my feelings then things end up easier in the long run.

    Good luck out there, partner


  • For me, I spent thirty years in the closet waffling back and forth between “am I a boy or am I girl” before I finally decided that I must be a secret third thing

    For me, “non-binary” is a pretty cool label because it’s a non-label. And at the end of the day, I’m kind of about defying expectations so a non-label is perfect for me. It doesn’t serve me to have my life experience put in some little box to make other people more comfortable

    If labels are helpful to you, then sure, it’s worth exploring. But labels can hold you back too. At the end of the day, a person is far more complex and interesting than any label they might have assigned to them

    Although I do understand that it’s not actually correct, “everyone is a little bisexual,” does seem to line up with my experiences and biases. However, “everyone is a little non-binary” does not, so if you feel a little bit that way then congratulations! You’re one of the special humans and that’s worth celebrating