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Aquila @sh.itjust.works
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What creative project have you long wanted to start but never have?
  • Imma be blunt. Maybe your attitude is contributing to the ‘Several degrees of idiocy at work’

    Dudes tryin to be helpful with beginner tips and you jump down his throat. The irony of you saying crud isn’t trivial 😂

  • What creative project have you long wanted to start but never have?
  • I’m also in the learning how to make games path. So far I’ve learned you want to:

    1. Write idea down on paper. What’s the game loop? How do you win/lose? This becomes the start of your game document
    2. Prototype in game engine of choice. Speed above all else. Don’t make it pretty make it functional. Make it feel good to play.
    3. Vet the idea. Playtest the game with friends, family, randos. Watch them play, only explain what they need to know to test what you’re interested in. Sit back, watch and take notes. Do they find it fun? What do they think is cool about it? What’s frustrating them? Focus on the fun parts. Maybe the idea is a dud. Don’t be afraid to scrap it and move on to another. Some bad ideas can be salvaged. If people find some part of the game really cool take that an run with it. This process will likely take many iterations to find a good idea.
    4. Once you have your idea nailed down that’s when real development starts. Plan plan plan. Write everything down on paper first. Analyze your prototype and plan out all the systems the game will need and how it’ll be architect. Then scrap the prototype and build a vertical slice polished game demo.
    5. This is getting really long but from there you can get funding or just throw that up on steam to start generating wishlists while you build the full game.

    A lot easier said than done! But thanks for coming to my Ted talk

  • Beginner strength trainer here who just increased the weight of her dumbbells.
  • I’m a dude so maybe this doesn’t hold up for you but when I first started I’d get discouraged from putting in tons of hard work for weeks and even a month or two and not see significant progress in the mirror. But would have people complimenting me after about a month.

    You’ll feel your gains long before you notice in the mirror. And other people will notice your gains long before you’ll see them. So don’t let that discourage you! I didn’t see progress I wanted for many months. (But I also had terrible nutrition which didn’t help)

  • This is the type of pull up bar that I have, how should I use it optimally?
  • All methods target different groups of muscle more or less. If you can only do negative pull ups. Grab a chair to put your feet on to assist as needed. Or have a partner hold your ankles as you do pull ups and you can press with your legs when you need assistance.

    Start by doing negatives where you lower yourself as slow as possible for 20 secs

    Once you can do one pull-up. Do one, take a break, do another and keep doing that until you can’t. Then switch back to negatives

  • Grind rule

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    What games aren't incremental?

    Unlocking better gear/powerups/abilities is the basis of games. Is this supposed to be a generic gaming sub?

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    Is it possible to de-duplicate lemmy posts from other instances?

    It’s annoying seeing the same headlines numerous times linking to same stuff because it’s cross posted to 3+ instances.

    Is there a setting to reduce that or app that handles that well?

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    Brown rule

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    What tools do you use for play testing?

    Any good tools out there that make it easy to Playtest with people? Would like to have screen, player on camera, and mic recorded while they play test ideally.

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    Is there a way to save images to an album?

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    I spent $10k on food last year. What’s good way to track grocery spending?

    So I’m just one dude and 10k a year just on food seems incredibly high. I don’t go out that often, ~$1600 was at restaurants. I’m not really sure what I’m doing wrong while shopping at grocery stores and want to track grocery purchases better. The store I typically go to doesn’t have online receipts to use.

    I’m wondering what kind of apps are available for tracking grocery expenditures that Lemmings would recommend? It would be nice to be able to go back and check prices/sizes of things too, so what is being shrinkflated/skimpflated

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    How do you remove an account from the app?

    Deleted an account from the instance but it still shows in app.

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