Added a new enemy (the bottom one; using the second enemy sprite as placeholder). It shoots multiple times during its attack state. I plan on having it deflect bullets if it's in the normal state.

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I'm so glad that I bought my brother a dumb projector for his new apartment, so he doesn't have to buy a smart TV.

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> requirements
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PostgreSQL 14+ with pgvector extension
MongoDB for metadata storage

who the fuck

:neocat_gun: you have postgres you don't need mongo, stop that
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what an outrageous improvement this rewrite was. just look at how much shorter i can make this script with the new plugin

admittedly the first script was me just trying to kludge in any sort of persistent graphical change script into the engine, and this is the first attempt at making it, like, good, but it still counts
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Don't let the circus on TV distract you from the fact that I installed Linux Mint on an old PC and it's good. Glory be to Linux Mint.
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@qivzung no good country has mandatory military service. a good country would have plenty of people willing to join and wouldn't even need to give incentives. sorry you gotta' do that.

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@PurpCat If I were them, I would salvage the thing by adding a transparent prism or dome on top of the table so you could play pseudo-holographic games using the Pepper's Ghost illusion. The table is probably the only device big enough to project a full game that way.

inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=htHXboM

Why is this a thing? Someone I know recently got one. Who wants to spend nearly $1000 on a device that just plays digital versions of board games?

infinitygametable.com/

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The doomsday clock is the most stupid shit ever, how retarded do you have to be to buy into that

@cjd My theory is that there is a certain faction of the elites who hate the idea of a world government because it will destroy the war economy, which has been tried and true for ages now.

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Interestingly, World Government did not rank as either a popular future prediction or an under-rated one.

I think most everybody has come to the conclusion that that shit ain't gonna happen and Rockefeller or whoever can pound sand.
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This why you don't give people financial advice. No one can predict the future, and pretending like you can will get your friends rekt.

RT: https://poa.st/objects/b7bdd4e8-f83f-4ae7-8ce7-eb2577739f7b
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@BroDrillard @professionalbigot69 I struggle to think of real world problems that can't be done on 1/100th the compute available on the average laptop, aside from gay AI shit of course. ray tracing? completely optional

for HPC type stuff that is distributable, well we've had beowulf clusters for 30 years
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>I think if someone is making a 2D game they should probably just stick to Godot though.

I think Love2D is a better choice as it is more lightweight. Sure it may lack conveniences like a level editor or pathfinding, but it's simple enough for a middle schooler to pickup as Lua is one of the easiest programming languages to learn. There is also Pygame which is basically the same thing, but for Python. I see kids programming with these tools all the time, so they are easy for anyone to pickup.

I don't think a full-blown engine is needed for writing 2D games. You just need a basic grasp on geometry and trigonometry in order to work with 2D.

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