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:alert_red: ALERT THIS IS NOT A DRILL :alert_red:

LITTLE CAESARS HAS BROUGHT BACK THE PRETZEL CRUST PIZZA!

I SHIT YOU NOT :cumsplat:
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We desperately need something like discord but FOSS, they are building fucking forms into Discord that can't be interacted with except through a GUI in an official app. This is really bad.
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Fun fact I learned only recently, two old harry potter games were based on an unreal engine version with features somewhere between UT99 and Unreal 2 (skeletal animations and a proper particle system). And it has an active modding community

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When you talk about the network of servers that enable you to read this message, do you and/or people you know normally say "mastodon" or "the fediverse" (or something else entirely)?

Honestly, the biggest roadblock for me in gamedev is art. I've always been a terrible artists and sites like OpenGameArt either don't have what you are looking for or have art that was made by someone who clearly doesn't know how sprites work. And even if you do find something, it ends up not mixing well with your artstyle.

Music is even worse. Not that many people compose free to use music for video games. The music selection on OpenGameArt is proof of that. I can't even bother to learn music theory and I don't know how self-taught musicians are able to do it. Not to mention that these musicians sometimes don't make their music loop properly. I've even seen some of them add fucking fade outs in their music.

Now you may ask "why don't you just hire someone?" I'll tell you why, I'm cheap and even then, artists are fucking stubborn from what I can tell. If you don't let them have creative freedom, then they won't work for you. Not to mention that some specialize in a certain artstyle, so it is hard to find the one you are looking for. Also, in this political climate, I don't want to be associated with what any of my artists say, and I have no control over them.

That said, if you have unused sprites, music, sound effects, models, etc laying around, please consider uploading them to sites like OpenGameArt or itch.io.

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@coolboymew @guizzy @Moon @triodug @why sites are simple:

<html> tag wraps whole thing
<head> is for metadata and loading in stuff like external CSS or JS files
<body> is for the actual content

some of the most commonly used elements are:
<h1> large heading, and there's some smaller ones h2, h3, h4, h5, h6
<p> paragraph that breaks lines above and under it (if you put another <p> in the html it will be divided on a new line), use this for normal text
<a href="link"> a link (<a>nchor)
<img src="link-to-image" alt="alt text if the image doesn't load or if it's a text based browser/accessibility"> image element
<span> generic text element with no styling, you can do <span style="color: red">hi there</span> and only that part will be styled like that. it inherits the styling of its parent element so normally it would be no different than the rest of the paragraph.

<div> it's a plain box element, you can style it however you want.

and CSS styles elements like this:

<a>hello</a>
a {
color: red;
}
any anchor will appear red ^

<a class="foo">bar</a>
.hello {
color: red;
}
any anchor with the class foo will appear red ^

<a id="foo">bar</a>
#hello {
setting: value;
setting: value;
}
any anchor with the id foo will appear red ^ id'd elements have to be unique

it helps to think of every HTML element as a box with slightly different properties. their style is (usually) relative to their parent element. if you have:

<div width="500px">
<div width="100%"></div>
</div>

the nested div will be 100% of its parent element, which is 500px wide. the height difference

a very basic website:
<html>
<head>
<title>coolboymew's site</title>
<style>
/* this is a comment. margin: 0 removes the default thing where it has a border around the content it's a dumb default browser styling */
body {
background-color: #eeeeee;
color: #111111;
margin: 0;
font-family: sans-serif;
}

/* makes the hyperlink color less of an eyesore */
a {
color: #3471eb;
}

a:visited {
color: #8e55d4;
}

/* change holor on cover */
a:hover {
color: #06a2d6;
}

.nav a {
margin-right: 8px;
}

/* sets the min width to 400px so phones don't suffer as much. margin: auto; centers it */
.content {
width: 50%;
min-width: 400px;
margin: auto;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="content">
<h1>welcome to my web site</h1>
<div class="nav">
<a href="https://shitposter.club/coolboymew">fedi</a>
<a href="https://example.org/whatever">whatever else</a>
</div>
<p>hi i am very cool. this is my <span style="color: red;font-weight: 800;text-decoration:underline">website</span></p>
<p>and an image:


<img src="https://asbestos.cafe/instance/creature.png" alt="creature" width="300px">
</body>
</html>
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