as someone who learned c++ last week this feels like im reading and understanding hieroglyphs in an egyptian tomb

California: this spring i was looking at the northwest pacific current temperature, and figured that it was gonna be a hot one this year (there's some research that the Kyushio current can influence northern hemisphere weather). didn't make a post but i should have, this heat wave has gone global. been over 100 for a week now, soon i'm traveling in Eurasia and there's heatwaves at every destination i'm going to. i tend not to leave the house, partly due to the weather, partly due to the lack of social connections. it's not like i don't have friends, but summer seems to make them all drop off the map? there's probably a career to be made studying how intensifying heat affects human socialization, but in summary people aren't even doing the normal summer hangout things. no beach, no grill, etc. money is too tight and the air is too hot. the local forest service knocked out two brush fires this weekend, and if the winds pick up there'll be even more. the current off the coast here is supposed to be cold as it's coming down from alaska, part of the overall pacific gyre i alluded to earlier. if it heats up, it'll stay warm after the sun goes down, and when the land cools and the ocean doesn't, we'll get strong santa ana winds coming from the coast inland: perfect for a firestorm.

i used this, just cause it was the first thing to show up when i searched "pixel art." it works pretty much like photoshop, there's brushes, a fill tool, layers, stuff like that. i liked it a lot more than photoshop though, the brushes work really well even at low pixel sizes, and the text tool uses pixelized fonts

the dlc is incredible!! there are jumpscares, and if i'm correct reduced frights reduces some elements of the scare itself without fully eliminating the jumpscare. additionally, reduced frights changes a specific game mechanic that can allow you to complete the dlc without ever getting jumpscared if you're good. personally, I found that reduced frights felt more like the base game, and Echoes of the Eye relies far more on scary vibes and ambience than jumpscares, so you're not missing much if you use reduced frights.

even if you're not one for horror games i very much recommend playing the dlc. it's got hours worth of gameplay, some really out-of-the-box puzzles (even in comparison to the base game), and ties in to the overall storyline at the end – really i consider it to be an indispensable part of the game. just like the base game, i'm really jealous of anyone that has yet to play it.

I think that's actually what I'm noticing most of all? like right off the bat the news/politics communities are actually talking instead of making puns and tweet length comments