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DrTeflon

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Freelance writer and PR. Runs Hu3Br and often dabbles in game design.

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Everyone's like "oh, run your own website, why don't people just run your own website" an then self-hosting a website turns out to be a miserable, grueling, thankless, neverending grind with the occasional risk of something really dangerous happening and it's your fault

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@mcc I've been running my website for uhh checks notes 12 years and GOD it hurts

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stuck on part 3 of 3 bureaucracy tasks for the week cause the website is slow/keeps erroring out 🙃

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@eniko Eniko I swear I will go myself to cyprus and punch people on your behalf

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kudos to nintendo for paving the way for 30 dollar indies by pricing their releases at 80 dollars 🫡

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@eniko Id pay 30 dollars for an indie game, I will not, for a nintendo game

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Woof, slept like dogshit 😞

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@eniko Saaaameeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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Think I might finally be ready to start on that Ultima-like game I've been dreaming of making for ~30 years 🤔

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@eniko Chat, she is starting to believe.

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@eniko God, i've dreaming about this since I saw the very early mockup you did after what, midboss?

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@eniko Yeeeeeahh

@eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , (edited ) to random

what should i work on for my one day a week where i can work on anything i want?

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@eniko This poll is going exactly as I expected

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tfw subsidizing the local subway system

3 subway trains all running at a loss
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@eniko Eniko entered her OpenTTD era again, this is not a drill

@eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , to random

its always baffling to see people say "oh i felt so much better once i started walking half an hour a day and my mental health improved too"

ive been walking half an hour a day for a while now and i dont feel particularly better :|

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@eniko This is as a useful advice as "you should go to the gym and feel better", it might work for like 50% of the population, but it might not for you.

I loathed going to the gym during my first year, 0 help with my mental health. It was only when I started to write down my thoughts and feelings that I noticed that my head was very full of worries (still is, just less, mind you) that I can go and have a good time.

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We're gonna need more Luigis

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@eniko like 100 more at the very least

@eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , to random

i didnt realize until just now that 2025 marks 10 years since i graduated college and went fulltime on gamedev

feeling kind of messed up about it lol

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@eniko My website is turning 12 in a couple of days and that is fucking me up in so many levels.

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@eniko And i'm def on the same camp as you. While i'm "glad" with what I did, — which was supporting indies and talking about strategy games — I wish I could've done more, had more support, more financial help. Gah

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so a resist lib self described former cop with (apparently?) a genai avatar on bsky has a porn bots blocklist that he's adding random people to. someone posts about it, and i boost their post and block the dude

and he vindictively added me to the porn bot block list

apparently he's since removed me again but folks, lemme tell ya, this is why im not a big believer in block lists. it's almost like they get abused to launder the owner's petty grievances every. single. fucking. time

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@eniko I was watching you talking about it and I HATE those lists, I'm on 3 or 4 for some reason and I have no idea why, I barely use the platform.

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The cat has fully settled in to the new place as this is the first night she's been kicked out of the bedroom for being rowdy. Commence the caterwauling!

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@eniko Every morning I have to kick my orange cat out bc he bothers me for food at 5 am (his time to eat is 8am)

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@eniko He doesnt meows a lot, just STARES at you like this expecting food and then messing around with the window blinds or pushing things around

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i wanna dip my toe into 3d gamedev but its hard because i'm so comfortable with 2d stuff that it feels silly trying to learn so much new shit 🙃 like, i could just continue making 2d games, itd be fine

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@eniko You know how you can make still working on 2d games.

Making a topdown one. A RPG one, maybe with classes or with skills instead of fixed classes.

an ultima like, if you will

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@eniko One day I'll be rich to fund kitsune games upcoming devs for years (dont have an ETA on that yet)

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My cat in a classic pose

Bluepoint Siamese cat laying on a tan lack table
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@Njord I lover her nose

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@Njord awww, but besides the change in color, did affect her health in any way?

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thinking about making ultima online again, again 🤔

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@eniko Do it, price it at 70 USD and i'll buy three copies (look I dont have a lot of money okay)

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should i make a blog post about the politics of the world of kitsune tails and how we alluded to them within the text of the game?

(y)es / (n)o / (c)ancel

EDIT: i should have made this a poll huh

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Tbh? Same

An image from Caves of Qud where it depicts a being with pink skin / armor and the being says "I want salt in my mouth, dead eyes in radiating darkness, and a frog for a friend"
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@eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , to random

Starting to think maybe I should take a break from reading social media since everything seems to fill me with dread and anxiety right now

Problem: social media is basically my only social outlet thanks to the ongoing and ever-ignored pandemic lmao

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@eniko you know me where to find me at discord if you ever want to vent

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Me, being very smart and proactive: I'll write down notes about this coding idea so when I get to implementing it I can read them and remember my thought process

Me, later, reading the notes: what the fuck was I talking about, what the fuck does any of this mean

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@eniko A few weeks go on couples therapy, my therapist asked me to take some notes and I said beforehand "ok my cursive isn't great". fast forward minutes later and she was

@eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , to random

I just wanna brag about the fact the estimates for porting Kitsune Tails have gotten slashed in half twice because I did a good job preparing it to be easier to port

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@eniko high fives past eniko, and current eniko

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oh no im getting nerd sniped into thinking about hot code reloading

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@eniko I have very little idea what hot code reloading means but picture you manning a cannon made out of code and njord pouring water on it and yelling "SHOOT"

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Moving sucks I'm so tired of cardboard boxes 😫

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@eniko You're moving..again?

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trying to advocate for fedi outside of fedi sucks. is this what people who advocate for linux feel like? >_>

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@eniko Pretty much? I gave up. I use Mastodon as my primary "personal" account and it's just easier to follow hashtags here.

I use bsky out of necessity, I like mastodon, everything else (news etc) is what Inoreader is for

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....... soundcloud doesn't let you seek through audio anymore unless you log in?

what the fuck is this shit

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@eniko Nor does let you listen to songs after you listened to uh... two or more on your mobile browser.

I used to have a lot of songs fav'd there and I simply downloaded.

@eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , to random

Ah yes, Mintrocket, a corporation that we're supposed to think of as an indie developer even though it's actually a wholly owned subsidiary of Nexon, is now looking to create a Dave the Diver "cinematic universe of games" which is also a super indie thing to do

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@eniko a WHAT universe

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I dont know if it's the weather or the fact waking up to dead internet for 3 hours was that stressful or if it just threw my routine that much but I've felt super fucking anxious all day

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@eniko I woke up early then went back to sleep and now i'm a fucking ball of anxiety for no reason

@eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , to random

jesus christ there's a lotta code in kitsune tails

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@eniko reached the "find out" period of gamedev again huh

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i dont know who needs to hear this but you can disable youtube's "autoplay on mouse over" behavior in the site's preferences

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@eniko I need more than that Eniko, I need to block 1000 channels with "you should finish more games" or "the tragic X of Y" just because I was looking up gran turismo time trials

@eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , (edited ) to random

giving the gestures everything, it's getting harder and harder to tell myself that my fondness for retro games and hardware is really nostalgia and not because things were actually better

EDIT: i don't mean only gaming, i mean general computing

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@eniko Are you talking from a gaming dev / programmer perspective or gaming in general?

if its the former, girl I can spend like 3hrs on a rant about the current state of racing games

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@eniko As I said to a friend (that runs a website too), 2023 and 2024 are breaking me slowly. I've played a bunch of great games (that will sell like shit), I cant help but despair about layoffs, i'm tired of seeing my friends struggle

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I feel for the Godot team, especially their social/community team

But also, getting brigaded for making a little joke with a rainbow emoji in it is what you should expect if you continue to stay on Twitter because "that's where the audience is!"

That audience is full of bigots screaming about woke and DEI now since many more reasonable and more vulnerable people, you know, left

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@eniko As someone whose country blocked twitter, you have no idea how many hoops i am having to go through to contact indie devs bc they're only on fucking twitter

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my blog now has a links page containing a button wall! :D https://enikofox.com/links/

let me know if i missed you

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@eniko my website isn't cool enough to have one :(

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made an 88x31 banner for my blog (https://enikofox.com)

88x31 banner reading "Eniko does bad things to code" with a purple haired girl next to it, zoomed to 400%
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@eniko can I get a "this site is hentai free" too?

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Was taking painkillers and, as always, feeling low key stressed out about running out cause you can only get them in person at a pharmacy and it's such a massive pain to get to the pharmacy here

Then remembered we're gonna move to a place where there's a pharmacy a 7 minute walk away and so I'll never have to worry about this again. That was nice

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@eniko you... you cant get painkillers delivered to your house?

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@eniko Sorry its just that it feels WEIRD to me, I can call up my local pharmacy and go "hey can I get some uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ibuprofen" and they would be like "yeah sure thing buddy, it will be there in no time!"

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Holy shit Cyprus can you fuck off

Barometric pressure graph. Over the last two days it has gone up so much the line might as well be vertical
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@eniko Eniko, I swear, if one day I'll get rich (highly unlikely) I will find a place for you to settle that's not goddamn awful.

We might need to research space travel first tho

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so apparently kitsunegames.com's RSS feed is served on http and not https and im not sure if there was a good reason for that or not. does anyone know if serving an RSS feed off https is a problem? i feel like given the entire site is served on https there's probably some kinda reason the feed is not

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@eniko absolutely no idea, just checked mine and it is using https without any input from me

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idea from @catraxx that i'm reposting in the hopes it will somehow become a reality: someone should stand up an Ultima Online server for the fediverse >_>

EDIT: poll for interest in a reply to this post, please vote to register your interest

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@eniko Sure, I would love for my productivity to plummet, again (let's go)

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the people with large audiences who joined a huge mastodon server, expected it to function exactly like twitter, were very upset about the lack of moderation but also unwilling to move to other, better moderated servers, are on bluesky bagging on mastodon

i've tried my best to defend the place on there but you know, i prefer to talk to people rather than at or over them so i don't have a lot of clout on bluesky lmao

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@eniko I'm only using my "following" feed and a bunch of curated feeds lik idk, "urbanism". But the time it took for me to see something triggering there from a brazilian user vs last month was....fast.

I know i'm "part of the problem" by staying on social, but at least here I can follow tags (and I do) so I have NO idea what's the actual local feed like. I just follow what I want.

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So we went to the immigration office and didn't meet with the advocate who was supposed to be there. Could not reach him on the phone. Finally called our agent who called him and found out the immigration office had just canceled all yellow slip appointments for the day because they were "too busy" and he was trying to fix it

Sat around in 35C for a fucking hour not hearing anything. Called our agent again and they found out the advocate had just fucking up and left without even telling us to go home. Damn near got heatstroke cause we were masked and didn't have water to drink even if we weren't

This appointment took us two months to get. The solution to this is to travel to the capital instead which would cost 300 euros in cab fare and 4 hours. We would have to do this (at least) twice. I fucking hate Cyprus

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@eniko I'm baffled as to how things constantly go sideways ever since you moved to cyprus (I know it was worse before)

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Kitsune Tails has a release date! As just announced on Wholesome Direct, our Mario-like featuring queer fox girls will be coming to Steam and itch.io (Windows, Linux) on August 1st, 2024!

Wishlist or try the demo now on Steam at https://store.steampowered.com/app/1325260 or find more info at https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

Yuzu as a super fox dashing through the air over spikes. Above is the Kitsune Tails logo. Below the release date "August 1st, 2024"
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@eniko LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOO IM SO HAPPY FOR YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

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current mood

anime catgirl slams glass mug on the bartop and says "i did my best" in a slurred manner with tears in her eyes
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@eniko You absolutely did. You did amazing