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I'm going to wear a skirt tomorrow, i'm going to do it. I'm gonna do it. I'm going to wear one and go into town and look at books. I'm going to browse at the thrift store and buy nothing. I'm going to wile away the day existing in the real world and not from behind the screen.

gonna start putting a "cis dni" on our social media pages

are my tiddies just going to hurt forever now? or does pain mean growth? or is both true?

*sigh* the big depression is back again

more bed rotting it is

been able to get back into cooking a little bit this past week. I used to cook a lot and really loved it, loved expressing myself and being creative through food, but then [THE HORRORS] and for so long I just didn't have the energy or the focus.

maybe it's silly, but it feels just... really really nice. almost empowering. like I'm reclaiming a part of my life that I used to love and is actually good for me.

i have finally completed my big move to Big Gay City™! i'm hoping i can recover from the exhaustion that it caused soon, but for now i'll make good use of eepy mega

If I developed super powers I'd tell my family and friends, idk what powers I'm due based on my personality but I bet it be something weird.

This is the last time I do an outdoors event in August, think I might actually die next time

Do I hate my parents because being with them makes me feel like a child and I hate the feeling of being a child and find it utterly repulsive? Am I terrified of going through another puberty even when my first one was so horrid? Can Sigmund Freud explain what I am feeling?

Find out on the next episode of sodium nitride's hormonal getaways!

I gotta work on that show title.

Remember when Luigi shot that CEO?

That ruled

Some guy got really close to my face and gave me an air kiss.

What the fuck?

I'm literally boymodding. Do I have gay vibes or something?

I think my parents saw

Using Science! to figure out exactly how much of small talk is just lying [IRONIC]

I love sending texts to people who supposedly love me and not receiving a response for days!

I'm feeling bitter today and am going to take it out on my fuckass parents ....

IS THAT A MAO MAO COSPLAYER IRL?!?!

I kneel _ /---o_

::: spoiler gamedev rambling The fun thing about working with Rust (or maybe Bevy?) is that every silly little thing feels like such a huge accomplishment. It's like studying the arcane arts, I'm deep into Bevy source code or sparse documentation and when 0.17 comes out some of my code will probably need to change (for the better, of course), and occasionally if you cancel compilation at the wrong time it corrupts your build directory.

Anyway, I present to you, loading .ron files from a folder to populate item stats! This is probably a one-liner in Unity, lol, but that just ain't me.

The file structure:

InventoryItem(
  id: "sword_test",
  friendly_name: "Test Sword",
  scene_path: "sword_test.glb",
  item_type: Weapon(
    slot: PrimaryHand,
    two_handed: false,
    damage: ({
      Slash: 2
    })
  )
)

And partial code to actually deal with async loading:

#[derive(Resource, Default)]
pub struct ItemRegistry(Handle<LoadedFolder>, HashMap<String, InventoryItem>);

fn load_items(asset_server: Res<AssetServer>, mut item_registry: ResMut<ItemRegistry>) {
    // Preload everything in the folder.
    item_registry.0 = asset_server.load_folder("items");
}

fn folder_loaded(
    mut er_loaded_folder: EventReader<AssetEvent<LoadedFolder>>,
    folders: Res<Assets<LoadedFolder>>,
    items: Res<Assets<InventoryItem>>,
    mut item_registry: ResMut<ItemRegistry>,
) {
    for event in er_loaded_folder.read() {
        let AssetEvent::LoadedWithDependencies { id } = *event else {
            continue;
        };

        if id != item_registry.0.id() {
            continue;
        }

        let folder = folders.get(&item_registry.0).unwrap();

        for file in &folder.handles {
            let item = items.get(&file.clone().typed()).unwrap().clone();
            info!("discovered item {}", &item.id);

            item_registry.1.insert(item.id.clone(), item);
        }
    }
}

I am not sure at this point whether I'll keep the "stripping the InventoryItem out of the Handle," it doesn't seem necessary but it might be handy to not have the items cloned into player inventories - to ensure all instances of an item are the same, but if I want to do item XP or anything like that that kind of precludes it.

Of course, all this is to say nothing of the actual design of the game which uh looks like this.

And once again, I am very proud of the view model, which is apparently a somewhat standard term for the view of the player's hands and weapons in first-person (although I just resized the window and its no longer visible, so that's a problem lol oh no). Several confused rounds in Blender as the co-ordinate systems are weird and I basically had to set up the camera view to roughly match the game by eyesight in Blender. Oh, and I guess the 5-hour donut tutorial paid off because look at that HIGH-DEF ART.