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The Monster (memoir excerpt)

20September2024sashaAdminWriting

The little fucker was giving me the evil eye! I could sense his little reptilian brain planning his attack. His evilness was palpable, he was pretending to look forwards, oblivious of my presence, but I knew, I knew! The bastard was just waiting for his moment to pounce. I was approaching from behind, cautious yet

A Poisoned Glass of Water

4September2024sashaAdminPosts

“I’m thirsty” my mother said, “go down to the kitchen and get me a glass of water.” I didn’t like the idea, in fact it scared the shit out of me, the kitchen was dark and had huge windows which framed even darker, unknown regions of the night. I was seven years old, our kitchen,

Why The Last of Us is the best (modern) video game ever made

2September2024sashaAdminGames

The Last of Us is the best video game ever made in the last 20 years. There, I said it! I was going to write “arguably the best video game ever made” but screw that! It’s not arguable, it is!!! 😅 Here’s why. The Story If you’ve played it, or have seen the HBO adaptation,

Character Design: Posh Fly

28August2024sashaAdmin2 CommentsCharacterscharacter design

I went to visit my sons who live in Bristol while the youngest is in Uni. I took Sasha with me, we had ourselves a decadent barbecue (with a whole lot of drama finding charcoal but that is a story for another post) and Sasha got to gnaw on some bones. And there was much

The True Measure of Success

1April2024sashaAdminGeneral

In the Western world we measure success by how much money an individual has, how financially comfortable they are in life. There are myriad examples of this, we revere and idolise people like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, et al even the Enron, etc CEOs who stole people’s pensions and committed fraud but, hell they were

Godot GDScript and C#

10January2024sashaAdminGames, Godot Engine

GDS is a very capable language, no doubt about it. And it’s very easy to learn and you can do some amazing things with it without having to learn in-depth programming concepts like Object Oriented Programming, Inheritance, classes vs structs, modularity, interfaces, etc. But it’s not a great language to build maintainable, modular code. For

On Screen Visibility in Godot

24December2023sashaAdminGames, Godot EnginegodotEngine

Notifier Useful to delete nodes no longer visible onscreen, etc. Enabler Can be used to check if a node is visible in the camera. Then perhaps trigger some behaviour. Though this is attached to the process method, which executes on every frame, it will only print that when the enemy is visible on screen. Customisation

Godot RemoteTransform2D

24December2023sashaAdminGames, Godot EnginegodotEngine

Use it to control which transforms are inherited from the parent. Very useful when you want maybe only the position and not scale or rotation to be inherited. Camera2D follow player The easiest way to do this is by making the camera a child of the player. But this has issues because it will inherit