Ian Snyder @is@mastodon.social

anyway, eardrums

gotta start with the number 0, and once that's sorted, move on to the next number

yessiree, these posts are really "doing the numbers"!

really upping my social media game with these regular human posts

do you ever just stop and think about how fundamentally weird it is that your eardrum has the ability to twitch?

"interesting polytempo... ah, this synth is soft and yet so clear... wait a minute"

there is a very rhythmic pigeon near this coffee shop whose cooing it took me a solid minute to realize was not part of the music playing downstairs

the wrinkle that makes this one *really* fun is that it only happens when I call the particular function I'm working on. this function doesn't crash the game, doesn't throw an error, in fact, this function doesn't appear to do *anything* abnormal.

...except silently guarantee the unity editor will freeze when I try to stop testing

today unity is doing this fun thing where the editor freezes every time I exit play mode, which is cool and great and I love

while I'm on it, my kingdom for an untruncated and monospaced debug console

today's fun quirk is the editor freezing every five minutes so that I must ctrl+alt+del to continue working

"YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP!" I scream, pounding the sand with my fist. The camera pans out, revealing the half-buried ruins of Flash.

was coming here with a complaint, but in the course of typing this out I found the magic hidden checkbox that fixes what I needed. I... do not enjoy using this program. It is a poorly designed tool.

i finally cooked some good plantains and melted no thermometers

(we also have no thermometers left to melt, but i'm counting it)

technically speaking, this is probably a "bug" not a "glitch", but the Weirdest Bug I've Seen in a Long Time award goes to an actual literal bug I saw recently, to which the strangeness of this computer behavior cannot compare

breaks when ((x + y) & 1) == 1, in other words

(there are no light/dark squares in the game, the checkerboard is a purely conceptual apparatus)

today in The Weirdest Fucking Glitch I've Seen in a Long Time: the algorithm I'm writing breaks, but only when the player is standing on the light squares of a checkerboard pattern

maybe lead? do they make lead thermometers?

ok, weird mystery, actually: what was in that thermometer?

it has now solidified, which means it can't be mercury, since mercury freezes well below room temp

it looks metallic, however, and sinks below oil. does plastic sink below oil? in my head it floats, but maybe that's not correct