Bean

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Terrible Programmer. Into videogames, boardgames, & pinball. Developer for Handelabra Games. Humming the bassline. Apprendre le français. He/him.

Screenshot of the Kickstarter Backers for the game One Deck Dungeon, highlighting Jason Viers as a backer
A screenshot of changes to a codebase, with messages of... varying quality describing their changes: * Fixed Firestorm.FindAffectedLandsForPowerTarget() without 3rd threshold not always including targetLand * MORE CHEESE! * CHEEEEEEEEESE IN PROGRESS * Fixed DreadApparitions on combined lands, reflection criteria was comparing Land model objects
A screenshot of Mina the Hollower just after a scene at the Orphanage, showing Kid and Urchin
Picture of a desktop with for monitors, two vertical to the left and two horizontal. An image of "Starlight Seeks Its Form" spans the desktops. The cat Nyxie sits in front of the monitors
A handmade protest sign, written with sharpie on cardboard, says "Kings belong in Balatro, not government!"
A metal case for a Mancala set
Searching through code for savegame calls show they're on line numbers far from each other. Who knows what Intellisense was smoking.
A screenshot of C# code for a Spirit Island test case. There's some code to set up a board position, followed by a call to save the game. Then at the cursor position, Visual Studio's Intellisense suggests to save the game three more times (which would have no effect).
A desktop workstation, with two vertical monitors to the left, showing various Power cards, Aspects, and Special Rules for the board game Spirit Island. A main, central monitor with C# code is partially visible off to the right.
A picture of components from the board game "Spirit Island". Center frame is the Spirit Panel for the spirit "Finder of Paths Unseen". Some presence tokens are placed along the tracks, but they're numbered with Post-It labels to assist in verifying the video game's output.
Photo of the Euclid bike trail that runs along Lake Erie
Two photographs from the 1981 issue of Byte Magazine. The first shows 5 chip clips attached to a microcontroller on a circuit board, with the caption: "Photo 4: The analyzer is intended for use while a circuit is in dynamic operation. Connection to the circuit can be done with the "chip-clip" method shown in photo 1, or by using separate test probes. The latter is more versatile. The circuit shown under test is the Disk-80 expansion interface from last month's Circuit Cellar." The second photo shows a dozen horizontal green lines across a CRT screen, occasionally oscillating between high/low states. The caption reads: "Photo 5: When the circuit of figure 5 (on page 42) is attached to the logic analyzer, a data-domain display can be converted to a time-domain display. Essentially nothing more than an eight-channel scope multiplexer, this circuit greatly expands the display potential of the average oscilloscope, as the photo demonstrates."
A letter from a reader in the 1981 Byte Magazine, title "A Graphic Execution Display". The letter is as follows: "I wrote a program for my Ohio Scientific Superboard to compute artificial satellite orbits and noted it ran slower and slower as time and the number of orbits progressed. It occurred to me that I could graphically display how fast the program was executing and find out where it was slowing down by adding some extra code. Every 20 lines or so, I inserted K9 = K9 + l:GOSUB 2000, and then at the end: 2000 S9 = 54244 2010 POKE S9 + K9, 48 + K9 2020 FORZ = lTO30:NEXTZ 2030 POKES9 + K9,32 2040 IFK9 = 9THENK9=0 2050 RETURN This flashes the numbers 1 thru 9 from left to right on the bottom row of the video screen every time the main portion of the program loops. You can easily note the delay between certain numbers; this helps to pinpoint where the program is spending most of its time. The troublesome area or line can be further narrowed down by adding more GOSUBs, or by moving those from the faster part to the slower part. (Be sure that there are nine GOSUBs and that each is executed only once within the loop.) This method alerted me to a poorly written line of code I would have otherwise never suspected."
Screenshot of a snippet of Schreier's article on the the process of Team Cherry's development of Silksong: "Perhaps the biggest reason Silksong took so long was that Team Cherry never had to worry about the one thing that keeps other independent developers awake at night: money. During the production of Hollow Knight, they’d stayed lean, sometimes living off leftover triangle sandwiches that their office neighbor would bring them after meetings. “My dad would sometimes pop up and give me $20,” Gibson said. “I’d be like, ‘Oh, I’m having coffee today!’” Thanks to their first game’s massive financial success, Gibson and Pellen no longer have to scrounge leftovers. For Pellen, who has two kids and a third on the way, that’s provided an inestimable peace of mind. For Gibson, who said he spends most of his time at the office, it hasn’t changed much. “I live in a very basic two-bedroom apartment,” he said. “Sometimes I think, ‘You know what would be better, is a one-bedroom apartment.’ Because then there’s even less to maintain.”
A pint of Ben & Jerry's Chubby Hubby, unopened, just begging to be devoured.
a screenshot of CAPTCHA test to verify the user is a human. It's asking the user to click parts of the image that contain "bicycles". The picture is a flat piece of asphalt, with a crude picture of a bicycle off to the side. Should this "count" as a bicycle? Who knows!
Screenshot of the TMNT anime, showing (from left) Bebop, Shredder, and Rocksteady transformed by the power of Dark Mu
A picture of three cats lounging around a keyboard on a desk, clearly quite comfortable and pleased with themselves
A visualization of a git graph of source code, showing many abandoned branches with various degrees of testing, debugging, and broken dreams
A screenshot of the dictionary definition of "potential", describing it as "possible", which is completely unhelpful in deciding between using the two words "potential" and "possible"
On the left, a page of Diehard Game Fan magazine. It has green text on a gradient background of black, to white, to black. It is difficult for even a human to read, and the kind of thing that causes problems for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. In the upper right, we see traditional OCR output. It struggles with recognizing the text. The first line contains "A lot of the good news from Jap: NISECEENSENERSSNERISEE Ee around Sega," which shows obvious errors at the "green on white" text in the middle. In the lower right is VGHF's OCR output, which recognizes the ALMOST correct text: "A lot of the good news from Japan these days seems to evolve around Sega". It has "evolve" instead of "revolve", but dang it's close.
two cats sitting on a disk, closely resembling the cats in the replied post
The player's perspective of a leverless fighting game controller with Skullgirls on the monitors, and the cat Nefarian lounging comfortably in a cat bed beneath the monitor. His tail is exceptionally fuzzy.
An image of the bluesky feed showing this comic, and then coincidentally an image of one kitten biting another immediately after
Freshly served Curry Beef Hot Pot, with a side of rice. Philadelphia rolls are visible in the background
Gameplay footage of "Grapple Dog: Cosmic Canines", where the titular Grapple Dog swings from a grappling hook and bounces off enemies in smooth motions.
Screenshot of the Sentinels of the Multiverse 2 crowdfunding site, showing it's 92% of the way to fulfilling Enhanced Campaign Mode
A video game popup in large, blocky font. Unexpectedly says "Fräulein", a mis-translation of "Miss" in the context.
A photo of trees in Sims Park in Euclid, Ohio. The trees of fall are various shades of green, yellow, and red.
A screenshot of a list of names of code tests for a video game, including names like "Test Dark Delusions", "Test Hippocratic Oath", and "Test Horrifying Dichotomy"