dev

• How we made Befriendus ludicrously accessible

  • “Structured programming” on Wikipedia

• Stanley and the Death of Sourcemods

  • “Making a Moddable Game?” Thread, 2015
  • “Mod Support comes to Robo Recall” Unreal Engine announcement
  • “Godot sandbox & modding support” github issue
  • “Safe multiplayer modding” reddit thread
  • “Allow to import and load external assets at run-time” godot proposal
  • “Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)” on .NET docs

• Tabs or Spaces?

  • /u/ChaseMoskal, Nobody talks about the real reason to use Tabs over Spaces
  • Alexander Sandberg, Tabs for Accessibility
  • Jamie Zawinski, Tabs versus Spaces: An Eternal Holy War.

fandom

• W.D. Gaster and fake depth

  • /u/Karibil_Watar, Further Stratifying Gaster and Sans Development
  • Folding Ideas, The Stanley Parable, Dark Souls, and Intended Play
  • hbomberguy, Perverted Sentimentality: An Analysis of UNDERTALE
  • Adam Millard, What Was Undertale Actually About?

• More on the Hiveswap Odd Gentlemen Debacle

  • Sarah Z, “A Brief History of Homestuck”, a video essay about the Homestuck fandom that includes a summary of my Hiveswap work

• Why Act 6 Hits Different

  • Func McLovin, Slurs in Homestuck (Video)

• The Hiveswap Fiasco

  • GiovanH, “Hussie Exploited The Odd Gentlemen & Backers”
  • Shadok, “HIVESWAPQUEST” (video)
  • everythinghiveswap.tumblr.com is a blog that has a large historical backlog of Hiveswap news and rumors
  • Sarah Z, “A Brief History of Homestuck”, a video essay about the Homestuck fandom that includes a summary of my Hiveswap work
  • Fredrik Knudsen, “Star Citizen - Down the Rabbit Hole” (video)
  • Jason Schreier, “12 Successful Kickstarters That Never Delivered”
  • posts tagged #hiveswap on thewebcomicsreview.tumblr.com
  • A much briefer recap, but only up until 2017.

gaming

• VR First Thoughts

  • “Leaked Zuckerberg Email Reveals Facebook’s XR Strategy, ‘Our goal is not only to win, but to accelerate its arrival’” Ben Lang on roadtovr, 2019
  • You Will Lose All Your Oculus Games If You Delete Your Linked Facebook Account” Adam Bankhurst on IGN, 2020
  • “Oculus co-founder is leaving Facebook after cancellation of ‘Rift 2’ headset” Lucas Matney on Techcrunch, 2018
  • “The Design of the Portal Locomotion”, Freya Holmér

politics

• Nintendo: It's about control, not piracy

  • Kotaku, “Nintendo Shuts Down Smash Tournament Over Some Absurd Bullshit”
  • Polygon, “Nintendo wanted to shut down Super Smash Bros. Melee Evo event”

• How Apple destroyed mobile freeware

  • Riley Testut, “Thoughts on the App Store”
  • Quora thread, “Can you make money on a free app without advertising?”
  • Forbes, “‘Malicious’ Subscriptions”