We recently open sourced Inkling [1] (which is a spiritual successor to Crosscut) and the iPad Wrapper [2] app we used to prototype Crosscut, Inkling, and other projects. We're also going to share some more similarly-interesting non-essay output from our research in the near future.
and appreciate anything which could be shared which might be helpful or inform development.
I will note that if you would try either Android or a Windows tablet w/ a Wacom EMR stylus you should be able to get the sort of input you want --- or maybe on a Mac w/ a Wacom One Gen 2 13 inch or Movink 13 or Cintiq w/ Touch display?
I've felt since I was young that I'd like to choose when and how I will die. I'm perfectly comfortable with the thought. I'm in my 30s and have a lovely life and family. I'm in no rush to end things. But when I'm old and the scales tip, I'd like to be the one to decide that it's time. I might not ever get there, but I want the option.
Amen. I want the option to leave gracefully and in peace, if a time comes where I cannot perform my basic needs by myself. I never chose when and how I would be brought into this world, so I think it's fair that I can choose when and how to leave.
Will I actually do it? That's irrelevant. I may decide to live and fight as much as possible, and that's fine, but I want the option.
I've been hearing young and healthy people say this for my entire, fairly long, life. But I have never personally known an elderly or disabled person to kill themselves over it. If you find life worth living despite its hardships now, it's likely that you always will even as those hardships increase.
At some point it may be more than just hardship. 80+, paralyzed from the waist down, bedridden, bed sores, muscles atrophying, all of your enjoyments gone, your friends dead, dying, or lost most of their mental facilities, and you're completely miserable.
They have a link to a source for that claim... and the source says 300 to 400 milliseconds. So whoever wrote and edited the OP article just messed this up.
Yes that's the point. Tried it on a lark, and it created weird feelings so I leaned into it. This is my personal website, and I've been trying to make it more deeply personal lately.
I like it. I mean, I like the why. It's not so offensive as to make me turn and run from your site, but it's definitely odd. To me, it actually makes it feel as if the text is askew.
One of my eyes sees things kind of slanted when I'm not wearing my glasses - I felt like I was seeing that when I was on the mastodon thread and trying to observe the change the server admin suggested...
> Metroidvania game where you lose abilities as you progress
This is brilliant. It solves the inherent tension of metroidvanias wanting both ever-increasing power and ever-increasing challenge. Rather than unlocking new areas, each time you lose abilities, it changes your relationship to existing areas. But the knowledge you gain — room layouts, enemy placement, hazards, short cuts, etc — becomes way more helpful when you can't just fly (perhaps literally) across the map.
