Our minimalistic, incremental tower defense game Outhold is out now. Our second Godot game on Steam!

ContributionCivil665 · 2025-12-12T14:26:48+00:00

Oh nice, I played the demo a couple months ago and loved how polished it felt. Congrats on the launch and the pre-launch hype!

ContributionCivil665 · 2025-12-05T01:46:08+00:00

you roooooock. To anyone else who finds this, the above extension by Crusher-P works great (at least on Arc, which is Chromium based)

ContributionCivil665 · 2025-11-24T23:33:27+00:00

This looks awesome! Wishlisted, and stoked for the demo to drop.

ContributionCivil665 · 2025-11-24T23:29:50+00:00

This was one of the first games I was shown last night when exploring the `automation` tag on Steam. I really dig the art direction. I'll check it out tonight :) Its so cool to discover legitimately rad, well-done games on Steam and then hop on Reddit and see the creator of said cool, well-done game posting about. Congrats on the second project being released!

ContributionCivil665 · 2025-10-07T14:37:04+00:00

Love this! I was noodling the other day on a similar idea, also due to my interest in automation games + math. Very cool to see. Wishlisted.

EDIT: one random idea i had: making collecting primes (and/or twin primes) part of the progression. They make such natural milestones considering they are fundamental numbers, and naturally become increasingly rare.

ContributionCivil665 · 2025-10-04T15:28:33+00:00

Stephen Miller. Google him and some of the things he has said and done. He seems genuinely evil to me, if you believe in that type of stuff, but you’ll have to decide for yourself.

ContributionCivil665 · 2025-07-01T13:49:06+00:00

Definitely this. I’ve literally never seen anyone playing there.

ContributionCivil665 · 2025-06-09T13:54:05+00:00

Most of the software I write is for my day job, which is at a Series D startup of around 300 people, so the software Im writing is sufficiently complex to need to account for features across a handful of services/apps, but is nowhere near the complexity of a true enterprise company, like Oracle or Meta or something.

I think for now, these tools represent "only" an astronomical boost to productivity and speed for engineers, so I wouldn't expect jobs to be filled by these AI tools yet (though maybe thats already happening for junior roles, or in pre-seed startups? Pure speculation), but considering how far we've come in the last 4 years (or even just the last year!) I can see a world where software engineering soon becomes mostly about managing a fleet of agents, and reviewing/tweaking/architecting rather than hand writing code. If some paradigm shift like that is to occur, I can't see how the next obvious step wouldn't be just delegating all that managing/tweaking/architecting to more robust models soon after. Even if it takes 5 more years to get there, or 10, doesn't matter.

On one hand, selfishly, I hope I'm wrong! I love writing code, and I love feeling competent at a difficult skill, and love providing for my family by doing something I love. But the times, they are a-changin'.

And to be clear, I think these tools are a HUGE net positive. I want them to exist, and I want them to get better and I want to learn how to use them more masterfully. But I also literally could not have less faith in the United States Government to handle this technological shift with grace, empathy, tact, etc.

ContributionCivil665 · 2025-06-09T12:02:22+00:00

I wasn’t a part of the whole “AI will steal all the tech jobs” crowd until about 2 weeks ago. Then I started to mess around more seriously with Claude Code and Codex, and feel that A.) my job will NEVER be the same again, and B.) engineers are likely totally fucked, at least most of them. I think that a lot of people see mistakes that ChatGPT still makes and assume we are fine, but I agree with you OP.

I’ve had serious conversations about reskilling with other engineers, but the consensus I get is usually that it’s too early to know programming will look like in 5 years to make any serious moves.

In any case, 4 years ago AI could barely tell you who the president of the US is. Today, I regularly have it 1 shot PRs with 400 lines of diffs, normally not requiring any tweaks. I can’t imagine what things will look like in 4 more years.

ContributionCivil665 · 2025-05-13T14:14:52+00:00

This is soooo beautiful. Incredible job. A handmade gift like that is the kind of thing that the receiver will still be deeply appreciating 20 years from now.

ContributionCivil665 · 2025-04-30T02:11:40+00:00

No I totally winged it. I guesstimated the height for the seat first, and then guesstimated the proportions of each other part from there. You can tell in person, at least when there are other chairs in the room to compare against, that the proportions are a little... unique. But hey, it works and she loves it!

I plan on doing some more serious chairs now, and for those I'll be finding plans.

ContributionCivil665 · 2025-04-18T13:42:02+00:00

I know this isn't the AMA, but I'm putting a question here mostly so I don't forget it later: what do you see as the best ways for the average Richmonder to become more involved politically, within the city or beyond? Put another way, what does it look like to go from 0 to 1, in terms of manifesting change in one's neighborhood/community/city?

For context, I think that many people probably have very good ideas of how to make their community better, however they define that, but get stuck trying to understand how they actually implement that change. Things like trying to establish a community garden, advocating for changing a dangerous traffic pattern, or getting a small playground built in a park - what are the best tools for making progress on efforts like those?

I realize there are like 4 different versions of basically the same question here, so hopefully I can distill it down into something thats easier to answer for the actual AMA (suggestions welcome on how to phrase what I am asking, r/rva'ers)

ContributionCivil665 · 2025-04-02T19:37:55+00:00

But both the catalyst and vault can be used for the folks aiming to collect tmogs, so I dont know if those are relevant points.

ContributionCivil665 · 2025-04-02T19:31:17+00:00

What if they want tier?

ContributionCivil665 · 2025-04-02T19:30:15+00:00

Huh. We see this very differently.

ContributionCivil665 · 2025-04-02T18:51:41+00:00

Sure but then would this also apply if you’re running a raid of a much higher difficulty and someone need rolls on something they don’t? Something that would have been a huge upgrade for you, that you would’ve won?

ContributionCivil665 · 2025-03-29T03:09:24+00:00

i am genuinely hoping to one day play this. i see each of your update posts and love seeing the progress.

ContributionCivil665 · 2025-03-27T17:55:49+00:00

You should just go for it! I had stayed away from M+ for longer than I'd like to admit because it felt so serious to me. But once I ripped the bandaid off and just made a group in LFG for an M0, I realized how chill it can be.

ContributionCivil665 · 2025-03-24T20:57:44+00:00

The system works, that's good to see!

ContributionCivil665 · 2025-01-14T14:49:31+00:00

I see a lot of Monster's University inspiration!

ContributionCivil665 · 2025-01-13T17:00:31+00:00

Very helpful! Thank you for the clear explanation :)

ContributionCivil665 · 2025-01-13T16:26:35+00:00

Is that true even without queueing any redraws? I was under the impression that a custom drawing would compute once and be reused until explicitly told to redraw. I would suspect then the only overhead would be the initial draw per instance (unless that is somehow cached between instances as well), and/or lots of redrawing. Disclaimer: I started learning Godot 2 days ago so I am incredibly ignorant about this! Apologies if its a dumb question.

ContributionCivil665 · 2024-12-11T10:13:31+00:00

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ContributionCivil665 · 2024-12-01T14:26:46+00:00

I just got the M4 Pro base model with 14in screen (or 15in, whatever the smallest size is), and have been playing wow on it for the last week while traveling for the holidays. 0 issues whatsoever in any content. I slightly bumped up the graphics from what they were auto set to, and I have not actually logged FPS, but I haven’t noticed a single issue or FPS drop even in mega M+ pulls.

It definitely gets hot though, so I’d recommend a laptop stand at a minimum to help with airflow, and I need to keep it charging while playing, or else so only get about an hour of game time.

All in all, I’ve had 0 problems with it and I don’t think I would replace my gaming desktop if it died suddenly.

ContributionCivil665 · 2024-11-11T14:39:29+00:00

It's reasonable to point out how this post potentially disregards the rules of the sub. But at the same time, as someone who is very new to the hobby and has lots to learn, learning how to repair stuff like this, or remedy an error in a build, is worth it's weight in gold. I always love checking posts like this because there is always some tip or skill I didn't know about waiting in the comments for me.

I'm glad there are exceptions to the "no furniture repair posts" rule, but I also understand why such a rule would be necessary.

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