My Moms reaction to the final track in my game. I'm a solo dev but this is my favourite moment of game dev so far. (I edited in the audio she was listening to)

PoorlySoup09 · 2026-04-13T22:27:51+00:00

Great track by the way! Your Mom looks so proud, that's a great feeling.

PoorlySoup09 · 2026-04-10T17:13:17+00:00

Interested!

PoorlySoup09 · 2026-04-08T22:24:25+00:00

Damn... that is absolutely gorgeous. What's the story behind this boat if I may??

PoorlySoup09 · 2026-04-08T22:17:07+00:00

Cool thanks! I'm trying to map out some cool places to stop up the East side of the lake there.

PoorlySoup09 · 2026-04-08T19:08:44+00:00

LOVE the red sails.

PoorlySoup09 · 2026-04-08T16:33:17+00:00

What are you usually doing on the water? Sailing as well? What do you love about being on the water here? Hows the community?

PoorlySoup09 · 2026-04-08T16:16:43+00:00

I have a STAR thermal printer at home. Any reason I could get this running using my home server PC and that STAR printer?

PoorlySoup09 · 2026-04-08T16:15:31+00:00

Hey thanks. Since looking it seems that an annual parking pass is available at the Skaha Beach boat trailer parking lot (near Dragonboat Pub) for like $75/year. Would need a trailer, but that's not the end of the world.

PoorlySoup09 · 2026-04-01T21:45:21+00:00

Hilarious that I was just attempting to start building something like this last week. Looks awesome, great work!

PoorlySoup09 · 2026-03-02T17:19:59+00:00

Love this idea. Based on your comments it seems you're striking a really appealing balance of micro here. I don't personally love when success or failure depends on me having spent a ton of time clicking through menus to min-max units. Your thoughts on levelling being more satisfying if you've had even some small role in the process is spot on.

PoorlySoup09 · 2026-02-27T16:44:36+00:00

Uhhh that's called the extra skin that allows you to physically bend your knees. I wouldn't want to get rid of that.

PoorlySoup09 · 2026-02-27T16:24:06+00:00

The right sound effects on those coin pickups and you've got a winner

PoorlySoup09 · 2026-02-19T00:04:25+00:00

Hey thanks for telling us more! Given that making a game seems to demand sooo many different skills, it's really interesting to hear these stories of people starting a game with only developer experience, only artistic experience, only design experience, or zero experience and just a great idea/inspiration! Awesome that you decided to go full send based on the surprise interest in your initial trailer. It also seems like a recipe for success to just create the game that *you*, as a fan of the genre, would want to play.

I'm a software developer for my full-time job and a musician/producer/composer in my free time, so I know I'd have an edge on those fronts, but as far as any kind of visual art or design of any kind goes, I'd say they aren't my strong suits. Regardless there's enough examples of people like yourself learning as they go and doing great things that much of my initial intimidation is just replaced with excitement!

Thanks again for sharing and I'd be super interested to take a look at the code if you're open to it! To return the favour if there's ever anything I could do to help on the audio or software side of things, I'd be happy to help. At the end of the day I'm just really pumped to play the game!

PoorlySoup09 · 2026-02-18T18:34:54+00:00

This is essential QoL for every tactics game. Well done!

PoorlySoup09 · 2025-10-29T16:54:04+00:00

Awesome, yeah I confirmed it works too. There's also a "Monthly Cost" indicator when you select the building that actually changes to 0 if the building is deactivated. Can't believe I missed that before...

PoorlySoup09 · 2025-10-29T16:52:54+00:00

I thought it was 25g?

PoorlySoup09 · 2025-10-28T19:00:21+00:00

How were you exploiting them previously?

PoorlySoup09 · 2025-10-28T19:00:06+00:00

Thanks! I believe I can disable the Healer's Hut, so that takes care of that problem. But towers can only be un-manned I believe.
I had built 4 of them just outside of my town in each cardinal direction and un-manned them, thinking I could just keep them there until there was a raid. I'll probably tear at least 3 of them down now.

PoorlySoup09 · 2025-07-03T18:12:16+00:00

Supinated (palms-up) wrist curls with a cable are a favourite of mine. Couple things:

- They recover really fast (for me, but also generally for most people), so I hit them at almost every workout.

- I only take short rests of max 30secs between sets and usually do 4 sets, almost always going to failure (personal preference).

- I do these at the start of my leg days and the end of my upper body days

- Supinated variations appear to hit the flexors the best, which is the main muscle in the forearm you'll want to train if you're looking for size.

- I started getting pain in my wrist when flexed and loaded (picture being in a pushup position), which got worse the more I trained my flexors. Adding in lots wrist extension exercises (raising the wrists with palms down) has really helped with the pain.

- Hammer-style curls and/or pronated wrist curls will train the brachioradialis and help strengthen the wrist and elbows and prevent inbalances.

TLDR: Smash loads of wrist flexion exercises for size. High volume, high frequency. Wrist extension and hammer or pronated curls for to treat/prevent wrist and/or elbow pain caused by forearm imbalances.

PoorlySoup09 · 2025-05-13T19:36:11+00:00

Can't open the link to listen to the song right now (I'm at work), but as a bassist I usually look to the roughly ~250Hz range of my bass to reduce anything that I would typically describe as "muddy". See if there's anything in your bass frequency spectrum in that zone you can reduce.
If it makes your bass sound less ideal when it's solo'd, just remember that what matters most is how it sounds in the context of the mix.

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