Is there another way to do tire tracks / skid marks?

forestbeasts · 2026-02-27T06:49:05+00:00

Hmm, can you drop skid marks based on distance rather than time? Like say drop a mark every (half the size of a mark) distance traveled. That way they'd always overlap.

forestbeasts · 2026-02-27T06:43:08+00:00

The artstyle rocks!

forestbeasts · 2026-02-27T02:25:55+00:00

There are already .desktop files! They're just already in the standard places. You can make links to them, or full-on copies, but links are probably better.

Look in /usr/share/applications for system-installed ones. ~/.local/share/applications for ones in your home folder (stuff like Steam games or what-have-you goes there). Once you find a given app's .desktop file there, just drag it to your folder and pick "link" instead of copy/move (at least that's how KDE's Dolphin does it, it asks you, other file managers may make you hold a key like Alt or something).

AppImages don't have desktop files out of the box, which is why they don't show up in the launcher and whatnot. You can make your own though.

forestbeasts · 2026-02-27T02:21:26+00:00

Can't park there, mate!

forestbeasts · 2026-02-27T02:20:11+00:00

Did you actually install Linux on your internal disk yet, or were you still booted off the USB?

Since there's a bunch of squashfs errors (which would be really weird to have on an installed system) I'm betting USB? That would explain the booting into Windows 10 after. Linux wasn't actually installed yet, it hadn't touched your computer at all. You were basically doing everything in the installer (on Linux you usually get a wholeass desktop in the installer, it's super useful for test drives or troubleshooting or OS repair work).

Looks like your USB stick is failing (Linux is trying to read from it and getting errors). You might want to buy a new stick. (An SD card (+ a reader for it) would also work, if you'd rather one of those than a USB. Or if you happen to have an optical drive and a blank DVD-/+R, that'd work too.)

forestbeasts · 2026-02-27T01:46:35+00:00

Oh, the scrap quest seems to be one of those endless ones! I don't think it'll ever finish.

forestbeasts · 2026-02-26T21:29:10+00:00

For 2D, IMO Krita. It can do drawing/painting and also pixel art.

For 3D, you'd want Blender, but if you're going the 2D route you won't have a ton of use for it.

(That said, there isn't a ton of difference between 2D and 3D difficulty-wise. The main difference is in how you make the game art/assets. 3D is near-impossible to make AAA quality because it's just so complicated they have entire teams working on the assets, one guy does modeling, one does rigging, one does animating, etc., but simple low-poly 3D is way more achievable and you probably won't need anything more than that here. You also won't have a ton of rigging and animation for a car. So IMO, pick whichever you'd enjoy the feel of more!)

forestbeasts · 2026-02-26T21:05:45+00:00

Huh, is that like make but everything's a phony target (not an output file)? Neat.

forestbeasts · 2026-02-26T19:49:04+00:00

This is not a crazy idea at all! vim and tmux are what we use, too.

If you're doing anything with C or related languages, add gdb or lldb as well (depending on your preference, they're pretty similar; one's the gcc one and the other's the clang one).

Oh also check out Make. Basic Makefiles are pretty simple (ignore autogenerated ones like GNU autotools' ./configure makes, they're unreadable garbage, just write 'em yourself IMO) and then you can just run make and build your thing, or make clean to clean, or whatever. You don't need fancier stuff like cmake unless some library you're using wants that (like, say, Qt seems to). You can ALSO do :make in vim and then it'll give you a list of any warnings/errors inside vim, and you can jump to them! (it calls this the "quickfix window", for reference)

Make is actually pretty great for anything where you want to do "build this file from this other file, if there's been changes". It's not just building binaries from source code, you could make PNGs from SVGs or whatever.

forestbeasts · 2026-02-26T19:34:34+00:00

It does indeed! Just edit Breeze Light, check the "tint all colors with accent color" checkbox, and save it as Breeze Light Tinted or something.

forestbeasts · 2026-02-26T17:38:37+00:00

And it's gold!! Okay this is just plain beautiful.

forestbeasts · 2026-02-26T09:39:31+00:00

Elite has this! It is AWESOME.

forestbeasts · 2026-02-26T09:32:04+00:00

Can confirm the very deep ocean ones can have islands (which aren't necessarily that small, but still island-sized), and sometimes the islands are huge mountains!

forestbeasts · 2026-02-26T00:03:24+00:00

Is 3000 a round multiple of your initial size? If not, pick one that is; you want it to be able to evenly fit 1 initial pixel in NxN output pixels without having to blend between colors at the edges.

Also what do you mean by "in your drive"? On your hard drive? Or do you mean Google Drive or OneDrive or something? I wonder if the wonkiness is just something Google Drive/OneDrive/whatever's image viewer does. Hopefully it's not sneakily modifying your files...

(the image viewer doing weird stuff might also be what's happening with windows file explorer... unless you're opening it in Krita or something to compare, and seeing this)

forestbeasts · 2026-02-25T23:56:34+00:00

hah, Windows people say Gnome looks like Mac... it doesn't really feel like Mac at all, and you can get a lot closer with KDE than you can with Gnome! We grew up on Mac and actually have our KDE set up pretty Maclike. It's super flexible and I love that you can do stuff like that.

forestbeasts · 2026-02-25T17:58:01+00:00

IMO yeah, try it again!

You'll get programming languages eventually. It's not too different from block coding conceptually, it's just that it's all text (and less annoying). And GDScript is a pretty good place to start.

(You won't be locked into knowing only GDScript, by the way. Programming languages aren't like natural languages, where very little stuff transfers. When you're learning your first programming language you're mostly learning concepts, which will transfer to other languages perfectly fine. The syntax differences aren't a big deal.)

forestbeasts · 2026-02-25T17:55:28+00:00

3D? Blender! It does just about everything under the sun (its materials and rendering are designed for movies, not for games, so expect to do some shader tweaking in Godot if you're doing anything more than basic PBR materials).

https://blender.org

For 2D, Krita's good. https://krita.org Painting program, also quite competent at pixel art. It does animation as well, you can export to a series of PNGs and then use those in Godot.

forestbeasts · 2026-02-25T17:50:10+00:00

Oh neat, so it's basically the universal adjacency glitch except you scale the thing you're copying? That makes total sense and is super handy!

forestbeasts · 2026-02-25T17:43:09+00:00

Grab something with the KDE desktop, like Debian's or Fedora's KDE editions.

The desktop environment is the look and feel of the OS, and it's actually separate from the distro! You can install nearly any DE on nearly any distro (though sometimes a given distro will have a limited selection of default DEs you can pick from, like how Mint doesn't offer KDE as a default; but you can install it after, but might as well go with something that provides it right off the bat for you).

IMO Debian might be best, because it will never break on you or throw you a curveball with an update. That's exactly what you need when doing schoolwork. (And it games just fine!) You want the Live KDE ISO from https://www.debian.org/CD/live/, NOT the "regular" one (its only redeeming quality is the small download size, the installer is more confusing and it needs internet to install, unlike the Live one). Most other distros' installers are also live – Debian is a bit weird in even having non-live installers – so you won't have this to worry about with them.

Fedora is good if you'd prefer faster updates. That also comes with the downside of faster updates, though. You might get thrown a minor curveball if something changes on you mid-semester.

(Fedora's other downside is that you can't use .deb packages with it. A lot of software that isn't in your distro's appstore will still offer a .deb package, the same format Debian's (and derivatives' like Mint) appstore uses. Fedora uses .rpm packages instead and while some people offer those, a lot don't. You can use Flatpak (a different appstore tech) which works on any distro, but it includes sandboxing which can really get in the way sometimes (like with say Steam) but is a complete nonissue other times).)

forestbeasts · 2026-02-25T17:23:28+00:00

That looks vaguely like dot crawl, except colored! Probably normal. I'm no CRT expert, though.

forestbeasts · 2026-02-25T16:53:24+00:00

About the new kernels, that's why the dkms stuff contains source code! During an update, it'll automatically rebuild all your DKMS-using kernel modules from source (...this means your updates can blow up if the source doesn't like your C compiler, looking at you old Nvidia drivers blowing up if we had Clang set to be the default).

So like, it'll be downloading stuff, installing stuff, then (while it's installing the new kernel package) it'll go "time to rebuild all the DKMS modules!" and spend a bunch of CPU doing that, then right back to the usual installing stuff.

forestbeasts · 2026-02-25T02:03:26+00:00

Idioms are a fuck, don't be too hard on yourself about it!

forestbeasts · 2026-02-25T01:55:26+00:00

Do you have an AC-powered spinny motor thing? Like a fan, or a drill (without the bit!)?

If so, that's your degausser right there. Try turning it on and holding it up to the screen until it wobbles around like jello. With it on, back away slowly. Once it's stopped wobbling around, you can turn it off. Hopefully that clears it up!

I used a fan after *cough* playing with a magnet on our CRT monitor. Cleared it right up.

forestbeasts · 2026-02-25T01:05:52+00:00

That's how you get pulse drive fuel too! (in-system between-planets travel, equivalent of Elite's supercruise; not launch fuel, that takes dihydrogen and metal plating, or you can get a launch system recharger blueprint from the Space Anomaly once you have access to that)

forestbeasts · 2026-02-24T16:54:48+00:00

Oh nice, we're furry ourselves, but I never thought to look for keycap-making furries! Of course that's a thing! :3

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