Brian Sowers

Doing my birthday tradition of hitting the refresh button on Facebook every 30 minutes to see which of my friends love me.

The LotR show would be 40x better if I could see any of it.

@bella_artur I totally missed this and I apologize, but I’d be more than happy to take a look at this!

@bdsowers Hey, if you like anime and are interested in helping out a fellow developer, I'm building something to solve just this issue. The idea is that you pick your target (anime, manga, song lyrics, etc.) and it will teach you everything you need for it Would love the feedback

Between Duolingo, WaniKani, and Genki, I have all the tools I need to feel really frustrated learning Japanese.

I just tried to talk to my wife but she was too into Naruto and yelled at me. What have I done….

How are things going here these days? This place still a dumpster fire?

Accidentally got my wife into DBZ and now we're halfway through the Majin Buu arc and she doesn't want to stop. I'm afraid she'll make us watch Super. Plz send help.

I somehow managed to take a picture of Shibuya Crossing that made it look totally empty. It was very much not empty. 😂

@DenverSkyline I'd say so. I have more hours in it than any game I've played as an adult.

Slay the Spire 2 was announced and I've not played the first one yet.. is that something I should remedy?

Slay the Spire board game has been… pretty darn fun so far.

@briangcronin Maybe I'm wrong, but my understanding of List was that it was basically an array under-the-hood, with the same contiguous memory guarantees. The Microsoft reference implementation backs that up. Is that not correct, or am I misunderstanding what you're getting at?

When iterating over an array, the memory we are iterating over is possibly scattered all over the slow RAM (in basically random order).

The CPU has a super fast memory cache on the chip. When iterating over an array, it can store a big chunk of the memory we are iterating over right there on the CPU.

@briangcronin Congrats to you too!

@bdsowers Congrats on getting the game released!

Inkbound hit 1.0 today! store.steampowered.com/app/1062810/In… I've been doing engineering on it for a long while now. Super proud of what the team has accomplished.

@DenverSkyline I think the environment adds a little, though maybe bring the green all the way down instead of curving it off at the bottom?

Which is better? A little bit of environment art, or just the character?

Modern Square is great at writing characters & their arcs, and absolutely terrible at long-form stories and endings.

@matthewharnage I do wish they'd use the OG boss battle theme more. 😅 I'm on chapter 12 and I think I've only heard it once.

@JoeCreates I loved the HoMM video games - is the board game good?

HoMM3 board game arrived. Starting the solo castle campaign \o/

Is this platform still useful for marketing, networking, or... anything? It's starting to feel a little hollow here, but maybe I'm just doing it wrong.

Game developers: what game are you making, and which characters are Matt Mercer voicing?

I felt a lot of cringe when I saw the open world cruft in FF7. So I just... skipped most of it, and the game is 100% enjoyable and playable without it. I'm on chapter 10 and have yet to feel underpowered.

The moment has come: SECRETS OF GRINDEA IS NOW OFFICIALLY RELEASED! 🥳🥳🥳 Come celebrate with us over at the livestream on the Steam store page: store.steampowered.com/app/269770/Sec…