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metarract.stupididiot.club
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@metarract.stupididiot.club
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danger is my middle name but it's a bit of a misnomer

programming / game dev / left / whatever
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metarract.stupididiot.club
same energy
screenshot of a news report that reads: Quote From Man Stabbed "What are you gonna do, stab me?"
September 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
metarract.stupididiot.club
made a new drone in-between designing the more important systems~

you can now get a "Sword Drone Bay" which spawns the drone of its namesake, which will follow you around and attack on your command

cause what's a space shooter without a melee attack lol

#gamedev #indiedev #godot
September 1, 2025 at 2:27 AM
metarract.stupididiot.club
album cover for the new florence has some tremendous aura
The cover for the band Florence + The Machine's newest upcoming album "Everybody Scream" It features the eponymous Florence herself, sitting in the corner of wood-paneled room facing the camera on... maybe a bed or something, with her legs spread wide and some white cloth covering a mild portion of her lower half. Her right arm is draped upon the back of whatever it is she is sitting on. She is staring directly into the camera with her head slightly cocked to the side. The shot is done with a fish-eye lens, that is to say the edges of the shot bow inwards, giving the impression that we are peering in on this view. The overall coloration has an earthy tone.
August 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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been somewhat silently working on a little game project for a bit now; also finally got the aesthetic to something i would call presentable. i also spent several days completely rewriting the underlying arch so now i'm doin junk like this lol

#gamedev #indiedev #godot
August 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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two panels 1st panel: x-men's wolverine from the 1990's animated tv show laying in bed, in his rather ostentatious costume, staring somewhat wistfully at a photo frame in his hands that is obscured from view 2nd panel: we now see the frame from his perspective, but inside the frame is a real photo of the Fruit Sniffer
July 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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(credit @xkcd.com)
here we see an xkcd comic about extrapolation it features two stick figure people, one dressed in a bridal outfit. the other person is pointing to a line graph in the background with that shows "Number of Husbands" over time, with "Yesterday" at "0" husbands, and "Today" at "1" husbands, and then the line continuing in an upward fashion along that trend the person then goes on to say the following: "As you can see, by late next month you'll have over four dozen husbands. Better get a bulk rate on wedding cake."
June 19, 2025 at 10:38 PM
metarract.stupididiot.club
got served this ad on reddit and i genuinely have no fuckin clue what this inscrutable piece of shit is it looks like a damn beyblade
here we see a screenshot of a reddit ad for a kickstarter project. the image is overall white, with a view of some black object in the center. The object has three identical parts arranged in a triangular shape, with exposed nuts and screws facing the viewer. the parts are connected. there are minimal details on the image which do nothing to explain what the object is, simply saying "Limited Quantities", "Sign Up for First Dibs", and worst of all, "Activate Launch Sequence".
June 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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bro what i just wanted to make a calzone
a screenshot from a recipe website, that reads thusly: "Tips The dough should be "soft as a horse's nose" after kneading"
April 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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this dude woulda worked up some fucking sweat cracking that whip
an excerpt from the wikipedia page on the Angola prison, that reads thusly: "As of 2011, the annual budget of the Louisiana State Penitentiary was more than $120 million.[124] Angola still is operated as a working farm; former Warden Burl Cain once said that the key to running a peaceful maximum security prison was that "you've got to keep the inmates working all day so they're tired at night."[126] In 2009 James Ridgeway of Mother Jones wrote Angola was "An 18,000-acre complex that still resembles the slave plantation it once was."[127]" it also features a picture of the aforementioned Burl Cain, a large greying white man looking down his nose at the camera
March 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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i'm fucking trying, man
here we see a close-up picture of the greeting card section of a store. there are a few sets of cards around, but notably the shit is centered on one that is labelled, rather tersely, as "Cope"
March 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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forgot i made this a while back and never posted it

was musing on a character design for a possible twin-stick shooter featuring a bullet witch with a friend and drew up this crazy lady

(how the do people decide on what to do for backgrounds for this sorta shit???)

#pixelart #gamedev #indiedev
here we see a pixel art character. they are squatting a bit and wearing a large brown robe and a brown witch's hat. their skin is a very dark blue-black color, and they are sporting a cartoonishly wide, toothy grin; with large yellow eyes featuring red pupils that together elicits a "crazed" look to them. their hair is frazzled and graying, to evoke a sense that they were caught in a mild gunpowder explosion, and they have several protrusions from their arms and knuckles that resemble bullets. they are holding some sort of semi-automatic weapon in their hands.
March 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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i caught a friend :)
a snippet of the same scene from before, but this time the skeleton has caught a large brown fish thing with a big goofy grin. it appears to be 33 inches in length according to some text in the image.
February 24, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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startin' to feel presentable. fishing is working and i've got like, 19 weird fishies to catch each with a shiny / golden variant

again, just an idle thingy for eventual streams so the twitch integration is bare but hopefully it is at least fun to look at lol

#gamedev #indiedev #godot
here we see a screenshot of a pixelated game sort of thing i am working on. we see several little pixel humanoids milling about, with one that looks like a tiny skeleton on the right that appears to be fishing. they are pulling back on a fishing rod trying to reel in a supposed fish. there is a small little Windows 98 style window above them that points to them, signifying that they are the one speaking. they are saying "COME ON BIG BUCKS NO WHAMMIES". there are also several messages in a window above them that looks like a chat log. everything is set against a simple starry background with dark green bricks that all the little people are walking along
February 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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compelling!
a screenshot of the user's account name that this is in response to, with several labels applied to them. they are, in order: Transmisogyny Transphobia (General) Jesse Singal Follower
February 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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having fun drawing in webfishing~

i'm really really late to the game here because the idea of being in a lobby with randos gave me anxiety but i finally got on with some friends, and bruh everyone is so fucking chill and cool in that game lmao

genuinely a wonderful experience
here we see a screenshot from the game Webfishing of some drawings on the ground. The drawings are presented in a circle surrounding a tree, and feature a large green frog, a golden manta ray, and a partially obscured red dragon that is breathing fire. They are set on an orange background, though in reality the background color was a rainbow color that would change over time. The frog appears to be saying "OBEY", and has a commanding presence to them.
January 30, 2025 at 12:50 AM
metarract.stupididiot.club
haven't posted progress on this dumb thing in a while cause i was trapped in a refactoring loop on a lotta nonsense, like trying out a few different ways of handling state before settling on something i'm happy with, BUT things are doin'

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January 28, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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here we see a couple of still screens from an episode of spongebob, where he gives squidward a list of Fun things he wants to do with friends. The captions allude to this, with one major difference Spongebob: "The companies that are doing EXTRA bad, I've written in RED!" Squidward, nervously: "EVERYTHING'S in red!" Spongebob, excitedly: "YEAH I know~!!"
January 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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my friends gave me a canadian quarter after coming back from visiting a mutual friend up there so i did this
we see a photo of a hand holding a very small, ornate golden picture frame. The frame is rectangular and surprisingly intricate for its size, as it fits neatly into the palm of a hand. It reflects a warm, diffuse light that highlights its features. Nestled within it, centered upon a dark contrasting background, is the canadian quarter. The quarter has a bust of a caribou, a horned animal, on it. Notably, the picture frame that surrounds the quarter is far more elaborately designed than the quarter itself. I spent thirty got dang dollars framing a quarter somebody please laugh
January 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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i have the opposite problem :(
here we see a screenshot of some code we see several fields of an object called "CombatAttributes" declared INT (for Intelligence), FTH (for Faith), CHA (for Charisma), SPD (for Speed) and LCK (for Luck). Notably, the only one that is underlined is the "INT" field, which is tossing out a warning that says "Identifier 'INT' contains type name" with a cryptic code assigned to the warning. It is angry because "int" is used to define integers, and it is wagging its metaphorical finger and saying not to do that
January 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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not a single thought behind those eyes
a screenshot of Donkey Kong taken from the Switch 2 Announcement Trailer, his eyes are VERY close together and he has a very simple grin across his big mug he looks happy
January 16, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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set out to just make a little placeholder portal for players to spawn out of but then i just... kept going cause i was enjoying how it looked and now i feel like it came out pretty nice actually lol

one day i'll learn (lie)

#gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #wip
here we see a piece of pixel art. the background is a dark blue with a dithering effect towards the bottom that lightens the sky as it progresses downwards. tiny blue and white stars of varying sizes dot the sky. the focus of the piece is a rocky archway made of stacked dark stones, with a rim of green lighting on the inside cast by a series of concentric rings that evoke a feeling of depth beyond what the archway would normally contain - implying that this is a portal to some verdant dimension, far away from here.
January 10, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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a still image from an episode of the simpsons, where mr. burns has gone to the doctor and the doctor has told him he has so many diseases that no more can get in. he has illustrated this with tiny little colorful creatures, and as he attempts to shove them through a tiny door frame, they get stuck. i have likened this post to the thing i am responding to by labelling the door "my ruination" and the creatures "bodily humors" why did mr burns' doctor have that tiny door
January 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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i wonder how many explanation responses they have under there desperately trying to explain themselves when they found things like this lol
a snip of the image from the nested screenshot showing there are: 238 likes around 1000 comments 4 reposts and 4 of some curious 4th thing that looks like a paper airplane, maybe shares? whatever this is what some might colloquially refer to as a "ratio", which generally means that they are "wrong"
January 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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dragun
here we see a pink post-it note with a hastily scrawled dragon on it. the dragon is rather rotund, and is sitting with his feet splayed out and wearing a slight grin on his oversized head coupled with a vacant stare that implies his simple nature. he also has some cute lil horns and some spikes on his back, and he is breathing just the tiniest little poot of fire from his mouth
December 28, 2024 at 5:08 AM
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decided to toss out all those hours i spent on making a fun little turn-based combat scheduler and turn visualizer replete with actor portraits to see if a more real-time-ish style setup felt nicer, and surprise surprise it sure does ugh

we out here, killing our darlings

#gamedev #godot #indiedev
December 28, 2024 at 1:51 AM