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yellowafterlife.bsky.social
Vadym, friend of eggbug
@yellowafterlife.bsky.social
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I write tools and code for videogames!
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yellowafterlife.bsky.social
... and if you were to grab some spare parts while you were in the area, you could make yourself a definitely-not-cursed mechanical bow
A drawing of the "head" of the aforementioned clockwork creature that has been re-purposed into a foldable bow. Pointed segments make it seem like it has a beak on one end and jaws on another.
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
yellowafterlife.bsky.social
A chompy thing for a Pathfinder one-shot
A drawing of a pf2e construct similar to Clockwork Hunter, but instead of the usual crossbow it has a two-segment neck with massive pliers at the end. A drawing of the same clockwork "creature", but this time with perspective and as a close-up on the head. The central segment of the plier-like structure is painted to look like an eye.
November 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
yellowafterlife.bsky.social
And another compression test image because there's no way to send posts to nowhere without making a new account, is there
A pixel-y drawing of a bird sitting on top of a construction sign. Lines above the bird imply that it's making a sound. This version is slightly cropped and scaled 8x
October 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
yellowafterlife.bsky.social
Having a closer look at what's going on with image compression around here
The same tiny beast, but at 8x scale to avoid JPEG artefacts
October 29, 2025 at 12:54 AM
yellowafterlife.bsky.social
Don't have to do it that way in semi-recent GameMaker versions, you can get RGBA data from a surface into a buffer and then peek around it as you please, like so:
Code snippet: function scr_test() { var spr = sprite_add("test.png", 1, false, false, 0, 0); var width = sprite_get_width(spr), height = sprite_get_height(spr); var surf = surface_create(width, height); surface_set_target(surf); draw_sprite(spr, 0, 0, 0); surface_reset_target(); var buf = buffer_create(width * height * 4, buffer_fixed, 1); buffer_get_surface(buf, surf, 0); var peekx = 3, peeky = 4; var ofs = (peekx + peeky * width) * 4; show_message($"Pixel at {peekx},{peeky}:" + "\n" + $"Red: {buffer_peek(buf, ofs, buffer_u8)}" + "\n" + $"Green: {buffer_peek(buf, ofs + 1, buffer_u8)}" + "\n" + $"Blue: {buffer_peek(buf, ofs + 2, buffer_u8)}" ) }
October 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM
yellowafterlife.bsky.social
A quick drawing depicts: A massive sword is stuck in the ground. A smug-looking white cat is sitting atop of its hilt, tail twisting around the grip and hanging over blade. A speech bubble points at the cat and reads "Peace was never an option"
October 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
yellowafterlife.bsky.social
Drawn a gator for a Pathfinder thing
A token for a somewhat smug-looking alligator, snout poking out of the token frame. Functionally this is a mix of various pf2e crocodiles and alligators to match level/size/action variety requirements.
October 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
yellowafterlife.bsky.social
You could, but you'll have to find/make an editor for this binary format they're using (perhaps [...string lengths][...strings without delimiters]) and re-apply your patch after each update, which is higher-effort than a CSS snippet
A screenshot of Discord's en-GB.pak in a hex editor
October 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
yellowafterlife.bsky.social
If that's still a thing, I've had similar in some tool on Ubuntu (not FA, apparently?) and that turned out to be system simulating a click before each tablet pen stroke.

Linux version of FA doesn't seem to have the tablet dialog like Windows does¹, but it does still have that mystery checkbox²
"Select Pen Pressure API" dialog in Fire Alpaca that's accessed through "menu: File ➜ Stylus Pressure API Settings". The dialog shows options as PC + Pen Tablet, Tablet PC, and Touch PC + Pen Tablet. "menu: File ➜ Brush Environment Settings" spotting a checkbox labelled "Check if there is a problem with HUION Tablet"
October 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
yellowafterlife.bsky.social
Fun bit of trivia: although the support portal only shows you your tickets from the last year (?), they are stored indefinitely and will be included in your personal data package.
A snippet of JSON from Discord data package showing a bug report I filed in June 2019
October 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
yellowafterlife.bsky.social
I'm assuming that it's tickets from some time range because I got this email too and the one affected ticket is me asking for clarification on textbox changes 3 months ago (surely enough, I did not get any actual clarification)
Hello, We’re reaching out to you because of a recent security incident on September 20 involving your personal data. Specifically, an unauthorized party gained limited access to a third-party customer service system used by Discord. We have confirmed that some of your personal data associated with your contact with our Customer Support or Trust & Safety teams was exposed in this incident. This may include: Your name, Discord username, email and other contact details if you provided them Limited payment information, including payment type, last four digits of your credit card, and purchase history if associated with your account IP addresses Messages and attachments sent to our Customer Support or Trust & Safety agents The incident did not include: Full credit card numbers or CCV codes Your physical address Your messages or activity on Discord beyond what you may have discussed with customer support or trust and safety agents Your Discord password or authentication data The ticket numbers impacted for your account were: 57507099. You can use these ticket numbers to search for the relevant exchanges in your email account. Hi YellowAfterlife, Your request (57507099) has been updated. To add additional comments, please reply to this email. Cheers, The Discord Team Nelly (Discord Support) Jun 21, 2025, 14:22 PDT Hi there, Thank you for reaching out about the change in behavior of the Home and End keys in the Discord text chat. This change is part of the recent updates to Discord's text box functionality. The Home and End keys now move the caret to the beginning and end of the paragraph instead of the visual line, which is a new intended behavior. Here are a few things you might find helpful: [...]
October 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
yellowafterlife.bsky.social
This is a cool little game, both stylistically and technically. And also it's got multiplayer! You can watch other peeps running around / spamming emotes
A screenshot of Messenger shows the player standing on a rooftop next to a goth-looking person. They ask "Have you heard of a thing called three.js?"
September 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
yellowafterlife.bsky.social
FoundryVTT doesn't have many icons for [pf2e] Kineticist spells, but it does include this fish, and that gives me an idea for a custom icon set...
A screenshot of Elemental Blast (Water) impulse in FoundryVTT has some kind of a magical fish for its icon. A custom icon for Tidal Hands shows a happy-looking fish riding a wave. A custom icon for Ocean's Balm shows a similar-styled fish (or even a shark) in a nurse cap. A custom icon for Magnetic Pinions shows 3 fishes with various melee weapons secured to their sides.
September 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
yellowafterlife.bsky.social
You can see what `solid` does in HTML5 runtime source.

Usually moving the instance yourself in instance-sized steps (and then pixel-sized if you hit something) helps, like so (example)
Code: /// scr_move(dir_x, dir_y, amount, step, object) var dir_x; dir_x = argument0; var dir_y; dir_y = argument1; var total; total = argument2; var step; step = argument3; var object; object = argument4; while (total > 0) { var next; next = min(total, step); total -= next; var next_x; next_x = x + dir_x * next; var next_y; next_y = y + dir_y * next; if (place_meeting(next_x, next_y, object)) { // we'd hit the object, approach in pixel-sized steps repeat (next) { next_x = x + dir_x; next_y = y + dir_y; if (place_meeting(next_x, next_y, object)) { break; } else { x = next_x; y = next_y; } } break; } else { x = next_x; y = next_y; } }
September 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
yellowafterlife.bsky.social
I made an example of how to make native extensions for GameMaker in #Rust!

Windows and Linux; all the usual stuff (numbers, strings, buffers)

github.com/YAL-GameMake...
A screenshot shows a number of functions neatly nested inside a macro block called "export!"
September 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
yellowafterlife.bsky.social
important adventuring equipment
A drawing of a blue-ish teapot with a spout joining into a smile, eyes, and elephant-esque ears that obscure the handle. Just happy to be here, y'know?
September 13, 2025 at 1:05 AM
yellowafterlife.bsky.social
As we are closing in to the Windows 10 End of Support date, the wording on Microsoft website changed from "anyone is eligible :)" to "you're eligible if you were deemed worthy (criteria undisclosed)"
Two screenshots from Microsoft website, one from July and one from today 23 July, 2025 Who is eligible for the Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program? Any individual using a Windows 10 device on version 22H2 for personal use is eligible. This includes devices that are not managed by an organization or enrolled in enterprise licensing programs. https://web.archive.org/web/20250723041147/https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/end-of-support Today Who is eligible for the Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program? The ESU program for personal use devices is available in select markets and it is not being expanded to additional regions at this time. In those select markets, any individual using a Windows 10 device on version 22H2 for personal use is eligible. This includes devices that are not managed by an organization or enrolled in enterprise licensing programs. https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/end-of-support
September 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
yellowafterlife.bsky.social
Peeps from the Pathfinder session pointed out that the way I quickly doodle minotaurs is this same kind of shape
A redraw of the image from the tweet in subsequent images A simplistic (essentially a stretched pentagon with eyes, horns, and ears) minotaur is shown with a line labelled "insult" bouncing off their head. Text above reads: Insult me all you wish My head is *too* angular The angularest there is Text below reads: your words simply bounce right off A screenshot of referenced tweet (https://x.com/csaurageul/status/1964295040886345777), showing a helmet from East of Eden (author's game). A screenshot of the quote from the referenced tweet, reading "I don't know what this type of helmet is called but I like it very much." [a collage of various helmet designs that slope down towards the front
September 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
yellowafterlife.bsky.social
Spotted that I have enough permissions to add images to item descriptions in FoundryVTT, and thus:
A (partially redacted so that I don't have to translate names) FoundryVTT screenshot shows a character named Melhior showcasing an item in chat. The item is labelled ""Labu̓ba"". Item description reads "Wooden cat figurine, painted with charcoal". Following the description is the image in question: a drawing of an off-black cat with a pointy-teethed grin somewhat akin to those of labubu dolls. The cat is looking slightly to the side, but its eyes are locked at the viewer. The image is erroneously displayed in 2:3 instead of 3:3 aspect ratio, making it look even worse/better. If you are a Foundry developer and are reading this, this happens if you specify width/height for the image, probably because chat images have a max-width. Happens on v13b347 and v12b331.
September 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
yellowafterlife.bsky.social
what kind of bird is that
A [Pathfinder 2e] Catfolk is inspecting an entry in an ornithology book as a Tengu is looking for something on a library shelf in background.
August 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
yellowafterlife.bsky.social
Check out this tiny beast
A miniature bird/dinosaur creature is sitting on the ground, legs stretched forward
August 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
yellowafterlife.bsky.social
I made a light theme for Lazy Nezumi, a stabilizer+ruler tool for drawing!

Comes in plain (Win10-esque) and recolorable flavors.

github.com/YellowAfterl...
Three screenshots of the theme, showing the Win10-esque UI, a blue-tinted version, and an orange-tinted version.
August 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
yellowafterlife.bsky.social
It's this kind of week sometimes
A familiar-looking dinosaur is lying down with a dinosaur book over their head
August 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
yellowafterlife.bsky.social
This cat in particular
Three drawings of a simple black cat: 1. The cat is holding a mini-baguette in its mouth with sparkles near it 2. The cat is looking slightly to a side with a smug expression as if it has a business offer for you 3. The cat is happy, shouting
August 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
yellowafterlife.bsky.social
Another off-spec Hornet, dreamily leaning on the needle "September 4, that's so soon!" Close-up, thinking about how the trailer doesn't say the year [that's September of *this* year, right?]
August 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM