me and rule(lemmy.blahaj.zone)

Its my “only” project because i have a severe case of “cantfocusforshit” and “extremelyimpulsivedecisionmaking”. it would be like my 8th counting everything that didnt make it past the “sketchs in my schoolbooks” stage of ideas (its the only stage of ideas).

im still very new to this programming thing but im getting the hang of it.

Well im also making a sol badguy mod for your only move is hustle (to get good at pixel art)but that doesnt really count.

Sorry if this is a paragraph and a half, i tend to ramble a bit. Anyway yours?

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AVincentInSpace@pawb.social

2 points

1 year ago

Hmmm… can’t focus for shit, even on things you want to do… can’t finish one project before getting distracted by the next one… apologizing for rambling after writing barely a paragraph… man, you sound like me five years ago, and like dozens of people I’ve met since then. I’m not here to be an armchair MD, but if you don’t already have an ADHD diagnosis, I’d highly recommend seeking one. The meds make a HUGE difference in your ability to get things done.

I can definitely relate to the dozens upon dozens of projects never making it out of my school notebooks. At least they used to. Things got a lot better on that front after I did neurofeedback therapy. That’s definitely not to say I’m now able to finish one project before impulsively starting another one, but they do get at least to the halfway point :P

Anyway, my current project is a Discord bot for browsing e621. “But Vincent,” I hear you say, “there are hundreds of those already! What makes yours different?” Glad you asked. Instead of using the e621 API to do searches, it downloads a database dump of every post on the site and runs the searches locally. This has a number of very cool implications, such as not being subject to the API ratelimit and working even when e621.net is down, but more importantly, it means it can support search features that the main site doesn’t, including (but by no means limited to!) searching for posts with one of these two tags but not both. It’s just gotten to the public beta phase, so if furry art is your thing, definitely hit me up.

Anyway, those projects sound cool! Definitely hit me up if you get to the point where you need a playtester. But I wanna tell you right now as someone who’s dealt with ADHD guilt for longer than I’d care to admit, there is no shame in not finishing a project! Even if nothing ever comes of it and you never show what you made to a single other living soul, at minimum, you gained skills you didn’t have when you went in (even if it doesn’t really feel like it) that you can apply on your next project. And don’t fret if it feels like you can’t finish anything. Executive function doesn’t come naturally to you and me like it does to most people, but I promise you, it will get better with practice!

Also meds. The ADHD meds help a lot. Again, if you don’t have a diagnosis, get on that. In the meantime, I’d also recommend you check out the YouTube channel How To ADHD and see if anything she talks about sounds familiar.

(I’m on mobile so sorry if this is a bit disorganized)

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an angrier terrarian@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP

2 points

1 year ago

oh wow, ADHD would explain quite a bit. Unfortunately i wont be able to get a diagnosis for some time, as my mum thinks that ADHD is “just an excuse for not working hard enough”. Dw i dont share her view at all.

A discord bot eh? Thats so cool. I’ve tried to make one for a friends server im in with funny little functions such as name randomizer but couldnt get the python plugins to work. Might try it again on my new pc after i finish both of my current projects. Im not versed in how e6 API works (or any API, at all) but that seems like a more complicated way to do things. I guess you need to for those extra funcionalities.

Well thats a lot of excitment for not even explaining how i think its going to work lol. Something that always pissed me off is that the mouse position is used just for aiming, while the scrool wheel is used only for switching weapons (really weird thing that pissed me off) So what if i combined the two? (Somehow) ive made a script that checks the distance from the player to the mouse and compares it to 2 values. If the mouse/player distance is less than the smaller value, then it the game chooses a close range weapon, if its in between the 2 it chooses the mid range weapon and if its greater than the bigger value it chooses a long range weapon. This way you have to dance around the screen with your mouse intead of only aiming at the edges of the screen for greater precision. Dunno if it’ll be fun tho.

As for the sol badguy mod, the bulk of it is the sprites, right now im halfway done with them, im missing the specials and normal aireals. Most of the coding was done by the programmer of the game himself, who left us with just a couple of checkboxes to determine properties of moves and anything aside from that needs to be coded.

I will definetly keep that in mind. Dont have the time to watch her right now, but i will.

(its not disorganized dw)

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