Putting the finishing touches on my first menu at the new job - not sure how much of this is me putting my own thoughts on colleagues, but I feel like there's been a shift from 'can the newbie coder hack it' to 'hell yeah, while involving design, art and QA to boot.'

Feels good.

Quick reminder to all writers: If you're writing game strings to plug into a localization database, please ensure that you've disabled all 'helpful' autocorrect: Your engine's markup tags just might be case-sensitive.

Another day, another unnecessary controversy.

I don't think Bandai/Namco were in the right on this one, but I long for a day when people understand that copyright is inherent, while trademarks are use-it-or-lose-it. If you've ever wondered why fan-games tend to get C&D'd, well.

Pretty out-of-band compared to my usual fare, but worth pointing out:

Kink is not (or doesn't have to involve) sex.

It's not mutually exclusive with being asexual.

Wow, these spambots/spammers aren't even fucking trying anymore, are they?

Now it's time to sleep more - as much as I want to, can't reasonably play a game when it feels like someone's stabbing my ear.

Being laid up with a possible ear infection sucks balls, and not in the fun and weirdly empowering way

I wish I had the balls to permanently be less of an inconvenience to everyone lmao

Vivid Orange if the screen provides a brief contrast against an overall intentionally-dreary art direction.

Misty Beige if the above direction is intentional, and the screen is just transitory for the player.

What's your intent, Juhana Myllys? There's where your answer lies. 🙂

Do I find it clear and readable? Mostly.

Do I dislike it? Yep.

Would I flag it if it came up in a code review? Yep.

Keep the conditionals as-is, but parse and bail early.

Removing the parsing calls makes the explicit conditionals fit on one line.