2/15/24

Updates, updates, updates! Actually, not much in the way of updates. Mostly just another day of work, plus with a friend at an appointment. Typing this in the appointment itself, in fact. Currently debating what I want to make in terms of lua game project. At first, I was thinking I might just make a mod of Celeste for the PICO-8, since that would be mostly just modifying existing code, rather than coming up with all my own, so I can get a feel for more than just the fundamentals. However, I also kind of think it might be cool to go to the tried-and-true text-based RPGs that I loved coding in Python. Since Lua is so similar, I might even just port some of my previous games directly into Lua, and see how that goes. Regardless, the resulting game will have its source code posted to my blog once I at least get to a playable state. I thought about just posting a download link, but I also want to include the source code, so I may as well just include the source code on its own. Since I work solely within Linux, I'm not just gonna upload an .exe, since I'd have to test in a windows VM and I haven't set one up yet (lazy). Eventually, I'll make windows versions of my games, but they are all mainly meant for Linux.

Welp, I'm back from the appointment and the work day, and I am . My friend most likely has cancer. Doc said that if they ruled out what they just ruled out, cancer is the last possibility in all likelihood. The only hope is that the doctor hadn't considered another possibility, but at this point that hope is ever receding. They're one blood test away from learning if they have cancer, and I can't deal with it. That's all I have to say on the matter, I don't want to start crying in the resource room of my job. I already cried in front of all my clients, and coworkers. I'm tired, I don't want anymore.

Like I say more and more lately: everything is finite; this is the only certainty I have. I am going to die one day. And so are you, and everyone you know. You are reading the words of a dead woman.