xax @xax@monsterpit.net

this twine game is at the 94k words mark and like... that's long but also it's still nowhere near being finished, oof. and yet still vastly more manageable than hell game :V

i appreciate kittens game for inexplicably having my little pony & dead space references. sure why not.

anyway i also separated some bits of my echeveria that had gotten way leggy and potted them separately, and then repotted by spider plant, which was... really in a sad state. roots surfacing from the soil and running 3x / 4x the depth of the pot, and in some parts with little mold splotches. i ended up separating it apart into three plants and potting them each in bigger pots, so hopefully that should keep them for a while. and hopefully their pots aren't _too_ big now.

...now i gotta figure out what to do with these three spider plants though.

wow that guy is just straight-up drawing bugchasing art now huh. that sure is great.

i still have basically no sense of how movement works on the hyperbolic plane. it's weird. like uhhh in flat space if you have two parallel lines then there are an infinite number of lines that are perpendicular to both. in hyperbolic space there's one. which has some wild implications that i'm not really sure about

tbh i've always had a bit of a tendency to go "words don't mean anything and it is impossible to categorize anything in any category at any time" and that has been absolutely exacerbated by how now people will say things like "x is an abusive pedophile who used slurs against a trans person" when what they mean is "x has ships that i don't like and when i told them they said i was stupid", or w/e. people just like asserting a relationship between categories of things without ever having to dip down into the profane realm of an actual statement of anything that actually happened.

ftr my Plant Total:

* 5 peace lilies (in 4 pots)
* 17 chamaedorea elegans (in 4 pots)
* 1 aglaonema 'silver queen'
* 1 autumn fern
* 1 unidentified thing that might be an arrowhead vine(??)
* 1 new unidentified thing
* 3 spider plants (2 just potted today)
* 2 dracaena marginata (in one pot)
* 1 french tarragon
* 2 apple trees (in one pot and uhhhh i don't really know what i'm gonna do with them long-term)
* 2 snake plants
* 3 crotons
* tomatoes
* a whole lot of aloe plants (like seven?)
* a whole lot of echeveria runyonii 'topsy turvy' (like uhhhh ten)
* a whole lot of jade plants (10+?)

yeah that's a fair number of plants

well i'm back to having multiple spider plants, and also i got a new "3in Foliage GV $5.00" that i have no clue what it is. Plants.

i'm still kinda sad that ffxv was so bad. like i loved the basic concept but uhhhh modern square can't actually make video games. where is the anachronistic fantasy roadtrip game we deserve

on the one hand, step one for revisting the hell game code should be cleaning it up, but on the other hand uhh that's going to be a huge chore so probably i should try working on some fun stuff as well so i don't get burnt out again

man my hell game event code is a slapdash mess. probably i should clean that up.

i went to the plant nursery and i got more pots for repotting stuff and also a fern. we'll... see how that goes. hopefully i'll be able to keep it humid enough

that's assuming all my math is right, which is definitely not certain. it seems like where the euclidean plane grows by adding a number of tiles like `(n * 2 - 1) * 4` where n increases by 2 each step, in the order-5 tessellation it increases by `n * 5` and rather than increasing linearly it increases by successive squares.

so like you start with `5 = 1 * 5` b/c `1^2 = 1`. and then go on to `25 = 5 * 5` b/c `1^2 + 2^2 = 5`. then `70 = 14 * 5` b/c `1^2 + 2^2 + 3^2 = 14`

i'm only vaguely sure that's correct and i have no clue how to expand that to order-6 or order-7 tessellations even if it is correct

if you allow 3 moves in any direction from there, across diagonals, in the euclidean plane that defines a 8x8 grid that has 64 distinct, reachable squares. the equivalent order-5 hyperbolic tessellation shape has 250 distinct, reachable squares.

with 7 moves it's 16x16 = 256 squares in euclidean space, or 2,700 in an order-5 hyperbolic tessellation.

with 15 moves it's 32x32 = 1,024 vs. 34,680
with 31 moves it's 4,096 vs. 493,680
with 63 moves it's 16,384 vs. 7,436,000

so, yeah, hyperbolic plane is a little bit bigger and harder to navigate for sure. don't get lost.

in other news i need to get my echeverias better light b/c they always get kinda leggy and sad. which probably means just getting grow lights

i guess it's more like, is there a coordinate system for mapping the hyperbolic plane that has integer coordinates and doesn't involve building up an indefinitely-long stack of steps taken

i'm real bad at math

so i finally read 17776

http://tzaphiriron.sidemoon.net/static/misc/testoutput185.html well i got some extremely rudimentary descriptions working for landmarks. ultimately i just need many, many more options.

and ideally a better way of stringing state together and choosing actions but, one step at a time.

oh yeah plus same-day voting registration w/ only signing a census roll (no voter id laws, etc), and anybody regardless of citizenship status can vote provided they can display evidence they live in the given district. plus lots of other stuff.

as just like the most basic possible foundation for a democracy that actually means anything

really like my step one for 'making voting mean anything in us politics' is like...

1. approval voting (you can vote for each candidate rather than you can vote for one candidate) for all elections
2. all local state and federal elections mandated to take place on nov 8th, unless it's a special election
3. make nov 8th a federal holiday
4. voting is open for 2-3 days
5. democrat and republican parties no longer defaulted into ballots
6. any elected position at any level at any point can be recalled via signed petition that triggers a recall vote
7. reinstate the voting rights act with the entire US as its coverage formula
8. oh yeah i guess abolish the electoral college but that's hardly the most important thing here