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Just had one player a single dice roll away from permadeath in our years-long D&D campaign. Heart still racing

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Enjoying having a phone camera with a decent zoom lens so I can take pictures like this one

A black cat peeking over a wooden fence with greenery in the background.
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OK human, we need to have a conversation about the quality of treats lately

A black and white cat sat either her arms folded and a stern expression
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I use harfbuzz for layout, which uses Freetype metrics, so the hard thing was getting those to line up with the glyph metrics emitted by MSDFgen.

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Finally got my engine’s distance field font rendering (top) looking PRETTY MUCH as good as bitmap fonts (bottom). Already starting to think about what it might look like to move away from atlases altogether and just rasterise glyph vectors on the GPU…

Two pieces of text saying 'Hello this is some example text in Growl. It's got newlines and everything'.
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This was fantastic.

A poster for David Tennant in Macbeth
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Our sixteen year old cat brought this little guy in today, thankfully unharmed. First time she’s done this since we’ve known her, didn’t think the old girl still had it in her!

A tiny little mouse. It’s held in Lucy’s hand; my nails aren’t that nice.
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Alright then, who am I mutually planning to see at Glasto but realistically we’ll never align our schedules or energy levels

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A new APWOT day is a good day.

A black cat sitting next to the latest issue of APWOT.
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Rolled credits on Alan Wake 2. I flipped from not really liking the game - I maintain the combat is Bad and there’s too much of it - to really getting invested in the story by the end. The DLC whips too, it transpires. Might even play Final Draft.

A screenshot from Alan Wake 2