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I had a dream that I was playing Kerbal Space Program, flying a space plane on the Mun, except it's really mountainous and has an atmosphere for some reason. While following a canyon I suddenly notice smoke on the horizon. Like a lot, so much that it rises over mountains and blocks out the stars. It turns out that about a quarter of the Mun's surface is on fire, but I'm still on the wrong side of the mountains so I can't see what's burning. I try to do a retrograde burn in order to land and see what's up, but the atmosphere makes that whole "spin 180 degrees without losing velocity" thing difficult. It appears I'm safe for a second, but then the cockpit boops the side of the mountain a bit too hard. My kerbal avatar is killed instantly, while my copilot is somehow thrown clear... directly into the canyon. At that point I ragequit.

I do quite like blueprints! I created a third-person character that feels pretty good to control, in about half the time it would have taken in Unity. A lot of the math and physics has already been figured out and put in the CharacterMovement component, which saves time on implementing (for example) air control. It's pretty easy, like Game Maker on steroids.

One thing I don't like is that a blank UE4 project (with "Scalable 2d/3d" picked) seems to automatically turn on a lot of graphics options that just slow the game down without good reason; SSAO, reflection passes, fog, bloom etc. PC master race yadda yadda whatever, I believe there's value in making games performant across a wide range of devices, my little ol' laptop included, and I'd rather turn on these options as I decide I need them rather than having them all on from the start. Still, that's only a small annoyance compared to the time saved and features offered.

I'm going to try and learn UE4, as much as one person can learn such a complicated tool.

Shortly after installation I'm already very excited by the node-based shader editor, compared to Unity's "fuck you, figure it out yourself" approach to custom shaders. I also like the idea of a timeline-based cutscene editor, a feature which is only just now coming to Unity.

I am less excited by Visual Studio being the default code editor. Every past attempt to use Visual Studio (or any modern Microsoft product, for that matter) has been about as quick and painless as a trip to an unholy hybrid of the DMV, the dentist's, and the principal's office. For all of MonoDevelop's shortcomings it never behaved like a clingy ex-girlfriend, telling me about expired licenses and TeamShare every time I come around.

Not being able to shoot through a gate that you clearly could

Pretty self-explanatory. I hate it when an arrow or bullet bounces off the air between the bars in a door. Happens a lot in ye olde fantasy games.

I was mildly congested when I started work. Then somebody bought about half the garden section in one go, setting off the worst allergy fit since before high school. And set all their shit on the belt despite insisting that they please not, leaving dirt, small rocks and dead plant parts all over the area.

I hope their terrible garden dies and catches fire. Most of the plants people buy here are wilting already anyway.

I need like, two weeks off from the entierety of existence.

Just finished NGE series. It was okay, but then postmodernism came along and ruined the ending. Screw you postmodernism. Should I watch the movie or is that also bad?

If you don't like the weird, there's the Rebuild of Evangelion series which removes all the most controversial stuff, while adding in a good deal of shounen tropes that Evangelion had in lesser quantities. More fanservice, more action, happier endings, so on. They aren't bad flicks, if you want to see some more/different Evangelion.

Without spoiling too much though, the third movie is kind of a left turn. Not on par with the TV ending or EOE, but still a pretty radical departure in tone from the first two.