PeanutNov 10, 2024
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Drove by this pile of traffic barriers recently. I was mesmerized.
Oct 17, 2024 at 8:32pmWeb
Show threadslembckeOct 17, 2024

Bwa! I didn't really expect people to notice this random clip so much.

I don't have a soundcloud, but I am making an indie game that has... lighting? (Sorry that's a real stretch... >_<) https://store.steampowered.com/app/2137670/Veridian_Expanse/ Wishlists make indie games go brrrr!

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Show threadMr. Foxe.Oct 18, 2024
@slembcke Is that going to be anything like Descent?
Show threadslembckeOct 18, 2024
@FoxeinSocks kinda more like 2D twin stick Subnautica inside an asteroid.
Show threadMr. Foxe.Oct 18, 2024
@slembcke I shall have the persons I pay for steam for to wish for it!
Show threadslembckeOct 19, 2024
@FoxeinSocks mastodon account for it at @vexpanse if you are interested too. :)
Show threadLudwig VielfrassOct 18, 2024
@slembcke Cool! Looks *really* pretty and the gameplay mechanics look up my alley! Wishlisted!
Show threadslembckeOct 19, 2024
@lerxst Mastodon account for it at @vexpanse too if you are interested. :)
Show threadMartin KiftOct 18, 2024
@slembcke oooo, steam, nice. I shall wishlist and purchase when its out.
Show threadEndlessMasonOct 17, 2024
I wonder how many times it's been scraped back together after somebody drove into it
@slembcke
Show threadEvie πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈOct 17, 2024
@slembcke @aeva I thought that was a tech demo πŸ’€
Show threadMumonkanOct 17, 2024
@slembcke seems like a fire/flame simulation! πŸ”₯
Show threadiykuryOct 17, 2024

@slembcke re: alt text

"in unison"? those don't seem to be in unison to me

Show threadslembckeOct 17, 2024
@iykury True. It's more of a nice repeating pattern. Kinda wavey.
Show threadAmmadienOct 17, 2024
@slembcke I think it's called a gallop if you find more than two together in the wild.
Show threadThomas BrandOct 17, 2024
@slembcke It's mating season on the freeway!
Show threadWhine SpectatorOct 17, 2024
@slembcke barriers only do this when they're very stressed
Show threadMennoOct 18, 2024
@secretasianman @slembcke
Indeed. It's their natural behavior.
<David Attenborough voice>
This rare phenomenon occurs when the traffic barriers are startled by something.
Normally, the these barriers are quite stationary, often found in long lines by the freeway. But sometimes, even though we can't see it, the barriers sense a predator and they suddenly rush together.
The exact mechanism hasn't been determined yet. It's speculated that the fumes of a hungry pick up can trigger them this way.
Show threadxs4me2Oct 17, 2024

@slembcke

Indeed, hard not to keep looking at it!

Show threadMegatronicThronBanksOct 17, 2024
@slembcke The insects chirping just add to it!
Show threadslembckeOct 20, 2024
@megatronicthronbanks Don't forget the engine sounds from my 2009 Honda Fit econo-hatchback. (You can tell it's orange from the timbre right?)
Show threadFlaming CheetoOct 17, 2024
@slembcke what are they saying to each other?
Show threadminty  Oct 17, 2024
@slembcke fireflies
Show thread4_InTheMorningOct 17, 2024
@slembcke I’d be stuck waiting until they all flashed at once. At some point it’s *gotta* happen.
Show threadDr. Fortyseven πŸ₯ƒ β–ˆβ–“β–’β–‘Oct 17, 2024
@slembcke "I want to LIVE THERE." -- first words that came into my head upon seeing that.
Show threadIan K. Rogers ikr?β•­ΰ²°_ΰ² Oct 18, 2024
@slembcke nature is healing
Show threadkoliaoOct 18, 2024
@slembcke You found a nest, how lovely.
Show threadBroken TrolandOct 18, 2024
@slembcke Christmas decorations are just going up earlier and earlier every year.
Show threadJamesOct 18, 2024
@slembcke I'm obsessed
Show threadSolarbird Oct 18, 2024

@slembcke wonderful

i'm one of those people whose brain kind of shuts down for the Main Street Electrical Parade (in a good way) at Disneyland and this is hitting some of the same buttons <3

Show threadMr. Foxe.Oct 18, 2024
@slembcke They're so excited to be going home!
Show threadJayOct 18, 2024
@slembcke I had a sudden mental image of someone prancing around town with a boombox on their shoulder playing flute music while an army of animated traffic barriers skipped along behind them.
Show threadLittleScrapsoftheNorthOct 18, 2024
@slembcke oh yeah I could sit there and watch them for quite awhile
Show threadPreston Maness ☭Oct 18, 2024
@slembcke "in unison" looks pretty sporadic to me, but still really cool!
Show threadLudwig VielfrassOct 18, 2024
@slembcke Rave time!
Show threadHTeuMeuLeuOct 18, 2024
@slembcke ”They're moving in herds. They do move in herds.”
Show threadStarkRGOct 18, 2024
@slembcke I wonder what neuropsychology says about why humans get mesmerised by seemingly random flashy things. This, sunlight reflecting off ripples in water, leaves trembling in a light breeze, schools of shiny fish, etc. I wonder if it's related to photosensitive epilepsy.
Show threadBeBoOct 18, 2024
@slembcke Would love to see a themed version for Christmas
Show threadPusher of PixelsOct 18, 2024

@slembcke the visual representation of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHc288IPFzk

Duck Army

YouTube
Show threadRevolutionary PaulaOct 18, 2024
@slembcke
Good grief - a Testudo!
Show threadslowtigerOct 18, 2024
@slembcke Great Barrier Rave.
Show threadRobert BurgholzerOct 18, 2024
@slembcke Omphalotus olearius -- do not eat!!
Show threadacmOct 18, 2024
@slembcke don't they... have off switches?!?
Show threadslembckeOct 18, 2024
@acm_redfox Nah, they had little solar panels on them to charge them. Presumably they just run every night until dead as they were like that every day for a week until I finally stopped and took the video.
Show threadLuna LacteaOct 18, 2024
@slembcke These are actually a type of traffic barrier shaped firefly! The males stand together & blink to impress females.
Show threadPxl PhileNov 9, 2024
@slembcke this particular bit of a GeoCities Homepage is going to be soooo under construction 🚧🚨
Show thread🎸 POSS 🏁Nov 10, 2024
@slembcke my neurons when i have to focus on a single task