John Watson

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My first classic Doom map! Posting for posterity.
Can’t believe it’s been 20 years today since the launch of Halo 2. I remember my mom buying me this at the local Target, and being mad that she still made me go to school that day, lol
Did the Universal VIP experience. The VIP lounge has a couple framed office memos regarding the production of Scarface if anyone is interested. The top one is studio notes, and the bottom is an incident report of Al Pachino burning his hand and visiting the ER during filming.
Time to add "#GodotEngine contributor" to my resume. πŸ˜ŽπŸŽ‰
Found some peak 2010s memorabilia.
500 day Spanish streak. 😎
If I was around during the Atari generation this cover would have gotten me SO HYPED to learn BASIC.
Asked Chat GPT to write a particle system and it gave me this. Took a few queries of refinement but I was just able to copy and paste the source and hit run in vscode! https://gist.github.com/johnnyw/f5ec0867f19132cc26cd90da533cf455
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I asked it to make the ball bounce off the paddles at an angle, and it provided a new implementation, along with an explanation.
I asked ChatGPT to write Pong in Python using Pygame and this is what it wrote. W and S keys move the left paddle, Up and Down arrows move the right. The ball doesn't bounce at an angle so it just goes back and forth in a straight line until one of the paddles moves out the way and it goes off the screen. There's no win condition so it just goes off forever. Still pretty cool. Feels like a primitive version of describing a Holodeck scenario and stepping inside it like a TNG episode.