{"author_link":"\/users\/epb9000","author_name":"epb9000","author_uid":"epb9000","comments":[],"epoch":1696041185,"event":"LD54","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":377248,"likes":7,"metadata":{"p_key":"202084","p_author":"epb9000","p_authorkey":"1060928","p_urlkey":"435931","p_title":"Of ideas and time wasting - more time wasting than ideas","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD54","p_time":"1696041185","p_likes":"7","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1060928","us_name":"epb9000","us_username":"epb9000","event_start":"1695945600","event_key":"117","event_name":"Ludum Dare 54"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD54","removed_author":false},"_superparent":371459,"_trust":1,"author":60928,"body":"Unlike this time last time in the compo, I actually have an idea of what I want to do. May I direct your attention to this excellently drawn chart:\n\n![pewpew.png](\/\/\/raw\/00e\/e\/z\/5c3bd.png)\n\nRails bullet hell with constrained movement where you take damage if you leave the safe path plotted out.\n\nHowever, ideas can be a dangerous thing. I thought \"If I make a Halloween game, my computer should be in Halloween mood.\" This is a dangerous rabbit-hole to go down.\n\nIn summary, I wasted two hours I could have spent working on the game, making a Halloween Windows XP theme for IceWM. Why do I do this to myself? I do not know. I share this so that you may laugh at my stupidity with me.\n\n![sufficiently-halloween.png](\/\/\/raw\/00e\/e\/z\/5c3bb.png)\n\n","comments":2,"comments-timestamp":"2023-09-30T06:02:06Z","created":"2023-09-30T02:05:06Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":377248,"love":7,"love-timestamp":"2023-09-30T20:43:50Z","meta":[],"modified":"2023-09-30T20:43:50Z","name":"Of ideas and time wasting - more time wasting than ideas","node-timestamp":"2023-09-30T02:33:05Z","parent":377247,"parents":[1,5,9,371459,377247],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/54\/the-great-ghostly-candy-heist\/of-ideas-and-time-wasting-more-time-wasting-than-ideas","published":"2023-09-30T02:33:05Z","scope":"public","slug":"of-ideas-and-time-wasting-more-time-wasting-than-ideas","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":1157359},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"377248","n_urlkey":"435931","n_parent":"377247","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/54\/the-great-ghostly-candy-heist\/of-ideas-and-time-wasting-more-time-wasting-than-ideas","n_slug":"of-ideas-and-time-wasting-more-t","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"60928","n_created":"1696039506","n_modified":"1696106630","n_version":"1157359","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/54\/the-great-ghostly-candy-heist\/of-ideas-and-time-wasting-more-time-wasting-than-ideas","text":"Unlike this time last time in the compo, I actually have an idea of what I want to do. May I direct your attention to this excellently drawn chart:\n\n![pewpew.png](\/\/\/raw\/00e\/e\/z\/5c3bd.png)\n\nRails bullet hell with constrained movement where you take damage if you leave the safe path plotted out.\n\nHowever, ideas can be a dangerous thing. I thought \"If I make a Halloween game, my computer should be in Halloween mood.\" This is a dangerous rabbit-hole to go down.\n\nIn summary, I wasted two hours I could have spent working on the game, making a Halloween Windows XP theme for IceWM. Why do I do this to myself? I do not know. I share this so that you may laugh at my stupidity with me.\n\n![sufficiently-halloween.png](\/\/\/raw\/00e\/e\/z\/5c3bb.png)\n\n","title":"Of ideas and time wasting - more time wasting than ideas","wayback_source":[]}