I don't usually publicly post takes on current drama situations, but in this case I want to address something I have seen as an issue in the GD community for years, which is throwing grooming accusations way too lightly publicly.
So investigating a bug in BetterEdit has lead me to discovering that it appears that the close button of every single popup in GD runs code that could *purely randomly* lead to a crash
It's not RobTop's fault btw, it's Cocos2d-x's 💀💀
Working on logodomy makes me want to have a lobotomy. Anyways, would ya'll use the editor more if it had sounds? Of course they would be optional and fade out when music/sfx is playing.
Working on a very special feature for BetterEdit: Right-click menu!
It will be fully customizable – you will be able to put whatever buttons in here and customize it for whatever context (right-click to edit trigger values, z order, whatever)
:)
As the developer of BetterSave, I would like to try and clear up a lot of the confusion surrounding people losing their levels after updating to 2.206.
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@Owen_player1
when i was 13 i made a video called "How Many Levels are there in Geometry Dash" where i excitedly estimated based on Recent tab uploads how many levels there are. the first comment pointed out you can just look at the ID of the latest level
@TheJosTurner
Oh my fucking god. THIS is the image being complained about? A person?? In clothes?? A lof of them??
Tbh calling this 'sexualized' is just straight up misogynistic. Like that's just a picture of a woman. Calling it sexualized implies attractive women are inherently sexualized
@MindCap
I stg someone could leak Limbo and MindCap would reveal he has somehow embedded magic triggers in the level that can detect when someone steals the level and immediately sends their coordinates to him so he can promptly send a ballistic missile to their house
The recent 2.203 Update has caused me to think a bit - we might just be seeing the end of modding as we know it. And honestly, that's probably a good thing!
Concerning levels that contain inappropriate end screens and stuff,
Why not just do this?
Like, add a parental control option to hide levels marked as inappropriate (and enable it by default if you want to be safe :D)
@TheRealGDColon
Like one thing that has always amazed me about Clubstep is how no matter how early or late you hit this orb, you will always reach the portals and make it to the ship. A custom level would usually just make you die or resort to invisible teleport portals
Types of GD Twitter users:
-Extreme demon slayer who's constantly in at least 6 dramas
-Meme spam accounts
-Short-lived GD version of a hot & popular Twitter gimmick account
-BGram stans
-Girl GD player who keeps posting that she's horny
-Dr Joe
-Made a Twitter to message RobTop
The lead developer team of Geode was overwhelmingly against allowing AI mods, but we don't want to ban things from a project made for the whole community just because we are personally against them
But judging by all the material available, this is not a situation of a prying predator who is using their position as a public figure to take advantage of minors. This seems to be two very close friends with an age gap being unsure of each other.
For the record, I am not defending Viprin, and I am not talking about any of the other stuff he has been accused of today. The Sparky situation is 100% something he should be held accountable for and worth a public discussion.
I unfortunately haven't been able to port BetterSave and BetterEdit to 2.206 yet as I've been busy with real life stuff and the little time I've had has gone towards Geode itself ☹️
Will be porting them as soon as possible, but please be patient 🙏
I made a mod that saves levels as individual files + adds a trashcan system so you can recover accidentally deleted levels :)
BetterSave out now on Geode!
However, the 'grooming' allegations should've stayed in the DMs.
There is a good reason to post grooming accusations publicly when they can be demonstrated to actually be true. When a public figure misuses their position to take advantage of minors, that should be addressed.
The Sparky stuff is worth a public discussion though. Regardless of whether Viprin himself is responsible, the fact that a bot he owns was used for spying is reason enough - especially given his (well, we'll see if it continues ig) position in the GD community.
Grooming accusations should not be thrown publicly lightly. There have been situations in GD Twitter's past where the reputations of people have been permanently damaged due to an unfounded allegation. In this case, a gross but really mild situation has been treated like Guitar.
Porting an awesome mod by
@kyuriime
over to Windows - Icon Kit saving!
Currently working on adding a few cool features, if you'd like to try it out, it's available on my mod discord server! :)
@RobTopGames
Hey Rob can you help me out with editor layers real quick? I wanna know what function stops you from selecting objects on layers you aren't currently on
Happy to announce the release of GDShare, a tool to export and import GD levels :) Also featuring local backups so you don't have to worry about data loss ever again!*
*Unless you forget to take backups or the backups get corrupted