from random import random

from pygame.mixer import Sound

from _send.pgfw.GameChild import GameChild

class Track(GameChild):

    def __init__(self, parent, path, volume):
        GameChild.__init__(self, parent)
        self.path = path
        self.volume = volume
        self.channel = None
        self.frequency = self.get_configuration("title", "pan-frequency")
        self.set_sound()

    def set_sound(self):
        sound = Sound(self.path)
        sound.set_volume(self.volume)
        self.sound = sound

    def play(self):
        self.channel = self.sound.play(-1)

    def update(self):
        if self.channel and random() < self.frequency:
            self.parent.set_random_panning(self.channel)
from re import match

from _send.pgfw.GameChild import GameChild
from _send.tartan.Tartan import Tartan

class Tartans(GameChild, dict):

    def __init__(self, parent):
        GameChild.__init__(self, parent)
        self.load()

    def load(self):
        patterns = file(self.get_resource("tartan", "path"))
        while True:
            line = patterns.readline()
            if not line:
                break
            name = line.strip()
            self[name] = Tartan(self, name, patterns)
from re import match, sub
from itertools import izip, chain

from pygame import Surface, Color, PixelArray
from pygame.image import save

from _send.pgfw.GameChild import GameChild

class Tartan(GameChild, Surface):

    def __init__(self, parent, name=None, patterns=None):
        GameChild.__init__(self, parent)
        self.fields = self.get_game().fields
        self.name = name
        self.load_configuration()
        if patterns is not None:
            self.load(patterns)
        self.init_surface(0)
        # self.generate(store=True)

    def load_configuration(self):
        config = self.get_configuration("tartan")
        self.thread_size = config["thread-size"]
        self.sample_size = config["sample-size"]

    def load(self, patterns):
        self.sett = self.parse_sett(patterns.readline())
        self.asymmetric = bool(int(patterns.readline().strip()))
        self.palette = self.parse_palette(patterns)

    def parse_sett(self, line):
        sett = []
        size = 0
        for stripe in line.strip().split(" "):
            identifier, width = match("([A-Z]+)([0-9]+)", stripe).groups(0)
            width = int(width)
            size += width
            sett.append(Stripe(identifier, width))
        self.sett_width = size
        return sett

    def parse_palette(self, patterns):
        palette = {}
        while True:
            line = patterns.readline().strip()
            if not line:
                break
            for color in line.split(";"):
                color = color.strip()
                if color:
                    assignment = map(str.strip, color.split("="))
                    palette[assignment[0]] = Color("#%sFF" % assignment[1][:6])
        return palette

    def generate(self, scale=None, store=False):
        if not scale:
            scale = self.get_default_scale()
        surface = self.select_surface(scale, store)
        self.paint(scale, surface)
        if not store:
            return surface

    def get_default_scale(self):
        return self.fields.get(self.name).tartan_scale

    def select_surface(self, scale, store):
        size = self.get_size(scale)
        if store:
            self.init_surface(size)
            surface = self
        else:
            surface = Surface((size, size))
        return surface

    def get_size(self, scale):
        sett = self.sett
        sett_width = self.sett_width
        if not self.asymmetric:
            size = scale * (sett_width * 2 - sett[-1].width - sett[0].width)
        else:
            size = scale * sett_width
        return size

    def init_surface(self, size):
        Surface.__init__(self, (size, size))

    def paint(self, scale, surface):
        offset, overflow = 0, 0
        sett = self.sett
        pixels = PixelArray(surface)
        for stripe in self.get_stripes_generator(scale):
            width = stripe.width
            color = self.palette[stripe.identifier]
            if overflow:
                width -= 1 - overflow
                blend = self.blend_colors(previous_color, color, overflow)
                self.draw_line(pixels, offset, 1, blend)
                offset += 1
            if width >= 1:
                truncated = int(width)
                self.draw_line(pixels, offset, truncated, color)
                offset += truncated
                overflow = width - truncated
            else:
                overflow = max(width, 0)
            previous_color = color
        del pixels

    def get_stripes_generator(self, scale):
        sett = self.sett
        if not self.asymmetric:
            return (stripe.get_scaled(scale) for stripe in
                    chain(sett[:-1], reversed(sett[1:])))
        return (stripe.get_scaled(scale) for stripe in sett)

    def draw_line(self, pixels, offset, width, color):
        thread_size = self.thread_size
        operator = thread_size * 2
        for y in xrange(offset, min(offset + width, len(pixels[0]))):
            for x in xrange(0, len(pixels[0])):
                if (x + y) % operator < thread_size:
                    pixels[x][y] = color
        for x in xrange(offset, min(offset + width, len(pixels[0]))):
            for y in xrange(0, len(pixels[0])):
                if (x + y) % operator >= thread_size:
                    pixels[x][y] = color

    def blend_colors(self, alpha, beta, ratio):
        alpha = (component * ratio for component in alpha)
        beta = (component * (1 - ratio) for component in beta)
        blend = [int(sum(components)) for components in izip(alpha, beta)]
        return Color(*blend)

    def write_sample(self):
        step = self.get_width()
        shift = step / 2
        count = self.sample_size
        size = step * count
        offsets = range(-shift, size + step, step)
        sample = Surface((size, size))
        for x in offsets:
            for y in offsets:
                sample.blit(self, (x, y))
        path = "resource/local/img/tartan/generated/%02i-%s.png" % \
               (self.fields.get_index(self.name) + 1,
                self.get_filesystem_formatted_name())
        save(sample, path)

    def get_filesystem_formatted_name(self):
        return sub("[^\w-]", "_", self.name.replace(" ", "-"))


class Stripe:

    def __init__(self, identifier, width):
        self.identifier = identifier
        self.width = width

    def __repr__(self):
        return "<%s at %s (%s %.3f)>" % \
               (self.__class__.__name__, hex(id(self)), self.identifier,
                self.width)

    def get_scaled(self, scale):
        return Stripe(self.identifier, self.width * scale)
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March 3, 2021

Video 📺

Computers are a gun. They can see the target; they can pull the trigger. Computers were made by the military to blow people's brains out if they stepped out of line. Google Coral is the same technology that pollutes the oceans, and so is the computer I'm using, and so are the platforms I'm using to post this.

Game 🎲

Games are a context in which all play is purposeful. Games expose the fundamentally nihilistic nature of the universe and futility of pursuing any path other than the inevitability of death and the torture of an evil that knows and exploits absolute freedom. Games are not educational; they are education.

Propaganda 🆒

Education is propaganda — ego driven by-product conveying nothing that would enable us to expose that vanities made for gain subject us further to an illusion created by those in control: the illusion that quantity can represent substance and that data or observation can replace meaning. And why say it, or how, without contradicting yourself, that everything, once registered, no longer exists, and in fact never did, exists only in relation to other non-existent things, and when you look, it's not there, not only because it's long vanished, but because where would it be?


fig. 2: Gamer goo is a lubricant — not for your skin, but for facilitating your ability to own the competition (image from Gamer goo review)

As a result of video games, the great Trojan horse 🎠 of imperialist consumerist representationalism, people are divided in halves to encourage them to act according to market ordained impulses, to feign assurance, penetrating themselves deeper into a tyranny from which every action signals allegiance, confusing the world with definitions and borders, constantly struggling to balance or brace themselves against forces that threaten the crumbling stability of their ego.

F

or example, a cup 🥃 is designed and built to hold something, maintain order and prevent chaos. It keeps water from spilling back to where it belongs, back where it wants to go and gravity wants it to go. The cup is a trap, and it is used to assert dominance over nature, to fill with thoughts about existence, time and self, thoughts regarding dissimilarity between equal parts and patterns that manifest in variation. These ruminations disguised as revelations boil away to reveal isolated and self-aggrandizing thoughts about an analogy fabricated to herald the profundity of one's campaign's propaganda. You have no authentic impulse except to feed a delusion of ultimate and final supremacy. That is why you play games. That is your nature. That is why you eventually smash the cup to bits 💥 or otherwise watch it disintegrate forever because it, by being useful, threatens your facade of ownership and control.


fig. 3: worth1000

The cup is you; it reflects you; it is a lens through which you see yourself; it reassures you, confirming your presence; it says something, being something you can observe. When you move, it moves, and it opens after being closed. You can use it as a vessel for penetration fantasies, keeping you warm and fertile, a fine host for the plague of consciousness, you reptile, you sun scorched transgressor that not only bites the hand that feeds, but buries it deep within a sterile chamber where nothing remains for it as a means of escape except the corpses of others that infringed upon your feeding frenzy.