Liberalism has failed. While it tried to somewhat remedy today's problems, it clearly wasn't enough. Especially with how much our corporate overlords outgrew even the past robber barons. The corporate social media, that were often used by anti-establishment activists, are often became extremely hostile to those, and instead boosted those that does take down the more liberal parts of the status quo. Liberals became more and more incompetent about trying to speak to the common people who do not understand economics to the same degree as they think.

Even we had our own issues. The former big names of "breadtube" often have had disappeared to Nebula and other platforms, where their videos are paywalled, thus reach a much smaller audience. While others do exist, they have been buried under the algorithm so far, and the far-right likes to antagonize politics in entertainment media, but only if that entrails leftist politics, thus some of us are holding back on it.

First if you haven't ditched Twitter yet, then what are you waiting for? Go get a Mastodon account, go to Bluesky (even if they're still corporate) instead, even if your VTuber oshi or favorite singer still haven't go any of there or got bored of them after a few days due to being way less addictive.

Secondly, unless you really live in a very isolated place, go outside, talk to people! Make real-life friends! You have been living in long time isolation that you have issues with opening up yet again? Seek help, either professionally or some other way if it's not available to you.

Third, take care of your body, don't let it go to waste. You might need it, if things go to south.

And lastly, we must stop taking the "moral high ground" every time. The right does not care. The right just uses it to gaslight us to hold certain positions, often to make us look worse, or to compromise our positions. Do not "cancel" your fellow comrades just to show "yeah, we are holding people accountable for their actions", just for that to be something said years ago or something similarly small stuff; this is both being used to hurt our movement by inciting infights, but to also show those wanting to leave the alt-right "why would you, they'll eventually backstab you", maybe instead we want to rehabilitate people as we always dreamed what justice should be. But also do not concede your positions on minorities: the "ineffective" liberal party that preceded Fidesz tried to slowly concede on Roma issues due to the damage the far-right did between 2006 and 2010 to anti-racism, then Ferenc Gyurcsány's (Hungarian prime minister between 2004 and 2008) current party doubled down on slowly abandoning some LGBTQ+ issues, while being barely more than a shitty social democrat party. Meanwhile Szikra, an unashamedly populist and libertarian-leftist party, is unstoppable.

Take your time to rest. Whether you expected or not, a punch still hurts. But we can't rest forever.

I know stuff like SDL and RayLib exists, but I already have my own X11 and Windows API stuff working, and otherwise those libraries like to obscure things from the user in the name of "ease of use", sometimes even missing features (force feedback and proper XInput are the ones that are often skimped out on for whatever reasons, and only SDL has them to my knowledge). While I'll implement libevdev eventually, it has the issue of needing access to the devices.

While I found some reference to game inputs in X11's input extensions, I cannot find any user guide on them, since they're instead pointing me to SDL and co.

I not only have hard time finding tutorials, but even if I do, I have a hard time getting them to not crash, let alone working. I don't know what's the reason, but I have a suspicion that some of these are now AI generated, hence the issues of them not working or outright crashing.

I know newer APIs exist. They're way too complicated for my usecase.

I've heard about WebGPU, but I don't want to touch it with a 10 meter long pole, due to its name. I'll have a lot of time convincing people that WASM isn't a web-only thing, and me using it for scripting won't mean my game engine is either Web-based, nor that it has any Web-capability, and I only stayed with it due to my inability of finding a well-supported scripting VM without "Web" in its name.

If you ask: My game engine is currently using CPU rendering, and used to use SDL2 for displaying the output. I decided to move away from them. Managed to find some basic OpenGL tutorials when I first write my replacement for the SDL2 window handling. The Windows API is well documented on that regard, I even was able to find X11 documentations (this one even required me to find code already implementing such things, since documentation on some features was scarce). However, it somehow became increasingly difficult to find them.

Godot got a spite fork by the name "Redot" after their community managers quote-retweeted a chud calling the use of licensed game engines woke. Some people jumped onto the bandwagon, but it seems the engine is still too woke for some YouTube commentators.

Vertex:

```glsl #version 120

void main() { gl_TexCoord[0] = gl_MultiTexCoord0; gl_Position = ftransform(); } ```

Fragment:

```glsl #version 120

uniform sampler2D tex;

void main(){ vec4 texSlmp = texture2D(tex, gl_TexCoord[0].st); gl_FragColor = vec4(texSlmp.r, texSlmp.g, texSlmp.b, 1.0); } ```

All I get with this is a black screen.

I cannot seem to get tutorials for anything older than OpenGL 3.3, and for my usecase, I could go lower, except everyone tells me "OpenGL is obsolete, try Vulkan instead".

gl_TexCoord[0] seem to be all zeros if I modify the fragment shader to try to output gl_TexCoord[0].st, so its content would be displayed as color information, which I did for a different test. Also I can't find anything on how do I "pass" textures (or other values) to the shaders in the official docs, nor any of the tutorials I could find explains how that actually works.

EDIT: Target version is OpenGL 2.1/GLSL 1.20

EDIT2: I updated the shaders to GLSL 3.30, but then my DuckDuckGo search results suddenly turned bad about the subject, and in/out still doesn't work between vertex and fragment shaders (values taken from the vertex shader is all zero).

I've worked on multiple bitmap fonts, and would like to open source them in some way of form.