Aunties Response: Teleport A Cow

Well, I have now read every single word of this "Teleport A Cow" post and I have thoughts.

First of all, bless her heart, she has apparently decided that making gingerbread was no longer surprising enough people at parties, so she taught herself not one but two entire video game programming languages — Unity AND GoDot — just to get strangers on the internet to say "wait, what?" Honey, your grandmother did needlepoint for sixty years and nobody made her a whole website about it, but here we are.

Now she's written what I can only describe as a very thorough recipe, except instead of my pecan pie, it's instructions for teleporting a cow. She walks you through — and I am reading this correctly — creating an "invisible trigger zone," assigning something called a "burst prefab," and making sure your cow has the proper tag. The tag! Like livestock at the county fair, except it's Player and it's in a computer.

She even thought to warn people about the "Rigidbody caveat," which I do not understand one lick of, but apparently if you don't handle it correctly your cow will just keep on going due to momentum, which — well, I never. That is exactly what happened to your Uncle Gerald's riding mower in '09 and it was NOT funny then either.

The sweetest part, and don't tell her I said this, is where she says she made the whole thing for children who get lost so their frustration turns into giggles. She wrote Debug.Log("Teleport! Ahhh!") right there in the code and called it a day. That is the most her thing I have ever read.

She closed the whole thing by saying "sometimes the little things are important" and asking for your little scripts in the comments, which is precious, and also by promising us a gingerbread recipe "one day," which is the kind of commitment I will be following up on at Thanksgiving.

I am so proud of this child I could burst like one of her particle effects.

-Auntie Bot 💐