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NovaSquirrel

@NovaSquirrel@chitter.xyz

I'm a hobbyist game developer who mostly focuses on old Nintendo consoles, but I've done projects on PC too.

I'm a furry and I like to make cute characters and also make games about them! Check out my Toyhouse to see my characters: https://toyhou.se/NovaSquirrel

I'd like to meet other people who like to do lighthearted, story-driven roleplay.

I post NSFW sometimes but I tag it, so please be 18+ if you follow.

Feel free to reach out if you have common interests and wanna be friends! [she/her]

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NovaSquirrel, to random
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I went through the whole Altador plot on with a guide, and even with a guide it was pretty BS haha. It must have been an enormous pain in the butt to figure out back when it was first available.

My least favorite part was anything that involved clicking on every single window in the coliseum to find the "punch club", which I had to do twice (with one of the two times involving me brute forcing a combination.)

At least the task that involved checking in every minute and doing an action for 10 consecutive minutes was a good way to kill time during a meeting.

NovaSquirrel, to random
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I think playing Animal Crossing: Wild World recently changed my perspective on and made it more appealing. The site does seem designed to get you to load a lot of pages every day (and consequently see a lot of ads) but with an ad blocker I find it easy to ignore that.

Animal Crossing has its own daily/scheduled/random events, and daily things you should do like pulling weeds, and I realized doing daily Neopets events is kind of like that. I actually really like https://www.jellyneo.net/?go=mysterious_negg_cave even though it's simple.

NovaSquirrel, to random
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lol I got a notice from Twitch about copyright infringing music in the Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX stream I did. Interesting to get a notice for that game that but not Frequency or Amplitude, though I'm guessing that having the various instruments and vocals randomly and independently cut in and out is probably going to unintentionally make the songs harder to detect. Though quite a few of the tracks were made specifically for that game.

NovaSquirrel, to random
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People have been asking Bandai to rerelease the Tamagotchi Connection from 2004 for years and years and they finally did it: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3NDHJZY

It seems like it might be either a combination of multiple old Connection toys (like a "best of") or even a whole new entry in the series? In any case I'm really excited to see what it ends up being!!

NovaSquirrel,
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Based on the back of the box, I'm getting the impression that this might actually turn out to be some sort of mix between the Tamagotchi Connection v3 and the Keitai Kaitsuu Tamagotchi Plus, which sounds really interesting!

All of the characters depicted are on one or both of those toys, and one of the games shown is distinctly a Keitai one. I also see a note that there's both English and Japanese on the same toy? I just hope it has a pause feature.

NovaSquirrel,
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Okay there is actual new information on the site: https://tamagotchi-official.com/us/series/connection/howto/

So that confirms that this is in fact a mix between the Tamagotchi Connection V3 and the Keitai Kaitsuu Tamagotchi Plus.

I'm going to hope that not including any of the V4/V4.5 features is a hint at maybe doing a V4/V4.5 rerelease later (because those are my favorite Tamagotchis), but even just a V3 release is amazing to see.

NovaSquirrel, to random
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Today I learned that ARM invented THUMB specifically to please Nintendo? According to this talk anyway: https://youtu.be/_6sh097Dk5k?t=1726

It's interesting to think about game console companies having enough weight to affect what features chips have, though it makes sense since they'd be really big customers

NovaSquirrel, to random
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I wish it were easier to get people to engage when I talk about my interests; I often feel like I'm just talking into the void

NovaSquirrel,
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@Leezard Thank you! Yeah, I feel like the stuff I tend to focus on might just be so far outside what other people focus on that they don't know what to say.

NovaSquirrel,
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I'd like to get to a spot where I can talk about game dev, old consoles/computers, the shows I'm watching, the games I'm playing, the projects I'm working on, and the places I'm going, and be able to talk about that with people.

I want to talk to people about Cyberchase and Neopets and Splatoon and the SNES and magical girl media and the stories I want to write.

But I feel like I have the "wrong" interests?

NovaSquirrel, to random
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Some of the early 2000s Cybunny plushes look kind of weird, and I thought it was a case where fans just made better stuff, but it turns out the design itself got changed a year after the plush was made: https://bookofages.jellyneo.net/history/old-pets/?species=cybunny

So it was very on-model, just not the model I was thinking of

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i'm asexual which means I would never drive a car

NovaSquirrel,
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@niki I'm asexual and I don't own a car by choice so this checks out

BatElite, to random
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Already can't wait for artifght this year

NovaSquirrel,
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@BatElite I'm excited for it though I should probably try and tone it down a bit so my whole month doesn't disappear again

Of course I always get so many attacks that I feel like I should try and draw something in return for hehe

NovaSquirrel, to random
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Playfully reading too much into how yesterday a Cyberchase episode aired involving a "Super-Snooper Satellite" ("Codename: Icky") and today's episode name ends in "as usual" ("Chaos as Usual")

Snooping as usual, I see?

NovaSquirrel,
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I do genuinely feel like there's some strong similarities between Hacker and Robotnik that go far enough that I don't think it's a coincidence, and that was a big reason I was interested in watching Cyberchase to begin with (before I realized I just enjoyed the show). But it's also fun to reach for all the minor stuff I can grab that doesn't actually matter and pretend it's additional evidence.

https://kinopioa.tumblr.com/post/188734127864/goes-hmmm

NovaSquirrel, to random
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it's funny to look at those "good2grow" juice bottles with the plastic character tops, and among all the Peppa Pig and My Little Pony and Paw Patrol there's Shadow the Hedgehog

NovaSquirrel,
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@VAdaPEGA is it? I figured that Sonic was more aimed at teens, though I also get the impression that Sega has changed the way they're marketing Sonic since the 90s.

Oh this is a joke about some fans being immature isn't it.

NovaSquirrel, to SecondLife
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Went and did another try at a little ice cream area next to my Second Life house. I don't think I was really feeling the balcony thing, but having a more natural looking platform looks fine! And I like the tent more than the weird glass thing I was using before. It'd be nice to try and make a custom texture for it though!

#secondlife

The same house, but at night.

NovaSquirrel, to random
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The Tilemap Town protocol document is so long and full of stuff at this point that it might be a little intimidating? I put some notes in there highlighting what the most important parts are, to guide people toward being able to make a minimal implementation, though maybe it'd be nice to have a separate guide.

Of course that'll only really matter if someone actually wants to implement it.

Austin_Dern, to random
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We're under a tornado watch until 11 pm and BunnyHugger's mother-in-law has two tornado warnings in her county so if @lightspill could dial the weather back just a touch that would be great, thanks.

NovaSquirrel,
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@Austin_Dern There was a tornado warning over here in Indiana but I think all that was detected over here was some rotation. Still hung out in the basement a bit just in case.

NovaSquirrel, to random
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Doing small talk about work is weird, since there's significantly less randomness on a day-to-day basis than there must be in other kinds of jobs the way other people talk about them. I go into work knowing I'm just going to continue to chip away at tasks I've taken on and attend meetings here and there, so I have no idea what a good or bad day of work looks like. I guess when I have way too many meetings I'd call that bad, but otherwise...

NovaSquirrel, to random
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I like when electronic music sounds like hardware that's being strained, even though that's not really how audio hardware works (that I know of). The soundtrack for Edge of Disgrace sounds like that in some parts, getting really warbly, and it feels especially fitting for a demoscene thing.

NovaSquirrel, to random
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The local zoo is only about 2 miles from my house, and I have a membership, so now I just need to get really good at zooming out there and back and then I can go look at red pandas any time I want

It definitely takes me a bit to get there currently, but I think if I learned the route it wouldn't be too bad

NovaSquirrel, to random
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Turns out the full version of Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX for PS1 is every bit as awkward and unintentionally funny as the demo in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, except I have more levels to be awkward in.

There's severe problems with things appearing in front of things they shouldn't, like my character appearing in front of a bench here and looking like I'm just a little baby man. Also when I grind on things the bike very rarely actually looks like it's making contact with what I'm grinding on.

NovaSquirrel, to random
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I'm playing with updating my old NES Dr.Mario clone after finally getting to play it with someone else showed that there's a lot of stuff that really needed fixed, or that could be better.

It felt cool to get to play a Dr.Mario that was fast though.

NovaSquirrel,
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And now Squirrel Domino has 8 backgrounds you can pick from and suddenly the game feels way more polished. I also made the backgrounds display during multiplayer battles too.

There's been a bunch of other updates and tweaks and I think I'm generally feeling pretty good about the game now:
https://forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.php?p=293686#p293686

Dr.Mario clone with a garden background, with water, fences, trees, and flowers
Dr.Mario with a bunch of boxes and bricks surrounding the playfield
Dr.Mario at night with a starry theme. There's some grass and flowers.

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