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🇳🇴 30something, Nonbinary, ace and disabled game dev, VA director and editor.
Currently working with Jaime Scribbles Games as editor and VA director for the gothic romance otome/amare VN 🩸In Blood

On disability and spending my days at home with my cat, when I'm not doing disability and queer activism. Chronic illness life means very limited battery capacity :ms_battery_low:

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PMscenarios, to Software
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Does anyone know of a (free or cheap) software that can convert handwritten text from pictures to computer written?

I have a few notebooks I wrote in erasable ink I'd like to convert before the ink fades away completely, and I'd like an easier way than meticously rewriting it on the pc

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Nothing makes me feel like a robot more than watching comedy classics.
I just don't get it. I don't get why Blazing Saddles is funny and not just sad. I don't get why violence, discrimination and farts elict laughter in this context.

I feel like I need to sit down with a "normal" human and have them explain every scene and what the comedic elements are and what ppl are laughing at.

Also the gum scene? Do not understand it all. Why is it funny??

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@Shkshkshk
That could be the issue with this one in particular, but I find I just don't find Mel Brooks movies funny.

There's some I like - The Producers and Young Frankenstein, some I heavily dislike - History of the World, and some of the jokes do land for me - I laughed at the "academy award for best supporting actor" joke in BS, but I would never describe them as "side-splittingly funny" or "laughed until I cried" like reviewers of Mel Brooks often do

I would at best describe them as mildly amusing with generally a strong point to make. While I find Airplane to be much more of a comedy, even tho that also has lots of distasteful jokes and the pedo ones make me want to hide under a rock 🤷🏻‍♂️

(this reminds me I also did not understand at all how Tootsie is a comedy. I liked it, I found it very sympathetic, but to me it was a drama movie)

PMscenarios, to movies
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Silent Running might be one of the most depressing sci-fi's I've ever watched.
I can see how in the 70s it probably was distant enough to feel like a fantastical drama, and the idea of earth losing its ecosystems with the last remnants being kept alive in outer-space domes was an unrealistic idea, but today it feels just way too current.

Bruce Dern is absolutely amazing, but omg this movie just gets more and more sad until it ends as bleakly as it begun

cannot unsee bunny faces

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I am not sure Wizards was the movie to follow up Silent Running with.
Now I'm just more depressed.
I did know about Wizards of course, but I didn't realise just how heavily it mirrors real life events. Should have assumed knowing Bakshi's history I guess, but I know his work from Spicy City most of all, and that isn't as on the nose with its world building

There has to be some robot movies that aren't about the world dying/man's disregard for life 🤖

  • I am on a mission to watch all the movies containing robots I haven't seen (so more obscure stuff than matrix, AI, I robot, ghost in the shell, terminator etc)

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As usual, capitalism is the real villain

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@essie_is_okay
@disability
I have social anxiety but am not subseptible to a lot of peer pressure.
For me it's basically - my ethics are set in stone and I tend to be rather hipstery about anything super popular. So I will not go on accord with my own views or interests. Or shut up about advocacy for others.
But, I also do not stand up for myself or want to rock the boat on anything that doesn't impact my stance directly.

My past experiences and trauma has taught me to never put myself first.

So you could say I am very subseptible to peer pressure about how and when I speak, how my words affect others and how much space I take up, but I am not at all movable on stuff I consider more important than my own boundaries (most things)

A concrete example - I do not correct ppl who repeatedly misgendering me in most public situations as that'd take focus away from the cause and be selfishly about me

PMscenarios, to books
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Early birthday present from my family.
(my birthday is the 23rd. Got express shipping to make sure it delivered to my door)

So excited to look at beautiful robots.

Robots 1:2 is a photography book of the collection at Vitra Design Museum.
Picured is the first and last robot in the book (details in alt text). I've always been interested in these early tin robots

The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag is sort of an art book and a sci-fi narrative/(fantasy)American roadtrip.
Haven't read anything by him yet, but I fell in love with the illustrations. So excited to explore his world

Third is Anime Arcitecture - Imagined Worlds and Endless Megacities by Stefan Riekeles (more in next post)

  • I really tried with the alt text but am kinda guessing a lot

Robot Lilliput P: KT D: Kuramochi Shoten, CK Clockwork Japan 1937 15.2 cm Small orange tin robot with a square face with a big nose and open mouth with 5 pointy teeth. It looks a bit derpy. It has a tube and 3 dials illustrated on its chest, and the designation NP 5357
Pes Pluto P: Hardtmuth N.P D: Koh-I-Nor Battery operated Czechoslovakia 1976 12 cm On the left is a cardboard box with the robot dog illustrated on On the right: Robot dog pez dispenser. The head and feet are red, the body is light blue. Its upper jaw has yellow and black warning stripes and its nose is a little red ball. The body seems to have a little internal motor connected with yellow wires to a red battery and some dials. It looks to have 2 circular cut outs above its legs showing the red underneath. Its tail is 3 decreasing in size balls in the colors blue, red, yellow. The illustration on the box shows it having 2 yellow balls as ears, but these are not replicated on the tin robot
Inside of Electric State. Theres text on the left (too small to read). The main illustration is a landscape with trees, mountains and grey skies. A small car is driving alone on a curvy road. On the hill is a very pointy sci-fi looking fighter plane? It is broken down and decorated with a cartoon cat licking its mouth at the top. The cat has a turret sticking out of it. On the side of the plane is painted U.S Air Force

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Did I want Anime Arcitecture just bc it featured Metropolis... Maybe.

It is a beautiful hardcover featuring early drafts, storyboards, original background paintings and exclusive material from some pivotal sci-fi anime movies - Akira, Patlabor: the Movie, Patlabor 2: the Movie, Ghost in the Shell, Metropolis, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, Tekkonkinkreet, Rebuild of Evangelion

I do wish it also had Steamboy and Memories, but I am so excited to deep dive into these sci-fi worldbuilding notes

2 pages showing black and white technical concept design sketches by Takashi Watabe of street lights and a handrail in Metropolis. They have a strong Art Nouveau influence
2 page spread of the final production background for Metropolis. It is a colorful underground cityscape with several levels and tall buildings, and a bridge cutting straight across it. Everything is worn and grungy (even tho it is bright, strong colors of red, yellow, green and blue) and there's many pipes, big fans, industrial numbering and advertisements, giving it an industrial, futuristic and retro feel all at the same time

PMscenarios, to gaming
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Wanted to talk about some of my favourite indie games that really inspired or impacted me through my years of gaming (still do), and I never see ppl talk about -

Dominique Pamplemousse - It's all Over When The Fat Lady Sings

Off-beat comedy, handmade, unique art-style, society commentary, musical, gender exploration - I backed Squinky on IndieGoGo when this first was announced and I still love and replay this regularly.

It's the kind of unique view and creativity I desperately want to see more of, and love experiencing. One day I'd too hope to leave the world with something like this

There's also a sequel and another exploratory game by Squinky that's worth playing too, and only 1$
https://squinky.itch.io/

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Wadjet Eye games is in no way a small indie, or not well-known anymore. But my introduction to his work was actually Emerald City Confidential, and that is a game I never see ppl mention, not even him. (I think it might be the one and only contracted work he's made?)

This game made a deep impact on me, and is probably the catalyst for my interest in neo-noir.
I adore the world-building, the darker fairy-tale twist (no longer unique, but was not as mainstream back in 2009) and the strong political commentary.
The gameplay isn't perfect, but I have not seen anything else at the intersection between fairy-tale, neo-noir and strong commentary pull off this level of world-building.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/37260/Emerald_City_Confidential/

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🧵​3/? -
Would it surprise anyone that I adore games about robots?

These games might be slightly more known, and are newer, so combining them:

Subsurface Circular - Bithell Games I think is reasonably well known by now, but Subsurface Circular does not get the spotlight it deserves when discussing either early Switch games or robot ethics exploration.
Gonna be a recognizable mantra - great world building, strong society commentary and unique style

Rumu - The one and only game by Australian studio Robot House Rumu is such an emotional and beautiful journey the whole way through, and I wish there was more games like this out there

Event[0] - AI exploration game before AI really became a thing, Event[0] is limited by its tech but strong in storytelling and environment design.

An isometric view of a darkened attic only illuminated by the night sky. ON the floor among the attic boxes and stuff is a little vacuum robot with eyes
An old-fashioned computer terminal with its screen and keyboard built into the box sits on a desk. It is lit up and the screen has a text convo on it. The text is barely legible but seems to be a conversation about fish. In front of the terminal is a piano keyboard. The room is illuminated by a small elongated desk lamp

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Hidden object games have always been a very niche genre, probably most known as "middle-aged mom games".
I like them bc they give me a bite-sized story I can finish in one sitting while solving manageable brain teasers.

We are far away from the golden years of HOGs, anyone slightly versed in the genre probably knows Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhearst (I personally preferred Dire Grove).

I've long wanted to make a video retrospective on the rise and fall of HOGs through Big Fish Games, or stream the Dark Parables series, as it is a succinct history of how HOGs developed and changed/didn't change through the years.

But my fav series from "the golden years" was the way less known -
Lost in the City
and
Lost in the City: Post Scriptum
An almost post-apocalyptic city mystery

Other notable HOG series I still consider great:
James Patterson's Women's Murder Club
House of 1000 Doors
Enigmatis
Surface

#AdventureGames #HiddenObject #HOG #GameHistory #IndieGames #Retrospective

Screenshot of a hidden object game showing a dilapidated room with junk and a laptop on the floor. On the wall is a calendar and the text "daylight forever". In the doorway stands a person in the shadows wearing a long black coat. The sidebar says "missions - use sphere"

PMscenarios, to random
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Have we ever collectively decided on a hashtag for adventure games?

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What do ppl use when they wanna talk about this genre?

PMscenarios, to twitter
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The thing I miss the most from (old) (I stopped using it regularly months before Musky) is the interesting and unique education it'd provide me.

So many times through the years a thread would go semi-viral and be retweeted onto my page that taught me really interesting stuff I never knew before and probably wouldn't have thought to seek out.

I can follow specific hashtags on but I really miss getting to learn about things I didn't know I wanted to learn about.

Twitter was such a big part of my education about civil rights, the American prison system, lgbtqia+ history, the art world, museum curation, world history, current events and m. m

I don't know how to replicate that kind of organic feed

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Taking a cue from @eniko here. New to mastodon? Do you make cool shit? Reply to this with some images of your stuff and I'll boost you on out to my followers! (Don't forget to use some hashtags and alt-text!)

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@esdin over here adding double to @eniko notifications by tagging her in the OP 😂

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I am sad today.

My work group has been working on our council's response to the "how to reduce social differences" plan for weeks now.
We presented our draft at the meeting last week and ppl were mostly positive to all of it (We were lacking some stuff about mental disability which I knew about and was happy to get more text for).

Today council leader and secretary sends out the final draft and she has fully rewritten the education part, where we tried to both advocate for kids who are left out of schooling bc of inaccessibility and poor prioritizing from the school -and- kids who need alternative options bc being in school is too much.

The text we're left with only advocates for physical disability.
And while I absolutely think the school access for physically disabled kids is awful and needs so much focus, I am sad the council again leaves out invisibly disabled ppl.

This is not the first time my focus on competing access needs has been overruled

#ChronicIllness #invisibleDisabilities #Disability

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I don't think it is done on purpose or with ill intent.

Disability activism is so used to the government finding the minimum solution that saves them the most money, that the common talking points are all about not giving any opening for people not to be included.

Regardless of work, education, transport or place in society, the focus is always on equal access and equal treatment.

Which is right! Disability should -never- be a reason to be kept out of something you want to do.

But there has to be a way to advocate for equal rights and space and also acknowledge and leave room for those who can't attend and need alternate solutions.

Chronic illness is often on accord with other disability activism, bc we often fight to -not- have to do something.
But there has to be a way to advocate for everyone, even if those needs are contradictory to each other

#ChronicIllness #invisibleDisabilities #Disability @chronicillness @disability

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@eniko @Njord climate change would make sense, I haven't connected the dots before but we have definitely had more extreme weather shifts. The warmth is killing me too (that I did already connect to climate change)

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@eniko
Thanks for suggesting this app!
An interesting thing I've learned since starting tracking is the hill I live on has way lower pressure than the city centre - shown by these small spikes from when I attended pride

That explains why the pressure hits me way worse when I've been out and come home

PMscenarios, to chronicillness
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I really miss watching movies.

The absolute worst part of chronic fatigue and worsening chronic illness is not just that you lose the ability to do stuff or lose hobbies, but that it keeps progressing.

I find a new hobby to replace what I lost (originally I loved reading constantly, lost that ability in my early 20s), and then I lose that one too.

😔

I can barely play games anymore, I struggle to focus on anything that requires processing, and any emotional trigger exhausts me so I avoid most heavy content

It's a type of isolation that affects even online community access and friendship since you're so excluded from the fandoms and common subjects

@chronicillness

PMscenarios, to programming
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My work partner and best friend is currently without any income after having to leave her part-time job bc of chronic pain.

If anyone is in need of, or knows someone looking for

  • Custom GUI sets for your games
  • Ren'Py Programming
  • General Graphic Design
  • and more!

Please send them her way!

Links:

Her prev. work:
https://scribbles.itch.io/

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    @darth
    Could say the same thing about Israel and Azerbaijan

    Just gotta buy into the European broadcast union

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