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rootcompute, to random
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Average Mastodon post: A 7 page thread about the ethics of a programming language that nobody has ever heard of

Average Bluesky post: I just saw the [insert thing of the week] and I'm here to tell you that we are so back

spinning_bird,
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@jake4480 @rootcompute @buru5 you’ve all probably seen posts by George Takei? He has tens of thousands of followers, and all he does all day is copypaste from Twitter …

spinning_bird,
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@rootcompute @jake4480 @buru5 I’d say the question isn’t so much wether there are right-wing people on a site (or network), rather than wether it’s possible to have a sensible discourse, despite differences in ideology.

I would hope that Mastodon, since there’s no algorithm, doesn’t reward “outrageous” content as much. So perhaps it could be possible to actually discuss ideas and opinions instead of screaming profanities

media_dept, to animation
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I must remember that with a walk cycle, the character is walking on the spot, they're not transporting their body, the game will do that. The animation is just them going through the motions - they're not going anywhere! Yet when I'm drawing I always hurl their body back & forwards, tilt their shoulders too far. I've done versions of two characters walking & they've both looked more like they're dancing. Its tempting to rewrite the games to be about dancers!

spinning_bird,
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@media_dept @Craigp You could also 2D animate them walking two steps while moving over the screen, and then in the end only pull each frame back on top of each other. If that makes sense.

jake4480, to random
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The amount of interactive challenges PayPal now forces you to do just to log in is testing my need to even use them anymore

spinning_bird,
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@chris @jake4480 computers get better at passing for humans, so we need to try harder and harder to prove ourselves…
Soon you’ll have to do a Voight-Kampff test just to check your emails.

spinning_bird, to random
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Early in Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth you get a flight power-up.
I discovered how gamebreaking it is during Karla's boss fight. Sadly, I forgot to take screenshots of Deedlit hovering over her head for large portions of the fight, while Karla wastes magic on thin air.
So I drew a re-enactment.

The game is great controls and graphics wise, and Deedlit has a lot of fun (if overpowered) abilities. Just the level design and many enemies are a bit basic and repetitive

GIF animation of Deedlit flying above Karla and bonking her on the head with a sword

buru5, to random
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no idea why i continue to think that the word "amount" has two Ms. i am constantly having to correct this.

spinning_bird,
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@buru5 some specific things seem to never stick. I can never remember how many c and s are in “necessary”. (But my phone can)

spinning_bird, to Sleeping
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Lucid dreaming is... not that great after all.

Computer screen: "No internet"

buru5, to random
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normally hate everything and don't care but there won't be another for another years and it came

inside of case: small cartridge and a sticker with the previous image
reversible case cover. the samurai from the previous images sleeps near a camp fire. it is drawn in a classical Japanese painting style.

spinning_bird,
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@buru5 Watch out. He already blocked me over this 😂

buru5, to random
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game idea: every time you restart/reload/resurrect/whatever, a shadow-you is created at the same level; this shadow-you believes they are the real-you and hunts you down until defeated. story twist at the end is that all of the "yous" are real-yous and it's like the Star Trek Teleporter Problem or something.

spinning_bird,
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@buru5 suppose you met your other you irl, what would the two of you do?

spinning_bird,
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@buru5 Something criminal. Because A: we could have the perfect alibi and B: I'd know my other me would have the same idea. So we'd just smile and wink at each other.

Actually a while ago I saw someone who, at least in passing, looked so much like me it might even have worked. It was eerie though.

Gwendolyn, to random
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Hrm.

Friend recommended a game.
It sounded awesome to me.
I look it up.
You play as a guy.
I immediately write the game off.

I then spend the next 2 hours analyzing why I reacted like that.

I think it's more than just a representation thing.

I think I have a real misandry problem.
I'm... Not sure how to counter this.
Like... Do I just keep repeating equality shit to myself on loop until it burns into my subconscious?

I knew I was kinda sexist, but yeah... those 2 hours revealed some real shit I'm not proud of.

spinning_bird,
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@Gwendolyn But, don't you play as a guy in most games? Do you write them all off because of that?

Sobtanian, to PCGaming
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32:9 Helldivers 2 is a sight to behold.

spinning_bird,
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@Sobtanian @EighthLayer But what happens when you have a window open and make it fullscreen, won't it ruin like every website's layout and so on?

jake4480, to random
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Clyde Caldwell

#monsters #ClydeCaldwell #MonsterArt #skeletons #FantasyArt #sorceress #minions

spinning_bird,
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@jake4480 You can tell the skeleton and orc (?) in the front are good friends, or maybe even more, because the orc wears a belt with the skeleton's face on it.

buru5, to random
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watching this video by some unknown who hasn't released a new video in 4 years and out of the blue i see what appears to be my 5th grade home economics class or: what i remember of it.

the teacher had some computers in the back for kids who finished assignments early and TYRIAN? i haven't seen or even thought of these sprites in literally 20-something-years.

https://youtu.be/PZAgZFe1YYU?si=wyZv4WiArBqV20M8

spinning_bird,
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@buru5 Battle for Wesnoth seems interesting, I'll try the mobile version. A real game on mobile..? Almost unbelievable.

Btw CDDA is also open source and a remarkable game

buru5, to random
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would be cool if we could be like, "i wanna work at a laundromat and make 80k a year forever" and that's, like, it -- you know?

spinning_bird,
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@buru5 @rootcompute 80k$? Isn't that a lot?

spinning_bird,
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@rootcompute @buru5 I looked up the most expensive places to live (in the US) and San Diego CA came up as the most expensive, with a median monthly rent of $1,842 and an average salary of $67k

(Still, San Francisco at #6 has a bit higher monthly rent of about 2k)

vga256, to retrogaming
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i am playing déjà vu for the first time and i seriously think i missed out on a crucial childhood experience 🤣

spinning_bird,
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@vga256 Wow, this came out in '85.
I've recently been looking into early point n click / adventure games, and this has the verbs of something like Maniac Mansion ('87), but the presentation of a Japanese adventure game, all while being released this early.

I wonder what those devs' influences were, or if systems like SCUMM took direct inspirations from those verbs.

Did you play this on an emulator?

rootcompute, to random
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I've gotten good at starting on something, getting it set up and ready to go. The part I'm struggling with, that I can't seem to push past, is taking the next step to improve, to learn and develop skills through repetition.

How do I motivate myself to embrace the tedious, unsexy process of self-improvement? I hope to get this figured out in 2024.

spinning_bird,
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@rootcompute Isn't starting something always the hardest part? Since you can do that, the repetition will come over time, won't it?

vga256, to retrocomputing
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i don't think i've ever seen this documented anywhere, so here goes:

Myst was built with Apple Hypercard, using a ton of third-party extensions to pull off an extremely atmospheric first person experience.

what is less known is that because Myst is a hypercard stack, it is possible to load the game in black & white mode despite color being a stated system requirement. the result are scenes that have been dithered and posterized from 8-bit colour, down to 1-bit. they look almost like a silhouetted photograph of a georges seurat painting, eery and beautiful in their own way.

video/mp4

spinning_bird,
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@vga256 @edenwaith
There was also an earlier game, "The Manhole", from the people who later made Myst. It was apparently also made using Hypercard, and featured properly dithered 1bit graphics.
It looks very nice in my opinion.

spinning_bird, to tetris
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People say playing #Tetris makes you see falling blocks afterwards, but #VampireSurvivors made me see blue and green gems when I closed my eyes

spinning_bird, to random
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Started playing again, it's been a while.
The early Fallouts are wonderful in that they give you a lot of options playing pacifist, but I watered it down to "totally unfit for combat".
(More thoughts on character setup in the alt-texts)

I'll try to limit save/load, so I'll have to be very careful with combat encounters, since when a companion dies I prohibited myself from reloading.

Failing a steal check makes the entire area hostile; still thinking about how to deal with that...

Stats for the main character Momo at Lvl2. Most combat stats are extremely low, but Int and Charisma are maxed. Agility helps with running away / not getting hit, and perception, while useful for shooting, is also generally helpful iirc. There are two NPCs that teach some unarmed combat in the early areas, so that's at 50%. I put the Skill Points from the first level up into Lockpicking, but still can't open some of the doors in the first town.

spinning_bird, to random
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What if point and click games were instead called "Pick 'em up"?

Like shoot 'em up or beat 'em up, but since you often collect so many items...? The idea sprang into my head when I woke up in the middle of last night.

No? ... ok, maybe not.

spinning_bird,
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@cadeybunny Then people can have heated discussions about whether it's a true pick 'em up or not.

jake4480, to space
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J0613+52 -- a strange, potentially dark primordial galaxy with no stars
https://futurism.com/the-byte/galaxy-with-no-stars

spinning_bird,
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@jake4480 Someone turned them all into Dyson Spheres!

spinning_bird, to random
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As a kid my nightmares where the usual stuff about monsters and so on.
As an adult it's mostly "Computer is infected with tons of malware". I wonder what Sigmund Freud would have said about that.

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