egypturnash

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by egypturnash 13d ago
Really I think that deliberately courting persnickity people dissecting how Wrong it is that your pixel-art game has art displayed in three different pixel sizes that have aggressively non-integer relationships to each other might be a grea
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by egypturnash 14d ago
These are all aesthetic decisions. What feelings does a smeary CRT SNES screen evoke? What does a crisper 1993 DOS screen feel like to you? Which one better matches the mood of the game you want to make? Probably you should screengrab some
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by egypturnash 14d ago
My main gripe is with sloppy technique. A lot - not all, but a lot - of modern pixel art is purposely made to look overly blocky. Dithering and anti-aliasing just isn't utilized, which makes it look even chunkier than actual old game
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by egypturnash 20d ago
Smooth full-screen scrolling on the c64 was hard . In the years since 1984 people discovered ways to use unintended behavior in the c64's video chips to move a lot more of the screen around seamlessly, but ROBB's fast omnidirecti
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by egypturnash 24d ago
A toot in a tweet in a... skeet? Is there any consensus on what to call "a post on bluesky"?
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by egypturnash 1mo ago
be neither the pc nor the npc reject game metaphors accept that your life is what you make of it reject every possible demand on your energy that does not bring you joy (there will be compromises; weigh them) eat the rich
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by egypturnash 1mo ago
I wonder how Valve will decide to handle the incoming wave of refund requests from well outside the normal 2h playtime window. Looking at the Steam page for this game, there's a "year 10 roadmap" post.
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by egypturnash 1mo ago
Try it. Leave your phone at home. Carry a paperback book. Whenever you have time to kill and look for your phone, take out the book. See what happens. You may be surprised.
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by egypturnash 1mo ago
miss.ng lett.rs
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by egypturnash 1mo ago
I wouldn't be surprised if that's somewhere on Zorhan's to-do list :)
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by egypturnash 1mo ago
Taxis and barely-legal app taxis both require a human to drive. Someone who's earning a living doing this, and paying taxes to NYC. Waymo is driven by a robot, owned by a company out in California, who has a lot of lawyers doing their
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by egypturnash 1mo ago
I am an artist and when people who'd fallen into the Spiralism* hole started posting their lengthy emoji-laden revelations to all the occult subreddits I follow, my brain would slide right the fuck off of all of them. It felt like my b
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by egypturnash 2mo ago
LLMs are already perversions of writing, so what else is new. Oh no, the over-long circumlocution generated by three autocorrects in a trenchcoat might be slightly longer because of this and maybe people will start noticing the subtle rhyth
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by egypturnash 2mo ago
Rate Limit Exceeded Too Many Requests You have exceeded the allowed number of requests. Your Requests: 500. Request Limit: 500 per minute. Tip: Please wait 60 seconds before trying again. A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Learns About Cachi
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by egypturnash 2mo ago
$1k in 1990 ~= $2.5k today.
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by egypturnash 2mo ago
Consider: Beggars in Spain. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68333.Beggars_in_Spain
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by egypturnash 2mo ago
If you liked HLD this is your reminder that Heart Machine made three other games. Solar Ash - rail-grinding and schmoovement, with a joyfully colorful visual style and a melancholy story, well worth the ten bucks or so it is on Steam right
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by egypturnash 2mo ago
The chat is still there in the corner of this post, with people typing nasty shit into it. Well have fun delving into programmatic censorship I guess. Or just take it out. If you take the former path and post about trying to fix it here the
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by egypturnash 2mo ago
All those gumdrop Macs sent me back to my time in a Flash cartoon shop that was filled with those things.
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by egypturnash 2mo ago
A slop image header is a signal that the text is probably also slop. Why should I waste my time on the off chance that your text is not actually slop?
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by egypturnash 2mo ago
I just assume that if you think it's fine to shit in my eyes with an AI image then you're probably also about to shit in my eyes a lot more with AI text.
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by egypturnash 2mo ago
Oh darling. Stop playing AAA games, start playing real games from teams small enough to make unsafe choices. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD6ujQ0tHAv2qLS5FKH6B... - chopped beats, glitched words, everything you wo
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by egypturnash 2mo ago
It's more Ron Gilbert's thing than anything else. Manic Mansion, MM2, The Cave, Thimbleweed Park, and now TWP2: Gilbert's. Possibly also some of the many kid's games he did https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by egypturnash 2mo ago
> Turns out, cross-fading two 4MP images at 60 frames per second on a moderately powerful single board computer is not so easy. I needed to use GPU acceleration to make it happen and look smooth. fizzle fade, munching squares, horizontal
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by egypturnash 2mo ago
Welcome to your new side project!
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by egypturnash 2mo ago
Thanks for the corrections :) I sure spent a lot of time on Furry. I think the penultimate time I logged on there was something like a decade ago; the last time was to attend Tugrik's wake.
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by egypturnash 2mo ago
There was a distinct split between people there for the grind and people there for the RP. I was there for the RP and I was mostly on MUCKs, MUSHes, and the occasional MOOs (multi-user chat kingdoms, multi-user shared hallucinations, and mu
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by egypturnash 2mo ago
Looks like. https://zx.tr/basinc/help/topics/manual_appd.html , scroll down. "Here is a program to throw coins for the I Ching. (Unfortunately it produces the patterns upside down. but you might not worry
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by egypturnash 3mo ago
There's a whole world of software that people are expected to pay for, one way or another. Some programmers choose to release their work for free. And some people use the paid software without paying. We call those people "pirat
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by egypturnash 3mo ago
Even more concrete, IMHO: "People find my comics through Google search. Some of them become fans and subscribe."

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