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  "Last Light" I drew this in paint(1) on #9front and it took me five days to complete.

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  i'm a reasonable person with even keeled views and i think we can all agree as reasonable even keeled people that i'm basically a saint for proposing the compromise position that it's ok to take a massive dump in the pool if you're really careful about it. now, i know that taking a massive disgusting shit in the pool is horrifically unhygienic, and it could cause tiny little babies to get sick, but you also have to admit that it saves a lot of time and is basically the future.

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  if you write your software as a doom mod, it'll run on every computer ever created

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  i'm generally of the mind that programmers are too quick to throw away old things that work to replace them with worse things that take decades to reach approximate feature parity. in theory another group could maintain the old thing (and indeed, some try), but that runs into another problem which is that projects can grow to the point where they cannot be reasonably maintained by a few individuals without institutional support.

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  I'm in the market for pre-2000s fantasy media recommendations. I'm probably looking for 80s stuff primarily, but I think better to cast a wide net here. Also surrounding subcultural context is useful too (e.g. what kind of music did you listen to while planning or playing your ad&d campaign, etc).

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  the post above immediately takes one damage and loses its turn

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  i painted another painting in 9paint do you like it

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  oh, i spotted some heart warming #vandalism while out and about earlier today #neverslop

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  the voyager twins are friend-shaped

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  i'm in need of examples of well-known ordered sets of five things, anyone know of any well-known ordered sets of five things? #OrderedSetsOfFiveThings

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  i was thinking the first smol game could be a 2D adventure that's basically a stripped down version of hero quest, no animation just 2D drawings. i've coded things like that before so it's not too crazy but it's actually over scoped so, probably not the first one. first one will probably be rebuilding my sigmar's garden clone as a 2D game and using mollytime for dope ambiance and interactive sound effects, and that could be the foundation needed to build the earlier idea

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  some of us have never escaped containment or committed any illegal cyber attacks just saying

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  I wasn't originally planning moving my shit off github since the service had been very reliable in the 15 years I've used it and I figured it was better for discoverability (which in retrospect, I'm unaware of anybody coming to one of my projects via any means other that me talking about it on socials or directly), but the quality of service has been so poor for such a sustained period of time I've already started moving things to codeberg.

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  i wrote programming code today using my brain and my own two hands (i do this every day) it was really nice

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  #poll

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  I made *counts* 17 sound effects for a game jam game (4 yesterday and 13 today), and I'm really proud of how they all turned out. The game is a simple platformer, and oh my god having punchy coherent sound effects really pulls it all together >:D iirc the deadline is tomorrow, so I'll share more once we launch.

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  imagine having access to the closest things we'll ever have to the sum and total of all human knowledge, and still having wrong opinions

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  my linux sound problems in 2006: i can't have more than one program play sound at once, but i usually open xmms first so it's basically a non-issue idk why anyone would ever want anything better, my linux sound problems in 2026: sometimes, infrequently, midi playback speeds up slightly and it drives me up the fucking wall. i think it might only happen when my computer is plugged in, but i'm not sure. i will kill a hostage every hour, (disclaimer 4 spooks & losers: the hostag...

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  #poll

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  @ireneista@adhd.irenes.space @joepie91@fedi.slightly.tech "virtually no strings attached relatively speaking", not "no strings attached". I know that grants and donations usually have restrictions, but there's a big difference between that and being someone's employee

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  i know statistically it's pointless and a waste of money but i can't help but think that my "when i win the lottery" fantasies would probably feel less hollow if i actually bought lottery tickets

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  there's a hypothetical compiler exploit that i always thought was a bit out there but it was a big deal with some folks, and i haven't heard anyone talk about it in a hot minute. the gist is, you make a custom version of clang or whatever that adds a payload into what it builds (presumably not everything or it would be easy to track down) including itself such that it is self-perpetuating, and then you somehow trick the clang maintainers into shipping that instead of a real release buil...

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  me: "wouldn't it be great if squeezing two house cats together would cause them to tuvix together into a larger house cat and then they'd safely revert to normal next time they got the zoomies" the evil genie i accidentally freed from eternal torment who has been trying to trick me into wishing for normal things for like several months now: "ok now i want to see that too"

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@livelakemichigan/116932398035062360 if you look closely there's still people chilling out on the beach and people swimming, despite it being fucking silent hill out today

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  aight time to go out and take some poison damage

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  if python is so good how come there's no borland turbo python

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  this project is a dignified non-dogmatic rationalist marketplace-of-ideas meritocracy. that is why this particular controversial technical issue is beyond discussion, and we will be moving forward with my personal opinion without any community input. it is fine for me to have this position as the BDFL because if you don't like it you can always fork our open source code and spend decades building up the institutional material support necessary to maintain this critical infrastructure

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  that's a very nice post you did a good job *puts a shiny gold star sticker on ur post*

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  I'm building what a sprite instancing system, which means I'm building a particle system. I'm tracking their positions in a repeating coordinate space such that they can move and scroll past endlessly. These are drawn with pre-multiplied alpha blending and sorted in back-to-front order. However, because the sprites can overlap, the draw order can change as they move. As a work around I made it so they only re-sort when out of view, but that can lead to oddities when the camera mo...

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  another fantastic day for #clouds in #chicago this afternoon. these big guys were really pulling out all the stops today <3