Like every OSS image editor insists on changing the color information of my 2-bit grayscale images 🫠 It changes the image and breaks my rebuilds. Funny enough, Win10/7 MSPaint and Fireworks MX are like the only things I've seen that preserve the format...

Every now and again I'll watch the first episode of like a solid 3/10 anime and get irrationally angry that 2008 Shounen Jump readers let Mx0 get axed.

I spent last weekend fiddling with Debian and now I'm rebuilding llvm with PGO enabled so I can more quickly rebuild the kernel and all I can think about is this xkcd from like 15 years ago.

In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties. The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized. Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.

Installed Debian with KDE Plasma on the old 2016 XPS 13 and I gotta say, I'm pretty impressed so far. Things running pretty well and was able to configure the UI easily enough. Also got wine running without much trouble and most things I need Just Work.

Pumpkinmon easily peak Digimon design. Just a lil guy. 10/10 no notes.

I played a ton of Cyber Sleuth over the holiday, this is the first time I've actually seen the Death trigger.

Being at a company where I end up needing to simultaneously use two chat applications makes me realize how shitty Teams really is in comparison.

After a long absence, I'm picking back up the Digimon Tamer: Brave Tamer Wonderswan translation project! Made a good amount of progress the last few days, and really hoping to get it finished this year!

(I also finally got around to updating and consolidating this)

(I finally got around to uploading this)

I think this approach to web design is the real minimalist design philosophy we should've gotten.

I was gonna do some rom hacking stuff today but ended up just burning the day away trying to install Gentoo on my XPS 13... I had put in an old Macbook wireless card in when I was hackintoshing it and now that's backfiring pretty hard because the drivers aren't in the Gentoo Live USB...

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

I occasionally find myself going back to Nora and the Time Studio as a little comfort game. A real unsung gem on the NDS and damn if it wasn't amazing that it got a translation patch.

I'ma be real, I'd be way more open to selling or giving away my old stuff if I knew it wasn't going to be part of a money-obsessed resale network for "rare" old games. I just know some hustle-culture addled ass saw this article and started salivating at the thought of being able to scalp PSPs.

That there isn't a good git diff-able spreadsheet format yet is a damn shame. Guess it's just back to CSVs.

Here's the first footage of our Cardcaptor Sakura WonderSwan English patch!

Imagineer finally scored a decisive legal win against that insane Spanish dude who was squatting on the EU Medabots trademark www.imagineer.co.jp/news/article... 🇯🇵 dude registered in 2018, unsuccessfully sued them(!) for infringement in '21, lost a '23 appeal & lost their final appeal on October 29

So like, what alternative communities are out there for RHDN?

Think I'm close to the end of ZA. I definitely enjoy it more than PLA. The city is small but dense, and there's a lotta little things and honestly the rooftop jumping grew on me. The day/night transition sucks though. It annoys me way more than I thought it would.

I generally like Apple stuff but trying to sync music on my PC with an Apple Music subscription is like pulling teeth. The Windows version of iTunes doesn't support security keys, and iCloud with Apple Music doesn't properly sync up local files. What a dogshit experience.

Damn I wish I could go start a lil venture to disassemble and translate obscure titles and push them onto modern platforms. Unfortunately if I left my job I'd probs just die.

I've fallen into the rabbit hole of typesetting and I might go re-format all the text in patches I've worked on before to incorporate Knuth-Plass.

For the amount of time I put into Hollow Knight and Silksong you'd think I'd be good but nope I just spend hours dying to the same fight in new and exciting ways.

Silksong is fun and this diagonal jump is going to take some getting used to, but the most jarring change is having a MC who talks.

Woah, when did RHDN open submissions up again?

The push for on-demand content is generally better than the old cable programming approach, but the lack of reruns really drives a bias towards recency... a lot of people won't be exposed to some cool-but-not-quite-masterpiece works as a result. Anyway, I think more people should watch Last Exile.

Forced to use Win11 at work because of Win10 deprecation and my god how did Microsoft just make an OS that was more restrictive and less responsive. Feels like XP -> Vista. The forced TPM 2.0 requirement implies that BitLocker is more secure now? Are less people getting hit by ransomware on Win11?

Current hobby is getting irrationally angry at apps that don't properly clear their notification badges on iOS.

GitHub gonna train on the code I push up? Go ahead. Having to parse through AI slop based on my Python will elevate the next generation of reverse engineers to never before seen heights.

It took hours of staring at raw bytes and writing hacky Python to parse it, but seeing that cmp -l with no issues after rebuilding a scripting engine is that special type of nerdy exhilaration I crave. Finally feel like I can justify finishing up that Mina the Hallower demo now.

Probably the last big thing for #medabots 3 - the localized version of the patch (sans audio). Lots of work went into this from a lot of people, so hope you all enjoy! I need to find an alternative to RHDN but, for now, it'd be helpful if people could share this around. github.com/Medabots/med...

Was trying to figure out which of my projects to pick back up and the world sent me a sign with all the subtlety of Truck-kun isekai-ing a random passerby.

Man I wish the Helck anime was better so more people would read it and Volundio. It's so full of soul. Maybe one day we'll see a proper English localized physical edition instead of it being relegated to whatever Comikey is doing with it...

I wonder what Biggie Smalls played on his Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis.

Something poetic about having Team Star cookies in a functional trash can.

New advent of Saturn translations means I might see one for Martian Successor Nadesico: The Blank of Three Years 👀???

We never really needed more than this.

Personally I think people buying and selling loose Pokemon Emerald for 70$+ deserve to be flogged but maybe I'm just in the extreme.

Does anyone know if my Fantasy Life i save will still work between my Switch 2 and Lite if I have the Switch 2 version...?

Feels like it should be common knowledge, but I highly recommend anyone maintaining or creating a new C++ project setup a workflow that can generate compile_commands for clangd/LSP use. An absolute game changer for productivity and I feel like everyone should do it. MSVC can go fuck itself though.

Anyone ever get like, Python 3 building for Windows 98. I was able to get 3.14 building for OSX Tiger but getting my usual GB romhacking workflow on a Toshiba Portege 3025CT might be a more difficult endeavor...

So has anyone tried modern GB romhacking on Windows 98 or is that gonna be the next step from my PPC Tiger shenanigans.

Of the firm opinion that all software would be way better if the average laptop people used was a 2016 XPS 13.

I definitely don't need it, but I kinda want a minimum spec Framework 12. Don't see a lot of nice 12" laptops anymore, and framework's got a nice little vibe. Hard to compete with like a used 400$ M1 Macbook Air though...

Mapped it out; I was right. They just map a subset of characters into a table but it's all SJIS under the hood. A bit convoluted, but whatever works I guess. It's not like Huffman Coding didn't exist in the 90s, so I wonder why they bothered with something so convoluted...

Y'all ever just like... understand a problem but really just don't want to do it. I've got the text script stuff for this game pretty much dumped but the actual character mapping relies on this really convoluted set of tables to pull the actual tile and my brain is just resisting doing it.