i made a visual novel for #veloxturbo3 ⤵ ⌛The Servers Are Shutting Down in 24 Hours but My Pull Rate's Been Set to 0.0001%?!🔮 a gacha game end-of-service simulation from the perspective of the gacha. 🎮 npckc.itch.io/server-shutd...

Heh, this video doesn't have very good retention 😝

I DID make a new 10 hour fireplace video! youtu.be/GgV1-JiTVI0 Got to fix a few things in my video playing game boy code and added a feature that lets you specify how many times video should loop when building the ROM, fading to black at the start of the next loop.

I might get another fireplace video of this year. I didn't get around to it last year

Here's the GameBoy assembly crash course I promised in my last video: youtu.be/NSvGwmYPhAQ I forgot to mention it in the video but I have a version of the assembly code with detailed comments: systemoflevers.com/misc/gameboy...

My colorization patch for #tinytoon adventures DX on #gameboycolor is finally out! (download link in the trailer description) Very much thanks to all for your patience, and a big kudos to @mcconnell.bsky.social , for narrating the thing with all his heart! 🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yx-...

Wow, turns out trying to "steal line an artist" can really show you the current limits of your creativity

Oh no! I just realized I never finished the script for the 5th part of my game boy graphics video! How did I forget that...

Well I got the right chip up but I managed to rip off a pad AND lose a tiny resistor. So much for my cheap fix for my old camera

it took a lot of patience but after a while I finally managed to get half of the wrong chip desoldered and up... good thing I doubled checked before getting all the way desoldered the right chip looked easier but it's in way tighter quarters. My chunky soldering tip might not be up to the task

You should learn to program in #GameBoy assembly! Do it! youtu.be/_SHaveLOt0M (sorry about the clickbaity thumbnail)

The fusion page in DaVinci Resolve is dangerous. You can do so much that I just spend all my time figuring out how to do every silly idea I have This is a node that masks the input to only show the area in the window and it lets you resize the window without scaling

Well that's rude

it's really annoying when a product is marked as "less sugar" or something and it turns out the just replaced the sugar with a non-sugar sweetener I don't want the flavour of those sweeteners I just want less sugar. I'm ok with it being less sweet

My grocery store hasn't had sliced dill sandwich pickles for a while, only sweet ones. So here I am slicing my own pickles like some kind of prehistoric nomad

I spent way too long making something to let me get video that looks like it's looking up through my keyboard. I also made it smaller than life sized by accident. Oh well, seems to work well enough!

I made this bracket so that it's marginally easier to mount and unmount my camera and I'm only slightly very afraid it will fall apart dropping my camera to the floor

oh my god this script is getting so long. I don't know why I thought it would be quick to explain. Maybe I'll record it in two sittings to avoid being completely monotone by the end

I tend to forget what endian the game boy is and also what the two endians even mean. So today I googled to see if the game boy is big endian (it's not, it's little endian) and I was met with my own video as a reference! That's neat! Could very well be a personalized result, but still neat!

I went for a short bit picture taking this morning to maybe get some creative juices going. Here are some snaps

Well we didn't end up using this. The kids were entertained enough without additional activities

I made a pin-the-tail on the comet for my kid's birthday party with a bunch of sticker tails. It turned out good enough! The transparent vinyl for the comet didn't work out and I had to add an opaque backing. Lesson learned. I think the starry background I made with my kids is the best part

The final installment of my "make a Game Boy emulator" series is out! I cover audio, memory, and timing this time youtu.be/Be5v8E21pEQ Despite me claiming I don't understand #GameBoy audio, making this video ended up tricking me into starting learning about it!

I happened on one of those lego game boys in the store today. I'm conflicted about them. On one hand they're cool. On the other hand I don't need more ~~things~~ (I have many things as it is). I opted to not get it. We'll see what the future brings though

I need to reprogram my keyboard to work well with macos and I'm in a bit of analysis paralysis I think

I'm new to the apple macintosh operating systems, is there no way to switch between windows from 2 apps without getting all the windows from the app? Like if I want to drag files from finder into an app, can I not just get that one finder window I had last instead of all of them I just want alt+tab

@nataliethenerd.com Dear Ms. The Nerd, Your DMG solder mask and copper scans have turned a difficult task into a significantly easier one. Thank you so much for your hard work and delightful contributions to the world! Best wishes, System of Levers

My wife spoils me apparently!

Ok, more #webaudio playing. I made a step wave in two different ways: by adding square waves that only supports powers of 2 for the number of steps: www.systemoflevers.com/misc/audio_v... by adding pulse waves that supports any number of steps: www.systemoflevers.com/misc/audio_v...

I don't know what I'm doing I made a pulse wave with basic #webaudio nodes from a square wave: www.systemoflevers.com/misc/audio_v... Then I looked it up and it's super simple with sawtooth waves: www.systemoflevers.com/misc/audio_v... more configurable: www.systemoflevers.com/misc/audio_v...

Well I may have nerd sniped myself into learning about the web audio API and Game Boy audio. Two subjects I've spent years intentionally ignoring I want to go play around more but I'm too tired to brain good so it's off to dreamland

Playing with the web audio api to generate and visualize basic waves: www.systemoflevers.com/misc/audio_v...

www.youtube.com/@Programming... has a pretty cool new video out today: youtu.be/bryeT4MtzDg It's a crowdsourced "X plays pokemon" situation where he's using the comments on the video as input and the video thumbnail as the display. It's all really slick! The video goes into some of the tech details

I think colour grading is my least favourite part of making videos. Turns out I have no idea what things are supposed to look like. What colour even is my skin?

If you need more encouragement building your #GameBoy emulator I have another video for you, this time it's about building the graphics system Good luck! youtu.be/HjKNON3YHfY

Does anyone know of a book like Megastructures: The Visual Encyclopedia But like available to purchase

Something that bothers me about AI "discourse" is that I have a vague, distant grasp of how it works, but I can't map how it's talked about, like in this article, to my mental model and certainly my model is wrong, but it's talked about in a way that makes it impossible to improve my understanding

I wish I could find something that felt similar to going to the cafe in the morning to journal and do a bit of work that didn't cost me money every time I wanted to do it.

should I start a patreon? It feels weird (conceited?) to ask people to pay me monthly for what isn't very frequent content. That's why I started with ko-fi, it's more geared to one-off donations (though I'm very grateful for my recurring supporters!) I also don't have a lot of energy for perks...

I have made some unfortunate choices and this 11 minute video is taking over an hour to render and I keep finding things to change after every time I render it

I spent so long making this warning animation in davinci resolve yesterday

got out the wii U yesterday. My wife and kids played wii animal crossing all afternoon and now the kids are playing wii sports My wife is excited to make miis with them!

slight improvement now the game boy screen looks more realistic at the start and end

This is what I spent my time doing instead of editing a video. The idea was to indicate the different rendering layers of the game boy. I think it turned out ok considering I'd never used blender before! Learning!

grumble I decided to be clever with the video I'm working on and I made the monitor that's usually in my background be a green screen so I could replace it with different stuff in the video. I regret it. It's causing so much trouble and work. Anyway, here's a picture of me

And now I'm learning basic blender usage instead of editing a video. It's related to editing a video but not in a "I need to do this for the video" way. More like maybe I could use this tool I've never used for this tiny part. Better learn it!

It's 2025, why am I having technical difficulties sending an email? Specifically using Gmail to send from an address at a personal domain that's forwarded to Gmail. It's being rejected by Yahoo mail because of missing SPF and/or DKIM

I find it baffling that this video youtu.be/14WtP6hGm-s still gets as many views and comments as it does. It's my 2nd best video. It was a silly off the cuff video about a weak opinion weakly held. Oh well, engagement is good For the record I'm fine with flash carts. It's me that's the problem!