The Yoshi's Island map screen theme is remarkably similar to the song "Anywhere Is" by Irish singer Enya. Both of these were composed around 1994 and released in 1995, meaning that neither of them could have been influenced by each other and this is an astounding coincidence.

"All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed."

www.furaffinity.net/view/65009063/ I've got a backlog of images that I intended to finish, but never got around to. Better then to post them and move on, I think. I cannot be so precious about my ideas.

I found a good way to texture paint on my ipad! They're not perfect, but this is my first time playing around with it. More coming👍

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part of it is my ongoing rebellion against complexity. the simplicity of this approach offers a certain robustness that modern programming seems to have given up on entirely. "my image is some bytes in memory and i change colors by changing the bytes" is imo robust in a way no modern graphics API is

i think it's incredibly funny that i'm regressing in game tech as time goes on. literally writing my latest game in C with software 2D that uses blit functions i wrote myself i wanna blame the absolute state of things in tech for this and that may be part of it but i think i'm also just *like this*

goddamn, dude.

our games are still on sale for my birthday week, and we could really use the help to bridge the next 3-4 months if gay fox girl SMB3 and its prequel, a possess em up turn-based roguelike, or an adorable push puzzle game sound like your thing please give this a look

My memory of what it was like to browse the Xbox Live Indie Games store page in 2010

See you tomorrow

Some facesitting/crushing Older renders with @sparkballoons.bsky.social 's sona and 3d model and my LTTM monobutt model that I got permission to post recently =3 Both are having a pretty fun time with one another

This one. They've been doing this to books forever, so it's not a new pattern. It's not about what you do, it's about what they decide to hate for profit/power. And they do this EVERYWHERE to everything. There's been a huge uptick in this all over.

Is it because i'm so weird that I get weird first time chats like this? 🤔 #twitch #vtuber #bugs #cartoon

nonbinary but specifically in the way referred to in limp bizkit's rollin' (2000), as in "hey ladies / hey fellas / and the people that don't give a fuck"

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It's fully a cottage industry, an entire circular sewer drain of grifters who makes their money from discovering and designating enemies for their audience to attack. They believe in nothing, they have no values, except perpetuating their infinite hate parade and skimming money off the mob.

There is nothing any developer can do to avoid right-wing ideologues, no level of acquiescence that will stave them off if they choose to target you, because they will just make shit up wholecloth! They're like CinemaSins looking for any reason to ding that bell; the "sin" is made-up post hoc.

Right, I should've been working instead of dragging up a lot of painful emotions writing this, so if anyone wants to throw me a tip for taking the time to do it anyway, I'll spend it on videogames and taking my partner to the cinema.

It's a particularly cruel way to misgender us, but as well as that I often see it weaponized against trans women to silence or punish us for daring to assert ourselves; be quiet, be a doormat, go away, otherwise it's your "MaLe eNeRgY" showing. It's only ever trotted out to put us in our place.

A trans girl is not "socialized male" - she's brutalized into hiding herself. What someone is doing when they accuse trans women of "male socialization" is that they are denying us the closet, denying that it is a painful and traumatic experience where the life is choked from us by dysphoria.

It's lonely, isolated, and not an experience I'd wish on anyone. Something I would really like to impress upon cis people is that for a lot of us, when we do come out, when we finally stop suppressing ourselves and open up, we are often asserting ourselves for the very first time in our lives.

We are treated very, very differently to our cisgender peers growing up, we're ostracized and brutalized into a shell of ourselves, so we retreat and that closet is an extremely painful place to be, one that is immeasurably difficult to relate or explain to someone else if you've not lived it.

The "socialization" we experience is being violently beaten into that closet, to have our expression being met with punishment from those around us, so we shrink ourselves down, we hide and quieten and suppress ourselves, apologize constantly because we are hypervigilant about taking up space...

Sorry about the delay continuing this thread, it's just a difficult subject to talk about and I'm not too keen on explaining and thus reliving that trauma to such a wide audience, but do you know that closet was like for me? Because before transition, before coming out, I was simply waiting to die.

Society in general understands that when someone proverbially "comes out of the closet" they are not someone who is suddenly deciding to be gay; they are someone who is no longer hiding. We understand that a person hiding or suppressing their sexuality is not a neutral state, it is a traumatic one.

I'm reluctant to speak up on trans topics these days because it's often not worth the pain caused, so I'm probably going to regret this, but disappointingly a lot of people need to hear this. Accusing trans women of "male socialization" is an astonishingly cruel, callous, and spiteful thing to say.

"If socialization really worked the way that some people imply when they wield “male socialization” against trans female/feminine people, then gender conversion therapy would work every single time."

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GOD. DAMN. This Louisiana man fucking COOKED like I’ve seen very few people cook before.

Datamining Paper Mario: Color Splash reveals that Ludwig has an attack called the "Ludwig Bullet Kill Attack", where he kills Mario with bullets. Previously thought unused, it was now discovered that Ludwig will use it if Mario has no Tail stickers and is broke.

In Super Paper Mario, Peach ends a dating simulator segment by blowing it up with a bomb. This is most likely a reference to classic 1994 dating simulator Tokimeki Memorial, where girls neglected by the player character will destroy his reputation, represented by cartoon bombs.

While this may be difficult to notice in-game, the Vanilla Lake 1 and Vanilla Lake 2 tracks in Super Mario Kart take place on the exact same lake, merely at different stages of the ice melting. The outer boundary of the lake remains almost identical between the two.

This is a recurring problem, not just in the US but in all countries. As a former CIO for a US federal agency my observation is that how governments use data and technology often don't work because the wrong people ask the wrong questions and build the wrong solutions for government programs.

in the end i think the lib/left calculation that we're not a significant enough group to really speak for is going to blow up in their face in a major way, but that's just me.

that's why trans people are struggling to be heard and be more visible, because clearly if people are not going to understand the severity of the right wing campaign than we have to make ourselves and this issue as visible as humanly possible. that's what Mamdani et al don't really understand

it's clear that many people on the lib/left side have decided that trans people are not a significant enough group to speak out much for, even if they passively support us - whereas right wingers are firmly dedicated to destroying us. one side is going to win that battle every time.

the thing everyone must understand with trans issues is - when right wing insanity and bloodthirstyness against a group is bigger than your support of that group, the right wingers win. you have to match them in forcefulness. any sort of passivity will make you lose to them.

getting carbombed after a palantir thinktank pays me $125 to pretend to be a Gay Looking Ethical Non Monogamist who is glad alcatraz closed

When people see senseless, awful things happen, they comfort themselves by assessing ‘what the victim did wrong’ and think that they wouldn’t get harassed because they simply wouldn’t say X or Y. But the truth is that harassers can always find something. Can always take something in bad faith.

I see people acting like they’re safe from this harassment blighting the industry because they “don’t do political stuff, or representation stuff, or—“ Don’t you get it? *You* don’t decide that. They do. Their job is to scour your existence for any label that might suitably rile up their audience.

independent of more real legal consequences for right wing content creators who cross the line past what they can legally get away with, and social consequences for making this type of content - a better critical sphere that helps set the terms of debate as something else would help tremendously

while most people have become utterly sick of this right wing outrage ecosystem at this point, those content creators need a constant churn to keep their audience interested. and most of their targets are smaller scale, so it's easy for them to just become the default conversation about a thing

there are better and more interesting conversations to have about videogames that don't even acknowledge right wing culture war shit. those should be had, in a public way. set the terms of conversation you want to see around a piece of media and stop being put on your back foot by outrage slop

I'm delighted to announce the forensic recovery of the original single-stroke font data from Vib-Ribbon (1999) — exhumed from Playstation ROMs — and now part of my archive of procedural skeleton fonts for #p5js: github.com/golanlevin/p... #mediaArchaeology #typography #plotterArt #creativeCoding

Based on these findings researchers are now conducting additional preclinical evaluations. They are also hoping to design of subsequent immunogens that can be used in a significantly shorter sequential vaccine regimen that would enhance neutralization.

allow for shorter and simpler vaccination schedules. If this approach proves successful, they could potentially achieve desired immunity with just THREE injections. This could potentially make vaccination protocols shorter and more affordable.