I wrote this because it's the negative posts that get more attention by far, but it's important to still talk about the positives. None of my posts recommending a game will ever get the numbers this did, but they always have an impact, people tell me all the time they got X/Y/Z game cos of me.

Wanna learn about ditherintg and how I was confused why it did not work out for me at first? Then you can now do so over at my blog. Maybe you will learn something. I gotta eat something and finish the UI stuff so dithering options become available in the editor; should be done sometime this week.

I may have forgotten that I cannot actually use webworkers on neocitites... so that means that my speedup just ain't gonna work. And I put actual effort into it -.- Welp, time to painstakingly reverse a bunch of changes, so that I can at least push the dithering stuff there.

Trans people are banned from everything and can barely name their oppressors lest they are monstered by the media and in parliament. Never mind the threat of jail for not disclosing being trans before a sexual encounter or even for saying some shit. It's surreal being trans in the UK right now.

LRP; vielleicht mal hinschreiben Ich will hier nicht die GEZ Debatte aufmachen, aber das meine Pflichtgebühren für KI Scheiss verwendet werden finde absolut nicht in Ordnung

Because of my hubris, and forgetting to make an extra feature branch. My worker implementation for (de)compression is now in the same branch as the dithering stuff. Now this would not be a problem, if not for the fact that the worker things are not done due to the high resource use -.-

Besides everything else that makes deltarune a great game, I adore the humor of pointless interactions. Going up to a door, being propmted if you want to twist the knob and then getting "You twist the doorknob. You don't do anything else" did in fact get a chuckle out of me.

Come for the birbs and stay for my, between-the-lines, realization that I might be an idiot when it comes to dithering. (seriously, go look at the birbs, they are cute and I only do some horrible things to them)

Come for the birbs and stay for my, between-the-lines, realization that I might be an idiot when it comes to dithering. (seriously, go look at the birbs, they are cute and I only do some horrible things to them)

Wanna learn about ditherintg and how I was confused why it did not work out for me at first? Then you can now do so over at my blog. Maybe you will learn something. I gotta eat something and finish the UI stuff so dithering options become available in the editor; should be done sometime this week.

This took longer than I thought it would, mainly because I kept going back to my code and reading articles about color stuff to not write anything wrong. Gotta make some images and then there will be a post about dithering, and soon™ even dithering in my gif editor (just some UI stuff needed).

POV: You are abstracting while Caine asks about your opinion on the last adventure.

If you wish to make a manga from scratch you must first invent a small town and model it; maybe make a simulation of people living there, then go on to model the surrounding area until you have your own universe.

worms rejoice

Being Me - Gator Days

I tried to write a bit about dithering and while writing looked some stuff up and now I am at the crossraod of leaving things with a general "it is possible that" or go hunting for, and reading, research papers on color selection and dithering.

🏁TIME🏁 #SGDQ2026 has raised a total amount of $2,408,701 for @doctorswithoutborders.org!!! Thank you to everyone who made this marathon possible, and to all of you for your amazing generosity & support. 💙 See you next time at #AGDQ2027!! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!

The curse of UX is upon me. I have so many options for color reduction and pallete creation now, I kinda want all of them in my gif editor. But I know that I should keep it simple, like a color + BW dither option and something like direct median cut, and a preview for users.

I often get asked to provide tips on how to use AI responsibly. How to "prompt ethically". That is NOT what a genuine AI ethicist does.

Watching the "Return to Gaza" documentary with Spikevegeta talking afterwards was like getting hit by a train (didn't help that it was 4 am or so over here). Seeing the speedrun community comming together every year for a good cause is a real ray of light.

I really dig this effect, a bit like a torn poster. This happens when I do not do something like grayscale the intial image via luma or soemthing like that. The direction comes from diffusion matrix used

At least the Bayer dither works first try 🥳 No error diffusion should mean I do not need to take that much care about the colors being balanced, so in theory I can do something really dumb whioch will not work with FS or other aproaches.

*throws a bottle of oestrogen pills to the ground* A miserable little pile of secrets. But enough talk... HAVE AT YOU!

Still some problewms with dithering, although i think I know where I am doing things wrong. The results so far are at least visualy interesting when I use the median cut color table.

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

Oooh, fun stuff on SGDQ starting in ~3 hours. First, a 'break the score counter' run of Balatro. Then a NES Tetris competition. And then a Mario Maker 2 troll race, which is going to be a fantastic showcase of improvisation and intuition.

There is a device in my basement that collects the excess masculinty whenever a trans woman transitions. One day I will enter the device and become the manliest of all men; maybe then I will finally grow a full beard that does not make the people call me patchwork Pete.

Sora: dead Atlas: dead "adult mode": dead Abilene expansion: dead OpenAI IPO: dead Tell me again about "inevitability"

POV: your code still does not work but at least it looks kinda cool.

CEO Reveals How He Used AI To Build One-Person Company That's $1.3 Billion In Debt

We are gonna replace public questions with an AI interviewer that chats with multiple ad-hoc prompted other AIs. The research questions and the resulting the paper is generated and reviewed by another AI. And then it is published, incorporated by the next AI and everything starts again.

It’s so distressing to see these beautiful creatures in cages far too small for them. They shouldn’t even be in cages.

Tried to implement basic dithering, and I think I did something wrong.

Besides the tool and everything , "The AfD is Germany’s most popular political party and is polling 40 per cent in one eastern federal state that chooses a new state parliament in September." is a bleak account of german politics of the last 10 or so years

Die Linken finden es doof dass Apolo dudes eine fascho regierung haben wollen, aber habe sie mal daran gedacht das Apolo dudes es doof finden das Linke sie doof finden? Checkmate liberal. "dass es sich umkehren lässt" ist insofern wahr als das ein Rechter immer 'nein, du bist doof' rufen kann.

Even if you can't concentrate on tutorial videos because your brain is broken in a particular way, you can still do stuff. Experiment, try things out. Heck, grab a piece of paper and make a paper prototype. It's better than thinking about how cool it would be if you did something, I assure you.

US politics is really a different shade of dumb (but don't worry, we will get there too). Like wdym the guy with a nazi tattoo (which got covered up by now) is not a good person and had more problems?

People really underestimate the danger the "Effective Altruism" movement is to our global political landscape. With all the money they have access to they get to buy seats and every table where bigger narratives are formed pushing their inhumane politics.

More playing around with Resolve's fusion tab. There are some things I want to add like a wobble for free floating elements and maybe some smal splashes/displacmeent at the bottom. So far I find the animation part a bit convulted, like it needs extra steps when compared to AE.

While doing my second playthrough of Dread Delusion I remembered to take a look at the big squid thingy in the sky. There is a whole level in there?!

Rewatching @foldablehuman.bsky.social video on NFTs and the part about DAOs made me realize that these people, with their limited (and wrong) understanding of copyright and intelectual property, probably all moved into the AI space where for some reason they got what they wanted.

Got the german translation for like 25€ and am currently halfway through the book (need to take more time to read). The start gives a glimpse at how bewilderd Weizenbaum was when he observed people using ELIZA. And I think he would have some unkind words for the current AI boosters.

Spend the weekend touching grass and am now ending it by watching the I am your Beast speedrun on the #agdq stream.

It kinda snuck up on me this year, but Summer Games Done Quick begins this afternoon! And they've got SO many indie games on the lineup this year.

As preservation of games is a big topic right now, I'll give a shoutout to the RetroGameTalk Repository - a curated & categorized treasure trove of fan-translations, romhacks and generally obscure games. It's great just to browse. You need to be registered and logged in to see the repository page.

Let me do a little thread on writing software. I'm no expert, just a curious nerd who's tried many.

Getting the "don't die" achievment in Dread Delusion on hard mode feels good, and not at all as if I was simply running away from every enemy while chugging mana potions.

you do have to spare a thought for americans who are apparently encountering the concept of "when your country does a bunch of shit no one likes you get yelled at for showing national pride during sports events" for the first time in their lives

They put me into the device, but now I got that Marvel Captain America swimsuit bulge so I guess it was worth it.

It's World Marine Aids to Navigation Day on the 1st July, so here's a quick thread on some aids to navigation. Now the first and most obvious aid to navigation is dry land. Dry land - pay attention at the back - is strongly suggestive that you can't go sailing here.