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Ornery middle-aged coder and musician (funk, chiptunes). Author of Digits VST and Slam VST. ADHD and Jewish. Battling nerve damage from transverse myelitis. Sick of your shit. Married. East Bay. #demoscene #retrogaming #shmups πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

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That’s proper computing right there

10.03.2026 02:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Steam page for our new game, "Raging Blasters 2," has been opened.
A major feature of the game is its pseudo-two-player system.
It is scheduled for release on Steam and Switch in 2027. Please add it to your wishlist!

store.steampowered.com/app/4500530/

10.03.2026 02:01 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

(renovation)

10.03.2026 01:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Psikyo shmups like GunBird 2 are know to be difficult ..BUT.. you can set the difficulty so low that there are only a couple of shots on the screen

10.03.2026 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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$1 Pick up

09.03.2026 23:11 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah I noticed he was following twice the number of follows

09.03.2026 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How does this person have 2.2k followers? Insane.

09.03.2026 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Mmm in my area, my knowledge of caches, data structures, schedulers, mutexes, design patterns, data/logic separation, and more have come into play. There’s so much going on under the hood past the top level design view. As far as gender goes I can’t comment!

09.03.2026 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I mean… sounds like an RPG to me! There’s a reason I don’t play those.

…wasn’t because I took an arrow to the knee

09.03.2026 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trouble is that you need system design chops and a lot of poor coders write their programs more like a script than as a system

09.03.2026 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That was my favorite mag because it covered both console and computer games. CGW didn’t understand action games, but Game Player’s did. No BS ratings either, just good overviews of each game.

09.03.2026 19:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fishing Derby also has a neat water effect that animates. Fathom also has really good animations.

09.03.2026 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Have you done 2600 yet?
It’s got some good beaches like in RealSports Volleyball

09.03.2026 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Dimahoo was the jam

09.03.2026 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There’s always the Borg collective, which was absolutely NOT ethically sourced

09.03.2026 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The web app trend is awful. I can’t think of a better way to waste resources. I’m sure react native can be clean as well, but the projects I’ve seen using it were carelessly slapped together with out of control prop drilling and macro-style logic mixed with UI XML. It was unholy.

09.03.2026 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t understand how GUIs have been mainstream since 1985 and yet we act like it’s this crazy unsolved problem that we keep throwing half baked solutions at. Absolutely embarrassing.

09.03.2026 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It turns out the answer is β€œhave a nervous breakdown”

09.03.2026 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think they wanted the player to feel like a drift hero, just pulling off the craziest drifts at ridiculous speeds. Daytona is like the opposite where you have to really finesse it so you don’t fly off the curve. I love both approaches.

09.03.2026 04:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In California it’s been over 5 bucks for a long while. People are gonna go broke.

09.03.2026 04:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wait is that different from the initial OutRun 2 Xbox release? Do you know how the drifting was different in the arcade?

09.03.2026 04:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

RR is all about exploiting it. If you hit the curve just right you’re pulled through it with infinite traction and losing no speed. The arcade versions feel less like this fwiwβ€” Rave Racer is probably the peak of those.

09.03.2026 04:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If you don’t tune your samples it’s good practice writing in different keys :D

09.03.2026 03:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One of my favorite things about having limited options in a tracker is clipping samples either because it’s not loud enough or because you don’t have a compressor.

09.03.2026 03:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s fucking weird how much muscle memory comes back for an old tracker that you’ve barely used since the mid 00s

09.03.2026 03:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Some love for Sega Rally 2! The career mode on it was great I thought. That’s the game I got with my DC.

09.03.2026 03:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Been making samples again. Renoise pairs well with SchismTracker

09.03.2026 03:40 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I DO have Sonic R and Sonic Drift 2 😬

09.03.2026 02:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ll look out for those. I’ve got a 360. I also wanted to grab the new Sonic racer for S2 but I’m waiting for it to not be 80 bucks.

09.03.2026 02:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I still need to get into the Sonic racers. I binged MSR last year and it was glorious!

09.03.2026 01:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0