Ruby

For my inaugural Bluesky post (marking my tentative return to social media after almost three years): my thoughts about slop, value, and the internet future I hope to see.

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Sea angels are so cool. Easily a top 5 sea creature, and there are too many good ones to count.

Hey Librarian sorry to reply to an unrelated post, but I'm trying to find the clip where NL refers to Jimmy Carter's death with a phrase like "he was just a boy". Having no luck with NLQuotes and wondering if you knew when or where it appeared in your clips.

congratulations!

The whole 'Grok is a boer now' thing is very funny, but it also really exposes how every 'AI tool' isn't just passively biased from training data, but actively designed to shape your worldview according to the interests of the billionaires who made them.

opened google chrome to try to get a web form to work and my home page was a super-early cache of my website. There's something very cozy about it.

It is time! Cattle Crisis has been just released on Itch. Thank you for sticking with me for such a long time. Enjoy!

🕹️ https://krystman.itch.io/cattle-crisis

#pico8 #shmup #stg #arcade #indiedev

◻️◻️◻️ Void Lord B̷̫̲̿͘͜͠/̷̠̱̊/̸̜͕̀́͒/̵̡̮̰͋.̶̯̟͐̎ , ◻️◻️◼️
This game slaps, I had to draw someone from it c:

#voidstranger #fanart @system-erasure.bsky.social
#art #DigitalArt #illustration

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

Type display that contains white text over a black background. The center reads "Rose-Tinted" in italics and includes a pixelated rose. The bottom reads that this is a pixel type family with 210+ glyphs per variant. Also included is my portfolio website (https://www.wendymurphy.online/), and my handle @wendyleftmealone.

Type display with a pink background, inspired by the Windows95 interface. The window reads: Rose-Tinted is a pixel-based type family. It’s inspired by retro games such as Super Mario 64 and The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, which approached pixel typography with the appearance of italics to add personality. While many have experimented with pixel type over the years, there’s a unique challenge that comes with developing a type language that also accounts for bold, italic, and bold italic variants while respecting the limitations of the grid system. Rose-Tinted includes the following for each variant: • Uppercase Letters • Lowercase Letters • Numerals • Ligatures (Standard and Discretionary) • Symbols (Punctuation, Formulas, etc.) • Accent Marks (Uppercase and Lowercase)

Type display with a pixelated Queen of Hearts card over a pink background. The type reads "Queen of Hearts" in the 'Rose-Tinted' font (Bold Italics).

Out now! My project ‘Rose-Tinted’ is a pixel-based typeface (x-height: 6px, cap height: 9px), that accounts for Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic variants.

I hope you enjoy!

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Creative Market:
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Gumroad:
wendymurphyonline.gumroad.com/l/rose-tinted

New post: blocklist for AI music on youtube

#text

https://surasshu.com/blocklist-for-ai-music-on-youtube

Congratulations! Such a great manga to be able to work on as well

I also wrote about my experience reading it (including some of the games and other media I engaged with during and afterwards) in my weekly reading reports I post on my website. Link here: rubyrawlins.com/reading_repo...
(Late August to early October include this book)

I read エロゲー文化研究概論 this year. It covers the key technological, social, and game design turning points for eroge succinctly. I ended up playing and reading about a dozen games and books mentioned in this book.
Really recommended if you can read Japanese.

FYI: Little White Lies is entirely anti-AI, and we will never allow our writers' and illustrators' work to be used to train AI models. This is completely against what journalism and art should be and should stand for and it's disheartening to see other publications being taken down this road.

Nearly 100 years later, 痴人の愛 (Naomi) is proof that foot guys have always and will always exist.

Curious why the art on the GBC has Super Mystery Dungeon art.

Specific, obvious arguments in favour of their actions end up expressing a weakness in their thinking.

The "dear reader" expression is interesting to me because its absence might position the reader to observe the events neutrally, but including it places the reader and narrator at opposites - encouraging scepticism towards the narrator, and their motives.

Reading 痴人の愛 (Naomi) by 谷崎潤一郎 (Tanizaki Jun'ichirō). For a book published 99 years ago (30 years before Lolita) it's surprising how readable and familiar the writing style is. The narrator/MC even talks directly at the reader (like in Lolita) to stress his perspective.

Ultimately the book was still readable and (as far as I know) the story was intact, but something about print-on-demand seeds suspicion. It feels somewhat dishonest, and I start to wonder what other aspects of the purchase are not made apparent for the customer.

The final page of The Enchanter with text reading "Made in United States. North Haven, CT. 13 November 2024".

However, when I finished the entire book I reached this page at the end. Printed on the same day the book was ordered. Admittedly I don't know much about made-to-print books, but if I had to pin the low quality on anything it'd be this.

The publication information for The Enchanter.

I suspected it might have been a print-on-demand-type situation with some low-quality printer owned by Amazon, and (at first) I was surprised to see that it didn't seem to be the case (though perhaps someone with a keener eye could detect foul play from just this page).

Page 37 of The Enchanter.

A distracting (and suspicious) feature of this edition was the change of typeface at various points in the text (seen here on line 16). At first I thought it was to highlight certain parts of text, but it occurred between lines even for words that spanned both lines.

A book cover where a blue-ink illustrated cutout of a girl sitting and reading is placed over scrap paper and cardboard in a semi-3D manner. The title "The Enchanter" rests above, and the author, Vladimir Nabokov, is credited below the centrepiece.

Just about the only positive thing I have to remark about the printed edition is the cover. The illusion of depth and simply shapes and scrap-book aesthetic all appeal to me. The way it's printed onto the page is not perfect, but it achieves the 3D effect and I like it.

I particularly enjoyed the penultimate moments in the hotel. Just like Lolita's first half, there was a dizzying energy as the protagonist had the scene set (almost) perfectly, interrupted by a swarm of inconveniences and self sabotage.

I enjoyed it, for the most part. The "echoes" of Lolita's plot were nice bite-sized reverse Easter eggs. I found the ebb and flow of "external" narration and the unnamed protagonist's monologues to be engaging and darkly humorous. The Red Riding Hood references painted a fun mental image.

I felt compelled to read Nabokov's The Enchanter when it was described in Lolita's afterword as "the first little throb of Lolita". I asked my boyfriend to order a copy, and read it the day after arriving.

I am safely in the United States.
The shift between early Summer (last time I visited) and late Autumn is charming. The cars are still as horrible as usual.