eric wenske

I feel like I'm back on a TI-99/4A! Time to hunt that wumpus.

A mall christmas tree with decorations that look like a big ol’ 69.

Just in case you were wondering, the 69 tree is up.

This dog’s punk as heck.

A screenshot from Zombie Revenge with a G icon on a computer desktop

We’re deleting G over there.

秋を運ぶトロッコ列車𓂃 𓈒𓏸

After seeing this post, my first thought was wanting to impress someone by being able to quote it without watching. "No no, wait for it, here it comes: Miracle... Magical... Sonical... Sonic is a superstar. Told you I knew it!" (Other person slowly walks away)

As a huge New York Style Hot Dog fan for years, felt compelled to recreate the poster in a high resolution and managed to find the original photo used in the texture

Many thanks to folks from VGPC for help with identifying blobs, especially Prominos and TBemme

bekoha.github.io/yakuza/New%2...

Just beat egg. Was a good one.

Egg by Terry Cavanagh why not be an egg

New Game: Egg terrycavanagh.itch.io/egg

Saw a tumblr post saying AI is turned on again in a hidden Google Drive menu, but its not a menu you can find on mobile; its only desktop. anyhoo. here it is with a picture and clearer directions

Google Drive > MyDrive > (Gear Icon top right) Settings > Manage Apps [switch off Gemini here]

DAICON III & IV Opening Animation -Domesday Duplicator Remaster] : hideaki anno : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Deinterlaced & remastered version of the original Laserdisc for Daicon IV & III.

So anyway I restored Daicon IV from scratch. This was a joint project with Chris Person (papapishu), who sourced the incredibly Rare Laserdisc release. The raw files can be found on the internet archive for those interested in processing it yourself. Enjoy! archive.org/details/DAIC...

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This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

No Kings-Austin,TX

The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom

Congratulations to bicyclists: you're one of the most efficient movers in the animal kingdom! 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

🔊 I AM THE BEST ARTIST

CRASH TEAM RACING main cups 🏁

YouTube video by Thomas Cradden 広谷順子　UFO

The best song from this commercial music record is clearly UFO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhPO...

And here are the others I grabbed.

It's Brian with a word bubble that says I want more seven out of 10 games with whatever graphics and weird ideas made by cool people that don't use ai and I'm not kidding

The american ebay seller prices for it are wild.

Here’s a hint: it’s more. Too lazy to get up and check, but I think it was 20.

Harmony by EPO

Kimono Stereo by Mari Iijima

Took an amtrak to Los Angeles for a wedding. Picked up a couple of albums. One more I want to grab tomorrow.

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Austin is trying out a new machine to quickly create protected bike lanes at lower cost!

Never forget who the real Beastie Boys are

It was back in the early 90s, a time when there was no internet, no email, no Excel, no text files, no TrueType fonts—nothing of what we have today. I had to come up with a solution to deliver all the text data to the developer in Hungary (Novotrade), where no one spoke Japanese. First, I created bitmap images of all the hiragana and katakana characters, as well as commas, periods, exclamation points, question marks, and two types of overstrikes (two dots/circles), something like this: ・・・■■■・・・・・・・・・・ ・・・・■■・・■■■・・・・・ ■■■■■■■■■■■・・・・・ ・■■■■■■■■・・・・・・・ ・・・・■■・・・・・・・・・・ ・・・・■■・■■・・・・・・・ ・・・■■■■■■■■■・・・・ ・・■■■■■■■■■■■・・・ ・■■・■■・■■・・■■■・・ ・■■・■■・■■・・・■■・・ ■■・・■■■■・・・・■■■・ ■■・・・■■・・・・・■■■・ ■■・・■■■■・・・・■■・・ ■■■■■・■■・・・■■・・・ ・■■■・・・・・・■■・・・・ ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・

I then printed all characters page by page and FAXED nearly 100 pages to the developer, and their artist converted them into nicely shaded Japanese fonts. Each character was assigned a code based on rules such as: H for hiragana, K for katakana 01, 02, 03, 04, 05 for vowel rows A, K, S, T, N, H, M, Y, R, W for consonant columns d for overstriking dots, c for overstriking circles sp for space (Note: I might not remember all the rules perfectly now, lol.) For example, the phrase "こんにちは" should be converted to something like: H05K, H05W, H02N, H02T, H01H The developer sent me all the in-game dialogues via fax. I translated them and assigned each string a number for easy reference, instead of saying something like "the third window of the second dolphin in stage 2." Now here's the best part: once I finished translating all the dialogues, I typed them into a word processing program (like an early version of WordPad), then converted each letter to its corresponding code, character by character.

I printed all of this out and faxed dozens of pages to the developer, who then had to convert them back into dialogue data. To my surprise, the system we created was quite robust. There were only a few text-related bugs, mostly caused by my typos. I still work in game localization. It feels like we were in the stone age compared to today's methods, but I still cherish those moments.

Ryoichi Hasegawa on the localisation process for the Japanese version of Ecco the Dolphin (released in June 1993 in Japan):
xcancel.com/rio_hasegawa...

For autumn, made this little small 3D scene yesterday.

Somewhere in the back of my mind I'm always thinking about the vs screen theme from makeruna makendo 2 for sfc

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