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a screenshot of wplace.live, showing two sprites from Duke Nukem (1) and Commander Keen 4

working on making sure wplace.live has some DOS sprites

ShaderGlass v1.2 update released! 📣
Now supporting webcams and capture cards, better mouse cursor capture and of course... more shaders to apply to any game or app! 📺
Free and open source on GitHub, itch and Steam.
github.com/mausimus/Sha...

Flynn wakes up in the mainframe and mostly doesn’t question his existence/identity. He’s just like okay, this is weird and gets on with orienting himself to his new world.

Surely I’d be interested and have questions because like it’s never happened before.

But I don’t think I’d be intrinsically distressed/weirded out that I don’t have the meat shell that I presently have. Or be concerned about my “identify”. I’ve always liked TRON, the original, for this.

Which is why I’m always weirded out by the Freaky Friday/Robocop/Destiny-exo trope: “you’ve just woken up in another/robot body and you are freaking out, ripping your face off”. I honestly think if that were to happen to me, I’d be mostly okay with it, given that sensory input is nominally wired.

I’ve always hated “fresh” pictures of myself, though older pictures of me I find comforting/nostalgic. A picture needs to age like a year before I start to not feel weird about it. And it’s not really a “gender” thing or even that I wish I looked “different”. I think any “shell” would be as good.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve never felt “attached” to my body, never rising to a level I would describe as “physical dysphoria”, but always there in back of my mind. I sometimes catch a glimpse of a reflection of a reflection and don’t always immediately recognize myself…

granulac - Twitch A Thingus to the Past: Mario Paint

it's Friday Thingus! we're remote this week, playing all the DOS (s)hits.

Starting soon:

twitch.tv/granulac

Me: Updating firmware…

Music transition: «boss music»

We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2025 🎉

The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans.

Deadline: September 28th
More info 👇
grants.draknek.org

Tawejea - Twitch Chill Friday Pixel Hangs | Working on BRB Conservatory and more!

Want somewhere to land thats chill, filled with silly tangents and good coworking energy? I got you, we are working on pixel art this afternoon.

A tweet of mine from 2021 that reads I just turned down a job making a bunch of generative pixelart NFT avis for $1,000,000 It was a hard decision, my stomach is in knots. But NFTs hurt the planet, and create artificial scarcity. If rich people want to give me money, hire me, I work for a living. Please send hugs

This tweet aged gracefully. In 2021 I was asked to do NFTs. 4 weeks of work for $1 million. I got harassed for months by cryptobros for saying no. The project went ahead without me and the offer was legit.

NFTs were and are a grift, peddled by the same techbros as AI

40 pixel fonts for 40 dollars. That's it, that's the sale. by somepx A bundle by somepx, $40.00 for 40 games

My new sale is called "40 pixel fonts for 40 dollars. That's it, that's the sale."
itch.io/s/158296/40-...

Update on my pixel art guide for beginners:

Transferred all the information from Tumblr to a Google Doc, so anyone who doesn't have a Tumblr account can now read through the whole thing!
I also updated quite a bit of information too.
I hope it will help somebody!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Pam Bondi announcing a 50 million dollar bounty for the President of Venezuela

This looks like a deleted scene from Fateful Findings

this is a really lovingly made, atmospheric game- i really enjoyed it. it does empty space well.

A Team Droid level, with some source code superimposed over the screen shot.

Source code for my games is now available on my web site. Just go to any game's web page, and the source code will be available among the downloads as a ZIP. There's a README.md in each one for compilation instructions. #gamedev #ibmpc #msdos #cga

PC Gameport Party - Joe's Computer Museum Expand your vintage PC gameport abilities to the maximum! Plug in two joysticks at once Use MIDI out* to a synth module Use MIDI in* with a playing keyboard controller ... it lets you do ALL of t...

Third. MIDI in as well! Plug in a midi piano and use Cubase, Cakewalk, in MSDOS or old Windows.

Provide your own F to M 15-pin cable to connect to a SB16 or clone MPU gameport.

Get it at jcm-1: jcm-1.com/product/pc-g...

4/4

One reason Night of the Meteor is taking so long to develop is because every character gets their own custom animations. 😎

If this game had been made in the early ’90s, it would've taken dozens of floppy disks or several CDs.

#retro #pixelart #NightoftheMeteor

Replaying Gateway 2 Homeworld on a whim and somehow… I did this.

A still of Jimmy Stewart from the movie Harvey (1950)

...and all of these conflicts, that are... for lack of a better word: "timeless".

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There is a throwaway in the Jimmy Stewart film Harvey (1950) that feels more and more relevant, the older I get.

"People are people, no matter where you go"

Like it was something we didn't, like, *take pictures* of ourselves back in the late 90s ??? And here is this documentary that has *so* many photos and home films from these European settlers trying to get away from "modern" society (in 1930s mind you) by moving to this uninhabited island.

A Beastie Boys ticket stub from 1998

By that I mean, its difficult for me to *not* see the correlation to how people *feel* about the "modern" age. I saw a post the other day that was a video from a Beastie Boys concert in '98/'99 and there were so many comments about "Look, no cell phones, no selfies, just people in the moment"

YouTube video by Rotten Tomatoes Indie The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden Official Trailer 1 (2014) - Documentary HD

I happened on to the trailer for the 2024 film Eden, which is a theatrical "adaptation" of the same event described int he 2014 documentary The Galapagos Affair. Its hard for me to watch the documentary without an intense feeling reverse déjà vu.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf2t...

Tawejea - Twitch Hey, I'm Tawe! I'm a mostly Retro variety streamer. I play a lot of games from Sierra and LucasARTS, super into janky DOS, cringe FMV's, JRPGs, and the occasional modern cozy game. Im also an artist ...

After a week of playing IRL games, I'm back in my hermit hole to play even more games. Tales from Gen Con incoming! Exhibition Art Showcase! and..... a Sierra Kids game! www.twitch.tv/tawejea

Imagine walking into an established writers room with a list this vague and acting like you just saved TV.

www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

A little white dog with floppy black ears and spots, and brown around the sides of their snout sits at at an apple cider stand. It's surrounded by muted autumn foliage, a pumpkin, and a sandwich board that says Fresh Cider with an apple drawn below. The stand is wooden, with some lights hanging from the awning. There are apples stacked behind the dog, some mugs to their left, and a big dispenser for cider. There's a little wooden stool for patrons too.

Day 6: Danish-Swedish farm-dog. I had two ideas so decided to just do both. ☕
#doggust #doggust2025

As a kid who grew up in the 80s amidst the backdrop of global Mutually-Assured-Destruction, and later through the “War on Terror” surely someone in the fledgling alliance would have been pushed to the breaking point of saying “you know, we *got* the plans back home, we could just build one!”

I mean, they obviously had them, that’s the entire premise of the A New Hope. And while I totally get that the rebels might not have had the resources to muster building their own in between ANH and RoTJ but after the war? You just got the plans for this giant death laser just lying around?