Matt Sutton

Matt Sutton

@xietanu.bsky.social

Using computers to study brains. Tinkerer in #pico8 and #picotron

237 Followers 419 Following 137 Posts Joined Aug 2023
2 weeks ago

I fear Game Freak are not brave enough to see this is clearly the right answer, but if they do, instant Switch 2 purchase.

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2 weeks ago

For wanting lower taxes? Etc. Etc.

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1 month ago

I think 3 is clearest, 1 looks very nice though, particularly if there was a little animation? I think 2 might be too subtle?

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2 months ago

Splore is obviously very exciting, but choose() also looks so useful! Also interested to see how the hyper-search has been implemented...

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2 months ago
A modern looking cyclops runs gleefully towards splore.p64

#picotron 0.2.2 is up on lexaloffle and humble: picotron.net

- Splore (ctrl-1 to toggle fullscreen!)
- Native Window Exports
- Search Across Files
- File chooser() / Generalised Drag & Drop
- Updated Manual with more sections & examples

Changelog: www.lexaloffle.com/dl/docs/pico...

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2 months ago
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I just published Chunky Rally - PICO-8 version!

Satisfying drifts, high score hunts, and guaranteed fury when you hit that tree that just wouldn't move out of the way!

Play for free: www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=153...

#release #pico8 #indiedev #gamedev #racing #freegames

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3 months ago
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I'm working on an update for "Chunky Rally", my drifty racing game.
This update will introduce a track editor with easy to share custom races.
@xietanu.bsky.social has been incredibly helpful with the development - I can't wait to try the races that people come up with! #picotron #gamedev #racing

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3 months ago

You know this kind of guy gets really upset really fast if a company prioritises hiring Black women (or whatever other minority group) too.

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4 months ago

Played it with my partner and it was a great time! Good level of challenge with the puzzles and very cute.

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4 months ago

I can't get over how these are all so completely D tier 'moon landing was fake' gotchas. Google for 5 seconds and you will find 5000 people debunking each of these very comprehensively. You only believe these if you have chosen to believe them and avoided other evidence. How do you combat that?

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5 months ago

Great, thanks for the quick update. Installed and both seem to be working now.

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5 months ago

I also tried just opening a .png file (assuming view.p64 would be the default app?), but nothing happens. I checked that the task manager shows version 0.2.1

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5 months ago

I just installed the update from the Picotron website (on Windows), I don't seem to have the view.p64 (assume it would be with the other system apps?) and when I try adding the @ to paths, Picotron crashes to desktop without any error given.

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6 months ago

Who wants a screen this wide? The photo of it looks like a joke!

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6 months ago
Screenshot of a tweet by Internet Hippo that reads, "New right wing thing is describing crimes as generically as possible to pretend like they're not crimes. Someone gets convicted of conspiracy and they start yelling, 'Wow so it's illegal to make plans with friends now'"

Very "it's illegal to make plans with friends now".

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6 months ago

And in this case, it was being done by people protesting the building of a mosque! It was obviously targeted harassment, this woman is just playing dumb to stoke up hatred.

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6 months ago

bottom line: we (liberals, lefties, anti-racists, pro-trans, et all) simply cannot accept the implicit premise that fascists are the authentic brits, that they have the right to be heard & we do not, that any disagreement must be solved by us listening to them

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7 months ago

But if they get just a bit more racist, they'll definitely start winning over some of those Reform voters. I mean, it didn't work for the Tories and Labour's popularity is currently abysmal, but all they need is a smidge more racism and it'll definitely turn around for them.

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7 months ago
Screenshot of a tweet dril that reads, "turning a big dial that says 'Racism' on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right".

Labour continues to twiddle with the racism dial, I see.

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7 months ago

Oh, you're a weirdo libertarian. This makes a lot more sense now. And bold of you, I think, to use "millions of more people should have died during the pandemic" as an argument for it. Good luck in your Mad Max fantasies, I'm sure you definitely won't be one of the serfs.

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7 months ago

When will the conservative (and to be honest, often also liberal) parties of Europe realise there's no point on the racism dial where you're racist enough to win the Reform/AfD/etc. voters but not so racist that you disgust everyone else?

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7 months ago

Why would you look at what the UK tried here and want to copy it? It failed on every front - cost hundreds of millions, managed to deport exactly 4 people (all volunteers), was never popular with the public, and did nothing to attract voters away from our far-right party. Also, morally abhorrent!

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7 months ago
Germany’s new willingness to lead Europe’s anti-immigration front removes one key obstacle preventing European countries from enacting policy proposals that were until recently deemed beyond the pale. Those include plans to deport migrants to third countries and to process asylum claims outside the EU, copying the U.K.’s failed Rwanda scheme, which Merz previously praised as “something we could emulate.”

Absolutely revolting that this is becoming normalized as a policy
www.politico.eu/article/germ...

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7 months ago

You're joking, right? What's the point of the state if not to care for its population? What's the advantage of not locking down that outweighs the (very many) lives saved?

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7 months ago

Similarly, I can't imagine licking Francium would go well for you either - it's an alkali metal, extremely radioactive and it's usually only found inside uranium ore.

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7 months ago

Also, what are they talking about? Mario literally dressed in a tuxedo and proposed to Peach in Mario Odyssey. Their relationship is chaste, but it's clearly romantic!

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7 months ago

And with @lexaloffle.bsky.social's recent updates to Picotron, I've just released what I'm broadly considering the 'finished' version. It now does everything I wanted it to (and more). I'm not ruling out more updates, but happy with what I've achieved with it!

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7 months ago
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Strawberry Src v1.2.2

I've realised I've not posted about Strawberry Src here - I've created a code/text file editor for #picotron, and you can find it here: www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=148...

It's a bit of a down-scope from SpaghettiCode, instead more like Picotron's inbuilt editors but with new QoL features.

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7 months ago

Exactly! It is one of the simplest things, no cost, absolute minimal need to accept someone's identity. There is no world in which someone is happy for a trans woman to use the women's bathroom, but finds calling her 'she' a step too far. It's a nonsense position.

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7 months ago

These Discworld QOTDs got me to start reading these books again after not having read one since I was a kid. I just wanted to say thanks for that. Pratchett was such an incredible author.

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