Douglas Fraker

Cool. Hope it helps.

I barely did any nesdev this year. Hope to get back into it in 2026.

#retrogamedev
#nesdev

What a strange coincidence, that SNAP benefits were cut the day before election day.

My wife and I agree that Starbucks coffee doesn't taste good. Roasted too long. Tastes burnt and bitter.

I'm told they do that on purpose because their most popular drinks have like 500 calories of sugar added, and you can't taste the coffee flavor if it isn't strong

Never noticed this, but the graphics on that snow below his feet are top notch for a NES game

(G.I.Joe 1991)

Has anyone played the Angry Video Game Nerd 8-bit game?

How is it?

Is Maytag German for May Day?

Growing a beard is like...
day 2, maybe forgot to shave
day 4, are you doing alright buddy?
day 7, yikes, maybe we should do an intervention
day 14, maybe he's growing a beard
month 2, ah, it is a beard
month 6, settle down there Grizzly Adams
month 12, yeah..we should've scheduled that intervention

Found this is storage. Total Annihilation. I played this game obsessively back in 1997. We had several people on a LAN and played multiplayer battles. This was the very first game I learned to mod.

YouTube video by Black Valve how to lift a heavy CRT TV

Here's a guy lifting a CRT TV. This is what it's like.

youtube.com/shorts/p-t82...

Maybe even 3-4 times as heavy as it seems in this video.

Like, not kidding, a normal CRT can weight over 100 pounds (45 kg).

YouTube video by Verizon At Verizon, it works that way

This ad made me laugh out loud. The actress is trying to act like this CRT is heavy, but real CRTs are like twice as heavy as she's making it look. And the weight is like 90% on the screen side. And you would not lift it shoulder high. Ever.

youtu.be/LiVseDxOVSc

Beware. In Pennsylvania people are receiving election fliers in the mail with false information.

You can't trust newspapers, You can't trust TV or radio, you can't trust ads on YouTube and you can't trust anything mailed to you.

It's not paranoia if they are really out to get you.

Also, I had to relearn how to type git commands into a command line, because I was having real trouble today. Had to generate a new token and read a bunch of documents.

I thought this would take 10 minutes and it took over an hour to troubleshoot.

I updated my famitone githubs, making it compatible with Dn-Famitracker.

I used Visual Studio and it auto formatted every line, so looking at the changes it looks like hundreds of changes, but really I only changed like 5 lines of code, at lines 520, 580, and 1990

TAD works off of MML files. Are you exporting MML from Furnace Tracker?

If I was a little better at programming, I would make my own tools.

#SNESdev

Personally, I really, really don't like the current music software / tools for making SNES game music.

I feel like BRR samples should be separate and able to be dynamically swapped, such as for game sounds (not BG music)

And the music editor should be more user friendly.

"Our security will protect you 365 days a year"

Ads for medicines are crazy. Like "ask your dr about this new cholesterol pill. Side effects include spontaneous combustion, bleeding from the eyes, demonic possession, existential dread, nightmares that you can never wake from, and Zombie bladder syndrome"

while showing you happy people on bikes

Sometimes I'll have random thoughts like "maybe I'll start my own podcast" and then I'll remember that I don't have free time and I don't like to talk that much.

Unusually hot this September.

I bet this is going to be another year where it goes 85, 85, 85, 85, 85, 85, 50

with almost no days near 70

a picture of a cartoon character with the words totally radical ALT: a picture of a cartoon character with the words totally radical

Any time someone complains about the radical left, this is what I picture.

Radical!

I sure hope they make the new iPhones 0.5 mm thinner... said nobody

idea for a book. a dystopian future where people get microchips in their brains to enhance their work ability, a chip that is a subscription service that becomes more and more expensive, so much that people are unable to pay, and their chips are deactivated and they are unable to work without it.

true

a man with a beard and a hat is saying `` i have no memory of this place . '' ALT: a man with a beard and a hat is saying `` i have no memory of this place . ''

When I look at code I wrote over a year ago.

#gamedev

They should make Pepperoni Bits, like Bacon Bits. It's already a dry meat product that is shelf stable. Want to spice up your potato? Pepperoni Bits.

who's with me?

This is a million $ idea. Guaranteed.

I really like the Dr Mario song - Fever. I would put it in my top 20 NES songs.

You ever notice, when they make US maps, that they show Hawaii as like 6 islands. But in reality, Hawaii keeps going on for another 1000 miles with 137 islands.