Goldkin

@goldkin

Dragon, otherkin, occasional writer and artist. Computers and infosec sometimes. Also on Masto. No NFTs, no genAI. Avatar by Natsuakai, header by CoffeeDragon. Main accounts: and

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Goldkin@goldkin· Jul 1

Still getting things uploaded, but here is my Art Fight card for this year! Fight me. artfight.net/~Goldkin

Art Fight card for Goldkin. I'm on Team Mystery btw!

Text reads:
Team Mystery
User: Goldkin!
I attack: Creatures like you! <3

Featured Characters:
Pictured left to right: Ipsum/Lorem, Dusk, Lamplight, Itun, and Grendle

Characters I have:
Underlined: Feral, Anthro, Monster, Wyrm

A dragon pawprint obscures the lower left portion of the card, as if it were hand paints pressed into the image.

Goldkin@goldkin· Jul 1

The part that floors me is the data is just... there, like with Covid. You can see the impact in real time on Portwatch (which Wikipedia tipped me off to): portwatch.imf.org/pages/cc317b... I know it's an unreality bubble contradicting observable reality, but you can explain it in one graph:

A graph illustrating YTD shipping calls in the Strait of Hormuz. A clear dropoff is shown during March of 2026, with a small incline forming towards the recent end of the chart. Credit: Portwatch

Goldkin@goldkin· Jun 13

Bsky did a very special thing to me with this post:

Goldkin@goldkin· Jun 8

Feels like we've come full circle on an old classic (with apologies for the poor scrape from archive):

An image of VG Cats #223, by Scott Ransoomair, titled "Guassian Blur"

Panel text reads:
1. Today we'll be demonstrating just how next generation graphics are created. Let's go hit some weak points shall we?
2. This is an example of last generation graphics. Kinda hard to make out but otherwise good. (Speech bubble: Woo! Guinea Pig!)
3. Now let's bump that up to HD and put some anti-aliasing on there. (Hey I've got features!)
4. Now for realism. (Brown?) Yep! Haven't you heard? Realism is brown.
5. But that's not all. Let's darken things up for even more realism. (Great, now it's hard to see and brown.) (This isn't conducive to gaming.)
6. Then for the final touch, some bloom. (Well, this is kinda nice.)
7. Not real yet? More bloom! (Uh, little bright.) Oh we're not done yet.
8. More! More! MORE! (Ow! Ow! OW!)
9. SHAZAM! (GUUUH!)
10. All done. Technology sure is impressive. (And painful.)

Copyright 2007 by Scott Ransoomair
www.vgcats.com (note: at this writing the site is no longer online)

Goldkin@goldkin· May 23

An image of R. Dorothy Wayneright, from the anime Big O. Yes this is a topical joke, purely because that show has mechs in it.

Goldkin@goldkin· May 8

I also got a squeak from @henryjdoe.bsky.social not that long ago! Hecking love this so much. 💜

Goldkin@goldkin· May 2

I'm Adala Abhorsen on Seraph! I'm unsubbed currently (I mostly do story and crafter things), but will be back for Evercold. 💜

A green-haired hyur facing left relative to the camera. They are wearing a Garlean hoodie and holding a neon umbrella. A carbuncle earring can be seen on their ear. An inn room in Limsa Lominsa can be seen in the background.

Goldkin@goldkin· Apr 11

Approximately Up is a very good videogame (the demo, anyway)

A whiteboard taped to the side of a ship hull, with the game's moon in the background. An illustration of my dragon screaming "Aaaaaaaaaa!!!" is sketched on the whiteboard.

A forward-facing shot of a ship, with a cargo container and another player seen towards the top. Mountains and grass frame the shot, with a corona and pinpoint of the game's sun in the background.

Another whiteboard, with a sketch of my dragon saying "Up??? (Instructions unclear)". The word "Hi" appears in the upper right.

The panels in the upper right read "Altoids", "Delta Eeves", and "Velociraptors", with various data readouts. An unrelated tooltip appears in the lower left.

Goldkin@goldkin· Apr 6

lol.

Error message, from shortly after trying to post this. The error reads:

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Goldkin@goldkin· Apr 6

@birdoflight.pmd.social This legit made us laugh during this weekend's AP, great work. <3

A screenshot from Zelda: The Wind Waker, with a Samus model modded in where Link should be (model credit: Bird of Light).

Samus is colored similarly to the Gravity Suit in various versions of that series. Samus is wielding what should be the Skull Hammer, the model of which has been replaced by a Chozo statue.

Goldkin@goldkin· Apr 4

Also here is the text issue I had mentioned before!

Goldkin@goldkin· Apr 4

Whoa, well, that's kinda playable. Flashing lights warning! (I have not reloaded yet, this is immediately after I spammed "A" to get past the cutscenes)

Goldkin@goldkin· Apr 4

However! Upon exit the Misty Crystal Cave Entrance card is now stuck overlaying everything. The cutscenes after exiting the dungeon are still playing below it and the interface works to progress! I did not test this earlier. Similar problem maybe? Will see if it clears after I save/reload.

Goldkin@goldkin· Apr 4

1. It does the pictured. This is just the first two lines of dialog, but it does this for the entire text sequence. 2. The partner cutscene played (paraphrase "erff, this is hard"), no Malfestio. It returned me to gameplay, and the menus were audibly working, but the screen remained black.

Goldkin@goldkin· Mar 18

So hear me out:

An image of the default calendar in Dwarf Fortress (pulled from Google, but image credit the classic version of the game)

The months read: Granite, Slate, Felsite, Hematite, Malachite, Galena, Limestone, Sandstone, Timber, Moonstone, Opal, and Obsidian

Goldkin@goldkin· Feb 26

Honestly? Yeah. (Source: UFO 50 Mini and Max, specifically one of the walkthroughs on Steam)

Screenshot from UFO 50 Mini and Max. Multiple dust bunnies and an armored character pictured around Mini.

Goldkin@goldkin· Feb 25

Hell yeah. Got it at least to 1998, from the ADOM forums: usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=...

Text reads:

Thread Overview ▼
● marcel.mekking Sep 24, 1998 20:00 UTC
#1
marcel.mekking
Sep 24, 1998 20:00 UTC
i was just reading through replies of the "to backup save, or not to backup
save" post, (it's about 10 days old now) that i had cached, and one reply
from Daniel Reid said this:
"What I mean to say is that, first of all, I do _not_ have a problem with
savefile cheating. What _does_ bother me is people saying it is not
cheating. It is, pure and simple."
I have been playing the game with savescumming for 2 weeks or so now, just
to see a little more about the ADOM world, i do still regulary start new
games though, but now, this opened my eyes: Savescumming IS cheating, and
then i realized how much i'm against cheating in other games, Diablo made me
that way, and so, just a few minutes ago, i decided to follow the right path
again, *phew* almost fell victime to the dark side.
You know, it's strange, on one forum i'm telling newbies not to cheat, and
here i'm the newbie who's told not to cheat cause it ruins the fun.
-Bringer
and as i use to say in Diablo: Legit rulez

Goldkin@goldkin· Jan 30

@unormal.bsky.social Also, the UI downscales quite nicely for this case, funnily enough

Goldkin@goldkin· Jan 30

Zoom-out of this little cursed experiment. Plan was to try Dwarf Fortress on the device, but I got a little sidetracked.

Goldkin@goldkin· Jan 30

@unormal.bsky.social I know you've been working on the smartphone release, but hear me out: Qud for 3DS

Caves of Qud playing on a new 2DS XL, via Moonlight client and Sunshine game server

Goldkin@goldkin· Jan 27

Can confirm it's a good time!

Image of a New 2DS XL with custom stickers (by Shep!).

The top screen shows a suspended instance of Etrian Mystery Dungeon, while the bottom screen shows an array of applications overlaying a custom (PMD-inspired) wallpaper

Goldkin@goldkin· Jan 25

I learned a thing! (No sound, flashing lights warning!)

Goldkin@goldkin· Nov 30

BRC is a good videogame.

Minimalist screenshot from the game Bomb Rush Cyberfunk.

A custom model of an orange-yellow (goldenrod) anthropomorphic dragon is shown facing away from the camera, with a storefront in the background. The storefront's sign reads "Snack Bark" twice, with a Scoops sign to the dragon's left.

Goldkin@goldkin· Nov 20

(🎨: @morteraphan.bsky.social, since the original thread cannot be linked)

Text boxes read:

Panel 1:
"So you're not offended by all these vampire stereotypes and costumes?"
"What costumes?"

Panel 2:
"Show it again, show it!"
"Blah blah blah!"

Laughs (ha-ha) are shown in the background.

Panel 3:
"... Ah, those costumes. Those are real vampires."
"Huh?"
"Yeah, they do that every year."

Panel 4:
"Why am I not even surprised?"
"Vampires."

The layout text reads: "Original Characters from "The Other Side" Project
Morteraphan '25

Goldkin@goldkin· Oct 22

@tkingfisher.com Found these perusing our local bookseller, and figured I'd share with permission. These are also up on their website (eg, www.thirdplacebooks.com/book/9781250... ), but nothing beats the sincerity of a handwritten note

A card tucked into a bookseller shelf from Third Place Books. The card reads:

STAFF PICK
The Hollow Places -- T. Kingfisher

[T]his book truly terrified me. "Pray they are hungry" was a spine chilling concept of this book and Kingfisher wasn't done there. An amazing read that will keep you up all night, either out of a need to finish the book or out of delightful fear.

- Shere

A card tucked into a bookseller shelf from Third Place Books. The card reads:

STAFF PICK
House with Good Bones -- T. Kingfisher

I am an enormous fan of T.Kingfisher's fantasies, her tales are filled with humor and love. However, her roots like in Southern gothic horror, roots so deep that her characters' ties to land and family stretch far enough back that they spring from something not necessarily of this world.

If Sam digs deeply enough in the garden, she may just uncover her family's dark history.

- Deborah

Goldkin@goldkin· Sep 23

Congrats on 2k! And sure, I could throw one in:

Unity view of a model designed for me by CudaCore, at medium thinness settings

Goldkin@goldkin· Sep 18

It even has multiple hard mode settings!

Goldkin@goldkin· Aug 22

Captured this from the main thread earlier. I need to print this out and frame it:

Two separate threads from three authors (notgagarin, heku96, and ioshi) that read in sequence:

> OMG THEY'D NEVER HEARD OF JIRA 💀
>
> they were living the DREAM

> wtf is a jira?

> Pray you must never find out, Heku.

Goldkin@goldkin· Jul 30

Psst. Continuing the trend of "you get one too" 💜

A Flipnote 3D image of kobupy facing the viewer, in various shadings of reds and yellows

Goldkin@goldkin· Jul 29

Can't attack spectators currently, but I did a thing! Will add it there eventually. Scene: immediately before two copper nuggets, a shortbow, three boomrose arrows, two witchwood bark, and a pair of zetachrome pumps mysteriously disappeared from the homes of Joppa that day, never to be seen again.