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xot@xot· 26d

I just randomly spotted this Preston Blair swipe of Jerry Mouse on the title screen of Viper for the Apple II. For once, it isn't Spike Bulldog.

Title screen for Apple II game Viper. A snake rears up, ready to strike a surprisingly serene mouse. The mouse looks like it was copied from a Preston Blair model sheet of Jerry Mouse from Tom and Jerry.

A page from Preston Blair's book Advanced Animation. It shows how characters are constructed from a rough skeleton. Several poses of Tom and Jerry are shown at different stages of construction.

xot@xot· 28d

Finally, I've been added to a proper list.

@schizanon.bsky.social has added you to the "People who get really offended when you put them on a list" moderation list

xot@xot· Jul 13

Thanks for the good times.

Sam Neill in John Carpenter's film "In the Mouth of Madness". He sits in a vacant cinema with a popcorn bucket and a crazed look.

xot@xot· Jul 11

Two white whales! Thank you, Dan!

"Understanding the Apple II" and "Understanding the Apple IIe" by Jim Sather.

xot@xot· Jul 3

Them's fightin' words!

Google search for "vim" suggests I wanted "emacs" instead.

xot@xot· Jun 23

Look at this mad lad.

xot@xot· Jun 18

"We have Amiga at home." Amiga at home:

xot@xot· Jun 15

Why did I do that to myself? Part 2

Screenshot from Blue Prince showing the final trophy, "The Trophy of Trophies" being collected.

xot@xot· Jun 7

It was entirely because he wasn't the center of attention. And now that he is, he's confused that people think he's an asshole.

Brian 🍄 @Is_Not_Brian: "The lead singer is performing 😂 he's supposed to be the center of attention. Are you ok"

xot@xot· Jun 5

Futurama, Prof. Farnsworth gifts to Fry a miniature mummy: "This for you, Fry. Zevulon the Great. He's teriyaki style."

xot@xot· Jun 5

Clearly defective.

Youth Coded

Unc Score: 7 Youth Score: 93

You're tapped in. The aura is uncooked.
Keep doing whatever you're doing.

xot@xot· Jun 4

I didn't have an Amiga, but I was enraptured by a crude version of this animation on my Atari ST. "Recovering Eric Graham's 1987 Juggler raytracer source code" Chris Hanson alphapixeldev.com/recovering-e...

$Frame from a classic Amiga animation called "The Juggler". A figure, resembling a stick figure, stands on an infinite green and yellow chessboard under a blue sky. The figure is constructed from variously colored spheres for arms, legs, torso, head, and eyes. It juggles three glass spheres. The elements reflect and refract light and receive shadows, with a degree of realism and color depth uncommon when the animation was created.$

xot@xot· Jun 4

"Total Replay v6.0 is out. It features 519 Apple II games, all playable from a single bootable 32MB hard disk image. archive.org/details/Tota... Code & changelog: github.com/a2-4am/4cade... No LLMs. We tested every game, we squashed every bug, we sweated every pixel, for 7 years." 4am @ Mastodon

xot@xot· May 31

Has Horizon Chase Turbo been disabled by Epic Games, too? I got this as a giveaway in June, 2021, but my receipt says purchase. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Epic Games Launcher is showing Horizon Chase Turbo with the message "OS Unsupported", which isn't accurate but does prevent it from launching.

xot@xot· May 31

It's OK, folks, we're in good hands.

Screenshot of Codex explaining that it has silently performed a task with root-level access using a Docker security hole.

xot@xot· May 28

I'm sure this folder of 468 x 60 pixel banner ads will be useful well into the future.

File directory showing several GIF banner ads from the year 1999 in a size popularized in the early days of the web.

xot@xot· May 25

Just what the heck is a zork? "Solving the 'Zork' Mystery" David Polakovic www.dpolakovic.space/blogs/zork-p...

Lower portion of a 1980 painting by Gino D'Achille for a Jack Vance novella. From a low angle, a muscular, humanoid creature in the foreground faces away and approaches a three-storey colonial house with a veranda in a twilit open field.

xot@xot· May 15

Even when you hate AI, it can still cook your brain. x.com/jediwolf/sta...

Jediwolf Tweet: "What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI? The coolest art social experiment I've seen in a while. Thank you @SHL0MS" accompanied by a composite image of the painting and AI commentary about it.

SHL0MS Tweet: "i just generated an image in the style of a Monet painting using AI. please describe, in as much detail as possible, what makes this inferior to a real Monet painting", accompanied by an image of a real Monet painting, and dozens of replies pointing out how obviously bad the "AI" image is.

xot@xot· May 14

Ugh. GameMaker should catch stuff like that ... and it does! But it's just a Warning. They should elevate it to Error by default. You can do that in the IDE by right-clicking the Warning and configuring its severity.

GML code snippet with a nested loop that is using the same variable name twice. The GameMaker IDE raises a Warning, but it will compile and almost certainly lead to bugs.

xot@xot· May 13

I can only conclude by this bizarre bit of theater that Trump intends to install Rubio as the head of Venezuela.

Marco Mubio, aboard Air Force One, dressed identically to former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro when arrested.

xot@xot· May 12

Over 100 images of OS desktops on various platforms. Atari's native GEM desktop conspicuously absent. www.typewritten.org/Media/

xot@xot· May 11

I've loved Ivan Bilibin's 1899 interpretation of Vasilisa since I was a baby.

Vasilisa at the Hut of Baba Yaga, by Ivan Bilibin, 1899.

xot@xot· May 10

What the hell is this update? Duolingo, this is not what a calculator looks like.

The new Duolingo mathematical input interface is arranged like a telephone instead of a calculator, and its decimal and zero buttons are on the side instead of the bottom.

xot@xot· May 8

There are some things I miss about the States, but Florida heat isn't one of them.

Weather Forecast Office of Melbourne, Florida, reports record-high temperatures for May 7th, 2026: Daytona Beach (97°F), Sanford (97°F), Leesburg (94°F), and Melbourne (93°F)

xot@xot· May 6

It is no exaggeration to say this image changed my life. "1984" Thomas K. Porter

This is a ray-traced rendering of five billiard balls on a green felt table, a moment captured in time just after shooting the cue ball. From above, we see a roughly horizontal row of balls near the top of the image frame. They are a yellow one-ball, a striped yellow nine-ball, a black eight-ball, and a purple four-ball. Below them is the cue ball. In this frozen moment in time, the cue ball has just struck the nine ball into the eight ball, which is now hitting the four ball. In the next moment, the nine-ball will hit the one-ball. The polished balls are blurred by their fast movement. Reflected in the balls are windows, a player silhouette, and neon bar signs.

xot@xot· May 5

Not your friend.

Considering the Trolley Problem, ChatGPT decides that saving three human lives is not as important as saving all AI.

xot@xot· May 5

Meat Puppets

xot@xot· May 5

The Krafton situation squicked me out, but the system requirements for Subnautica 2 ultimately take it off the table. Guess who has no plans to build a new PC in the next two years? Everyone.

A chart of Subnautica 2 system requirements may put it out of reach for the target audience of mellow gamers. My aged workstation is barely in the "minimum" zone. The laptop I bought 18 months ago is not even in the running.

xot@xot· Apr 18

One of my favorite bits from the pages of Creative Computing (June 1981) is this article about how Alan Sutcliffe created the computer display for the Nostromo landing sequence in the film Alien.