Brian Swetland
@swetland
Writes the codes. Recovering OS Engineer (BeOS, HiptopOS, Android, LK, Fuchsia). Embedded systems hacker. Hobbyist Digital Designer. Player of video games, tabletop games, D&D, etc. fediverse: @swetland@chaos.social
Also fun are extremely detailed and lovingly curated game/publisher specific resources like Dustloop: www.dustloop.com/w/GGST/Unika #Gaming #FightingGames
The Fighting Game Glossary is a fascinating world of genre-specific jargon. I've never really interacted with fighting games beyond a few minutes of extremely casual (and ineffective) play here or there over the years, so this is all new to me and fun to explore. glossary.infil.net #FightingGames
The Science Saru adaptation of Ghost in the Shell is off to a solid start. I'm liking the gremlin energy and fun facial expressions Kusanagi has (something earlier adaptations didn't carry over from the manga) and also these casual outfits (and the grain effect that evokes 90's cel-painted anime).
Hacking on web frontend goop for a little project to organize media files. Sort of a cross between a personal image board and photo gallery. Finally wired up some fancier upload UX. This clip from before I added drag-and-drop support and removing items from the upload list as uploads complete.
New Satisfactory (1.2) playthrough has now entered the start of the main phase of the game... Tier 3 goodies unlocked, existing production lines running on 210MW of biofuel power, about to set off in search of coal to upgrade to more robust power infrastructure and get steel production underway...
Taking a more modern variant of this test that explores the 6 personality types via (excellent) girls band anime!
Dishonored 2 already passes by those rules, but I think it deserves bonus points for witches having tea on a chandelier. (I love all forms of environmental storytelling)
Umi vs Mokona. Magic Knight Rayearth. Episode 9 #Anime #MagicKnightRayearth #Mokona
I remember doodling with one of these flowchart templates when I was a kid (I think it was my mother's, from a COBOL course she took in college), and it never crossed my mind that IBM would have a whole *manual* about it, but of course they do. bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/gene... #ComputingHistory
Oh! I never knew there was a *manual* for it! bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/gene...
Zero Parades: For Dead Spies 31 - Superbloc, Baby www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7GG... #Gaming #Soundtrack #ZeroParades
"Tiny creatures peer from plastic capsules, their freedom left to chance." #Gaming #ZeroParades #ZeroParadesForDeadSpies
Took me a moment to realize that was an actual donut and not a donut burger... a socal delicacy involving in-n-out and krispy kreme that a coworker once introduced me to which is surprisingly tastier than one might suspect.
A couple hours into Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, and I am enjoying this cold war spy disaster (the protagonist is pretty clearly no George Smiley) built around Disco Elysium mechanics. #Gaming #ZeroParades
Two extremes of spellcasting in Witch Hat Atelier. #Manga #WitchHatAtelier
Well this sure brings back memories. It runs a lot faster in DOSBOX than on the 10MHz 512KB Dual-360K-Floppy XT clone I originally ran it on when I was a kid. Disk Images: archive.org/details/borl... Manuals: archive.org/details/bits... archive.org/details/bits... #Borland #TurboC #Nostalgia
The "Grimoire Edition" hardcover of Witch Hat Atelier is a really nice book. Very nice paper, printing, and binding. The second and third volumes are planned for August and November this year, at which point that'll cover the first 9 original manga volumes. #Manga #WitchHatAtelier
Ah, the trick appears to be using the curses windowing system and some various OPTIONS to adjust things a bit.
30 lines of code added to the emulator later, I now have per-function percentage-of-total-instructions-executed stats, which is fun. Here's the before-and-after for adding a hashtable to string interning, speeding up compiling the compiler by 20% or so. Formatted IO writes are now in the lead.
This week's Witch Hat Atelier just raised the bar again. 23 minutes of fantastic animation, ranging from epic action scenes to little character moments. It's a joy seeing this manga get such a spectacular anime adaptation. #Anime #WitchHatAtelier #Δ帽子
Well, we're definitely back! Mui still doesn't like water, no surprises there. #Gaming #PlanetOfLana2
