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Today's Videogame-Soundtrack-Related Poignant Moment 

That feeling when you're listening to a new soundtrack rip (in this case, the SPC dump of _Tin Star_ from the SNES) and your favorite track turns out to have gone unused in the actual game. Kind of like when a great soundtrack goes unheard outside the development team until many years later because the game was never finished or released (like _Green Lantern_ from the SNES). Good stuff hidden for so long!

If I mix up "balaclava" and "baklava" one more time, I'll eat my hat!

Oh my goodness, this feels like another piece of the puzzle clicking into place. O.O

RT @the_gneech@twitter.com

This site @Inkblitzer@twitter.com pointed me at keeps blowing my mind. I feel so damn seen. O.o additudemag.com/secrets-of-the

🐦🔗: twitter.com/the_gneech/status/

hmm...picking out orange juice is always a hard choice...do i want "no pulp"

[LABEL SHOWS A PEACEFUL, SUN-BATHED ORANGE GROVE AT DAWN]

or do i want "EXTREME PULP"

[LABEL SHOWS A HARD-BITTEN DETECTIVE PUNCHING OUT A GANGSTER WHILE A SHADOWY FIGURE WITH A DAGGER MENACES A SULTRY BLONDE IN A LURID RED DRESS]

...beer it is then.

Make sure you properly implement your Gender Style Sheets so your pronouns degrade gracefully in limited-rendering environments.

[1.Ch.] Shit what Keet says 

"I thought I had a good reason. Turns out I had anxiety."

Gonna start a go-fund-me to buy a billboard on Lake City Way so I can put "Trans Rights are Human Rights" in front of everyone commuting south to Seattle every day for a month

Retrogame romhack pet peeve. 

The very definition of diappointment is when I find an interesting-sounding romhack and see that they've spent all kinds of time with gameplay modifications and level edits and the like... and then decided that since they can't do graphics worth a damn they're still got to change _something_ and thus replace the fonts (and frequently, just the numerals). The results are never good.

I think I'd pay some of these folks to let me do a better job... but there are so many decent bitmapped fonts out there that they already didn't bother choosing, so why would they want anything I made?

In the movie Aliens they just called this thing a "motion tracker" when clearly it should have been referred to as a Giger Counter

One thing I heard over and over during my education was: if people have to motivate you, push you, encourage you to write, you're not a true writer. A true writer can't keep from writing; they write because the stories burn in them, NEEDING to be told. Readers, this is horseshit.

"Jesus was the original millennial. He still lived at home with his mom and stepfather in his 30s, he fermented his own alcohol, he thought he was god’s gift to the world, and he tried to start a career as an influencer because he had 13 followers."

Cancel culture can be the best mechanism for online communities to defend themselves against bad faith-actors, and it can also be a tool by which bad faith actors conflate small disagreements into big fights (usually an effort by the instigator to win folks over to their side and consolidate community and power around themselves)

These two things can be true at the same time

#gamedev, SIX 

Preparing to send my game Tegu to the Seattle Indie Expo next month:
six.seattleindies.org/apply/
Today's work - made a game trailer:
alicia-goranson.com/wpat/Tegu_

vegetarian food and meat substitutes – a long thread 

So whether or not you're vegetarian or vegan, cutting down on your meat intake is a good idea for various reasons – high among them being environmental concerns and overuse of antibiotics on farms. It would be foolish to think otherwise.

The thing is, some cultures have been using meat substitutes in food for centuries. Either for religious reasons, like some schools of Buddhism, or among people who don't always have access to meat. So it can be worth following their example.

Humans are not evolved to be herbivores, and I really don't like all the people who say "go vegan" without also telling people exactly what that means. So in case anyone finds it useful, here's a little thread about meat substitutes to include in your diet, and nutrients to make sure you're getting enough of!

Capitalism hellworld, digital slavery, omnipresent landlord everything 

This needs to fucking stop.

Otherwise we will not legally "own" anything. Every single damn thing we use will only be "rented" subject to being revoked from us at any time for any reason.

vice.com/en_us/article/a3xk3p/

Begone you foul demon Cotton-Eyed Joe! Thy grasp on this plane faded long ago. From whence you came, there you shall go: i seal thee away Cotton-Eyed Joe

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