Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space
Dragon. Agender, otherkin, occasional artist and writer, infosec engineer, in about that order. Avatar by Xeirla. Singular they/them preferred.
Also on @Goldkin (meow.social) for follow requests that don't work here.
Joined Aug 2017
nerding about fiction
Reading/rereading through books in the Star Wars Extended Universe (now, Legends) is reminding me just how much of a soft spot I have for mundane stories set in high fantasy/science fiction settings.
Instead of Jedi coming-of-age power fantasies, give me the routine day of a baker, a scrap dealer, or a speeder bike technician on an alien world. What does that look like?
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Our servers have caught up with the demand from our new denizens and account migrations, and I just negotiated a new contract with our hosting provider that has effectively doubled our capacity. 
In other words, ✨Plush✨ City just solved its traffic problem and has plenty of move-in-ready cybrehomes available for any soft friends (or allies of soft friends!) in need of one. 
💜 to folks that put in the work each day and manage to stay sane and good to their users.
If you can, please let your local smaller instance mods know you appreciate them today.
It's valid to be angry when mods in larger instances breach the trust of their users. But reminder: there are plenty of folks that do yeoman's work each day to keep their users safe and handle disputes that you never see. Many of whom are probably feeling caught in the crossfire and undervalued by folks dunking on Fedi after putting in the work.
Reminder that this work is hard. And it's worth it.
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Admin stuff: mastodon.social possible defederation.
So hey one of the mods of mastodon.social has been a low-key Problem for a while and it looks like it is finally boiling over to the point of people starting to seriously consider defederating from it.
I am not taking this step quite yet for dragon.style. I am tempted - the behavior I’m seeing out of this problem mod is well over the line of what I’d normally defederate a smaller instance for!
But if you are on mastodon.social and would like somewhere to move to, and if you are a friend of me or someone on my instance, then get in touch and I can give you an invite code. As far as I know this place is on friendly terms with the furry/queer instances that are moving towards defederation over masto.soc’s mod issues.
vrchat, synths, cyberpunk, pfaf
High density, brutalist neon glow mixed with equal parts nature and ingenuity is an oddly specific vision of reality that we should have right now, and I miss it without it (yet) having come into being.
vrchat, synths, cyberpunk, pfaf
Visited a fully realized cyberpunk world in VRChat yesterday designed by folks in the synth and furry communities there, and I have never experienced such specific nostalgia for a time and place that hasn't existed yet: https://www.vrchat.com/home/launch?worldId=wrld_424c75c2-533c-4922-be0d-cd13c6aa6d6f&instanceId=5268~public
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re: The scariest thing about all the smoke (for me) (this is a content warning ya'll)
re: The scariest thing about all the smoke (for me) (this is a content warning ya'll)
@mawr @Kyresti Since I live by an honest-to-goodness forest: check their water level as the more likely culprit.
Checking on the trees here, there are no signs of them thinking the smoke is autumnal weather... yet. But the smaller ones are terribly thirsty, and in immediate view, only smaller vegetation is feeling that so far.
@Kyresti Kind of, yeah.
I think it helps that the folks running Blaseball aren't as heavily leaning on fan creations for the core work, so much as votes and RNG, while fostering a separate community. Though to be fair, that's kind of how MSPA started off.
If anything, though, I'm reminded a bit more of the game Blood Bowl.
synths in ocarina of time
And for those that prefer video, here's a VOD of my test run: https://m.twitch.tv/videos/729927082
synths in ocarina of time
2020 is a hell year, but at least I can play as a synth in OoT.
Mod by ColBirdstrong on birdsite
Mod link: https://www.deviantart.com/satoshikura/art/Ocarina-of-Time-Synths-844877081
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would you uplift crows? i think i'd uplift crows
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I implemented something that draws sprites onto the Mode 7 layer in software by copying the graphics underneath them and pasting the sprite on top. I tried making them move more smoothly but that didn't quite work out, because that meant re-rendering every sprite every frame and that added up to too much.
#gamedev #snesdev
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Dragon. Agender, otherkin, occasional artist and writer, infosec engineer, in about that order. Avatar by Xeirla. Singular they/them preferred.
Also on @Goldkin (meow.social) for follow requests that don't work here.
Joined Aug 2017
