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
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2606. Weird Unicode Math Symbols
title text: U+2A0B ⨋ Mathematicians need to calm down
(https://xkcd.com/2606)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2606
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Dragons who are librarians
-Always know of some strange, obscure tome that is exactly the book you need (regardless of whether it's the book you want.)
-Return books late or damaged at your peril, though.
-When you're walking through the immense shelves, and you see something in the dim light ahead hanging down in front of the books. You approach. Suddenly, as you get close, you realize it's a huge, scaly tail. You follow it with your gaze up to the top of the shelf to see a pair of glowing eyes staring back at you.
"You'll want to take a right at the end of this row," the dragon says. "Then go three rows down and turn left." The tail retracts back up into the shadows above the books, and with a sudden, fluid movement, the dragon is gone.
You never actually told the dragon what you were looking for.
-"Oh you don't need a library card." *growling chuckle* "I will remember your scent."
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Sometimes SMBC hits so hard that you have to stare at a wall for a few minutes after.
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the reason I split it into four emotes is so you can !howdy in my chat and my bot makes a big cowboy
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Princess Farmer is launching Mar. 31!! i wrote most of the music!! including this trailer! aaaaaaaa!!
please check it out
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FTP: Fluffy Tail Protocol
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I guess I never really shared this here, but I got this fun tarot card commission from hr. on Twitter.
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My mother sent me this. She said her coworker got a 3D printer, and that it’s a rock-type Eeveelution.
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so we really wanted a symbol that communicates the overpowering aura of an all-consuming, impossibly powerful force that has changed and guided the course of countless lives and brought a dying world to the end of history
and next to the trademark symbol, you can see the elden ring logo too
re: elden ring hot take, with mild spoilers
I mean, the game is good, I think? But this specific thing feels so completely alien to me somehow.
elden ring hot take, with mild spoilers
The weird thing about scaling up the Dark Souls model of "everything wants you dead" to a larger continent is it produces this weird uncanny valley in which absolutely nothing else is happening in the setting until you arrive.
No one is knitting, or writing, or just generally thinking about what to do with their long existence; they're just shambling along until you somehow happen to arrive, and their only response beyond brief snatches of dialog is to choose carefully practiced violence.
And I mean, that made sense when we're talking about a cursed undead kingdom in which everyone, including the castle guard, is slowly losing their sapience to carnal instincts subservient to a primal power. But in this setting, it... really does not make much sense, and it feels off in a significant way.
It's like going to Disney World, except all of the attractions specifically want to kill you, and your only agency in the experience is Y to talk or any other face button to violence. And even with playing most of the other games in the series to date, I find myself having trouble relating to this experience.
homebrew ddr pad, build photos
4. Everything in this is user-replaceable and buildable from first principles (including, technically, the sensors and IC, but sourcing those is waaaay easier), meaning if a component fails or a manufacturer closes shop, the thing will continue to be serviceable with small repairs.
Wish I could say the same about most of my other hardware, tbh.
homebrew ddr pad, build photos
When the sensor is activated (and its resistance is lowered), electricity follows down that path. Otherwise, it terminates to ground.
It works pretty well on a breadboard, but a PCB that parallelizes these better would make for a tidier build.
3. The code provided by teejusb/fsr supports an arbitrary number of sensors. You can scale this up as far as your controller has analog pins and build some absolutely complex sensing kit with this.
homebrew ddr pad, build photos
The pad now works, and it's been super comfy to use (even compared to rev 1).
Some build observations:
1. The keeyees pro micro we used only has 9 analog pins, and 8 of them were purposed for the build. My wiring shorted two together somehow, but the build continues to work happily despite it.
2. The build guide doesn't tell you this, but each circuit is very simple. Each analog pin is connected to two circuits. (more)
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homebrew ddr pad, build photos
Revision 2 of the pad, which supports doubles, is coming along well.
It's smaller than a regulation pad on the edges, but should be super comfy for exercise once we connect it up.
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thinking about the old ptcg deck where you ran one mewtwo and 39 psychic energies
you could make mewtwo invulnerable every turn, but doing so meant you couldn't do anything productive
and at the time, the opening hand rules were "if your opening hand contains no basic pokemon, reveal it. shuffle your hand into your deck and draw 7 cards. your opponent draws a card. repeat this process until your hand contains a basic pokemon."
so as long as that happened at least once, your opponent has drawn more than you
play the mewtwo and repeatedly make it invulnerable until your opponent decked out
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
