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The waterfalls in Mega Drive Sonic games are vertically lined in order to make them shimmer on CRT televisions

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github.com/pret/pokered

This is a GitHub repository containing the source code of Pokémon Red and Blue, disassembled and refactored to human-readable (and editable!) asm.

While the code is refactored, its functionality is untouched, and the ROMs you built with this code will be identical to the one that is on US Pokémon Red or Blue cartridge.

It is a really cool and interesting project!

Sometimes you spend an entire day reading pixel art tutorials and studying tilesets from metroidvanias

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OH: "GNU Emacs, which is a sort of hybrid between Windows Notepad, a monolithic-kernel operating system, and the International Space Station."

I pay Verizon a large sum of money every month to send me fucking advertisements for credit cards through their mandatory "My Verizon" app

Having trouble parsing the phrase "literally falling apart Pixel 3", while I type this on my serviceable Pixel 1

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@jk very much agree

I get an email whenever someone I follow on itch.io or bandcamp publishes a new thing, but that's far from ideal, twitter/masto etc are useless for this because it just gets drowned by all the other stuff, blogs+RSS would fit the bill but that obviously hasn't taken off (meaning there are issues to investigate)...

it's also bad for people who produce stuff because the current solution (maintaining multiple social media accounts so the algorithms don't ignore your announcement post when you release something) is just unsustainable

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itd be good if there was a social network for following lots of people who each only actually need to post every 1-5 years, like musicians or animators or whatever, where you don't want to see hourly posts by them but you DO want to keep tabs on them because you love their work. i guess maybe patreon etc. fills that niche? in theory you could just make social network alt-accounts. but nobody really seems to do that and "1 post every 18 months" isn't really how most stuff is supposed to be used

i can't believe jerma casually showed an adult game called Chronicles of Dick Ass. what a sick fuck

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Oh here we go again.

"GDQ is obviously so sterile and forced, you can tell"

Meanwhile when I dropped in at GDQ there were no rules, no visible enforcement except for the guy checking badges at the door.

My briefing for my commentary slot was how to signal for audio to mute my mic. I had free, full control over what I said outside of what's in the same CoC everyone can freely read.

The "A shadow cabal is controlling everyone at GDQ" theory is horse-shit.
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Belarusian anarchists wrote a long read explaining situation in #Belarus in perspective of longer political and social development. Must read - pramen.io/en/2020/08/how-did-t #Elections #ACAB #Anarchism

(To be clear, Shift-JIS is still the clear winner in terms of encodings for Japanese text; I'm just making the observation against UTF-16 in a context where I'm using widechars)

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TIL CJK character codepoints often need 3 bytes to encode in UTF-8, which is significantly worse than the 2 bytes needed for Japanese in UTF-16. No wonder UTF-8 has poor Japanese adoption.

re: uspol, not useful doomerism 

Telling people to vote isn't going to help if Biden wouldn't even be in office before the winter starts and there is mass starvation and homelessness that easily could have been prevented by the federal government. And there's no guarantee an election is even going to happen, or that its results would even change things.

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