Crinklewott 💕 @thingywott@awoo.space

success!

though admittedly the palette wasn't in the data file, so i couldn't follow along the extraction of it--it's just a big vector without reason

the way i wanted to *try* and find the palette and extract it turned out to be correct though! it just wasn't anywhere i could possibly do that

i also wrote the flags for each tile into their filenames, since there's no other way to express them meaningfully right now

@wottermelon@snouts.online accurate

because you're basically the GOAT

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz i haven't played Let's Go yet but i definitely know the feel--kanto burnout is real!

it's been long enough that i think i might be fine on that front, but i'll have to see when i finally play it!

that said, the aesthetics are really important to me as well, and they're probably why i extremely liked pokemon emerald when i first played it, and why black 2 was my favorite game in the series

those two games had such nice feels to them

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz strategy is deeply satisfying for me though, and it's interesting the things you come up with in such hardcore limitations

that's where most of my enjoyment in battles come from

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz i'm also purposely not using my mawile, minun, shedinja, and wobbuffet because they're there if i need to get out of trouble

if they go over level 25, i can't use them until everything on my team is at least level 21

this is important because minun's speed, paralysis, and encore are absolutely vital for taking down really hard mons--and mawile can mega-evolve into something that can actually damage things twice its level

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz i like to strategize sometimes, but honestly haven't played much pokemon recently

in alpha sapphire, i decided to do a "large team" run where i would catch every new pokemon i found, and promised myself i wouldn't grind, and also only use the bottom 5 levels of pokemon on my team

i'm currently 7 badges in with a level ~22 team, and every battle is extremely difficult

@noiob splatoon controllers are so pretty

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz yeah! it's so pure, the landscape becomes pretty as well

i know a lot of people who don't like the cold, but a chilly, snowy december just has so many positive associations for me that i just get energized every time it rolls around

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz yeah, it's kinda hard when you move to a new place

hopefully you'll feel more at home and more belonging soon though!

also, getting out of your cage more seems like it could really make things good for you soon! ^^

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz ohhhh! same! december is *so* my jam. i even rambled about it a little while ago because i was getting really excited

https://awoo.space/@thingywott/101136185485639557

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz how about you? ^^

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz pretty good! pretty busy though

december is coming up really soon, and things are really gonna pop off then

@noiob hee. i kind of do, actually!

also, i still really love the aesthetic of celeste
i should pick it up again and try out the b-sides!

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz ohayou, bailey!

@sara oh!! i still have a chance to be the next gordon freeman!

i have such weird associations in my brain

some of them kinda make sense, like maybe i associate "9" with things getting serious, and a particular style of music because video games?

but then there's things like, nand gates remind me of cattle for some reason??

it certainly makes for a wild ride when someone tells me about their day, and my brain goes through wikipedia freefall and lands on wondering who invented street lights or something

i've always wanted to learn how to reverse engineer and analyze data, so i'm super-grateful this exists!

it really helps see what the mindset behind it is--plus doing it in another language just solidifies the hands-on part of all of this

aaaand i've successfully managed to extract images from this binary, like in the post!

i'll work on the palette later, but this is really cool!

@GlitterDisaster@snouts.online goodnight zest..! ^^

oh, i did write a thing to make hexl measure ranges, in case anyone besides me ever needs to do that:

(defun hexl-measure-region ()
"Measure how large the active region is."
(interactive)
(when (region-active-p)
(save-excursion
(let ((point (hexl-current-address)))
(exchange-point-and-mark)
(let ((diff (abs (- point (hexl-current-address)))))
(exchange-point-and-mark)
(message "Range is %d bytes (0x%08x)" diff diff))))))