Crinklewott 💕 @thingywott@awoo.space

@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))))))

soon, i'll conquer you, lisp!

to make things niftier, i've been following along in a language i'm bad at

zachtronics, being the nerdsniping master he is, wrote a "reverse engineering walkthrough" because he hates that i have free time sometimes

http://www.zachtronics.com/yoda-stories/

@noiob ah, that's fair!

i just wasn't sure if you knew something i didn't

@noiob oh?

i mean, i know you can watch the ending themes by clicking a button--but it still skips the intro when it autoplays the next episode

i got over this sometimes by clicking "back" during the credits to get to the show listing, and starting it again