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

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!

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/

also wow, the colors of this shirt go extremely well with abu space

i actually taped my phone to the wall to take this because my arms aren't long enough to counter selfie distortion, and a mirror selfie would reverse the text

hee, it finally came in..! ^^

not to mention i legit keep year-long goals as resolutions, but they're squishy enough that there's no pressure when the year is about to end

that lets me get excited for the things i want to do for my next resolution!

usually they're skill based, but i've at least dabbled in every practice that i wanted to get good at--so this time i'm planning something social!

if things go as well as they have for my other resolutions, maybe 2019 is really the year i get serious and break out of my shell!

december to me always has both this cold blizzardy aesthetic, mixed with the comfy and cozy feel of the things that happen during it in a juxtaposition of some seriously good vibes

holidays, my birthday, new year's, an arts and crafts festival, and finally expunging all my fatigue and burnout from the year

this time around, i'm even visiting someone in a place i've never been before!

it's so close to december, my absolute favorite month, and i'm getting excited!

i always somehow manage to negotiate it off, and i've got lots of plans before the end of the year

sometimes, enemy encounter themes are *so* my jam

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QQrsJCUcHZQ

tfw your pun is so subtle everyone thinks it's a typo

need for speed 3: hot fursuit

literally entire files looked like this