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Read an article today about why Americans think alcohol has health benefits and it's apparently another "well the French are healthy and they do X so it's healthy to do X."

So here's your periodic reminder that France (and Italy, and Sweden, and Japan, and basically every country you've seen in a "this country is so healthy, what's their secret?" headline) has universal health care.

The secret is access to health care. It's always access to health care.

trying to set up nes development environment. struggling with makefiles again

rebranding computers as “phones” was a bad idea

begrudgingly dragging myself out of bed three hours too early because i cant get back to sleep

whats the state of the art in accurate nes emulation (e.g. for development purposes) these days

@pup_hime dont forget the crypto shills with names like "shitman_eth"

@deejvalen you're right... luke from streets would want me to have serenity to accept the things i can't change. in his honor i will have a big glass of ice without any water and steel myself for the wait

linux kernel dev help :boostsPorFavor:​ 

helo :blobcat:

i am trying to find a mentor to help me write a little ALSA/USB kernel driver for my little one-off diy midi interface thing and could use a mentor to figure out how to make it meow my midi commands.

i've touched C projects but the kernel's size is very intimidating so some guidance would go a long way!

:blobcat::boostsPorFavor:​​ :blobcat:

@deejvalen i mean it's my fault, i ordered it on the friday before a federal holiday weekend, so it's only just today preparing to ship. still grumpy about it tho

grump... at this rate im not gonna get my copy of newzeld until next week

the obvious solution here is to just put a headphone jack in your goddamn devices, but we're in the not having nice things era

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@Zauberin i mean it might just be that mine are cheap yeah. but it really sucks

given the prevalence of bluetooth headphones in this day and age, is there a way to make streaming video (e.g. youtube and twitch) play on a delay so the video matches up with the approx. 1 second delayed audio

Today I've written about lighting in Shield Cat, and how we can use various effects to bring out the uniqueness of each area and turn the ordinary into the extraordinary. This one's got lots of pictures and videos!

#indiedev #gamedev #gamemaker

blog.cyansorcery.com/entry/col

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