Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es

Palette changes for #picotron playground v.8 (arriving tmrw) -- some small tweaks to 16, 23~26 for improved separation & pairings, and the magenta (30) is much brighter.
https://www.lexaloffle.com/dl/wip/picotron_pal_wip_v4.png

Been helping my parents with some computer/phone stuff, and I honestly kind of forgot exactly how opaque (at best) or user-hostile (at worst) the mainstream computing experience is, for most people...

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@rodhilton From a few weeks ago:

YouTube is experimenting with a pop-up message that stops video playback until either your ad blocker is disabled or users sign up for a Premium subscription. https://www.pcmag.com/news/using-an-ad-blocker-youtube-may-refuse-to-play-videos

Now you're poking with power.
#picotron

so Unity fires ~8% of employees. Someone still working there posts that an exec said they were renting 2 apartments in SF (which is a bit out of touch considering the situation) and then they fire that employee ~3h later??
Unity as an engine is fine but as a company is gone down

I've shown this pixel art backdrop I made before, I like it a lot. But since I think it may have to change a bunch, why not share it again?

#pixelart #konjak #backdrop #background #project

How do "Mode 7" 3D-like graphics work? Well, it's all a clever trick using affine transformations that update each scanline to render one slice of the background at a time, creating the illusion of a projective plane in 3D space.

On the left is what the rendered output looks like when the last matrix parameters are left intact, updating each scanline. On the right is what the ACTUAL Mode7 affine transformation looks like during that scanline!

Pretty neat stuff! The SNES cant generate projective transformations without special hardware, so this is how the Psuedo-3D projective plane is generated for #SuperMarioKart

What's interesting about this is that Mode7 isn't actually what's responsible for the projective effect, HDMA is! You could technically do a *similar* effect with other BG modes, and actually Yoshi's Island uses a similar technique for its "3D" objects as well (that's also a super cool method I want to talk about later)

Neurotypical is the human equivalent of "Works on my machine"

@mae reminder (per @glitch):

oh FUCK OFF

Society pathologizes and individualizes mass suffering caused by rising costs of living, insane rents, climate change, reduction in work life balance, decline of general quality of life and any number of other consequences of a decades long class war against the 99% as largely just an individualized loss of "attention span" from becoming addicted to smartphones/social media.

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Via @wazaby

What you think What Sonic
Sonic looked like looked like
20 years ago 20 years ago

I don't care if BlueSky gains popularity over Mastodon. At this point, I don't wanna be on the dance floor with the cool kids, imma be in the side room with the five weirdos I like.