Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es

Some landscape renders made with Bryce 3D come by on Mastodon this week and it reminded me of the first landscape renderer I used: VistaPro.

It was was one of many DOS programs on the "Virtual Reality Madness" compilation disc from 1993. VistaPro also came out on Amiga and Mac OS, and later Windows.

VistaPro (v1.01) didn't give you much control but the results looked stunning then, if you allowed your computer to render the highest quality image for a few hours that is.

Did you know? I curate a gallery of procedural artworks by various demosceners — each piece was rendered by an executable program no larger than 4096 bytes:

https://executable.graphics/

thanks to @gord for this excellent idea

kitsune tails is a classic platformer, like SMB3 if mario were a gay foxgirl. more info and wishlist at https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

#GameDev #PixelArt #KitsuneTails

@njion you just reminded me of that video where a guy REWRITTEN AND OPTIMIZED ALMOST ALL OF THE SM64 CODE so it runs at some insane frame rate at original hardware

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_rzYnXEQlE

Does your server federated with threads? If so, have you seen any posts from there?

Her: "K, you're a homeowner with 100% equity, why are you rooting for a housing market crash?"

Me: "That's exactly why I'm rooting for it. I own this pile of wood and bricks, and the land it's on, outright. Long as the property taxes get paid, I'm beyond the reach of capitalism's attempt to enslave me under threat of homelessness. Unless I sell the place, I never have to think about rent or the market again. So fuck the investors, let their assets depreciate, so my friends and family can maybe afford to join me in escaping the rental treadmill."

*sproing*

a new comic about the end of the world ☢

The whole model of taxing "income" is wrong. We need to tax Wealth, not Income. Because the ones who desperately need taxing aren't the working folk.

Incidentally, in Canada there is a tax rebate called the "Canada Workers Benefit" (previously "Working Income Tax Benefit") which returns several thousand dollars to those within the bracket. It's a tiny band-aid step in the right direction, to lighten the tax load on those who are working for it, but the whole system needs to change.

#TaxTheRich

La belleza del desierto de montaña

@liamvhogan "We used to respect computers"

Little Kitty, Big City has got an actual launch date at last and it’s only three weeks away

https://youtu.be/S5ve30zp8-s

Holy shit. Google fired 28 workers for protesting against its $1.2 billion contract with the IDF. Solidarity with these workers of conscience.

https://medium.com/@notechforapartheid/statement-from-google-workers-with-the-no-tech-for-apartheid-campaign-on-googles-indiscriminate-28ba4c9b7ce8

Good morning fellow citizens of the crumbling dystopian empire.

I need your help yet again.

Monday they pumped me full of baby unicorn tears.

It’s so much more expensive.

Please help because this HAS to work. I *must* live.

CashApp TinuWrites
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If you can’t donate even $5 PLEASE boost this!

TW- a covered patch of my arm where the needle is connected is visible at the end.

Please add alt text to your images. It doesn't just help blind and low-vision people. It helps the fully sighted on crappy computers and crappy browsers and crappy connections to understand what you're showing us.

Please add alt text especially if you're sharing a text-only screen capture. The alt text description limit is a lot higher than the main post body text limit.

🚫 “I have too many hobbies”

✅ “My many domestic accomplishments would make me an attractive ornament in the parlour of a baron;—perhaps even an earl”

— pssst... pssst.... hey, kid, you.. do you want an "S"?

— an S? what for?

— an S like in STRIKE.

— strike? like baseball?

— No! an S like in STRIKE!

(muppets in a picket line suddenly appears)

— STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!

(THUNDER)

— YAHAHA! ONE #STRIKE TWO STRIKES! THREE STRIKES! THREE MARVELOUS STRIKES AND A PICKET LINE!

(THUNDER)

— YAHAHAHAHA!

(EXUNT)

'Sesame Street' Writers Unanimously Support Strike Authorization Vote
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/sesame-street-writers-strike-authorization-vote-wga-east-1235972886/

#labor #unions