a tiny fairy @atinyfairy@computerfairi.es

I have done so little art lately. Heck.

Gotta love how #OpenAI deems that I'm not allowed to know what an image from a TV show looks like because it depicts violence and death. Imagine if I were sighted, but a company had the right to block me and the rest of the world from being able to see certain things because it contained graphic content. That should be my choice, not theirs. This is one reason we shouldn't support game-changing technology being controlled and maintained by corporations like this IMO. #Blind #Accessibility

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#mario #psychology #supermario #nintendo

To quote the great Eugene Debs:

"Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."

I really fucking believe that.

Source code for Infocom’s original interpreters released: with little fanfare, Andrew Plotkin uploaded a trove of newly-discovered source code for various 1980s computers to GitHub https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/11/infocoms-ingenious-code-porting-tools-for-zork-and-other-games-have-been-found/

Dave Filoni gets the keys to the Star Wars franchise https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/21/23971309/dave-filoni-star-wars-chief-creative-officer-lucasfilm-asoka?utm_content=buffera33f2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bufferapp.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Today is #TransDayofRemembrance ​ 🕯️​.

If it's new to you, please research it and the issues, challenges, and threats we face that make today necessary. Remember the dead, and fight like hell for the living.

you know that quote that's often (erroneously) attributed to Shigeru Miyamoto -- "a late game is late until it releases, a rushed game is bad forever"?

well. turns out a trans woman game dev was the one who said it. huh.

https://www.acriticalhit.com/solved-miyamoto-quote-late-game-bad-forever

Paris has revealed plans for pedestrianizing the city that include creating 100 hectares of new pedestrian space by 2030 and transforming car lanes to human-friendly pathways and rain gardens.

Love this part: "walking is free, it's emission-free, it's noise-free, it's good for your health and, as we see every time we pedestrianise, it's also good for local businesses."

People-friendly cities for the win! 🚶‍♀️ 🌳 🚴‍♂️

https://www.thelocal.fr/20231117/paris-reveals-plans-to-pedestrianise-the-city

#paris #environment #urbanism #walking #ClimateChange

ボクセルげーむぼーーい​​ #voxelart

One of the thing I’ve learned about the consequences of bullying is that when people tell you things like “I’m pretty bad at math” or “computers aren’t for me” or “I don’t really get art or fashion” and you talk to them for a bit what you often find - not always, but often - what that really means is “somebody treated me like shit for trying to like this when I was 9.”

For avoidance of doubt:
IPR supports trans rights and BIMPOC creators and gamers.
Fascists, Nazis, and TERFs can all fuck right off.

I surprised someone again yesterday by saying that I legitimately don’t think technical issues are the hard part of shipping projects.

I find the constraints are almost always about how to navigate conflicting points of view, deadlines, organization, planning, and budgets. People, planning, and money are the hardest topics. The technical parts seem far less difficult -sometimes even trivial- in comparison.

This is a brilliant way to do gamepad identification and my fellow fairy friend has given me permission to share their process

And here I was considering one of those monolithic device lookup tables, hah

2023 marked Draknek's 10th anniversary making games, and before the year closes we wanted to put all of our games on sale across all platforms where they are available.
The different stores have different discount guidelines and promotion dates, so it doesn't happen often that we can get them to all line up!

Be careful how you are talking to yourself because you are listening.

free language learning tip from someone who absolutely 100% has had The Struggle:

take a text that’s somewhat too difficult for you and write it down. Make a copy, by hand. If it’s long just keep going until you run out of time.

You can look up a word here and there if you’re baffled but don’t get sidetracked, keep writing.