FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

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✨ new tech bingo ✨

mostly, itd be handy to be able to link the gba up to a computer or something for game-dev reasons, so i can send arbitrary Stuff over the link cable while testing out a link protocol or whatnot

it'd also be cool to be able to use something like this to link a real gba to an emulated one and e.g. trade pokémon or do multiplayer shenanigans that way

but also... i want to make a piece of music software for gba, like lsdj or whatnot but taking full advantage of the gba's power and sample mixing and stuff, and it'd be great to have a "gba-native" way to do things like import samples and export tracks. and there's only so much you can do with that when you can't connect to any devices aside from other gbas

today the weird niche thing i'm looking into is what it would take to make a gba to serial link cable

So, I think we should give all the good guys/gals trains 🥺👉👈

out-of-context Alice Caldwell-Kelly on WTYP pod: "Nothing can stop a [runaway] train, except a good guy with a train"

I feel like this should be a crime. Just publishing vaguely plausible nonsense about a subject that is already difficult and vast... Sometimes when you read a species description you might be the first person to read it in a decade. We kind of rely on each other being honest, and even then it can be confusing.

"This species is renowned for its large size... up to 15 millimeters in length."

Lies. These ants are known as "mini rubies" because they are *small* for carpenter ants.

"striking coloration, with a combination of black and metallic blue or green hues,"

WTF utter nonsense!

"prefer nesting in..rainforests and mangroves"

NO.

I just encountered a "species description"and I think it's AI generated. I think they did this so they'd have one for every species.

I'm so LIVID. This is GARBAGE.

trying to make music is making me relate a bit to generative ai models, the ones that “hallucinate”. if i pick some kind of genre, i can imagine and hear in my head a whole song, which i've probably never heard before, and i cannot tell you what memories it was synthesised from

Spent this week making a little Worms/Scorched Earth terrain demo. Tried making one of these with my first ever #pico8 project and ran into massive performance issues due to using pset.

This uses tline and a 2D array of vertical slices. Destroying the terrain earth shrinks a slice, or cuts/slices it into two. Perf is good, as terrain is destroyed, there are more slices, but less to draw! Second gif shows this in action.

Code/cart is here https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=140579

This is one hell of a headline *Stands up and starts to clap*
Thank you Joshua Wolens for this!!
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/ea-ceo-talks-ai-says-the-usual-stuff-before-the-bong-rip-hits-and-he-starts-blabbing-about-a-future-where-3-billion-people-are-creating-eas-games-with-it/

And you wont change my mind.

oh god

(Long quote, sorry)

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