FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Kitsune Tails is OUT NOW!! Run, jump, and dash across a land inspired by Japanese mythology and untangle the love triangle between three young women on a journey of self discovery. Explore the complicated relationships between kitsune and humans through classic platforming action.

get it now on steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/1325260 or itch https://eniko.itch.io/kitsunetails

we're a small underfunded team with a majority queer developers, and while we're punching way above our weight class we need the support of our community if this game is going to be a success. please boost this post, and if you can afford it buy it on steam and leave a positive review on the first day (the text doesn't matter, only the thumbs up, so "i like gay fops" is totally valid as a review)

i also want to prove fedi is powerful enough to make an indie game succeed, so even if you're not personally that into the game, please boost this post? 🙏

#KitsuneTails #QueerGames #GameDev #PixelArt

PSA: the default AAC encoder in ffmpeg is terrible even at very high bitrates, you are literally better off telling it to use MP3, even at a similar bitrate (e.g. -acodec mp3 -b:a 256k) https://twitter.com/puella_meiberu/status/1819373771280535810

thinking of changing my server naming scheme to major arcana (it's currently anime girls, and not v good)

Cloudflare is the only company that has ever given literal nazis my mother's phone number, so my opinion of them is slightly worse than my opinion of hot garbage.
https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/112887890911515501

‪btw… if you want to experience a very accurate version of the heights that dream had reached by the end of the 1990's, Roland's “Sound Canvas VA” plugin is $69 for a lifetime license and will be discontinued on September 1st. just saying.‬

‪but now there is a thing you can (fairly) easily download which, effectively, puts a perfect replication of the original and most legendary General MIDI hardware synth from 1991 right onto your computer. a new chance to experience what it was meant to be. and maybe appreciate it.‬

‪if you care about the General MIDI era and that type of synth like i do, it's very depressing to read about it online. misconceptions abound everywhere. especially for people coming at it from a software perspective, living in a software age, most people won't “get it” i think.‬

i'm really glad that nukeykt made Nuked SC-55, a fully accurate software emulation of the Roland SC-55. the SC-55 is a very important device: it's the original General MIDI and GS synth, used for e.g. DOOM's OST. but most people know it only through bad imitation soundfonts

even the humble SC-55 from 1991 could do a lot more than your average soundfont player. it has many extensions to General MIDI: a song's MIDI data can adjust the parameters of the reverb and chorus effects blocks, remap MIDI controllers, route LFOs, edit envelopes, etc.

I fucked up my repo so bad

And they said memory management in C was hard 😏

i think it would be funny if, should i eventually learn guitar, i only play it through a hexaphonic pickup into a midi converter.

I'm a bit annoyed that non-"smart" gadgets get often called "stupid" or (worse) "dumb"
Can we start using "simple" instead?
I don't have a smart thermostat / fridge / washing machine, I have a simple one!

‪i am sure the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but a side effect of github's awful handling of all this is to promote lock-in to the platform. if the git commit history only makes sense when viewed on github dot com, it makes switching away from it less practical… ‬

‪- github just assumes your display name on your github profile should be attached to commits and gives you no option to change this‬
‪- github just assumes that that your primary login/password reset email address should go in git history and you can't completely disable this‬

‪- the fact it hides git committer and author names and emails everywhere means people do not notice when they are wrong or inconsistent, whether that's because of git or github dot com configuration‬
‪- you cannot fully control what email it attaches to commits attributed to you 🙃‬

if the purpose of a system is what it does then the purpose of github dot com is to make git commit history useless

I just found my old periodic table shoes after being missing for about ten years and the disappointed look on my husband's face implies he's the one who hid them.