making your own echo chambers is ok sometimes
of course, you should pop the filter bubble every now and then. poke your head out of the hole to see if you can see your own shadow. but you shouldn't subject yourself to a 24/7 firehose of everything.
New blog post! I wrote about the weird history of Photo CD games - a format for family photos and photographers' portfolios that was *not* intended for complex games, but people went for it anyway. I love how people will find a way to make games no matter what. https://cdrom.ca/games/2023/01/02/photocd.html
This year I resolve to... stay the course. I'm not doing badly where I'm at. I have negative feelings towards my job, but I would honestly have negative feelings towards any job. I live in an economy where there's no such thing as a seasonal break, and burnout is rampant.
Perhaps things can change, but I am only one person, and it will take hundreds of thousands.
New year, new weasel! Better graphics! Over the top orchestral score! New sidekicks and abilities!
Or perhaps we'll think better of that and continue on the same path my faithful audiences have come to expect from the weasel franchise. Watch This Space (and more than likely nothing of note will happen)!
I made a Chrome extension that adds a "Copy Alt Text" option to the right-click menu on images. A few kind folks have offered localizations, and now it's time to cut a release.
Before I do, I'd love to add other languages. I have Czech and Japanese, can you help with others?
Open a PR to https://github.com/alt-text-org/alt-text-copy or translate:
- "Alt Text Copy"
- "Copy Image Alt Text By Right Clicking"
- "Copy Alt Text"
Please boost ๐
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/alt-text-copy/diklkehamgifnoikknopgieldonffjfk
i make cga portraits if you want one it's USD40 i need money give me work #art #pixelart #commissions
Jean-Michel Jarre's Oxygene 4 re-created in 19 kilobytes of Javascript, including a custom softsynth. https://dittytoy.net/ditty/24373308b4
Lol @ "The song that inspired every electronic musician."
There's no feeling quite like booting up a game, watching all of the opening cutscenes, and still having absolutely no idea how it is going to play.
The 3DO is the perfect system to explore that feeling.
but I have always said, I got into the 3DO's library not because the games are good/great/the best - I got into it because the library is _batshit insane_ and made by all kinds of multimedia startups that otherwise would never have made games to begin with.
it is quite possibly the weirdest and most diverse software library of any console platform (except maybe the CD-i) with everything from Soviet Bloc game shows to first-person pinball, and I love the hell out of it.
because i mean if you asked me what the best 3DO games are, i'd probably tell you Star Control 2 and Wolfenstein 3D. Not the best look for a console's best games to be ports of couple-year-old PC games, right?
anyway Zhadnost is a crazy FMV powered party game show full of dancing and surf rock (and, *cough* not great stereotypes) and it's probably the single strongest example of what the 3DO could do really well (that isn't an enhanced port of a PC game)
He/him. Puzzle-Adventure Hybrid with RPG Elements. Supports 3D Acceleration. He Is Essentially What He Believes. Just in case, ๐, LGBTQ+ ๐, DOS ๐, ๐๐ฉ๐.
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