Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

Let there be light! 💡
#screenshotsaturday #indiegame
#gamedev #indiedev

hate when this happens to me

13 years ago, I scanned every type of video game media I could find for a PCWorld feature. The original PCW link now has broken images, but I combined most of the slides into one image for fun

See if you can name 'em all!

Every study ever: Overworked employees are less productive. Employees who work from home are just as productive as employees who work in the office. The evidence is indisputable.

Managers: I see. But I have a hunch that the complete opposite is true.

This isn't some currsed photoshop or a hack job - this is a real USB to TRRS (tip, ring, ring, sleeve) cable that came with a real product in the year 2000. The InterAct GoPad FX was a portable pad intended for laptops; there's an unnecessarily over-engineered socket and slot for that removable cable to slip into. USB Micro-B was still years away, Bluetooth was barely a thing, and any other wireless solution would be too bulky, so they chose an existing low-cost connector for the job - TRRS!

Owning a 3D printer in the vintage computing hobby is absolutely life changing. You go from being surrounded by a massive disorganized pile of old machines, to being surrounded by a massive disorganize pile of old machines, but none of them are missing port covers anymore.

#Processing #CreativeCoding #Procedural #Generative #PerfectLoop #Art #Math #Mathstodon

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Are you familiar with the notion that accessibility improves the experience of something for everyone, not just for people with disabilities? I thought of it again today when I saw the below pic posted by @vaurora with the caption ‘New gender just dropped’. And, like, I’ve seen a hundred of these, some amusing mistakes, some practical, but this one really resonated. Shared it with a gender-non-conforming friend who loved it, _but so do I_. I’m very comfortably cis, but _I’d_ choose that option.

if you want to stream yourself using a #gameboycamera but you don't have all the hardware to do it legit, check out this post on how to use #webgbcam in OBS!

https://maple.pet/blog/using-webgbcam-in-obs

A new Rise of the Triad beta leak is here! This time it' from July of 94, six months before the shareware release. Lots of small differences, especially as far as graphical assets go, and removed from the final version female enemies are still present:
https://archive.org/details/rott-0794

"Papers, Please" is 10 years old today! Hell of a time slip.

Thank you to everyone that's supported me and my games over the last decade.

To celebrate:
* $1.99 sale until the weekend, all platforms
* Fresh goods + soundtrack
* $100K donation to rescue.org
* New de-make: "LCD, Please"

https://papersplea.se/#year10

A classic example of coin-op humor.

This print, from Alfred Tennyson Reed in the 1889-06-22 issue of Punch, plays on Industrial Revolution fears.

Many of Punch's illustrations included some of the very earliest portrayals of coin-op machines in print! Do have a look at them if you're interested.

https://archive.org/details/pub_punch?tab=collection

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Titanic reboot but it's on the world's new largest cruise ship, and Jack never finds Rose again after meeting her because the stupid mega boat is simply far too big.

heres some buttons. use them wisely

Another #PixelArt daily done! :) Cascade of creation.

You can grab the full-quality versions (for free) here: https://ko-fi.com/i/IJ3J8O016L

My commissions are always open, so feel free to send me a message :)

ENJOY!

#mastoArt #digitalArt #fediArt #art #landscape #wallpaper #creativeToots #gameDev

RedHat, Canonoical, and Valve are net positives to FOSS and essential to the pursuit of open technology.

All of these companies contain aspects I dislike. Valve is a digital market monopoly. Redhat has extreme profit incentives and poor communication skills. Ubuntu is leaning towards proprietary back-ends and limiting user choice in some projects (snaps).

Yet, these companies fund developers and enable them to work improving #FOSS projects. These developers would not have been able to contribute the same amount of time into FOSS if they were doing it for free. Developers need to afford food and rent. A significant portion of #Linux development is bankrolled by these these titans of open technology.

It is essential to understand the source of controversy during a moment of drama, and direct steady and well thought criticism at the corporate structure responsible for policy decisions, not than the individual developers with minimal or no policy influence.

1. I will meme #RedHat for them shooting themselves in the foot and alienating the Linux community, but I am grateful to the RedHat devs who have dedicated time and effort improving Linux and #Fedora. Their contributions are so significant and voluminous, It is difficult to quantify the sheer amount of work they have contributed upstream.

2. I won't use #Ubuntu due to differences of opinion, but I still respect the time and creative energy #Canonical has spent improving the UI/UX of Debian and making Linux accessible to a larger population. Ubuntu is not my cup of tea, but it's a cup of tea that can reach people that have never tried tea before. Ubuntu is certainly a better cup of tea than the raw sewage of a Microsoft or Google operating system.

3. I am hesitant of #Valve because I am wary of being dependent on a monopoly for media ownership, but their open source and open hardware contributions have ushered in an era of Linux Gaming that was previously non-existent. They have demonstrated sound ethics in most of their policy choices, so I invest a significant degree of trust and gratitude in them, even though I remain skeptical of their digital asset monopoly.

It is disingenuous to label RedHat or Canonical as evil. Neither company is anywhere close to the dystopian nature of Microsoft or Google.

It's a matter of when, not if, companies will make poor decisions. At the scale of these entities, problematic decisions are bound to occur more frequently as policy decisions become disconnected from their impact on the community.

Lately, both RedHat and Canonical have made unwise policy decisions. Yet, I believe the good of their developers' contributions far outweighs the bad of their recent policy decisions. That balance could change in the future, but for now, both are still a solid net positive to the FOSS ecosystem.

TLDR; Reality is rarely black and white. It's often a shade of Gray.