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she's a ghostie on the interwebs! She/they (&), late-20s. Mostly art reblogs. Politics talk tagged #uspol (feel free to mute), art tagged #vizart. May interact with 18+ accounts. 💜 @futurefractal.bsky.social 💜

huh. reading some TRON documentation. i think the Hitachi Super-H ISA was derived from the TRON VLSI ISA? there's a *lot* of similarities here. they re-encoded all the instructions and added some more, but the register layout and the nomenclature is all *very* similar.

Someone just reblogged this on tumblr with this tag and I just fucking died I've been on this shit for over a decade and it's only getting worse

kayinnasaki

written about this before but whatever.

Videogames as an artform have a problem with nostalgia. Not that people shouldn’t have nostalgia. Or that games shouldn’t draw from the past. But instead the weight we give to nostalgia.

When people go back to enjoy old games, we assume it’s a nostalgia thing. Do people assume that with books? Or movies? Or music? People certainly do go back in time with  those mediums for nostalgia! It happens! I know when my sister is listening to certain cheesy old boyband pop or punk she’s often having a musical nostalgia trip! That’s cool! But we still don’t ASSUME, CONSTANTLY thats why people go back to stuff.

People like old stuff because it’s cool and interesting. It’s historic. People go watch Metropolis still, but how many people alive could even be nostalgic for a movie like that?

I almost want to see the word Nostalgia excised from discussions about video games – not because nostalgia is bad but because we over use it to the point where it’s actually harmful I think.

I mean I made IWBTG and am making an NES style game right now and even for me, the obsession with ‘nostalgia’ seems crazy.

Old stuff is cool. I know this because I see a lot of you kids on my tumblr feed talking about games I know you didn’t grow up with. It’s like finding your parents record or CD collection. Thinking the primary greatness of old games is bringing back memories of eating cereal and playing games on a saturday morning is a great injustice, even if those memories for some are perfectly worthwhile things.

#this post is 11 years old and still holds true

This was originally going to just be a little sketch of Rosa in reference to that silly Midna picross meme, but I kept adding more and more stuff as I gradually lost my mind. Sorry not sorry also happy lesbian day

Rosa, a non-binary moth (It/Its), holding up a container of progesterone. Rosa says the phrase "You've got such a nice hole in the middle there. It'd be a shame if I accidentally filled it in." Its girlfriend Wendy is folding her arms, looking quite embarrassed. 

Below Wendy is a 15x15 nonogram puzzle.

AI projects are going to get harder to detect over time. Even in the past year things have changed monumentally. (Did you know that they fixed up Claude’s weird-ass writing style in the latest version?)

i've only just picked up on the existence of this whole "digger" movie. reading about it, it seems like it's just kind of depressing and will just send me down a self-loathing anxiety spiral. so i'm probably not gonna watch it.

this software project i’ve been working on at my workplace is at a point where it needs some art for instructional purposes. now, i could be lazy and bash a bunch of clipart together. or i could bring my drawing tablet in and come up with a marketable furry mascot character. i am tempted.

A developer who led on a fan-created PC 'decomp' port of Banjo-Kazooie says people using AI to rush out other ports (including a new Banjo-Tooie one) are in a "race to the bottom" which is "disrespectful" to decomp tool creators. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/banjo-k...

Banjo-Kazooie PC port ‘decomp’ developer says AI-generated PC ports are ‘a race to the bottom’ and ‘disrespectful’ | VGC

DarioSamo says a recent AI-decompiled Banjo-Tooie port is nothing to do with him…

videogameschronicle.com