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August the Dodecalope @ Ringoid Labs

@ringoidlabs.com

Home of Bitkin, the City of Elseways, Delyria, and whatever else August the Wandering Mind sees fit to turn his energy to. Current project: the Bitkin web site and associated things.

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🌈DaisyFM ✒︎@daisyfm.net · 22h ago

Your average trans person has dedicated themselves to more intense body modification than any anti-trans cis person obsessed with transhumanism has the guts to try.

Bitkin by Ringoid Labs@bitkin.org · 2d ago

Small site update with some bug fixes! The scrolling thing should now be solved, so you don't have to worry about puzzle grids shifting around as you try to solve them. 05 also works better now (in a way that'll be obvious once you try it out).

Fox Popvli@foxpopvli.bsky.social · 5d ago

When techbros say "adapt or die" choose persistence instead. And I keep doing my humanly imperfect art. Out of passion, feelings and all those things AI can only emulate. ♥️

Chris Murray@chrismurray.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Every writer dismissing hacks for using AI is right that the work is the point more than results, but they're forgetting that most people don't like writing. Writers are weird. You think Terry Pratchett was a normal? He was a stone cold freak. The better argument is simply that AI can't Pratchett.

August the Dodecalope @ Ringoid Labs@ringoidlabs.com · 5d ago

One lesson I’m taking from how Act 1 is going is that acts 2 and 3 will have a slightly different page size. Just a tiny bit smaller to make some layout things easier to manage. I don’t need to redo anything, and the change shouldn’t even be that noticeable when it happens.

August the Dodecalope @ Ringoid Labs@ringoidlabs.com · 5d ago

I might be scarce for a couple days; I’m heading out to visit my family in LA and won’t be back until late Saturday night. They include some fellow Fool’s Errand fans from back in the day, so I’m eager to show Bitkin off to them, and it sounds like my niece is just as eager to see me again.

August the Dodecalope @ Ringoid Labs@ringoidlabs.com · 6d ago

I'm looking forward to what bizarre games come out of this dive into the collection of a curator of the jankiest things out there. This event was Garfield-themed last year and you wouldn't expect that to be as fascinating as it ended up being, so I know we're in for a treat here.

Gildersneeze from Burgers@gildersneeze.bsky.social · 6d ago

HEY GILDER! WHERE YOU AT? Working on all the stuff for AUUUUUGHust, our yearly celebration of janky games! We're CLEARING OUT MY WISHLIST this year! Spinning a wheel, buying the game, playing the game, attempting to beat the game until chat says "naaaah, move on" AUUUUUGHust: Wishlist Wipeout 8/1

August the Dodecalope @ Ringoid Labs@ringoidlabs.com · 6d ago

Had some trouble sleeping, so I fixed that one bug preventing a puzzle from being solved. It's not an elegant solution, but I'm not sure it's the kind of problem that lends itself to one in the first place. Now I just need to draw some more art (after some rest) and I can call this open.

August the Dodecalope @ Ringoid Labs@ringoidlabs.com · 7d ago

I might be able to release the Bitkin demo tomorrow evening (Thursday the 30th). There are still bugs, of course, but nothing that should prevent people from solving it (once I fix the one puzzle that's persistently just not working). It's more than I thought, too; half of Act 1 instead of a third.

August the Dodecalope @ Ringoid Labs@ringoidlabs.com · last wk.

Demo is proceeding nicely, though I've run into a design issue that I need to spend more time thinking about how to solve. In the meantime, though, I'm putting together the Cast page, and I can even hide characters you won't have seen yet based on puzzle progress.

August the Dodecalope @ Ringoid Labs@ringoidlabs.com · last wk.

This scaling law (image taken from the linked paper) has been very useful for projects like Elseways where I need a way to benchmark how much different sizes of people eat. If you've got five times the mass as me, you'll eat about 3.34 servings of the same food I need 1 of.

The classic allometric scaling relationship relating metabolic rate (B) to body mass (M), B = B0 * M^(3/4) (with B0 being a normalization coefficient), was formulated first for mammals and birds by Kleiber in the 1930s (1–4). It has since been extended to a wide range of organisms from the smallest microbes (≈10−13 g) to the largest vertebrates and plants (≈108 g; refs. 4 and 5).
Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️@obialik.bsky.social · last wk.

Energy is the thing governing all life, and its use scales in remarkably predictable ways across all levels of life (humans as the main exception). Makes things easy for #worldbuilding; can guess a lot just knowing how big something is.🧪 Link: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.012579799​

Basal metabolic rate for mammals as a function of body mass on a logarithmic scale (blue circles). The solid blue line represents the predicted three-quarter power scaling law, covering over six orders of magnitude in mass from a shrew to an elephant. Values for cells in vivo for these same mammals are shown as a vertical blue band at a cellular mass of 3 × 10−9 g. These are related to the corresponding whole mammal values by a linear relationship, Eq. 2, as shown by the dashed blue lines. The upper dashed blue line is predicted to intercept the solid blue line at M = μ, close to the mass of a shrew, and to extrapolate to the value for an isolated cell in vitro (red data point). Also shown (red dots) are in vivo values for a mitochondrion, the respiratory complex, and a cytochrome oxidase molecule
August the Dodecalope @ Ringoid Labs@ringoidlabs.com · last wk.

Colored sketch of Blit Bitkin in his current Elseways-era appearance. His body is artificial, grown in a lab to interface with the digital hardware he has in place of a brain, making him kind of a reverse cyborg. He wasn't a taur originally, but he asked for he upgrade and has taken well to it.

A purple centauroid creature with a blown-back white mohawk, round glasses, and a blue long-sleeved shirt. There's a geometric emblem on his flank.
August the Dodecalope @ Ringoid Labs@ringoidlabs.com · last wk.

So, a few announcements! The workflow to push updates to the web site is now working. My goal is to have a demo — about a third of Act 1 — up by the end of the month. Eventually all of Act 1 will be there and available for free, and obviously I'll be making a lot more noise when that happens.