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I code and rant, and a thousand other things in between. Tra(i)ns, demoscene, old hw/sw, heraldry, flags, Japan, 東方. I put screens in my gas masks for cool and talk about "Blame!" too much. They/them. La Mancha || València. ES/EN/ca/ja. https://stage7.net

Pretty crazy stuff if you haven't seen it - a game store owner had a box of Super Mario/Duck Hunt carts that turned out to be - brand new - manufactured in 1993 (!) - an extremely late variant unknown to collectors nintendowire.com/news/2026/07...

We discovered a new variant of Super Mario Bros.

Inside, were 97 individually wrapped, brand-new copies of Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt. Each game was wrapped in the same baggie that would have come in an

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Honestly Kris having 71 references for their pronouns is the most accurate depiction to how it feels to be nonbinary I have seen from any piece of media

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one of my favorite things to learn about Yoshi's Island was that some of the most impressive effects in the game weren't even done with the Super FX, they were just HDMA trickery. like Salvo the Slime is made of numerous stacked lines pulled from a triangular background image

screenshot of Salvo the Slime from Yoshi's Island, a large greenish blob of slimescreenshot of bsnes-plus's tilemap viewer, showing a shaded triangle stored in background layer 2