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loren schmidt

@lorenschmidt.bsky.social

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i make art, mostly with computers. currently working on an open world RPG with roguelike roots and an experimental bent. cat mom. she / her or they / them.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · Nov 25

i am making an open world roguelike.

i have been imagining this world for years, and i want to make this game so people can go there and live many lives in it!

the game features whole-cloth, accessible design, deep mysteries, and a meticulous generated living world.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 2h

wow and blood products!

loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 2h

yeah i turned off the hints and i am play acting that it's nonlinear and it's working much better for me. amazing how much those hints shape perception!

loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 14h

can someone get me this paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Enzyme-converted O kidneys allow ABO-incompatible transplantation without hyperacute rejection in a human decedent model - Nature Biomedical Engineering

An ex vivo model and pre-clinical study in a brain-dead recipient provide enzyme-converted O organs to avoid hyperacute rejection in ABO-incompatible kidney transplant patients.

www.nature.com

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 14h

how widely applicable is this?

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 14h

wow this is wild, and i have so many questions.
is the mild immune response because the enxyme treatment /mostly/ removes the antigens? will the tissue regrow the "correct" antigens over time? do recipients still need to take immunosuppressants?
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

news.ubc.ca

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 14h

yeah morrowind! i had a mac so i never actually played it when it came out. it seems so aligned with my philosophy in so many ways.

loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 15h

when you boot up your game again, if everything went right you should be in the reshade menu. you can check crt-royale and then there will be a little tutorial (you can leave it on defaults for now).

after some fiddling, i got it looking pretty good. it's a pretty flexible CRT shader.

loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 15h

reshade makes a directory in your game directory. open that up.

then install crt-royale from here: github.com/akgunter/crt...
it goes in the Shaders folder, like this.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 15h

first, switch to settings in your emulator / game which run at original res, default upscaling, force aspect.

second, install reshade. reshade.me
it does not recognize some programs like indie games or emulators, so you may have to manually select the folder.

Home

ReShade - Advanced post-processing everywhere.

reshade.me

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 15h

i have documented getting crt-royale working with reshade, in case anyone else is struggling with this.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 16h

this sounds really neat! i will give this a spin. i've been trying reshade, with some success.

loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 16h

filter, which i don't have set up yet but it seems pretty solid so far!

loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 16h

yes, there are a lot of subpar crt filters! it's a pity.

that sounds like an interesting option! so unlike reshade, it's operating as a program over a region of screen space?

i've been trying reshade w/ crt royale. i think it's intended for the raster space effects to be handled by a separate NTSC

loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 20h

but it's better to just move and churn things out. it'll get there and it'll be better when it does if i iterated more.

loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 20h

i did some early work on a much larger drawing of the bug people i'm working on! i'll probably have pencils done tomorrow and will share.

i'm still not 100% sure where all the anatomical particulars will land, which is giving me hesitation...

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 20h

ah i haven't tried reshade with it yet!

yeah currently i'm just doing integer scaling, with force nearest (morally dubious, but beautiful).

loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 20h

interesting! i don't know those. it would be interesting to see something like that in action.

loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 20h

yeah i'm considering jumping ship too. i don't really want my OS to be a hobby, which has kept me from switching thus far.

loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 20h

me too, but i can't actually remember when? maybe windows 9? shrouded in the mists of history, for sure.

loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 1d

i wish people would make more games like this with constraints + unlocks but not a fixed order, i love that.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 1d

does anyone know of any good, functional dolphin crt filters? i found a few old threads but nothing has worked so far. (it's specifically for primehack so there may be compatibility issues.)

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 1d

i really like it, especially the way the spaces are interconnected and all the secrets they dangle.

loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 1d

i haven't played in over 15 years, i am going to turn off hints now and see what it feels like to transition to artifacts later.

loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 1d

ooh that sounds compelling. how does repair work?

loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 1d

i really like trying to play prime pretty free roam. it's a very highly forking space with so many interesting connections. i enjoy the thoroughness of doubling back more than necessary to scour for new unlocks or secrets i missed.