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SynaMax
@synamax.bsky.social
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Music/SFX, video game historian, self-taught programmer, artist. One half of Psychic Rink. Currently working on: "Nested Dreams" (1st original game), Acrolyte (music) youtube.com/synamax psychicrink.itch.io patreon.com/synamax synamax.bandcamp.com
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Stop sharing AI slop.

It's one thing if you don't know or just made a mistake. No need to breathe down someones neck b/c its harder to tell nowadays.

But if you do know (ESPECIALLY IF YOU DO KNOW) even if you're posting it to make fun of it or sharing it unironically... consider not doing that.
Here are the three palettes that I show in the previous video, one per row. There are sixteen colors in each palette and as you can see color number 11 in the first row is that transparent outline. In the second row, it's red.
Been taking a look at how color palettes work in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. By changing the selected palette for Alucard, we can see there's actually a hidden outline that the pixel artist drew for every frame. The default palette forces the outline color to be transparent.
Changing sound IDs is one of my favorite things to do when messing around with a debugger. It often leads to humorous results.
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Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
Ooooh, I want to see this!
Happy Halloween! I did additional mixing and mastering on Shoffur's newest single, check it out!
shoffur.bandcamp.com/track/tendril Happy Halloween from Hallownest (and Pharloom). It's my first new single in pretty much a year! (Also doing a re-slay in this costume this year.)
Tendril, by shoffur
track by shoffur
shoffur.bandcamp.com
I saw in my YT subscriptions that Vinny Vinesauce was playing this!
All the more reason why I'm going to start uploading my videos on Internet Archive.
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I have thoughts
Youtube has announced that all low-res videos (i.e. older ones) are to be automatically AI upscaled to HD.
Creators can opt-out on a per video basis (but the channel may be long abandoned).

When researching props or behind the scenes, old videos are useful, but not if upscaling produces artefacts.
Joe Kosinski is one of my all-time favorite movie directors!
At first, I thought I was reading a photo caption from an unhinged wiki article.
Thanks to DISCMASTER, I was able to find a DOS utility that allowed me to build some source code for a 90's arcade game that I hope to reveal the name of sometime soon.
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It's bandcamp friday again. If you havent listened to it yet, my latest album Harsh Wires is available on bandcamp. I'm really happy with it. I feel like it's the next iteration of who I am as an artist.

cicadasirens.bandcamp.com/album/harsh-...
Harsh Wires, by Cicada Sirens
7 track album
cicadasirens.bandcamp.com
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kuraine @lena.fyi · Oct 3
just a reminder that bandcamp friday is tomorrow & streaming services are interrupting music streams with ai generated shit, flooding the database with artists that don't exist in any way other than profiting the platform owners

so instead of paying a monthly fee, buy an album or two each month ok
Amazing use of color, wow
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Video Game History Hour's Frank Cifaldi is joined by documentarian, historian, hacker, and all around cool guy @synamax.bsky.social to talk about their documentary Resurrecting Sinistar: A Cyber-Archaeology Documentary in the latest VGHH podcast: gamehistory.org/episode-140-...