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• He/they enby 💛🤍💜🖤 from HE, Germany 🇩🇪 • Hobby programmer; retro computers & consoles; anime, manga & Vtuber fan -- and more! • de/native, en/good, 日本語/へた • Visit https://xdaniel.neocities.org • Avatar: mono ep8

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xdaniel@がんばらない 🐙🌿💭 @xdaniel.neocities.org · Nov 16

Thought I'd do a quick post about what (re)posts to expect from me:

- video games, mainly older ones
- reverse engineering, programming
- computers, mostly retro-related
- general anime, manga and vtubers
- "cute anime girls(/boys/others; mostly girls)"
- real life rambles, occasional politics

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Motherboard Slumd0g from the WetWork NetWork @beachepisode.bsky.social · 2h

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Dates in Movies @datesinmovies.bsky.social · 7h

Oct 21st 2015 - Doc, Marty & Jennifer arrived in 2015 to prevent Marty McFly Jr. from getting arrested.

📽️📅 Back to the Future Part II (1989)

3 Screenshots from the movie "Back to the Future Part II" (1989): First, a man wearing a headband and a yellow jacket is seen in a vehicle, looking focused as subtitles read, "We are descending towards Hill Valley, California at 4:29pm." Second, a close-up of a digital display showing "OCT 21 2015" as the destination and present time, with subtitles saying, "On Wednesday October 21st 2015."

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The Cave (Neil) @visitthecave.bsky.social · 3h

A trio of arcade monitors pulled out of old cabs to be inspected, serviced and saved. Some crustier than others.

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xdaniel@がんばらない 🐙🌿💭 @xdaniel.neocities.org · 3h

*browsing last repost*

...oh. oh no ;_;

My infrequent reminder that I should've started watching Sana much earlier -- not just literally a day or so before her graduation announcement...

fontsinuse.com/uses/72170/t...

Cropped screenshot of https://fontsinuse.com/ as of right now, scrolled to the cover art of Astrogirl by former hololive Vtuber Tsukumo Sana

Cropped screenshot of Astrogirl page, with the description

"“Astrogirl” is the first and only original single by Tsukumo Sana, a now-“graduated” (retired) virtual YouTuber of hololive Production. The song was produced in collaboration with Snail’s House, a Japanese electronic musician, and written by Wunder RiKU.

The cover art for the single features illustration drawn by MistletoesArt and typography designed by Spiritsnare. The latter features Megazoid by David Jonathan Ross, modified to be slightly more rounded. This gives the words a soft and playful appearance."

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M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social · 3h

If you're a big fan of this, there's one for book covers that I love to browse all the time.

fontsinuse.com

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Triple-Q @triple-q.bsky.social · 18h

"A website that catalogues the fonts used in video games.
Fuck, it's genius... why didn't I think of that...!"
www.gamefontlibrary.com

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Chris Kohler @kohler.bsky.social · 4h

Great essay that explains with copious illustrations the question of why Mario dies like that

Drew Mackie @drewgmackie.bsky.social · 1d

I made 27 gifs (from scratch!) of video game characters dying like Mario does to discuss the origin of this peculiar bit of pixel animation. Enjoy!

The Origin of Mario’s Trademark Death Animation — Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games

Super Mario Bros. taught side-scrolling heroes how to kick the bucket… even if Mario stole those moves.

www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com

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Jo-Eek! 'Deadchibe' W. @thestacks.ca · 2d

I’m currently organising my stacks, so here’s everything I’ve ever scanned and have yet to scan

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xdaniel@がんばらない 🐙🌿💭 @xdaniel.neocities.org · 3h

Not 100% sure if it's strictly purple, but probably Nintendo's purple/clear GameCube controller, with the purple front and translucent clear back!

Got mine over 15 years ago, maybe around 2008? Still works great and is my go-to for Cube and Wii games like Mario Kart, Smash Bros or Zelda WW/TP.

Photo of GameCube controller with purple front and translucent back, via https://www.pricecharting.com/game/gamecube/indigo-&-clear-controller

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neko68k @rokumanhassen.jp · 5h

I need a body pillow shaped like a 68000 in a ceramic DIP package

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 4h

Bimonthly reminder if you post content to YouTube to *please* look up how to disable auto-dubbing, which is on by default. Users can't stop them from playing without desktop plugins and have to manually disable every time on mobile. It's tedious. Only creators can prevent YT generating them at all.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 10h

386.

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のやまたけのこ @noyamatakenoko.bsky.social · 8h

めぐみん

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jonsun @jonsun.bsky.social · 11h

飛び入り参加のハイタッチ

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Thomas Nickel @tapirfortuna.bsky.social · 17h

Yikes! And right on the block-list that Stealth-guy goes..! Sharing half-baked, badly translated ragebait-„news“ alone is bad enough, but reading all this now? Nope, nope, nope.

鋼のStephen Meyerink @sjmtaelus.bsky.social · 2d

I'm old enough to remember when Stealth used to harass my colleagues at RPGFan (of course, mostly the women).

Jordan Starkweather✨ @jackal27.bsky.social · 2d

Y’all have GOT to stop uncritically sharing Stealth’s posts without checking your sources!

I can’t find a source for when and where Miyamoto supposedly said this or who translated it ANYWHERE and yet my timeline is flooded with takes on it.

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SHARE MY PINNED 📌 @pavlovforgoths.com · 1d

here's how you remove the AI from the latest Firefox update

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 21h

Planetary Rings

xkcd.com/3156/

Comic. Two-column table. Column A lists planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Column B has checkmark boxes for whether the planets have rings: the outer planets’ boxes are checked, and Earth has a red check. [Earth with a ring with an array pf points around it. An arrow labeled “Geostationary Satellite Bel”t points to the ring.] [caption] Astronomy fact: A century ago, Earth didn’t have rings, but we have one now! It’s where all the satellite dishes are pointed.

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Ore @ore0102.bsky.social · 21h

しなもんろおる

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Yakumono @luigiblood.bsky.social · 22h

If all you do is check files from a game: you are datamining, sure, but you are not allowed to pretend to know how a game works, full stop. Your opinion on how stuff works just based on vibes from files is worth nothing.

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Yakumono @luigiblood.bsky.social · 22h

My opinion is simple: Dataminers who don't reverse engineer shit should shut the fuck up

Pokémon Leaks 🦋 @pokemonleaks.bsky.social · 1d

CONFIRMED: This model is actually just used for one single cutscene (the first one), at the end it's not the entire Legends Z-A map being just 1 model as the dataminers first thought.

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H.K // デビル零 @devilrei.bsky.social · 23h

It's been 20 years since these Tomonobu Itagaki pictures were published in the German magazine Maniac (hi @tapirfortuna.bsky.social), and since everyone is doing their Itagaki memoriams and tributes I'll make the photos public for everyone to use.

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Crimson 💀 (spooky) @crimsontentacles.bsky.social · 1d

Listen to me. Listen. If you're making images that will only be displayed on screens, YOU HAVE TO LET GO. You can calibrate your screens perfectly, but then 25k people will see it on their shitty $50 monitors or cracked phone and its out of your hands. Don't think of it. Achieve enlightenment.

Tweet by @night margin "digital artist woes" image of the same color gradient on various screen (monitor 1 appears very grey purple, phone appear VERY pink, monitor 2 appears a more saturated purple, laptop appears brownish red, family's phone appears much darker and bluer etc.)

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 1d

Happy 40th birthday to the Sega Mark III! The console that would be redesigned as the Master System and then brought back into Japan and re-released with that design.

Here in 1985, though, we have this cream slab promising real arcade action in the home and going toe-to-toe with the Famicom.

A scan of a Sega Mark III brochure from Sega Retro, with a polished wooden floorboard room, very classy, and a Mark III close to the reader with a My Card half in, and a screen with Hang-On on it.

A photo of a Mark III and joypad, also from Sega Retro.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 2d

The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes

Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 2d

“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”

Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”

Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...

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BadComputer @badcomputer.bsky.social · 1d

To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the SEGA Mark III console in Japan, Astro Climber is now available for free on Itch ⬇️ #homebrew #mastersystem

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