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Arrietty Lunaris @arrietty.itch.io · 1d

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Arrietty Lunaris @arrietty.itch.io · Sep 11

Next several weeks' gonna be rough for me, my roommates and a friend. Me and my roommates are likely have to move out to a new apartment and my friend's hit with a nasty rent due bill before moving too

+ I'm out of meds for HRT and stomach and needing groceries. Please help us.

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Arrietty Lunaris @arrietty.itch.io · Sep 11

Next several weeks' gonna be rough for me, my roommates and a friend. Me and my roommates are likely have to move out to a new apartment and my friend's hit with a nasty rent due bill before moving too

+ I'm out of meds for HRT and stomach and needing groceries. Please help us.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 5h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Arrietty Lunaris @arrietty.itch.io · 4h

so cool looking..............

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AUTOEXEC.BUN @davidxnewton.bsky.social · 6h

Major evolution in the GZDoom community tonight - the regular contributors finally had enough of the project lead, who had been very hard to work with for a long time. He dug in and told them "If you don't like it, go and make your own fork."

UZDoom is now live here.
github.com/UZDoom/UZDoom

GitHub - UZDoom/UZDoom: UZDoom is a feature centric port for all Doom engine games, based on ZDoom, adding an OpenGL renderer and powerful scripting capabilities

UZDoom is a feature centric port for all Doom engine games, based on ZDoom, adding an OpenGL renderer and powerful scripting capabilities - UZDoom/UZDoom

github.com

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Arrietty Lunaris @arrietty.itch.io · 7h

🎮 NO PIXELS → NO POWER-UPS → EVIL MAGIC ✨

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Amy Farbright 💻🦔 (CHECK PINNED) @amy.fruitbasket.gay · 9h

hey #portfolioday and #gamedev!
i'm a programmer with >7 years of commercial+hobby gamedev experience, across many disciplines. recently a commercial game i worked on shipped! but now i'm looking for other work to cover my bases. check out my site for other projects+contact info foreverwip.github.io

In late 2022 I was hired by GalaxyTrail under contract to work on various projects, with work centered around prototyping core game systems, integration of assets, and implementation of certain graphical effects. The first project out of this to release is Chrono Gear: Warden of Time, a hololive game published under the holo Indie label, released in September 2025. Shown here is one of my contributions, the "Stasis" ability which was adapted from a variable-timescale prototype I designed for another project. The technical design of this ability was used throughout the game for similar time-control effects.

In late 2023 I started working with STUDIO//LYNFLO offering general development assistance with their upcoming game DRAGONFRUIT: a mother's love, powered by Godot Engine. Here is just one example of what I've worked on: a dynamic shadow system that switches between realtime shadow casting and a static "directionless" shadow sprite based on distance and intensity of surrounding lights.

This is a work-in-progress full port of Sonic the Hedgehog (revision 1) for the Mega Drive to C, designed and built over the course of roughly 19 months as of April 2025.

The intent of this project is to provide a base from which the game and its mechanics can be experienced and ported to a variety of platforms, without any compromise to how the gameplay handed in the original. The version of Sonic 1 currently promoted by Sega is not a port but a remake of the original, made with a completely different game engine (in fact, it's the same Retro Engine that I've hacked on in my other hobby projects, go figure). Unlike that version, this project is built off of the original Mega Drive game's machine code, with as few changes made as possible.

All game code has been successfully converted (barring some inaccuracies my testing might not have picked up), so now all current work is centered on cleaning up the generated code, further decoupling the drawing code from the VDP, and adding additional features. In this screenshot, I demonstrate the additional features such as widescreen support and custom shaders (blurring the background to make the foreground more readable).

Screenshot of work on Sonic the Hedgehog 2 HD, a fan remake of the original game, showing a full 3D rendition of the special stage. What was once a 2D background with perspective tricks is now a full 3D scene, with objects positioned in three axes instead of two. When I first joined the team, there was already some work done on a procedural 3D renderer that generated polygons on the fly based on the original game's data, but it was very simple and offered a very limited view of the stage.

One of the main goals I wanted to achieve with the new renderer was for the player to be able to see the twists and turns of the rest of the track in the distance as they went through the stage; The main draw of the stages in the original was their 3D look and being able to look ahead of you, so it felt like a natural step forward. At the time though, the renderer was only designed to generate the track relative to where you were in it.

I ended up doing an almost complete rewrite of the renderer; I wrote my own spatial hash implementation and camera class in order to cull geometry, and rewrote our geometry generator to calculate all vertices only once at load time. Along with some extra shaders I integrated into the renderer, it provided an incomplete, but still more engaging visual demonstration of what the game could do to give a classic scene a modern coat of paint.

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 9h

I'm not kidding when I say that cancelling my Spotify subscription has not affected my life in any way, other than that I spend the money on Bandcamp instead and the artists get paid infinitely more.

Easiest subscription I've ever dropped. You really don't need it like you perhaps think you do

demon grrl 😈🏳️‍⚧️ @demongrrl.gay · 4d

seriously

for fucks sake

cancel your spotify subscription

@PopBase on Twitter "Spotify teams up with ChatGPT to offer personalized recommendations."

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 16h

I’m not sorry for saying this what they did to our captured relatives was beyond cruelty. They were stripped of their dignity, tortured with electricity, and treated like less than human. It was horror designed to erase their humanity.

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Arrietty Lunaris @arrietty.itch.io · 10h

the commercial games has been my biggest concern over the situation today

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Lucca (🏳️‍⚧️Aunt Tifa👊) @spookalucca.games · 10h

I won't be playing any Steam Next Fest games that have used AI.

You can check the AI section on the steam store page of each game.

Our industry is suffering because workers are being replaced with AI "trained" on stolen work.

Don't support the erosion of our artform.

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elliott junkyard 🍉 @transarchivist.bsky.social · 2d

Gavin Newsom is a transphobic piece of shit who takes joy in harming the unhoused!

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 4d

Gavin Newsom continues to be a disappointment to trans Californians. TWIBS brought to you by @alyssaur.bsky.social

TWIBS: Governor Newsom May Be a Threat to Trans Americans — Assigned

Gavin Newsom has spent a lot of time declaring himself the greatest hero of the queer community to ever live, but his words and actions rarely seem to align these days.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Arrietty Lunaris @arrietty.itch.io · 11h

thank god

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Em, enby extraordinaire @ninethenby.bsky.social · 20h

Every since I first entered contact with Sakher, he has always been taking care of his community, family, and friends. He and his family are still in a tent as winter approaches. They need food, shelter, medicine.

It's Sakher 🍉 @sakher23.bsky.social · 20h

While some celebrate the end of war like it's a grand victory, we in Gaza are digging through the rubble for our loved ones. This is no victory — it's an unspeakable tragedy.
Please support me through my campaign: gofund.me/f116bf44

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 20h

“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.

Tweet from Quds News Network @QudsNen
BREAKING: Three Palestinians were killed after Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in the Shujaiyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

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Arrietty Lunaris @arrietty.itch.io · 20h

LMAO

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eSBe @sb2749.bsky.social · 1d

some things never change :)

screenshot of Super Smash Bros. featuring King Dedede, Sonic, Lucas, and Roy in Corneria

in actuality, this is a mod of SSB named Smash Remix, evidenced by the fact none of the featured fighters or the stage are in the vanilla game

screenshot of Super Smash Bros. Melee featuring King Dedede, Sonic, Lucas, and Roy in Corneria

in actuality, this is a mod of Melee named The Akaneia Build, as evidenced by the fact King Dedede, Lucas and Sonic aren't fighters in the vanilla game

screenshot of Super Smash Bros. Brawl featuring King Dedede, Sonic, Lucas, and Roy in Corneria

in actuality, this is a mod of Brawl named Project+, as evidenced by the fact Roy isn't a fighter in the vanilla game

screenshot of Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS featuring King Dedede, Sonic, Lucas, and Roy in Corneria

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Arrietty Lunaris @arrietty.itch.io · 22h

yeah sonic adventure was a '98 game in japan, so a hypothetical situation where he somehow got in 64 would probably have him with green eyes.

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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 1d

Still looking for someone, haven't found a single person so far (that I can contact). I have a 46-episode script that I need translated. This would be a paid job!

Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 11d

Completely unrelated to my 2am doomposting but does anyone know an English to Japanese translator, ideally with experience in screenplays?

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Arrietty Lunaris @arrietty.itch.io · 1d

chicken run...

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Banshee Xeno @bansheex.vtubers.social · 1d

I need to pay 10 grand by March 1st of next year. I have house bills out the rear-end and live alone. I really need people to stop telling me to take a break; resting isn't feasible; resting will only get me further into debt. Cancer is too expensive to keep fighting.

Banshee Xeno @bansheex.vtubers.social · 18d

For those curious! A year ago I was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. And since then it's been a long walk, but this year we found out it spread; and my treatment costs spread with it. That's why the Goatathon is so important to me, and why I need help ko-fi.com/bansheexeno/...

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ACLU @aclu.org · 1d

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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Big Demon Energy @mayawest.online · 1d

Nunavut, the only Indigenous led province, is starving.

because of the Canadian governments neglect.

Please buy a copy or donate to these organizations to help fight hunger in the far North.
💸💕

🎃 Iva Cheung 🍗 @ivacheung.com · 1d

Please read this to understand how dire the situation is in Nunavut: www.aptnnews.ca/featured/foo...

I made print copies of my book a fundraiser to raise awareness of food sovereignty/security issues in the North, but the PDF is free if you want to download + donate directly to QCFC + other orgs.

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Rekawaiii 🏳️‍⚧️ Elf Faetuber~ @rekawaii.gay · 1d

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I am still so floored. If you would like to vote for me, please do! I think i'll pin it on my streams until then .w. it would be nice to win an award ;A;

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J. Skyler 🏳️‍⚧️ @jskylerinc.bsky.social · 1d

PLEASE HELP! MY PHONE/INTERNET SERVICE HAS BEEN TURNED OFF!

$300 NEEDED ASAP

Anything helps! 🙏🏿 #TransCrowdFund #DisabilityCrowdFund #BeAPatron #BIPOCMA #HelpSky #BlackSky 💸💕🏳️‍⚧️

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