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Miles Softail @stagefatality.bsky.social · Nov 1

Hello, BlueSky! My name is Miles, and I go by stagefatality on other corners of the net.

Some of my interests include, but are not limited to:

Megaman
Sonic
Doom
Writing
Movies
Furry art/fursonas
Motorcycles
Retro computing and software
Arcade games
Fighting games/FGC

Let's talk sometime, yeah?

Art of my fursona, Miles Softail. They are mounted on one of their customized chopper motorcycles, outside of the bike repair shop they own labelled: "The Iron Buck". The motorcycle appears to be a Harley-Davidson, stylized to look like a retro chopper. It has tall "ape hanger" handlebars, a red paint job with a black flame motif, and a saddlebag.

They are an anthropomorphic white-tailed deer, looking to the camera with a smug expression and half-lidded eyes behind a pair of glasses.

Miles is wearing a black leather jacket, a red T-shirt with a symbol of a tire sprouting wings, blue denim jeans, and tassel-laden cowgirl boots. The design of the boots are borrowed directly from that of Angel's from the King of Fighters series of games.

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Can You Suplex a Train? @suplexatrain.bsky.social · 8h

Mavis Beacon tried to warn us

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Mutraex - Play #BeastsofMystery @mutraex.bsky.social · 9h

Update for #BeastsofMystery

BEWARE! Skunk Ape now has a forward dash!

#FGC
#IndieGameDev
#indiegames
#GameMakerStudio2
#indiedev
#fightinggame
#cryptid
#cryptids
#cryptozoology
#FGCPulse
🕹💪

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Toilet_Wine_Connoisseur🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🇵🇸 @goldenaxedoom.bsky.social · 8h

A new Dawn is on the horizon!

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 8h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 14h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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random videos with breakcore @memesbreakcore.bsky.social · 13h

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*•°✩☻ グレース ☻✩°•* @pikachudubstep.bsky.social · 1d

Sora Doodle

Greetings from Destiny Islands!
Post card from Sora from Kingdom Hearts

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Tool-Assisted Speedrun clips @tasnocontext.bsky.social · 9h

Game: Mega Man 7 (1995, SNES)
TAS Author: McBobX
Source: tasvideos.org/6092M

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¿Mr.Whatshisname? (COMMISSIONS OPEN) @bridgeoffaust.bsky.social · 1d

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Amy Farbright 💻🦔 (CHECK PINNED) @amy.fruitbasket.gay · 10h

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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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 11h

Between this, Musk’s MechaHitler making porn, & payment processors punishing sex workers/artists that make adult material, I hope it’s more obvious than ever what the wealthy who believe they rule over us think.

“We can do whatever we want, including plagiarized porn, and the marginalized cannot.”

The Verge @theverge.com · 14h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 12h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 15h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Miles Softail @stagefatality.bsky.social · 11h

Don't worry, it's getting forked, so the wheels will turn again, it's just gonna be a bit of a process I feel for things to migrate.

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Miles Softail @stagefatality.bsky.social · 12h

I feel for all the people who use GZDoom for playing, modding, and creating their own commercial projects.

This is absolutely going to disrupt them in one way or another. Y'all don't deserve that.

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Miles Softail @stagefatality.bsky.social · 12h

Fucking finally

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HiMyNameisChair 🏳️‍⚧️ @himynameischair.bsky.social · 12h

THAT'S WHAT WE WANNA HEAR BABY!!! YEEEEAH~!

Nash Muhandes sharing that the new gzdoom fork will have texture filtering off my default!

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Miles Softail @stagefatality.bsky.social · 12h

out of all the stupid things he's said and done this is easily the worst and most destructive. it's infuriating

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Astriddd 🏳️‍⚧️🔞🌸(COMMS OPEN) @asstitwau.bsky.social · 6d

Happy Bridgttt yippeee
#bridget

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Miles Softail @stagefatality.bsky.social · 12h

I think this is also gonna potentially open people's eyes more to DSDHACKED cause that's been showing a LOT of potential lately

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Miles Softail @stagefatality.bsky.social · 12h

He doubled down on this one too what a dumb fucking cunt

Miles Softail @stagefatality.bsky.social · 12h

Thankfully this seems like the last straw for a lot of people

I wish we collectively dumped him sooner, but hey- better late than never

github.com/ZDoom/gzdoom...

[Bug] Project management · Issue #3395 · ZDoom/gzdoom

Respectfully, @coelckers can you please stop pushing to master If 61123d8 needed "clarifying", it should have been a drafted PR You have pushed untested code. Leaving a note for people to "test lat...

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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 13h

everyone on the gzdoom maintenance team hated this fyi github.com/ZDoom/gzdoom...

[Bug] Project management · Issue #3395 · ZDoom/gzdoom

github.com

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Miles Softail @stagefatality.bsky.social · 13h

I have been rocking Nugget Doom for some time. It's got pretty much all the support that DSDA has but with Crispy Doom's rendering (and some other nice things).

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Miles Softail @stagefatality.bsky.social · 13h

I don't know how this dude keeps fixing me reasons to dislike him on a cosmic fucking level but this easily takes the cake

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Miles Softail @stagefatality.bsky.social · 13h

Holy shit, Graf /REALLY/ done did it now.

Win98 Tech Support @win98tech.bsky.social · 13h

Jesus goddamn fucking christ is there anything ai hasn't fucked up completely

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Mijiu 米酒🍚 @miijiu.bsky.social · 1d

🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱
#blazethecat #art

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