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thirty-two
@j.holmes.codes
Developer ∪ Designer, pixel artist, digital archaeologist of Sierra On-Line games, retro IBM PCjr developer, baker. An Ernie in a world of Berts. (he/him ∨ they/them)

sometimes /^(the)?32bitkid$/ in other places.
There have been serval points in my life where I looked around and had to ask “what the fuck are we even doing right now?!”

Sometimes that’s been a relationship, sometimes it’s been a job. Other times it’s been larger than that, sometimes it’s just been me.

Today, however, is one of those days.
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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The technology has been healed. The lost progress from the crash at the end of last stream has been retread. Lets get back to Gabriel Knight 2!

www.twitch.tv/princesspear...
PrincessPearlMermaid - Twitch
Wolves? Where?!- Gabriel Knight 2
www.twitch.tv
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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yessssss time to upgrade my old fostex hard drive mixer/recorder to use SDcards lol
Are you ready for #PicoIDE? It seems to be telling me it's ready. Coming soon: ATAPI optical disc emulation and IDE hard drive emulation. picoide.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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extremely rude that this wasn't it
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Chicken Alfredo with grilled carrots.

Grilled carrots are severely underrated in my book. Magnificent.
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Made a lowpoly Rocinante from The Expanse a couple of years ago
November 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Not going to lie, I really don’t know what a Funko Pop even is. I mean, I’ve seen boxes but is… like… that *it*? 🤷 I’m not exactly sure if I’ve ever seen one *out* of the box, are you even supposed to take them out? Or the box part of it? 🤷

Or do you literally just stack them and call it a day?
November 9, 2025 at 5:49 AM
No matter what you feel about the use of AI voice/TTS in Arc Raiders, I can say without a doubt that the actual performance/voice acting is *objectively terrible*. Easily the worst part of the game.

The delivery is weird, flat and the game would be better with no voice acting at all, that *this*.
Not to be the fun police but I do hope people know that Arc Raiders does use generative AI for voice acting, and by supporting the game you're letting higher-ups know that this is an okay practice.

They try to downplay this on the Steam store page by describing the AI usage as vaguely as possible.
November 9, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Wait…

Coca-cola thinks people are nostalgic for…

[rechecks notes]

…holiday semi trucks?!

What?!
November 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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I'm fuckin, desperate to go put my head on a pillow, but I'm curious if theres any like...fast structure for storytelling tools out there? Not AI, fuck AI.

I mean more like, if I want to tell a 15 min story with 3 endings how do I approach that from a writing/narrative POV.
November 8, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Fully routed, DRC passed with no errors or warnings.

Still stuff to do. It will get revised based on feedback from the current spin, which hasn't even shipped yet, and I still have to go over the BOM and make sure it's right. Et cetera, et cetera.
November 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I realized a while back that there are four types of people when you run out of mayo:

1. The kind that goes to the store to get mayo
2. The kind that has zero shame getting Uber-eats to bring them a single jar of mayo
3. The kind that makes mayo from eggs and oil
November 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Also heads up: I hope to do a few streams of the original 1992 PC game for DOSember this year! Meant to do it last year, actually, but didn't get to stream as much as I wanted to and never got to it.
Nothing to see here. Just a sneak peek at my reboot of Planet's Edge, the first game I had a major role in developing way back at the start of my dev career @ New World Computing. #RPG #IndieDev #TeamOfMe #SciFi #Blender #UnrealEngine #SomethingAboutThatChest #CrossingTheStreams
November 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"which principles? WHICH PRINCIPLES?!"
November 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Senior illustrator, with 20 years of experience and a specialty in game art.

I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.
November 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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And they're done
They look so good and my apartment smells only l like something most people only know from expensive candles
November 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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What a great damn ending <3
November 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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MFW I read the news and decide that maybe I should stop reading the news
November 6, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Libraries matter. Access matters.

After years of legal battles, the Internet Archive is still here—and still fighting for a world where everyone can read, learn, and remember.

@arstechnica.com tells the story: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.
arstechnica.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Excuse me while I put up print-out “The Dining Room” paper signs in my place, even though I’m the only person who lives here.

Totally normal thing to do, right?

RIGHT?!
[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!
November 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Oh, that's not good.
November 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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I'm just realising lighting doesn't really have to make sense

#pixelart
November 5, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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damn right we did
BREAKING: In Colorado, Voters approved a ballot measure to raise state income taxes on households earning $300,000 or more in order to fund free meals for all public school students.

They voted to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay for free meals for public school students.
November 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Old Skies is part of the Story Rich promotion on GOG at the moment!

www.gog.com/en/promo/202...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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My cold has been well and truly shaken off, so I'm picking up Half-Life 2 again tonight! I don't remember what I was doing, but I'm pretty sure it involved shooting fascists, which never gets old.

www.twitch.tv/papayachemist
PapayaChemist - Twitch
Variety streamer with an emphasis on adventure games and the like. If it's narrative-heavy, it's almost certainly my jam.
www.twitch.tv
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM