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Marat
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An indie in London, I build games that are destined to die out
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November 15, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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It’s a big old mess of people trying to business it up and even more people making stuff because they can and in some cases, simply because it’s funny. And the former has always dominated the mainstream perception of what games is, what games are, and it’s always been a pet hate of mine.
November 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
A paper mache katana made of 80gsm A20 would not only be very sharp but also infinitely dense
November 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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For real paper down to A10 size this doesn't make a significant difference... it does mean that for our purposes (i.e. fun purposes) the new sizes change a little:

* A21 paper and smaller is 0mm x 0mm
* A20 is 0mm x 1mm
* A19 is a 1mm square
* A18 is 1mm x 2mm
* blah
November 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Found some interesting stuff on this;

Purging Stone is a "Curse-resolving Stone"
gist.github.com/Meowmaritus/...

Lokey Souls writes heavily about the style of descriptions and how localisation affects them, even with a section specifically about Purging Stones:
lokeysouls.com/2021/02/23/r...
November 3, 2025 at 7:23 AM
While playing, my computer crashed at 2am. Thankfully it was right after I copy-pasted a list of my conclusions into Notepad, which, mercifully, was still in my clipboard when my computer started back up
November 3, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Once you realize that there is an infinite amount of work to do, it gets more manageable.
November 3, 2025 at 1:57 AM
After careful consideration, we hereby award you this Bronze Medal in Cooking, redeemable in the gift store for 1 (one) recipe book or 2 (two) commemorative teaspoons
November 3, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Links are stored separately to the post text, and the post writing modal will automatically parse and save them - you probably typed "system.new " then erased ".new " to write ", new " :0
November 1, 2025 at 7:19 PM
We get enough from the IHDR block to know it's a 1146x292 pixel image in TrueColor!

The starting bytes \x89PNG\r\n are missing from the Base64 though, must be cropped off on the left.

Fun fact: IHDR doesn't have to be the first block, but it usually is
November 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
regression test my beloved
November 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM