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Brian Swetland
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Writes the codes. Recovering OS Engineer (BeOS, HiptopOS, Android, LK, Fuchsia). Embedded systems hacker. Hobbyist Digital Designer. Player of video games. Etc.

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I think I'm getting better, but I think maybe I've also been lucky, or am going to experience a difficulty gradient further up the ladder, since the stats sites say this deck has ~%55 win rate whereas it's been nearly 70% for me so far. It's certainly exceeded expectations!

#magicarena
December 3, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Diving back into Magic Arena (it's been a couple years), and having fun with this Mono Black Demons deck I saw. At least for best-of-one low level ranked play it's not bad, and it's been pretty fun sorting out how to best use all the bits […]

[Original post on chaos.social]
December 2, 2025 at 1:13 AM
For long form webcomic enjoyers, Evan Dahm's 3rd Voice just concluded its second volume, so there are now 814 pages of post-apocalyptic second-world fantasy adventure for you to enjoy (or revisit!): https://rice-boy.com/3rdvoice/

(A few pages from near the […]

[Original post on chaos.social]
December 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The alternate-universe-90s setting in Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake has some fantastic computers.

#tv #fionnaandcake
November 21, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Timberborn is very satisfying. The Great Works go well.

#gaming #Timberborn
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Trying out Whiskerwood (in Early Access), which is very much a Colony Builder, emphasis on Colony, down to colonists and supplies being dropped off by ship and regular ships to collect oppressive taxes on everything...

#gaming #whiskerwood
November 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
With the new season of Fionna and Cake airing, I've found myself watching some old Adventure Time episodes, first to refresh myself on Huntress Wizard lore, then just to revisit some old favorites. Wow, "I Remember You" (S04E25) still hits so hard. What a show. #adventuretime #fionnaandcake #tv
November 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Became aware of this really slick 70ns 5v 256K DIP ROM emulator today, thanks to a friend who's using it for a hardware project.
https://github.com/wickerwaka/PicoROM
#tools #projects #rom
October 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Oh, awesome, an inventory space upgrade!

Ha, survival horror strikes again.

#gaming #silenthillf
October 14, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Everything's better with a naginata.

#gaming #silenthillf
October 13, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Okay, I guess now I need to actually start compiling some code to run on the RP2350...

(Thanks again, @wren6991)

#projects #xdebug
October 9, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Does *this* loop?
October 7, 2025 at 10:11 AM
This was satisfying!

I guess THE REAL HADES II STARTS HERE.

#hades2 #gaming
October 4, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Last October I was introduced to One Cut of the Dead, a 2017 Japanese indie zombie comedy horror movie.

Given that it is the season once again for spooky movies, I figured I should remind folks that this amazing little film exists, is a whole bunch of fun, and […]

[Original post on chaos.social]
October 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Oh yay. At some point clean art of these t-shirts was included as a bonus.

#manga #girlmeetsrock
September 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I'm very amused by these END OF HIRAGANA and GOOD OLD HIRAGANA t-shirts in Girl Meets Rock...

#manga #girlmeetsrock #japanese
September 19, 2025 at 4:10 AM
The past few years have been good for girls-in-bands anime and manga, and Girl Meets Rock is right up there. Chihiro may be the main character, but Rin is clearly the best character.

#manga #girlmeetsrock
September 17, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Over on Bluesky people are upset about some (once again) shitty moderation decisions and once again the bsky folks are citing their "open protocol" as a magic solution, ignoring the fact that without non-bsky-operated instances that folks can migrate to, it's […]

[Original post on chaos.social]
September 13, 2025 at 7:06 AM
This might count as a spoiler if you're very spoiler sensitive, but it's a short little further interaction with the weird little bug in the above post that shows off some wonderful animation that's so typical of Silksong...
September 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
It is good to be adventuring in bug world again.

#gaming #silksong
September 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Not sure if I missed it in the quick start instructions, but looks like a need a little bucket to catch the waste filament the X1C poops out every now and again...
August 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Articulated Lizard. So far the out-of-the-box experience with the X1C has been pretty painless. Only minor issue was that it didn't like not being on the same subnet as the slicer/controller program.

https://www.printables.com/model/178034-articulated-lizard-v2
August 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
20x20x20 calibration cube measures 19.93x19.93x20.02 mm
August 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Calibrating...
August 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
CITY THE ANIMATION.
Episode Five.
Nagumo takes a phone call.

#anime #citytheanimation
August 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM