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Retroquad's Patreon was launched: patreon.com/mankrip It will feature content that is way more in-depth than my Twitter and YouTube accounts. All future Retroquad releases will be done through it. If the minimum goal isn't reached, Retroquad will have to be cancelled.

@vluchitz A truck pushed me out of the road. Nothing major.

@mankrip WTF happened there :O

Just another day in my life.

it’s fascinating that today modern humans are still running a credential matching algorithm disguised as attraction. e.g. 6ft, symmetrical face, status markers… these are visible proxies that compress well into a profile or a first impression yet will never tell you whether or not someone will abandon you in times of high variance entropy like if you get sick or something. the latter gets systematically underweighted because it doesn’t resolve until the option period has long expired. only when you’re older you realize that the only thing that survives the death of eros is logos.

@falco_girgis The circles are his farts now, hilarious. Still an impressive work.

OH, HELL NO!!! Some poor sap just reported that we have a game-breaking bug in our port of Super Mario 64 to the Sega Dreamcast! EVIDENTLY you are rewarded for collecting all 120 stars and defeating the final Bowser encounter with... a game-breaking glitch that causes Mario to die as he flies off to into the sunset??? 🤣 Here's an actual hardware capture of me loading it up on my DC to see if I could repro... and sure enough... not only that, but the circles caused by Bowser stomping the ground are flying up in the air??? WOW. We missed this on the first release! Lucky for you guys, the same chad who reported the issue, Gazu, is not only working diligently to fix these bugs, but he has also taken the liberty of implementing VMU extras into the game! Now the VMU plays a scrolling animation of Mario's face during cutscenes and shows the power gauge during normal gameplay or the breathe gauge while underwater, in real-time! I'll let you guys know when we're ready for an updated release!

@celestialbe1ng But many women love when men become savage beasts... What a dilemma.

@xgramiliki E eu com isso.

“Queria que a Nintendo voltasse com o investimento em jogos mais maduros, como ela fazia nos anos 2000” > Mario Kart Tour recebe classificação +18 “Aí Gramiliki, seu jogo Nintendo +18 kkk”

Too bad this Sega Genesis / Mega Drive game was never finished. The developer seems to have disappeared years ago. Voxel-based first person 3D rescue game with depth lighting and destructible terrain.

@CollinRugg This song is quite amusing; it truly deserves a Grammy.😂🎤

Here's how I fit 256 unique stages into just 224 bytes in the NES version of Murtop. I'm so low on memory that I had to pack everything as tightly as possible. Any tips on how to improve it are welcome 🙂 Let's start a thread 🧵👇 #NESdev #NEShomebrew #ファミコン #gamedev

@mark_k I can't wait for me to be the only reply shitposter left. At least I try to do it with style!

X seems to have found methods to curb the reply-spamming. This can't come soon enough because it's getting really annoying. 🫩 I wonder how it will work?

The Norwegian government is adamant to bankrupt me. I am desperate for a job to cover the amount they unrightfully demand from me. If you need someone who is into real-time algorithmic optimisation, mostly for video games and AR/VR, please let me know. Portfolio linked below:

Social media turned the Dunning-Kruger effect into a feature: the less someone knows, the more confidently they post about it. Algorithms amplify loud nonsense over quiet expertise, echo chambers make ignorance feel like consensus, and humility gets buried. Bertrand Russell said it best: "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." Welcome to Idiocracy, 500 years early.

@pikuma Let's C about that.

Eww

@HeavyMetalRMN @OatmealDome Not in the bathroom, in the bus, and at my job.

@mankrip @OatmealDome You don't own a TV?

[Nintendo Switch 2 System Update] Version 22.0.0 adds "Handheld Mode Boost". This will make Switch 1 games think that they are in TV mode even when in handheld. Games can run at higher resolutions in TV mode, taking better advantage of the Switch 2's 1080p screen.

"The lighting looks nice... Oh no, it's gen AI!! It's ugly, it's ugly!" How tiresome. I do have criticisms against gen AI, but I can't side with irrational people whose opinions boils down to blind hatred.

Criticism of generative AI used to be intelligent. But the quality of the arguments people make against it is taking a nosedive.

@celestialbe1ng Signs of either a chronically accelerated metabolism, or a stressful lifestyle. Since my metabolism is chronically slow, when I need to get calm I just do nothing.

The thing that still amazes me to this day is how calm and almost tranquil I feel every time after giving myself a 3 minute lymphatic drainage routine. Truly one of the highest ROI activities in my opinion It’s like someone turns the volume down on everything. The mental chatter, the tension in my jaw, that low-grade anxiety that most people just accept as normal: gone. Your lymphatic system has no pump. Unlike your circulatory system, it relies entirely on movement and manual stimulation to move fluid. When it stagnates, you’re essentially marinating in your own metabolic waste: cortisol byproducts, inflammatory debris, excess estrogen that your liver is trying to clear. 3 minutes of dry brushing or gua sha or just your own fingers toward the lymph nodes and you’re physically assisting your body in removing the things that make you puffy, inflamed, anxious and old. The calm you feel afterwards is your nervous system shifting out of sympathetic dominance bc you’ve just reduced the toxic burden your body was fighting against. Zero cost & zero supplements. Just your hands and 3 minutes. I like to do it in front of my red light, by the way If you’re not doing this daily, you’re leaving the easiest beauty and longevity hack on the table, lovie :)

ALRIGHTY FOLKS TIME FOR A HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT.... thanks to the hard work of @darcag3nt, the Nintendo Gamecube will soon be joining the Sega Dreamcast within the KallistiOS ecosystem! This means that we will soon be able to easily share code between the Dreamcast and Gamecube and target both with these homebrew games, ports, and apps you've been seeing that have been written using our KOS SDK! As a KOS contributor and developer, I have done my part to welcome the Gamecube into the fold by introducing a new back-end into my SH4ZAM fast-math and linear algebra library, which was originally only intended to target the Sega Dreamcast's SH4 CPU. SH4ZAM now supports a vanilla C-based software back-end, which allows you to write code that very efficiently targets the Dreamcast but also compiles and runs natively on literally anything with a C compiler and FPU. What you're seeing here is our Sega Dreamcast port of Super Mario 64 re-targeted to the Nintendo Gamecube, using KOS, a modified GLdc to target the GC's flipper GPU, and the same SH4ZAM library that accelerates the math in these ports, except using the new SW back-end! We've already done quite a bit of preliminary research into providing a dedicated, hand-optimized PPC-specific, accelerated SH4ZAM back-end to allow developers to fully utilize the GC's Gekko CPU as efficiently as SH4ZAM allows them to utilize the DC's SH4 CPU... and I'm convinced that the two CPUs have so much architecturally in common, especially in the area of FPU math, that SH4ZAM will work just as well for Gekko as it does for the SH4! For more information on the KallistiOS Gamecube back-end, infrastructure, and upcoming Mario 64 (and eventually GTA3/VC GC ports), follow @darcag3nt! If you're interested in checking out SH4ZAM, the source code is here: github.com/gyrovorbis/sh4…

This is 100% completely unsustainable as a society. Nearly 50% of all consumer spending now comes from the top 10% of earners. The bottom 80%? Their share keeps falling. This is why the economy can look strong in the data while millions of people feel like they're falling behind.