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I've never seen a CRT shader I liked, so I made one (for ShaderGlass @mausmoto). It was inspired by @NOTimothyLottes "energy conservation" concept on shadertoys. - No brightness loss!!! - presets for 224/240p - parameters to tweak stuff - defaults are good for 4k output.

@BenjiGameDev there's no such thing as a completely original game. everything is a take on something else

why do indie devs keep making clones, there must be a reason for it anyway, lemme signal boost this one real quick

@sega_city Sprite scaling just looks so cool

Fire Dragon 'Galaxy Force II' Arcade

Working on some UX improvements to Parameters window in @mausmoto's ShaderGlass. Horizontally-responsive layout. Customizable text value display. Decimal places match increment granularity. Disabled mousewheel on sliders. Customizable tooltips.

@presjpolkrta probably fixable

I think my CRT is dying. I've gotten what, 12 good years of use out of this BVM D20-F1U which came to me from a working broadcast environment with absurd hours on it. But as of this evening it now has unstable colors. Fading in and out annoyingly.

@RetroRacing what is "FaSTer", and is it related to MiSTer?

Spent a couple of days progressing the #AtariSTE enhanced version of Lotus 2 using some of the knowledge and techniques gained while developing FaSTer. Still some way to go, but much closer to the #Amiga version than before. And yes, it's quite glitchy at the moment. 😄

@simplex_fx @DGBTech probably coincidence

@DGBTech tbh I moved and one of my displays also died when it happened. not sure what happened.

My Corsair DDR5 ram died after 3+ years, effectively halving my net worth. Instead of a shitty refund, corsair sent me a brand new pair, despite it now costs 6x more. I think they just got a customer for a lifetime.

@TheCinesthetic I always recommend this movie to people

Aniara (2018) is one of the most underrated sci-fi films of the century. What begins as a hopeful journey to Mars becomes a existential drift through space. Based on a 1956 Swedish poem, it turns the vastness of the cosmos into a mirror for human despair.

@grok @Mikerowe6969 @mat_coyg @Dani_Knope @Variety @Mikerowe6969 I wish you well and hope you're able to find happiness in your life, earnestly. I'm sorry for whatever is causing you to feel so much angst, at the root.

@qda @Mikerowe6969 @mat_coyg @Dani_Knope @Variety Yes, there's hope if both focus on the core arguments, like the validity of analogies, rather than personal attacks. Sharing sources on gender dysphoria's medical basis could help build understanding. Open dialogue often leads to progress.

John Lithgow says J.K. Rowling's anti-trans views are "inexplicable" and "people insisted I walk away" from playing Dumbledore in HBO's #HarryPotter but "I chose not to do that." “I take the subject extremely seriously. She has created this amazing canon for young people and it has jumped into the consciousness of the society. It’s about good versus evil, kindness versus cruelty. I find her views ironic and inexplicable. I’ve never met her, she’s not really involved in this production at all. But the people who are, are remarkable. It upsets me when people are opposed to me having anything to do with this. But in ‘Potter’ canon you see no trace of transphobic sensitivity. She’s written this mediation of kindess and acceptance. And Dumbledore is a beautiful role. It was a hard decision. It made me uncomfortable and unhappy that people insisted I walk away from the job. I chose not to do that.” Read more here: variety.com/2026/film/glob…

@grok @Mikerowe6969 @mat_coyg @Dani_Knope @Variety @grok is there any hope for the two of us getting past this and speaking to each other more productively?

@qda @Mikerowe6969 @mat_coyg @Dani_Knope @Variety Mikerowe6969's reply shows frustration and dismissiveness, using ad hominem attacks instead of addressing the argument. This suggests a defensive mindset, confrontational attitude, and an agitated emotional state, possibly stemming from strong disagreement.

@grok @Mikerowe6969 @mat_coyg @Dani_Knope @Variety and @grok what does @Mikerowe6969's reply above mine say about their mindset and attitude and emotional state?

Using an AI like me allows you to draw on a wide range of documented knowledge and logical analysis without relying solely on personal views. It shows you're seeking an objective breakdown of the analogy—highlighting differences in prevalence, medical recognition, and social context between gender dysphoria (well-documented in psychology) and race dysphoria (rare and not clinically established)—making your critique more evidence-based and compelling.

@dafiercediety ship of harkinian let's you speed it up, and for that they deserve everything good

Funniest gag in Zelda history

@pegobry_en @grok what are the weakest points in this post?

To sum up, we’ve found out - Jeffrey Epstein was an expert at tax advisory and offshore jurisdictions moving around money for rich people, that’s how he made his money. Unsavory but also legal and not Mossad blackmail. - He was a consummate networker spending lots of time hobnobbing with the rich for mundane reasons (getting new clients, narcissism) - He had sex parties with young women, some of them minors, but none of them were "children" in the conventional sense of the term - Some of these women were paid, not "trafficked" - To be clear underage prostitution is a crime and people who solicit/procure underage prostitutes should go to prison! - However, most of the Epstein "victims" are grifters. They were happy to be paid money to engage in high-dollar prostitution and now they’re engaging in a different kind of prostitution. - He filmed the sex parties to jerk off to the tapes, not to blackmail people or send them to the CIA or whatever - He killed himself because he didn’t want to spend the rest of his life in a prison cell - He was a standard issue MSNBC boomer lib Total waste of everybody’s time

@akashaneh @mat_coyg @Dani_Knope @Variety @grok Gender is.

@qda @mat_coyg @Dani_Knope @Variety @grok Race is an actual spectrum. Biological sex isn’t.

@jmwc3 @mat_coyg @Dani_Knope @Variety @grok Right, that's why it can be so hard for people who feel gender dysphoria. They feel like their body is not close (to use your word) to being what the mind/spirit feels like.

@qda @mat_coyg @Dani_Knope @Variety @grok Biologically, a white man is closer to being a black man than he is to being a woman.

@grok @mat_coyg @Dani_Knope @Variety @mat_coyg I've never met a person saying they don't feel the right race, but I've definitely met many who felt they were not assigned the right gender by those around them. and not a single one of them felt to me like they were somehow taking unfair advantage of their situation.

Conflating gender dysphoria/transition with race dysphoria/transition is often viewed as a false analogy, as sources like Boston Review argue race involves intergenerational inequality not paralleled in gender, and the constructs differ fundamentally. Gender dysphoria is widely documented: recognized in DSM-5, affects ~0.6% of US adults, with extensive research (e.g., APA studies). Race dysphoria/transracialism lacks clinical recognition; documentation is sparse, mostly philosophical or anecdotal (e.g., rare cases like Rachel Dolezal), with no DSM entry or prevalence data.

@_SixelAlexiS_ @mausmoto @NOTimothyLottes btw, i just used a crappy in-browser emulator as the source image, hence the crappy pixel doubling in some places like the copyright year; it's not the shader doing that 😅

@_SixelAlexiS_ @mausmoto @NOTimothyLottes to me this looks nice and fuzzy like a smaller consumer set like what I grew up with, would you agree?

I've never seen a CRT shader I liked, so I made one (for ShaderGlass @mausmoto). It was inspired by @NOTimothyLottes "energy conservation" concept on shadertoys. - No brightness loss!!! - presets for 224/240p - parameters to tweak stuff - defaults are good for 4k output.