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@lunarfox @ArdainianRight @ChristiJunior This is literally the same as "the existence of intersex validates trannies" argument.

@lunarfox @ArdainianRight @ChristiJunior @KonataWagner Guess what? It's impossible to cater to literally every disability. That's just the cold hard facts. Deal with it!

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The speed difference between a fired bullet and cracks in glass

@Nelenese @ChristiJunior @s8n @coolboymew @noyoushutthefuckupdad I don't know if they would go back to it. Nintendo hasn't used MIDI music since the Wii era. It was only added in because the enemies would jump at every "bah".

I think that's also why Koji Kondo has distance himself from actual music production. Synthesized music seemed to be his specialty given that he's also a programmer.

@PhenomX6 @ChristiJunior @lunarfox @s8n @noyoushutthefuckupdad His post about how yard sales and doing side work for cash being "capitalist exploitation" really did piss me off though.

@noyoushutthefuckupdad @ChristiJunior @s8n He's currently working on the Super Mario Bros. movie. He isn't retried he's just seems to be overseeing audio production rather than producing audio himself.

@ChristiJunior @s8n @noyoushutthefuckupdad That minimalist music is actually common in open-world games. You spend more time in the overworld so you are going to get sick of the same music on loop.

@noyoushutthefuckupdad @ChristiJunior @s8n It became a lot more linear and story driven during the transition to 3D. Majora's Mask seems to be the one exception because the story unfolds as you do more sidequests. BoTW was way too empty and had the same 5 enemies throughout the entire overworld.

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After a week of development, and using existing code to get a head start, I have the beginnings of an ActivityPub server written. It currently does very little in the way of ActivityPub processing: there is an /inbox that dumps all requests to a queue for later processing (along with the information needed to validate the HTTP signature minis the public key), there is an /owner/actor and there is a very basic webfinger implementation.

This is enough to get the account viewable thru existing software (see @teknomunk), but not enough to actually interact with anyone. Implementing code to get incoming follow requests working is my next priority.

I'm already getting activities delivered (mastodon.social keeps wanting to Delete @bappity for some reason).

If this project doesn't stall, and enough projects I've started have stalled for me to hedge here, I expect to move to the new server when enough of the basic functionality is in place so that all my normal activities can be done without me switching accounts.
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Earth’s reflectiveness, or planetary albedo, may be primarily responsible for 21st century climate forcing.
"it is obvious that the increase in absorbed solar radiation, modulated by changes in cloud albedo, has been the dominant forcing factor driving warming in recent decades."
CO2 is a nothing burger. Clouds rule the climate, the sun is in charge.
https://notrickszone.com/2022/12/15/new-study-shortwave-climate-forcing-increased-from-2001-2018-explaining-the-warming/
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@clipperchip @opal @hermit Every language needs to have someone to write a game in it.

@opal @hermit @clipperchip Just by looking at it, it seems more versatile than batch files which I used to make games with back in middle school.

@opal @hermit @clipperchip Would it be possible to make a text-adventure in VimScript. I never messed with it.

@ArdainianRight @ChristiJunior @PraxisOfEvil We are getting to the point where you can be canceled for not being explicitly woke.

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