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The first 3 letters of “Sweden“ and “Denmark“ spell out “Sweden.“ The remaining letters spell out “Denmark.“

Edit 2025-10-10: See tldr.nettime.org/@kdawson/1153 for all of the country pairs (in English) that play this trick.

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On Framework's latest controversy,

Work is work and if someone can keep their personal views out of it when it's not relevant, the quality of the work should be judged on it's own merits. I don't think holding that principle of neutrality is a very far reach. It is not Framework's duty to only support the people you like because of the reasons you approve. Particularly if we are talking about open source software where many of these are not directly making a profit, and particularly when this is a business and not a person. There's a dedicated time and place for everything.

I've watched a lot of maintainers gatekeep their projects to only contributors or members they agree with, and it never ends well for them, even if the people kicked out were objectively in the wrong. It demonstrates to onlookers that the maintainers care more about their own reputation than skill. And most of these are the same kinds of people who will insert extreme political messaging into projects that favor themselves. Probably the nastiest examples are when Discord Chat Exporter and node-ipc were compromised to target Russian users, with DRM and aggressive malware respectively. Not the government, mind you, but random ordinary people they thought were Russian. It's cultist bullshit.

Also, vaxry isn't even an extremist, all of that shit was made up by a known pedophile because he was mad he couldn't control vax's project. Never seen any serious proof of the claims against him. So even if this "you're supporting a nazi" stuff had any weight, it's aimed at the wrong people.
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If there's one lesson people should learned over the last decade it's that there is no shortage of opportunists that will wear your deeply held beliefs as a skin suit to push their own deranged and nefarious ends.
Movements that don't enforce quality control are always going to devolve into the worst characterization of their participants.

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I will never judge someone for using Omarchy because I myself am using Nobara. Which is basically the same thing but the opinionated developer is a gamer

So in the latest news of FOSS drama, it seems like leftists are in a hissy-fit because Framework dared to fund an apolitical distro that refuses to include a CoC.

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Obviously I'm not an artist, but it would be something *like* this but using something better than Paint with some more realism and color. I just want that sketchy vibe.

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Well, I can't find any tilesets that would be a good starting point besides the default assets. Man why do those have to be so damn good? xD I think with proper use of lighting they could really work, but I'd like to get something else if I can.

I have thought about commissioning a tileset outright to get exactly the style I want, but that's going to be $$$. Ideally I would want the game to look really sketchy and unrefined. I think that would work well as an equivalent to the PS1 style of horror where it looks "off" due to the low fidelity.

I could just do what I did with God's Disdain and use the default assets but crunch them down to half-res and then take it one step further by desaturating them... I'll have to play around with it.

If I use the default assets, at least if I need extra stuff I can just commission the extra stuff in the same style. I do want to try and get the game looking visually distinct somehow, though.

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A REQUEST: If you own a French CD-ROM computer game called "Pop Anim'", please let me know. I could use it for some research but haven't been able to find a circulating copy yet. (It's at the BnF but I can't get there right now.)

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