foone

lily , vor 13 Stunden an Random Englisch

how to make an urban legend in your game, in the internet age

make a rare event that happens in hidden area, like 1% of the time, but every month the game is out, the chance of it happening drops by 0.1%.

the event also doesn't happen if it detects any common streaming software, like OBS.

also, all the assets for the event would be embedded into the binary, so dataminers would have to decompile it to confirm its existence.

oh, and in a switch port, it would disable video snapshots while the event is active

foone , vor 12 Stunden

@lily you should also hide the resources so that dataminers don't easily confirm it.
Hide textures inside sound files. Models inside textures. Voice lines and text steganographically encoded in splash screens.

artandtechnic , vor 14 Stunden an Random Englisch

I should have taken a picture of the error screen on the kiosk when I was inside Walgreens earlier this week.

https://mastodon.social/@verge/112765068934804250

foone , vor 13 Stunden

@artandtechnic huh! That's weird but amazingly, not surprising.

foone , vor 13 Stunden

@artandtechnic yeah I imagine it's some combination of that and treating the people who install them as contractors. It makes more (financial) sense to hire someone to fling DVDs in it from a local store than it does to actually coordinate inventory and shipments

foone , vor 15 Stunden an Random Englisch

A discussion from Tumblr about my Brazilian Pride Flag Conflict re: VGAPride got reposted on reddit, and it's hilarious how different the reaction is.

So many people there are like "why are you having this problem? MS-DOS? just design the flag in inkscape or g*mp! why would you want to design a pride flag for DOS?"

It's real sad. They just don't understand why anyone would write software to display pride flags on DOS.

foone OP , vor 15 Stunden

@brhfl I honestly don't know what they think. Why would someone be doing this in 2024 if not because they're a retrotech nerd?

foone OP , vor 15 Stunden

no one had the correct response, which is FOONE THIS THREAD IS SIX MONTHS OLD
WIKIPEDIA STILL HAS THE BAD FLAG
WIKIPEDIA STILL THINKS THE BAD FLAG IS PUBLIC DOMAIN
AND VGAPRIDE HASN'T BEEN UPDATED TO HAVE A BETTER FLAG YET

foone OP , vor 15 Stunden (Bearbeitet vor 12 Stunden)

You can see the thread here:

https://foone.tumblr.com/post/755662493071900672/this-has-been-screenshotted-onto-reddit-and-the

But the tl;dr is that VGAPride (my DOS program for showing pride flags) has a very complicated Brazil flag, which was annoying to implement, but it's also wrong. It turns out it's wrong because wikipedia is wrong. And wikipedia has the wrong copyright on the wrong flag.

foone OP , vor 14 Stunden

@LionsPhil ugh. so many sites do that now. I hate it.

secretasianman , vor 14 Stunden an Random Englisch

Today was a little rough but I also learned about the cool crab pride flag so I guess we're even h/t @foone

https://github.com/foone/VGAPride/tree/main/crabs

foone , vor 14 Stunden

@secretasianman all salute the cool crab pride flag

foone , vor 16 Stunden an Random Englisch

I think the job app is just making up terms.

It's like "do you have SSCP certification? how about MTA? JKLW? VVTXY? POVW? FFX2?"

foone OP , vor 16 Stunden

@keithmann reportedly windows itself does that. When you install a new driver it goes "hey driver, do you support texture compression? accelerated bitblt? and how about FakeTechThatDoesn'tExist?" and if the driver says "yes" to that last one, it ignores all the acceleration that the driver says it supports, since it's obviously a liar.

foone OP , vor 15 Stunden

@PJ_Evans that'd be nice. instead of weird useless certifications, quiz me on cheat codes for old games. I've got way more knowledge in that area

foone OP , vor 15 Stunden

@wollman I'm definitely FCKGW certified.

I used to have a windows 98 serial key memorized because I worked at a PC repair shop back in the day and had to reinstall that OS all the time

mcc , vor 16 Stunden an Random Englisch

I just figured out why every time for the last six years someone has talked about "Jon Favreau" from Pod Save America it has made me so confused

foone , vor 16 Stunden

@mcc
also:

Andi "mcc" McClure: did not work in the Obama Administration
Foone "foone" Turing: did work in the Obama Administration

typeswitch , vor einem Tag an Random Englisch

programming languages are actually a massive distraction from the main job of a programmer, which is to weep

foone , vor 16 Stunden

@typeswitch it turns out I am a better programmer than I thought!

whitequark , vor einem Tag an Random Englisch

WebUSB and WebSerial exist so now they should make WebPCIe too

how else would I access my Thunderbolt device from a webpage?

foone , vor 18 Stunden

@grumpybozo @whitequark chrome only supports 50-pin webscsi but firefox only supports 68-pin

18+ whitequark , vor einem Tag an Random Englisch

i wanted to see if anyone wrote fibrechannel fic and the answer is not but check this out:

18+ foone , vor einem Tag

@whitequark ahh, no, it was just a joke about sex, rather than erotica. I misremembered where I was talking about SCSI:

https://www.tumblr.com/foone/755242089683550208/shes-naked-on-the-bed-looking-bored-and-im?source=share