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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

specifically, like a bar heater that hasn't been used in a while warming up.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

trying a new herbal tea and it smells like a heating element

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

if i was dubious on the claim that the data centre attacks had that much an impact on propaganda bots, musk restricting starlink access has cured me of any such doubts.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Alright visual studio, calm down 😳

Text log from Visual Studio:

15:26 41.07 Code changes were successfully applied.
15:26 51.29 Code changes were successfully applied.
15:27 24.61 Code changes were successfully applied.
16:26 35.39 GristMonoConsole (27):25952: The process has exited.
16:26 35.39 GristMonoConsole (27): Hot Reload session complete.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Seems to me if you made AI (LLM) providers liable for the crimes committed by the AI, there'd very likely be no crimes.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

He still does, but he used to, too.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

the other one was bit tooo fantasy for a game that starts out in a neon metropolis... so balanced out with some firearms and a hexmap in classic COMPUTER TIME GREEN. redid all my steam capsules etc. i think they are super readable now, especially on phone/deck.

two characters face off on the background of a green ascii hex grid. one in yellow wields a back-slash for a sword, and a D for a shielD (no pun detected). the other in orange is charging forward, rifle at the ready. probably dont' charge with rifles but idk it's more dynamic. thanks.

also the G in GRIST is a G shaped dollar sign because GRIST is moneybags.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

how do we feel about a new capsule??

An ascii figure wielding sword and shield stands between two cracked skulls. On either side, large torches frame the scene. Above, the word "GRIST", the title of the game. The G is also a dollar sign of sorts, for the currency GRIST.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

ugh! i wasted so much time and energy listening to people who didn't actually give a shit one way or the other but just wanted to make their noise.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

heads up if you're out there and you played my game grist please consider leaving a review on steam it would really help us out!

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I also see a Tascam 144 four track (with the coloured knobs) and the box with blue buttons behind her in the first pic is an Emu Drumulator.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Google just rebranded existing cloud storage plans as AI plans, inventing paying users out of thin air.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The core memory radiation... It's off the charts...

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

at first i had an updating log while they were out, somewhat in the vein of Progress Quest, but i think it works better with only a timer, and you can read the full log at your leisure once they return. the 20 minute interval makes a nice break between working and checking in on the adventurers.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

toying with an "interval rpg" idea where you spend a couple of minutes engaged essentially in theory-crafting, then let your adventurers run off into the big bad world and wait literally 20+ minutes real time for them to come back and tell you what happened.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A peculiarly American thing. At least, I've personally never encountered water levels so precariously high in any other country.

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GG Studio, Indie Dev🎲 Chill Wizard Playtest is on Steam @ggstudio.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Stoked to be hosting the official #TurnBasedThursday on Bsky this week! 🔥 #gamedevs and #indiedevs — show us your turn-based projects in the comments (don't forget the hashtag!). Liking what you see? Hit that ❤️/🔁 and tag a dev who needs to be here!

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Here for #TurnbasedThursday, my ASCII hexcrawl/roguelite GRIST is out now on Steam. store.steampowered.com/app/2164660/... I have a big update coming September with new missions, environs, classes - a sneak preview of some of them below. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBWU... Thanks for hosting!

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Grist Gameplay August 2026

YouTube video by Chironex Studios

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echerry @echerryart.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

i don't want to go to OTT with it, but the flash that happens when you get hit seems a good candidate

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Added a selective emission channel, it's pretty subtle atm but i can add a glow effect to individual glyphs, for lasers/fire/etc. Zoomed in pic to show detail.

A zoomed in crop of an image from a game using ASCII graphics. A laser beam is mid-fire, heading towards a "warg" wolf enemy. the beam has a slight glow around it, while the other characters/graphics do not.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

little sketching this morning thinking about what i might do with the grist engine in the future. this is "billionaire bunker diving simulator", a game in which you raid dead billionaire's bunkers for clean drinking water, blood plasma, and crop seed.

a little pixel art sketch of a character wearing a breathing apparaturs and carrying a rifle, in a room with a computer on a desk and some kind of security door or sliding door. there are three flourescent downlights, and a HVAC vent visible.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

local takeaway has started doing chicken parmagiana and what the heck is going on here

three supposedly chicken parmagianas, rendering with increasing levels of horror by an image-generation AI. Jalapenos are turning into some kind of preserve lime wheel? mushrooms hallucinate into olives, into wasps nests and screaming faces. a pile of bubbling goop splats atop what is ostensibly a breaded chicken breast but instead looks more like baked beans.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

On sale for 1 more day... if you like fever dream sci-fi fighting riot cops in neon rain before riding a world-spanning elevator system down to the feudal forest lands below where you can blast mecha with your laser eye implants, consider checking this out. and if you like it, please leave a review!

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

i'm sorry but this is so fucking funny. remind me again of how centrist democrats did in the last general?

An australian newspaper artical headline "Democrats lurch to the left risks an epic backfiring"

it asks if democratic "populists ... will they prove too radical in the heat of a general election"

apparently does so with a straight face.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

had this negative-space pattern sitting around for so long i'm stoked to finally have it as a scrolling animation. got me to tidy up the background code too so it will be easier to make bgs built out of premade components going forward. most of them so far have just been fancy noise lookups

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I just uploaded the latest mission, and conviently it's still on sale store.steampowered.com/app/2164660/... It's a crunchy sci-fi rpg with lots of mechanics and a plot that is as much William Gibson as it is Stanislaw Lem. Because _somebody_ has to make this stuff and it might as well be me.

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Save 25% on Grist on Steam

Explore the many lands of the Shell World Atropos, engaging in strategic card-based battles and TTRPG-style story choices and skill tests. Plan routes, rush bosses, and press your luck but beware: thi...

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The things that machine learning and pattern prediction are good at - finding novel drugs, curing cancers, those things - we were already doing and notably do not require the sheer immensity of resources that it takes to keep these chatbots running.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Dropping the philosophy, in practical terms it's an extremely expensive machine that produces extremely mediocre results, and is being used to pump the internet full of reactionary propaganda at a direct cost to the environment and mental health of the tax payers that subsidise it. Who likes that?

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Imo it's less about the AI being non-human and more about the AI companies being anti-human.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

i am really liking where this next mission is going

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

nice aesthetic, it's giving "The Sentinel" vibes

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I like my fiction like I like my tweets: optimised for engagement

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

that would be awesome, i can make you a package

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