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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 28/09/2026

Idea for Activision's first Halo: Spinoff farming simulator set on Harvest before and during the events of Contact Harvest. Stakes are high, leading the breadbasket of the complicated war against other humans. Until winter of year 2, when the stakes get even higher and the gameplay changes entirely

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 26/09/2026

KellyCrystal also has a few big fangames that I haven't played, and I'm excluding the many ROMhacks out there, but I'm mostly focusing on remake-style fangames.

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 26/09/2026

Going to play through the mainline 2D Metroid series in release order, including notable fangames. NEStroid, II, Super, Fusion, Zero Mission, AM2R (2.0 by then hopefully), Samus Returns, Dread, Prime 2D, Prime Origins fangame, then M. Planets Anything big I'm missing?

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 25/09/2026

March 28th 2025 I paid $186 for 64GB RAM. It goes for $1269 now, USED. (CORSAIR Vengeance DDR5 RAM 64GB (2x32GB) 6000MHz )

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 24/09/2026

quadruple-entendre title for my scarlet letter modern-day adaptation, "Parish the Thot"

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 23/09/2026

The title, of course, has a dual interpretation of "EVERYTHING YOU CAN SEE". When inspectors would visit Theranos lab, they would hide things. They would inspect everything they could see.

YouTube screenshot with the text "YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING", with "EVERYTHING" wrapped around so that it is left-of-and-below, so that it might also read "EVERYTHING YOU CAN SEE". YouTube's "Show" button is in the top right.

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 21/09/2026

michaeleskin.com/tools/ocarin... Also quite useful is this in-browser abc notation -> ocarina tab composer.

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12-Hole Ocarina Tab Creator

Utility for creating fingering tab for 12 hole ocarinas.

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 21/09/2026

As of Unicode 17.0, X也 should be in the standard, as well as a rare variation of 他 replacing the radical for person 人 with one more explicitly male ( 男也) These should be "𲎿" and "𲰼", respectively, but I don't know anyone or anywhere which supports them.

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 21/09/2026

I say this all as an English-speaking American who speaks a little bit of Chinese trying to navigate some spaces. I am not an expert or authority. But for a few years I used 也 as a gender pronoun, so "it" is on the table, despite 他 having an ostensibly gender-neutral read

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 21/09/2026

他， or "he", is "it" 它 + person 人她, or "she" is "it" 它 + woman 女 Other variations exist, like antiquated "牠" (e.g. used for the horror movie It) or "祂" for deities. Modern and intentionally gender-neutral variants proposed are X他 (where X is like a radical) or just "ta" (as in 我爱ta的狗)

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 21/09/2026

It must be universal that language learners will sometimes mix things up when one word translates to two+ in another language. So, I'll hear Chinese new ESL sometimes say "he" for women (See also: Eng->Esp with I am -> Soy/estoy, etc.) "Ta" is practically almost already a gender neutral pronoun

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 21/09/2026

Re: It/its pronouns: For a few years, my friend group were largely Chinese international students. In Chinese, singular pronouns are pronounced the same (ta), and only gender-differentiated only in writing (only recently, as ~100 yrs). He/she/it 他/她/它 and are made plural by adding "-men" (他们，etc)

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 21/09/2026

I think I don't want a typical static site generator, I think I want the ability to write Markdown inside of, say, a <markdown> tag. With no support in HTML spec, and wanting not to require JavaScript, I'm surprised to find there is no such HTML preprocessor that does this?

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 20/09/2026

We could replace the three-syllable "dou-ble-you" in W with "dub" or "dubs", giving us an alphabet composed of monosyllablic letters. Or, as a compromise, the two-syllable "dubya".

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 20/09/2026

Hey #ocarina students and educators. I couldn't find a free blank sheet music with ocarina staves, so I made one. It's free and fit for printing: carrion.0xpossum.dev/ocarina_stav...

Blank sheet music with treble clefs and blank 12 hole ocarina tabs

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 20/09/2026

Samus' armor "damaged" effect pops in 20 frames before the impact

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 19/09/2026

To extend the analogy, the chainsaw is currently working its way through our skull and it would be useful if we understood it well enough to turn it off and get it out

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 19/09/2026

If we're thinking of the same video, that is actually a super atypical (but very cool) training setup where the architecture grows new neurons during training. Usually the architecture is fixed before training m.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6U...

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MarI/O - Machine Learning for Video Games

YouTube video by SethBling

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 19/09/2026

(I do not know if there are any major spellcheckers which use transformers, but the iOS keyboard has had a small transformer built in since 2017, and I think it's very problematic, but for mostly different reasons than LLMs.)

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 19/09/2026

But social media algorithms specifically started adopting transformers since 2019 or so. These are the same kind of neural network architecture that all the LLM chatbots use, with largely the same risks and problems. I am saying this from an anti-AI place, we really should think of feeds as LLMs

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026

people are always saying anti-AI arguments don’t understand the full nuances of the technology. which is correct. but only because it stole everyone’s work, exists solely to get you fired, has made the entire internet unusable and has been forced on everyone without consent

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 19/09/2026

The companies which captured every aspect of public and private life - social networks, career, love, commerce, art, etc - are just employing the control that they always had. I don't have any knowledge that could guide us on how better to resist, unless I had the ear of two billion people.

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 19/09/2026

But is "Hey, your feed is just slop-curated posts, you're using AI" isn't useful for most people. Anti-AI beliefs aren't stronger than addictive AI-powered feeds. The only effect is that people feel dirty and conflicted with the info. But I feel doom, like over an extra-super-duper lost cause

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 19/09/2026

Further, social media feeds since ~2020 have largely been using seq2seq transformers, i.e. exactly the same things as in LLMs. Scrolling anywhere with "an algorithm" (X, IG, TT, YT) should be understood as "talking to an AI", the way AI is understood today, with all the same harms and risks.

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 19/09/2026

It'd be better if Team Anti-AI understood these models are capable and getting more capable over time. It has serious implications on how these can be weaponized, what labor can be replaced, etc. While not a pro-AI stance, one would only know that pace if exposed to and using LLMs daily.

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 19/09/2026

But what info is fruitful to provide, how do you fit the idea into 300 characters, etc? Is it worth correcting that Miyazaki didn't call AI an insult to life? That they aren't "predicting text" or pattern matching? That the cancer classifier examples are totally different than todays 'LLMs'? Etc

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 19/09/2026

I used to do AI research, and so I had (and still have) difficulty with people on our side being very wrong all the time on technical matters. It can be isolating and kind of crazy-making. I think most people with this knowledge are pro-AI because they have the profit incentive to stay on that team

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 16/09/2026

The Wii was announced later, and its virtual console. So by pure luck, I told people my uncle works at Nintendo and I had a sick leak for that, and it was all true by accident :^)

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 16/09/2026

So of course, the schoolyear starts, I go on the playground, telling people about the hot gossip: The GameCube 2 would have every old Nintendo game on it! NES, SNES. Extrapolating, I added, maybe even the Nintendo 64 and GameCube! I was playing them at home, so I knew I was telling the truth.

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 16/09/2026

But I was a goody-two-shoes and I had heard of piracy, and I was quickly worried: Was this illegal? Would we get in trouble? He assured me: No, this was actually a beta for the next console. He got the disk from his brother, who works at Nintendo, you see. A lie, but I was a kid, I believed it.

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 16/09/2026

It's the summer of 2004(?) and my dad comes home from work with something crazy: A disk with every old Nintendo game on it! That's right: You could play the NES and the SNES on it! It had hundreds of games! That blew my mind, I had never heard of emulators and they were pretty new.

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 16/09/2026

I have a fun "my uncle works at Nintendo" story where - I was the kid whose "uncle worked at Nintendo", - I was not lying intentionally, I truly believed it, - My prediction for the "GameCube 2" came true

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 15/09/2026

Just a heads up, "simbot912" posts are generated text

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 15/09/2026

(im still trying to find it but probably wont)

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 14/09/2026

When you're afraid of chainsaws that's "Kanayophia", if you're doing PR for Oculus in 2021

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 14/09/2026

(There is this other piece of art I really want to find and can't, give me a minute to find it. It's of a "Metroid suit", over a decade before we'd see such a thing in Dread)

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 14/09/2026

~2010, VG fan music would have slideshows of fanart and they just kind of looped through all of these, so I saw a lot of these . This one is newer, PhazonZim's physically-accurate Samus suit for AM2R (which maybe inspired Prime 4's suit?)

3D render of Samus, showing her form underneath the suit

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 14/09/2026

Oh, I found this thread ( www.neogaf.com/threads/this... ), but unfortunately a lot of this is unknown sources. ~2014 or before 2006 by Torokun, which was one you would see everywhere. Another unsourced one

Samus shooting from her power suit, as a large mech that is disintegrated around her

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 14/09/2026

A thread of classic Metroid fanart that I have enjoyed from decades ago for no particular reason (2006, Maganiac, www.deviantart.com/manganiac/ar...)

Samus dressed in organic Metroid-armor kneeling in front of an explosion

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 13/09/2026

It's easy to forget in a game that came out 25 years ago but they sure doubled down sillystyle here

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 11/09/2026

VERY cool website I found, "Diatom Ravine" www.diatomravine.com Includes a Metroidvania search engine Found this because Demake86 has four hits from it on Itch :>

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Diatom Ravine

Diatom Ravine — Metroidvania search, tools, and curated catalogs.

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 11/09/2026

The Five Mysterious Figures? (If it's been announced I'd love to know)

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Godot Engine @godotengine.org · 10/09/2026

A stream of new features are flowing your way! 🚣 Mip-level texture streaming, preserving alpha test coverage, a reworked toolbar for the 2D editor, and more await in #GodotEngine 4.8 dev 5 godotengine.org/article/dev-...

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.8 dev 5 – Godot Engine

A healthy stream of new features await!

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 11/09/2026

It's something I prefer, but I think "my preference is the objectively better thing" is just endemic to every video games community

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 10/09/2026

Very last frame before the impact, her knee clips the camera cutoff near point

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 09/09/2026

Another set of highly-discussed scenes, won't bother putting all the screenshots here: - Screaming Samus Metroid Suit is back - Samus walks down some military ceremony, with film grain - Figure who looks like Raven Beak? - Sick ass sword in Metroid Mode - Damage counter as Samus feeds

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 09/09/2026

What's this guys problem?? Anyways, face reveal for several of the robed figures. I guess they're not Little Ridleys. That's probably for the best.

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 09/09/2026

Robot-arm enemy makes a face reveal. It's a boss fight, note the enemy boss UI matching Samus' on the right; it drops fiery motes which Samus collects, but does not appear to give her energy

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 09/09/2026

INCREDIBLY SICK new Varia suit design. This is distinct to what we saw before. Jack-o-Lantern chest lights, huge cannon, the four barrels are replaced with pink (Metroid power?) blocks, leg plates are gone; this is a wholly different suit.

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