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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Only just saw this. I used Love 2D. No other tools or engine elements. It’s just… code.

Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

Also, nice impression of a Russian troll-bot. It’s ironic, since I’d put money on something similar starting this whole horror show.

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

What did Trump do, week one? Oh yeah. Muslim ban. Hmm. Please, tell me how someone who actually said he *will* be a dictator is the same as someone dealing with one of the worst international crises of our times involving a country the entire Middle East would nuke to oblivion given a chance.

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

Now it sounds like a euphemism.

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 27/05/2024

My underwear after a 30 mile hike and an attack of incontinence, is a better place than the last one at this point.

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 27/05/2024

My issue is when that narrative is bolted onto an existing game, and then everyone lauds its ‘depth and resonance’. To me, it seems exploitative, icky and disingenuous.

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 26/05/2024

Fortunately, managed to get my doc to send through an emergency supply after only one day, so probably only experienced nocebo effects.

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

I’ve gone on holiday for 4 days! I’ve forgotten my mental health meds! This is going to be an interesting time for me and everyone around me. Yaaaaaayyyy

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

Wow. Evil Dead Trap’s soundtrack is Vaporwave heaven.

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

I like Dagon, the Stuart Gordon movie. It’s not perfect, and it is occasionally unnecessarily cruel. But overall, it’s one of the very few half-decent *directly* Lovecraftian movies.

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

Well this is just effing awful.

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

I’m not familiar with this and failing to see it on searches.

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

It’s not the ‘fuck AI’ crowd I’m confused by. It’s the ‘Ha, it’s all a scam!’ crowd that’s leaving me scratching my head. It’s very ‘all or nothing’ thinking.

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Well isn’t that just the same as ‘therapy speak’? Everyone is ‘gaslit’ rather than merely lied to, but that doesn’t remove the existence of gaslighting as a real thing.

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

I don’t understand why so many folks are saying ‘Lol, AI is the new NFTs!’ when I’m aware of so many industries incorporating it into workflows *now*. Once it’s there they aren’t going to say ‘ha, only kidding!’

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Will everyone be wandering around talking to their really lifelike AI butler? Probably not (for various reasons). Will your doctor be using an AI system to help diagnose you? Almost certainly. Will the world be filled with shit AI art and novels? Yup!

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

So, AI skeptics: do you really believe that it’ll all vanish in a couple of years leaving nary a ripple? You do know there’s space between ‘nothing’ and ‘accurate, generalized AI’, right? I don’t think you have to be a ‘credulous noob’ to think things will change, permanently.

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Ah yes, the worst hair in hair metal history.

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Well… I mean… at least he was dead, right?

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

I thought you were saying there was a special offer on mass defenestration.

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 14/05/2024

Oh my Lordy, I know exactly what scene that shot is from! “Smile, Lurch!”

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 10/05/2024

It’s happened at least twice in my overall career. :-)

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 10/05/2024

I played Moonring today. For fun. To look at a new dungeon. To feel the new vibes. An hour later I was still playing. This is a good sign.

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

My wife is Jewish. There’s anti-Semitic graffiti outside Jewish-owned shops where we live, right near Berkeley! It’s pretty horrifying.

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

25. Some of these are rather too specific, even for me. For example, I used a Koala Pad for 64 art, not a mouse. :-)

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

Favorite quote from today: (Mystery Quest) “I’ve tried nothing and I’m out of ideas!”

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

Anyway, I’ve loved videogames since 1980. Thanks to all of you mad-folk who still see it as an art-form rather than a grift. Hail.

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

Not all indies are perfect. There are clones galore. There are those chasing the previous zeitgeist. There are those who are in it purely for the imaginary money (people have to eat, you know). But if you look past all that, there are people making decisions based on passion for the medium.

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

…and now? Indies are literally the only place you can find the original spirit of videogames. The rest is a husk. With a single touch its dessicated shell collapses and becomes a thin, caustic dust.

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

…most of the folks *making* them wanted to be experimental, artistic, weird, original, novel, and - most of all - entertaining. At some point the people *making* them and those *deciding* what got made diverged. And that’s where the rot set in.

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

It’s so funny. I fell in love with videogames at a time when they were intentionally predatory amusements: arcades were, ironically,the equivalent of F2P. Nickel and diming, addiction-reliant, 100% focused on the coins-per-hour. Buuuuuut…

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

I wonder if there’s a simple hack you can do involving a crossfade with an unstable sine?

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

Basic Low pass is easy. You literally look at the deltas of the individual samples and clamp them! It won’t produce resonance, but it’s a filter and it filters high frequencies (it was used in SFXR)

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

Longlegs is Osgood Perkins! I did not know and now it’s in my must watch list.

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

Yup. My listening tastes tend toward ‘creepy af’ and this hit the spot. BoC often sits nicely in that drawer for me, too.

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

No, the Sinister album was Aghast’s: Hexerei im Finsternis. I was more making a comment about that feeling of ‘what the hell - I thought only about 12 people ever heard this, and certainly not directors or ‘normal’ people!’

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

Yup. Shame they never really did anything else, and one of them died in a terrorist attack in Norway a few years ago.

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

I was shocked when I watched Sinister and the entire soundtrack was from a super obscure album I’d bought back in ‘97.

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

Wtf? Really? That track? Jesus…

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

It’s only censorship when it encourages death threats to jurors.

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

I fully ‘Tom Hanks on stretcher’ed when I got to Japan in a heatwave and eventually arrived at my hotel on foot. It’s my baseline for ‘I’m done. Fuck everything.’

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 06/04/2024

Ahahaha. “Hollywood misses the point: #99768”

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Fluttermind @fluttermind.bsky.social · 06/04/2024

Gump was a comedy?! That honestly never occurred to me. It seemed more like this weird, surrealist thing with a strong undercurrent of pity and depression. Pretty sure I found some scenes mildly amusing but that also goes for Pulp Fiction and most other movies.

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