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Taylor McCue

@tmccue.bsky.social
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm okay. No worries.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Still alive. I'll see you next week.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'm looking forward to seeing your next game too.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
See you next week. Also if you are a alpha version tester of the game and are willing to beta test the UI of the computer version please give me a poke.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
But im going to run away for now, sorry for ranting about it. It's kind of like a super raspberry pi three but with the emulation weirdly feeling "right"
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
That makes sense, if you already have all the retro consoles then a saturn is going to be cheaper. I would like to note the FPGA can do arcade. For me part of the appeal is the weird stuff like the PGM arcade core. github.com/hyp36rmax/PG... It lets you do Dai-Ou-Jou/Ketsui/EspGaluda on one box.
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GitHub - hyp36rmax/PGM-Mister-EZIOCHIU: PGM Mister FPGA Core originally by EizoChiu (https://github.com/eziochiu/) based on latest release on 6/2/2026
PGM Mister FPGA Core originally by EizoChiu (https://github.com/eziochiu/) based on latest release on 6/2/2026 - hyp36rmax/PGM-Mister-EZIOCHIU
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ultimately gaming stuff is a luxury item so please do whatever makes you happiest since you've gone through hell and idk you should do what makes you happy. I think there is a lot of merit in having anything that plays games without an internet connection in the era of like "owning nothing"
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If you go for a Mister Pi and wait for another preorder period it's 170 usd. retroremake.co/products/mis... I don't want to be like aaaa this company is good since I've got mixed feelings about them but you would get something that works for what you need.
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MiSTER Pi - Retro Gaming FPGA Board
MiSTER Pi is a fully compatible MiSTer FPGA development board. It is powered by an Altera Cyclone V FPGA with 1GB of DDR3, and it supports additional memory with an SDRAM add-on. With MiSTer FPGA software, this board is able to accurately create the circuitry for many retro consoles, handhelds, and arcade machines.  Th
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It'll work out of the box on a CRT or a hd tv and right now the saturn setting you back 130 and a saroo setting you back 40 is already 170 usd. The extra 80 buys you the freedom to not get tempted by any more retro consoles in the future.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
once you factor in a getting them to play games off a sd card and hdmi out the costs can go up in a scary way. The superstation is 250 usd (which is pricier than a saturn initially) but you don't have to worry about hdmi, sd card stuff, and it'll do every console saturn down like n64.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I feel like your blood donation stuff will make for a really interesting book someday. Also I don't want to rant at you but I read your sega saturn posts and if you can you might want to consider looking at some of the cheaper FPGAs instead of a saturn since the fpga saturn stuff feels right.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yeah, I think people don't recognize a lot the beauty of queer people living to become old and outliving abusive structures. The world is filled with old men who want to make young people die before them to make themselves richer and further their egos. But im ranting and aaaaa
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Xiri is making a new VN that seems pretty much exactly what I need to play right now. I'm super hyped for this game!
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hey tangled! Aaaaa I'm glad you're doing well too. Living a long life is getting tougher all the time.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'm alive and fine but I've got nothing cool to show off. I hope everyone else is doing okay.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Me too, we have to try our best to live long lives.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I hope you feel better soon. Being sick is horrible.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I'm alive.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Once a week update. I've got nothing I'm ready to show off this week. Sorry this post is late. I'll respond to messages and stuff tomorrow when I wake up but it felt wrong to end my week without being like "hey".
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Oh god, you're totally right but that would also be so much work to do at this phase. Changing the size would mean impacting other UI elements on the sidebar if they didn't fit right. It'd also mean redoing my template. I am tempted since the payoff could be big but aaaaa.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Whatever is selected will be used as a status for when something happens to the character. So if one of your women die or are transfered out or something then their picture will be replaced by their final outcome. It's important for players to be able to track outcomes at a glance.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Yeah, it's the cleanest but the reason I am giving it pause is because it's also not entirely realistic. I'm afraid it'll pull players out by looking fake.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Yeah, I'm running into an issue of being true to life vs what people like to see. It's kind of a tough trade off since UI can carry a lot of narrative within itself.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Ignore things like the extra bonnie btw, shes a placeholder as I get the remaining women up.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Here is what it looks like in context.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Which of these do you like best? What are your thoughts? Designing a UI is hard.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Anxiety check
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Posting anxiety check
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
yeah
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Reading is always good, there are way worse things you can do than learning.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
You too, being a game dev is weird and tough.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Once a week checkin. I'm trying. I've got nothing I want to put public facing right now. I'm doing okay though and I'll see you all next week.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Do your best and good luck! Get home safe!
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Me too, it's been four years since I've released anything new. I want to change that.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Yeah, that's why I'm having a tough time. Technically any of the logos would probably be safe. It's been so long since I've finished anything I've gotten timid.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
? This game has nothing to do with New York. It's about Florida.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I actually kind of like the use of blue here. It's off topic but uhh this one has the benefit of reminding me of the pepsi logo. I already tried to capture some of Florida's confederate flag by using their catchphrase from that flag. Your mockup is REALLY good.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
take care. It just really sucks how bad this whole summer has been. :< Be safe.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is really useful and incredibly interesting to know. TBH I might go with the cross and the flag in one but I'm probably going to sleep on it one more night. As the game has a lot of playing in the "Dashboard" section the logo will show up a lot. I'm kind of okay taking it slow.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Oh god is that actually true? Like that really changes the dynamics since I want people to be able to see a screenshot and instantly go "America's fucked and completely lost it's marbles" and have it feel plausible. If people just go "wow America's gone cowboy!!!" I am in serious trouble.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
No worries, also uhhh please be safe out there. I saw you had flooding and it looked really bad.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Oh actually Bsky doesn't do images in DMs so I'd have to run it over email or discord.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This one needs to me DM it in it's current form. If you'd like I can run it over bsky messages asynchronously if it supports messages, or umm email, or discord.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I'd be happy to run a playtest if you wanted. Umm basically no, surprisingly people seemed to have a lot of fun mixed with "oh my god this is uncomfortable" but it can have a happy ending depending on choices.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Here is how it actually looks in-game in the actual UI
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
which I just noticed totally got blacked out by bsky eughhh.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The only thing I really changed was the catchphrase and then the UI dashboard including the version and county department on it.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
...nose" now I just think "yup that's the trump administration for you." It's kind of a question of how it might age which is a little creepy to think about.
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Taylor McCue @tmccue.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The advantage of the confederate flag is that players on a storefront can instantly understand the world and who is in charge from a single screenshot. The too on the nose stuff really sucks because lately I've been rereading 60s-80s dystopian stuff and instead of how I used to think "too on the..
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