iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Getting close to 40 in Portugal. But everything's fine 🙃

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

TriteHexagon: 𐚆𐀪𐘞𐘕𐘫𐘏𐘘𐘚𐝓 Hikari: 𐘃𐙷𐘸 Mariko: 𐁑𐘸𐀭 Shiina: 𐙲𐘞𐘞𐚒

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Remade the entire table with almost exclusively Linear A glyphs, which are undeciphered. I chose the vowels, q (the "lh" sound", and a couple of other.glyphs manually, but the rest I just randomized for my sanity. Also many a google sheets converter. A few words:

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Okay, back to the drawing board. I'm gonna use some Linear A symbols to fill in the table instead of using complex ideograms. It's cleaner and simpler.

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

And so I wasted a morning. This is an alternative way to write Jolasin aka the angel language from AWWG. Mariko – 𐀔𐀪𐀃 Shiina – 𐁖𐀂𐀙 (sounds are Xiina) Hikari – 𐁁𐀏𐀪 Jolasin – 𐀍𐁈𐀯𐄸 The syllabary sounds are fairly arbitrary, but a good chunk are based on the real Linear B sounds.

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I've noticed I've been watching YouTube less and less. Maybe I'm just saturated, but I dunno, it feels just kinda like every channel is the same and that I can't trust them to not have an agenda.

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I was wondering to myself what other songs from the GBA I could work on for Project Atlantis other than Pokémon and Mario Kart... But then I remembered the *perfect* song I have arranged before and always regretted not doing more because of the GB limitations. The hint is GS (not Gold/Silver) 🤭

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I haven't talked about Project Galatea here, but I'm ready to publish it now. 𝗠𝘆 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗥𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗖𝘂𝗽, my entry for the Honeyfeed Novelous contest, is now available to read! I'll publish a new chapter every day. honeyfeed.fm/novels/30264

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chaesu @chaesu.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

mythra cosplay (xenoblade chronicles 2)

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

It's incredibly frustrating how much louder the VSU noise channel is compared to the DMG. I'm running the VSU at volume *3* and it's still about the same loudness as the DMG on max (15). This is mostly because the sound is way more "grating" so it stands out way more than the DMG's.

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cauli @cauli.art · 19/04/2026

✨Everlasting Blue💙 Here’s a closer look at the cover of my new fanart book featuring new and old art of Rissa! Preorders for it close at the end of the day on Monday April 20, 2026 so check it out! I’ll have the book at all cons this year but preordering gets you 2 bonus items💙 #RavenCrafts

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I'm starting to realize that I haven't played enough GBA games that aren't Pokémon for showcasing Project Atlantis. Oops.

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Just noticed that the bedroom of the Phenac Mayor's house has a stupid amount bottles. That much drinking can't be healthy, dude...

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Timpani, tho. The bane of my existence. Aye aye.

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

In other words, I'm deriving instruments from first principles.

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

There's the classic Air, Water, Fire, Ground (Green, Blue, Red, Yellow), Lightning (purple, Genshin inspired), Holy and Profane (white and black, respectively).

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

This is a pretty interesting question that I had to ponder a lot for my stories involving magic. In Project Dungeon magic comes from physical mana crystals and I wanted it to be feel like an alien substance, so I chose blue. In Hellspawn, there are 7 magic elements and each has its own color!

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Here twiddling my thumbs waiting for this week's WLLB to purge Orbán from the board 🥹 @tldrnews.bsky.social

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

If this is true, I probably need to spend a few weeks just relaxing, not using my brain much, and trying to retrain my body to use fats instead of glucose all the time. Maybe. I dunno.

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

New theory for what causes my migraines: they are triggered whenever my brain requires more energy. When I'm working a lot, playing games (seeing images flashing around), or simply because I haven't eaten in a while. And I have some metabolic issue that prevents me from tapping into energy reserves.

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Incidentally, the HuC6280, the chip behind the Turbografx-16, should have a step of 5/32=0.15625, which is pretty much the same as the Virtual Boy, but notably, the voltage is *lower* than the DMG. So I expect the DMG to go a bit louder, but the HuC6280 to have more resolution.

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

E.g. any smooth waves (like a sine) that usually sound a fair bit softer than those aggressive pulses or sawtooths can be "boosted" by this headroom. I could do a master balancing of the VSU's audio output to match the DMG, but since the resolution is so high, I can just reserve that extra space.

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

When you divide the two constants by each other, you get how much louder the max output of the VSU is in relation to the DMG. What this means is that it probably is a good idea to think of anything above about 44 and below 20 on the VSU waves as being extra "headroom" to do "hyper-waves".

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

The way I interpret this is that each step's loudness is controlled by how the chip's voltage and its resolution, and that's *the* constant. The GB's is 6/16, the VSU is 9/64. The VSU has both a "taller ladder", but "shorter rungs" than the DMG, so it is both more precise but also a fair bit louder.

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Turns out it's quite simple! The GameBoy operates at 6V and each wave has 16 "steps" (the Pulse channels operate at "max", but the wave channel allows you to draw those 16 steps). The Virtual Boy operates at 9V and has 64 steps. So the ratio is 6/16/(9/64), which is... 2.667. Voilá!

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I was struggling with the wave volume on Project Atlantis' VSU and decided to manually measure the ratio between a pulse at max volume in the VSU vs DMG. A constant that pops out, even by roughly measuring pixel values in a screenshot—about 2.678. But this can't be random, right? So I dug deeper.

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Being creative is less and less rewarded with GenAI replacing even that. The economy is based on the whims of man-children. There really isn't anything to live for other than hobbies. I'm not the first person to talk about this, but I wonder just how bad it will get.

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Send CVs? Probably getting filtered out by AI and not even read. Entry-level jobs are non-existent and being replaced by AI. Billionaires seem to be getting more powerful and richer at the expense of everyone else. Buying a house is impossible. Getting into a relationship is harder than ever.

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

A bunch of my online friends around my age or younger seem to be going through this sort of nihilism where the world feels so shitty that no one really has any motivation to do anything productive. How long will it take until someone in power to notice and do anything about this? Probably never.

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Something I've discovered from testing: the VSU waves don't have 4 times the resolution; they are literally 4 times as tall and thus 4 times as loud. This means that they completely drown out the GB waves if I'm not careful. In a real system, it's likely there would be some master audio switch tho.

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The instrument I'm talking about is this one on the wave channel during the main part of this song, for example.

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Cipher Peon Battle [8-bit GameBoy] | Pokémon Colosseum

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Maybe I'll do a stream for this? Sounds like something that could be fun, maybe!

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

It's not that sampled instruments *can't* sound good at all. But for example, I sure can't sample the iconic Hoenn Trumpets and hope they sound good; I'm probably gonna have to make my own artificial wave to capture the "timber" of them, and that's very difficult and time-consuming to do 😅

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

For example, it was impossible to sample a distortion guitar for Burning Colosseum that sounded convincing. So I designed my own wave and it sounds damn great. Pretty much any BC song with that guitar instrument shines because I avoided using a sampled wave.

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Something I've noticed with chiptune is that it tends to sound better and more vibrant with artificial waves, rather than waves directly sampled from real instruments. It's also the reason why pulse channels are so iconic and "neutral". Problem is, I'm still very much a noob when it comes to this 😅

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

5x5?! That's not a strawberry, that's an apple!

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I usually call myself a writer but not an author. Even if I have published novels, my impostor syndrome always tells me there's some reason or another why that doesn't count.

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

This indeed the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life. I could just make up—sorry, silicon sample—a study that 100% of people surveyed think I should be King of the World, and it has as much validity as this utter nonsense.

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Or at least it doesn't work the same as Furnace, and although Furnace isn't accurate when it comes to VSU emulation as I've discussed previously, I'm more inclined to believe it's the correct one in this circumstance. So for the time being there's no FM modulation for moi.

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Okay, I was slightly wrong. FM synthesis is done *per* wavecycle instead of being an effect done per note. The difference is the scale—vibrato is "macro-scale" while FM is "micro-scale". In other news, foobar's VB plugin does not accurately reproduce the VSU's FM modulation 😖

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Wait a fricking second. So FM synthesis is basically just the same thing as applying a looping frequency macro? I thought this was some highbrow technique, but you can *technically* just do this on any old system. All this talk about carrier waves and modulation and you can just do this in software.

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TriteHexagon @tritehexagon.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Aww, darn it. I can't actually do it without going through some hoops. I only have 5 waves on the VSU and I'm using all of them. That said, I could maybe go the ORAS route and just reuse the main lead instrument for the final Part instead of doing the organ (I don't like how it sounds atm anyways).

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