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| Musician person since '05 | Main guy behind gst.melosylexia.com | slowly studying Japanese | other stuff as well i try to keep my posts and reposts sfw but the same can not be said for my replies and likes, so don't look!!! or do, idc, i'm not a cop.

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revenant @notrevenant.bsky.social · 1d

forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.ph...

wrote up a bit of info on a less common US revision of Micro Machines for the NES, featuring a pretty nasty bug, discovered just a little too late and then worked around by using a PLD to patch a single *bit*. this is what day one patches looked like in 1991!

front view of a NES cartridge PCB, featuring ROM, RAM, and two logic chips

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anosci @anosci.net · 2d

i have another thing planned but this one looked fun lol

anosci @anosci.net · 2d

im stealing an idea from geekcritique:
give me 5 dollars or more and ill make a very short video essay about your question or topic

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EXEGESIS FREAK @cryptotheism.bsky.social · 2d

The president keeps talking about how he knows he is going to hell and the material pleasures of life are just a balm for a wound growing deeper by the day. Which could be good or bad. It's impossible to say.

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anosci @anosci.net · 2d

i guess it's a self-selection situation innit? you're not gonna hear from the people that seclude themselves

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Laika @holoswirl.bsky.social · Nov 15

Napster 🎵

A drawing of a pitch black canine pouncing in the air, with lots of glitchy and error effects on the body. There is a mini version of the character standing on an ipod nano chewing the earbud cables

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punstar @punstar.bsky.social · May 20

Commands for gamers

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anosci @anosci.net · 3d

uh oh this book looks like a good read too... archive.org/details/wire...

Wired women : gender and new realities in cyberspace : Cherny, Lynn : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Come in, CQ: the body on the wire / Ellen Ullman -- The memoirs of a token: an aging Berkeley feminist examines Wired / Paulina Borsook -- How hard can it be?...

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anosci @anosci.net · 3d

but also this excerpt goes hard:
Gender becomes a verb.
again, from 1997.

an excerpt from Shannon McRae's 1997 essay "Flesh Made Word: Sex, Text, and The Virtual Body" which reads as follows:
If boys can be girls and straights can be queers and dykes can be fags and two lesbian lovers can turn out to both be men in real life, then "straight" or "queer," "male" or "female" become unreliable as markers of identity.
It is not so much that gender roles or sexual preferences actually change as that cross-gender role play troubles the link between gender and desire, from which we, usually unquestioningly, construct our identities as sexual beings.
Gender becomes a verb, not a noun, a position to occupy rather than a fixed role.
In many cases, gender becomes the effect that one individual can have upon another.

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anosci @anosci.net · 3d

give it a re-read: it's a really good essay??? it describes the experience ppl had in the 90s of various types of sexual RP, and how that could be (1.) real to them and (2.) a way to explore their sexuality. radical stuff from 30 years ago.
but also i feel weird bc i dont see myself in this picture

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anosci @anosci.net · 3d

noteably, this dial has multiaxial rotation

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anosci @anosci.net · 3d

trying to read a 1997 essay about cybersex and realizing that i'm way out of my depth bc i dont even understand 2025 regular sex

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anosci @anosci.net · 4d

lemon flavored tums is just one of many examples of the excess size of humanity's hubris

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 4d

homie said fuck genai

a snippet from Rene T. A. Lysloff's 2003 "Musical Community on the Internet: An On-line Ethnography" that reads as follows:
However, despite the fact that we may be experiencing radically new forms of social interaction as a result of media technologies, the quality of these social interactions still depends on the humans that give rise to them (see Escobar 1999).

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anosci @anosci.net · 4d

i kinda love this tho? it feels like a parody of itself. it personifies the demographics that nintendo and sega were targeting at the time, reinforcing and humanizing a narrative thats still seen today. they create a gradient of "how serious are games" and put themselves at the "very" end, past sega

anosci @anosci.net · 5d

story: I had a collection of some mangled renditions of SMB 1-1 BGM that id been making just because they're funny.
generating some janky ai marios for the album art crossed my mind but didn't feel right, even 4 years ago.
so i drew the worst mario i could.
that decision feels better every day.