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Ballaam @ballaam.dk64randomizer.com · 2d

Discord has a new feature where you can style your name with various fonts (presumably nitro only). Unfortunately it makes it harder to read and parse through a bunch of names.

Here's the setting to turn off those custom styles rendering.

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GL @gloriousliar.bsky.social · 3d

Donkey Kong 64 for the Nintendo 64

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Ballaam @ballaam.dk64randomizer.com · 4d

Isn't it great when FedEx repeatedly tries to gaslight you into thinking they delivered a package and won't do anything about your case no matter how confident you are that they did not?

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Ballaam @ballaam.dk64randomizer.com · 19d

I love how Piastri has one bad weekend, and F1YT is all over it acting like every weekend from now on is gonna be a stinker for him.

One bad weekend isn't a pattern, y'all

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Ballaam @ballaam.dk64randomizer.com · 23d

I decided to make a comment in Chunky Phase, and got the standard AI-written response.. What a shame:

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Ballaam @ballaam.dk64randomizer.com · 23d

I know that TASVideos technically allows this, which is why it's not had any pushback from anyone else and I'm not gonna fight it or anything.

But this is scummy, and no different to the XQC stuff from years ago. If you're gonna do this, at least offer meaningful commentary and reactions

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Ballaam @ballaam.dk64randomizer.com · 23d

The original "Hey, lets stream a person's TAS in it's entirety with no commentary, with Twitch ads, 24/7, with the video of the TAS taking up a weird portion of the screen cause we gotta have a bunch of Nintendo characters walking at the bottom of the screen for peak nostalgia"

ftfy

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Ballaam @ballaam.dk64randomizer.com · Sep 10

Since chrome has decided that they'd rather enforce a worse experience for users by essentially disabling Adblockers, including all workarounds, guess it's time to switch to Brave.

Unfortunately, I know Brave can get a little too overconfident with blocking stuff. Any Brave users have any tips?

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Ballaam @ballaam.dk64randomizer.com · Sep 2

Right, at best it is a little misleading with the wording though.

Ballaam @ballaam.dk64randomizer.com · Sep 2

"by far"

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Ballaam @ballaam.dk64randomizer.com · Aug 23

Yea, DK64R was locked to a lua script until 2021, and then very limited for an extra year. Things were hard back in those days haha

Ballaam @ballaam.dk64randomizer.com · Aug 23

2018 DK64R development document

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Ballaam @ballaam.dk64randomizer.com · Aug 22

No context DK64

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Ballaam @ballaam.dk64randomizer.com · Aug 21

Another reason why Lanky Kong is the worst kong

Ballaam: Is that savestate for the Caves Crash in #5.0 bug reports
Seagull: Sure is, I'm looking into it rn
Ballaam: (What is the) value of s1 on the crash screen + 0x0. Short
Seagull: (0x)FFF4
Ballaam: Okay, so. It's trying to spawn in actor 4. Which is lanky kong and that has no spawning code

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Ballaam @ballaam.dk64randomizer.com · Aug 18

Unfortunately no. Requires a particular emulator setting to be enabled that is especially buggy to stop the emulator assuming what the rendering code will be.

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Ballaam @ballaam.dk64randomizer.com · Aug 17

The DK Rap, but it's in DK64's native wireframe mode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-Hp...

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Ballaam @ballaam.dk64randomizer.com · Aug 17

Correct, at least as far as I know

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Ballaam @ballaam.dk64randomizer.com · Aug 17

Turns out that DK64 has a wireframe mode built in. Doesn't look like there's any way to activate it in the vanilla game without memory hacking.

Thankfully, all it takes is 2 address changes to activate

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Ballaam @ballaam.dk64randomizer.com · Aug 11

Yea. Color rando for kongs changes the color of their associated textures. This modifies the texture calls to use different textures instead. In this case, we switch certain texture calls out for the disco chunky textures

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Ballaam @ballaam.dk64randomizer.com · Aug 11

Thanks @ditzyflama.com for the great remixes inspiring this

Ballaam @ballaam.dk64randomizer.com · Aug 11

A now legitimate feature of DK64R 5.0 (Outside the music)

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Ballaam @ballaam.dk64randomizer.com · Aug 10

Also took me 15+ years to realize that Gill is voiced by Willem Dafoe.

Not sure how it took me that long

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Ballaam @ballaam.dk64randomizer.com · Aug 10

Watching Finding Nemo after watching some House clips is an interesting experience that makes you realize that Gill is very much a mirror of Dr. House

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altabiscuit @altabiscuit.bsky.social · Aug 5

There's a Discord account hijacking campaign going on today, be extra vigilant about links being sent to you via DMs.

Let's also not shame anyone who had the misfortune of being hit. They're already dealing with a lot as it is and no one is immune to an attack like this.

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Ballaam @ballaam.dk64randomizer.com · Aug 3

I wish McLaren would stop verbally reminding Oscar of the team racing rules any time there is a hint of a battle between Oscar and Norris.

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