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@vxyz.me

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vwf enthusiast / platform sec by day / gameboy jrpg hacker by night / just a guy playing his DSi Trying to make this the year of the PowerBook G4. https://github.com/VariantXYZ https://vxyz.me WIP: Medabots GBC titles, maybe some others.

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Variant @vxyz.me · 5d

We, as a society, should've gotten everyone hooked on biometric secured hardware keys years ago.

Variant @vxyz.me · 11d

Fuck, what do you mean I need to fight the fat bug again except this time with lava and adds that spit lava.

Variant @vxyz.me · 12d

You could argue that a this isn't particularly valuable in GB games where you often only see two lines of text at a time and I would argue that you're just a hater who doesn't believe in aesthetics.

Variant @vxyz.me · 12d

Medarot 1 and 3 actually did dynamic line breaks to handle variable text, and it somewhat defeats the purpose to assume the longest length string, so hmm, I may have to consider how to implement this...

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Variant @vxyz.me · 12d

I've fallen into the rabbit hole of typesetting and I might go re-format all the text in patches I've worked on before to incorporate Knuth-Plass.

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Variant @vxyz.me · 14d

I swear I've died like 5 times to every wave of every gauntlet in act 2.

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Variant @vxyz.me · 14d

For the amount of time I put into Hollow Knight and Silksong you'd think I'd be good but nope I just spend hours dying to the same fight in new and exciting ways.

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Variant @vxyz.me · 28d

Silksong is fun and this diagonal jump is going to take some getting used to, but the most jarring change is having a MC who talks.

Variant @vxyz.me · Sep 14

Woah, when did RHDN open submissions up again?

Variant @vxyz.me · Sep 12

It took me like 70 hours over 4-5 years to get through the true ending and I think it was pretty worth it. The aesthetic is just so enticing. I didn't feel the need to do the super difficult gauntlet stuff.

It's got a lotta love poured in and I'm super hyped to start SS this weekend.

Variant @vxyz.me · Sep 6

Also holy shit they made a Last Exile 2 like 8 years after the first and I just never realized.

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Variant @vxyz.me · Sep 6

The push for on-demand content is generally better than the old cable programming approach, but the lack of reruns really drives a bias towards recency... a lot of people won't be exposed to some cool-but-not-quite-masterpiece works as a result.

Anyway, I think more people should watch Last Exile.

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Variant @vxyz.me · Sep 6

Oh, A-H all depend on Z but Z is a shared object.

Damn static linking really would've solved this, but also wouldn't a versioning scheme and just having multiple versions of the DSO on your system work? Though I guess you'd need a defined interface for that.

Variant @vxyz.me · Sep 6

Like A depends on X and B and B depends on X?

Variant @vxyz.me · Sep 6

(I don't know how java works I just assume the magical runtime makes your choices for you)

Variant @vxyz.me · Sep 6

I was thinking 'why don't you just version freeze or statically link' then I read 'jar' and understood.

Variant @vxyz.me · Sep 4

My dad bought a new-old-stock 2015 Toshiba 16" laptop for like 80$ after his old one finally kicked the bucket and is pretty happy with it.

Think people either vastly overestimate what they need. I got away with building chromium on a 2016 XPS 13. Loved thatj lil brick. Full size SD slot too...

Variant @vxyz.me · Aug 31

Yeah, this is because operation evaluation order within an expression isn't guaranteed by language spec right?

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Variant @vxyz.me · Aug 26

Of course, none of the actual issues are resolved. Search still sucks and somehow copying files between drives is still slow.

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macOS may not be perfect but it definitely feels better than this.

Variant @vxyz.me · Aug 26

Fortinet being an anagram for fortnite makes this feel even less real.

Variant @vxyz.me · Aug 26

Yes, yes, I understand TPM 2.0 is for secure boot and some other things, but I've yet to see how forcing me to keep my start menu on the bottom of my screen is helping.

Variant @vxyz.me · Aug 26

Forced to use Win11 at work because of Win10 deprecation and my god how did Microsoft just make an OS that was more restrictive and less responsive. Feels like XP -> Vista.

The forced TPM 2.0 requirement implies that BitLocker is more secure now? Are less people getting hit by ransomware on Win11?

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Variant @vxyz.me · Aug 25

Related, my PPC PowerBook G4 was still able to get the java updates for Tiger. Was pretty sick.

Variant @vxyz.me · Aug 22

As an aside, GBDK titles made in the late 90s/early 00s actually just shoved in a huge part of the SJIS set from what I've seen in Metamode and Sakura Wars 2 GB.

So apparently this became more feasible even as early as '98.

Variant @vxyz.me · Aug 22

There's all the memory constraint stuff, etc... which would benefit from a custom encoding scheme, but more importantly did SJIS even exist?

I recall the 90s were a wild west when it came to standardized text encoding between languages anyway.

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