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Douglas Fraker @nesdoug.bsky.social · 1d

Found this is storage. Total Annihilation. I played this game obsessively back in 1997. We had several people on a LAN and played multiplayer battles. This was the very first game I learned to mod.

Douglas Fraker @nesdoug.bsky.social · 10d

Here's a guy lifting a CRT TV. This is what it's like.

youtube.com/shorts/p-t82...

how to lift a heavy CRT TV

YouTube video by Black Valve

youtube.com

Douglas Fraker @nesdoug.bsky.social · 10d

Maybe even 3-4 times as heavy as it seems in this video.

Like, not kidding, a normal CRT can weight over 100 pounds (45 kg).

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Douglas Fraker @nesdoug.bsky.social · 10d

This ad made me laugh out loud. The actress is trying to act like this CRT is heavy, but real CRTs are like twice as heavy as she's making it look. And the weight is like 90% on the screen side. And you would not lift it shoulder high. Ever.

youtu.be/LiVseDxOVSc

At Verizon, it works that way

YouTube video by Verizon

youtu.be

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Douglas Fraker @nesdoug.bsky.social · 12d

Beware. In Pennsylvania people are receiving election fliers in the mail with false information.

You can't trust newspapers, You can't trust TV or radio, you can't trust ads on YouTube and you can't trust anything mailed to you.

It's not paranoia if they are really out to get you.

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Douglas Fraker @nesdoug.bsky.social · 14d

Also, I had to relearn how to type git commands into a command line, because I was having real trouble today. Had to generate a new token and read a bunch of documents.

I thought this would take 10 minutes and it took over an hour to troubleshoot.

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Douglas Fraker @nesdoug.bsky.social · 14d

I updated my famitone githubs, making it compatible with Dn-Famitracker.

I used Visual Studio and it auto formatted every line, so looking at the changes it looks like hundreds of changes, but really I only changed like 5 lines of code, at lines 520, 580, and 1990

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Douglas Fraker @nesdoug.bsky.social · 15d

TAD works off of MML files. Are you exporting MML from Furnace Tracker?

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Douglas Fraker @nesdoug.bsky.social · 21d

If I was a little better at programming, I would make my own tools.

Douglas Fraker @nesdoug.bsky.social · 21d

#SNESdev

Personally, I really, really don't like the current music software / tools for making SNES game music.

I feel like BRR samples should be separate and able to be dynamically swapped, such as for game sounds (not BG music)

And the music editor should be more user friendly.

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Douglas Fraker @nesdoug.bsky.social · 24d

"Our security will protect you 365 days a year"

Douglas Fraker @nesdoug.bsky.social · 27d

Ads for medicines are crazy. Like "ask your dr about this new cholesterol pill. Side effects include spontaneous combustion, bleeding from the eyes, demonic possession, existential dread, nightmares that you can never wake from, and Zombie bladder syndrome"

while showing you happy people on bikes

Douglas Fraker @nesdoug.bsky.social · Sep 19

Sometimes I'll have random thoughts like "maybe I'll start my own podcast" and then I'll remember that I don't have free time and I don't like to talk that much.

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Douglas Fraker @nesdoug.bsky.social · Sep 16

Unusually hot this September.

I bet this is going to be another year where it goes 85, 85, 85, 85, 85, 85, 50

with almost no days near 70

Douglas Fraker @nesdoug.bsky.social · Sep 15

Any time someone complains about the radical left, this is what I picture.

Radical!

a picture of a cartoon character with the words totally radical

ALT: a picture of a cartoon character with the words totally radical

media.tenor.com

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Douglas Fraker @nesdoug.bsky.social · Sep 10

I sure hope they make the new iPhones 0.5 mm thinner... said nobody

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Douglas Fraker @nesdoug.bsky.social · Aug 22

idea for a book. a dystopian future where people get microchips in their brains to enhance their work ability, a chip that is a subscription service that becomes more and more expensive, so much that people are unable to pay, and their chips are deactivated and they are unable to work without it.

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Douglas Fraker @nesdoug.bsky.social · Aug 21

true

Douglas Fraker @nesdoug.bsky.social · Aug 21

When I look at code I wrote over a year ago.

#gamedev

a man with a beard and a hat is saying `` i have no memory of this place . ''

ALT: a man with a beard and a hat is saying `` i have no memory of this place . ''

media.tenor.com

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Douglas Fraker @nesdoug.bsky.social · Aug 20

They should make Pepperoni Bits, like Bacon Bits. It's already a dry meat product that is shelf stable. Want to spice up your potato? Pepperoni Bits.

who's with me?

This is a million $ idea. Guaranteed.

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Douglas Fraker @nesdoug.bsky.social · Aug 16

I really like the Dr Mario song - Fever. I would put it in my top 20 NES songs.

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Douglas Fraker @nesdoug.bsky.social · Aug 16

You ever notice, when they make US maps, that they show Hawaii as like 6 islands. But in reality, Hawaii keeps going on for another 1000 miles with 137 islands.

Douglas Fraker @nesdoug.bsky.social · Aug 7

tariffs go into effect today.

prices will rise.

tariffs are taxes that Americans pay.

Douglas Fraker @nesdoug.bsky.social · Aug 5

I had an weird idea. A mashup up Garfield and Seinfeld, called Garfeld, where I take old Garfield comix and paste faces of Seinfeld characters over the faces of the cartoon.

George should be Garfield. Jerry is Jon. Cramer is Odie. Elaine is Liz. Newman is the mailman.

I might do 1 just to test it

Douglas Fraker @nesdoug.bsky.social · Aug 5

Wut?

Apparently, C flat is a programming language that uses music notes (MIDI file) as code.

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