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Oliver @ Pop Strikers

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Low poly schlockmeister working on Azumi and Pop Strikers stuff. Terminally indecisive. Runs on the Emotion Engine and the YM2612. http://patreon.com/popstrikers

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Oliver @ Pop Strikers @popstrikers.com · Oct 17

Azumi and her adopted sister… don’t get along well anymore…

#lowpoly #indiedev #retro #ps1 #furry

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Oliver @ Pop Strikers @popstrikers.com · 3h

But I wanna keep going cuz I wanna hear more of Myla’s songs

Oliver @ Pop Strikers @popstrikers.com · 3h

The games amazing but there are so many choices I’m left baffled by.

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Oliver @ Pop Strikers @popstrikers.com · 3h

Like, why does it cost almost 2K and a badge slot to have a functioning map? Why are half the upgrades solutions to problems they intentionally made? Why are spirit fights such a difficulty curve with walkbacks in areas you don’t have the map for yet? Why am I playing this instead of Metroid Prime?

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Oliver @ Pop Strikers @popstrikers.com · 4h

I wanna love Hollow Knight but it’s like they have this great Metroidvania then add all this shit on top to actively make the genre more annoying to play.

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Oliver @ Pop Strikers @popstrikers.com · 5h

Oh my god you can disable Gatekeeper with a single terminal command. My Mac is a big boy computer again.

Oliver @ Pop Strikers @popstrikers.com · 9h

Love getting this from my health insurance.

Republicans can go jump off a cliff.

Oliver @ Pop Strikers @popstrikers.com · 10h

That’s kinda where I’m at with it.

Oliver @ Pop Strikers @popstrikers.com · 10h

There a local auction for a massive 24” Epson plotter printer currently at $25 I could bid on.

But it was made in 2007.

Do I risk it? 🤔

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Oliver @ Pop Strikers @popstrikers.com · 10h

“But longer episodes means longer sessions times which means shareholders erect which means number go uuuuuuuppppp!!!1!”

Oliver @ Pop Strikers @popstrikers.com · 10h

The opposite actually: being able to jump up through a platform from under it.

Oliver @ Pop Strikers @popstrikers.com · 12h

mmhmm.... vertex colors...

Oliver @ Pop Strikers @popstrikers.com · 13h

What the hell does Hollow Knight have against jump through platforms?

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Oliver @ Pop Strikers @popstrikers.com · 1d

As someone who has supported Affinity since their initial launch, if they end up going that way, I'm gonna dig up the video after the Canva acquisition where they swore that wouldn't happen and flip them the biggest, most aggressive bird I can possibly manage.

Oliver @ Pop Strikers @popstrikers.com · 1d

Why do I keep trying to read The Verge? Every article worth reading is locked behind a paywall now. Fucking worthless.

Oliver @ Pop Strikers @popstrikers.com · 1d

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Oliver @ Pop Strikers @popstrikers.com · 2d

Haha I actually wrote this note down as a video idea but never got around to it.

Oliver @ Pop Strikers @popstrikers.com · 3d

Found this in my Notes from like a year ago. Feel like with Sora 2 it’s more relevant than ever.

There’s more profit potential in giving the masses the illusion of creative potential, rather than empowering actual creative professionals to be more effective.

Why hasn’t AI been leveraged to reduce human labor? Because these corporations RELY on that indentured servitude of the masses to stay in power. Freeing humanity from the burden of labor and empowering them as individuals would also wrestle away the ruling class’s control of the mechanisms of society itself. And we can’t have that, now can we? It’d disappoint the shareholders!

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Oliver @ Pop Strikers @popstrikers.com · 4d

Never forget how they collectively fucked our future. Anyone who buys into this is brain dead.

Oliver @ Pop Strikers @popstrikers.com · 4d

Oh fuck off. Don’t try and set up a millennial vs gen z divide. We’re both getting fucked by the same geriatric demons. They’re afraid of us working together to undo this garbage.

Fortune @fortune.com · 5d

“We millennials know that there’s no such thing as work-life balance. My career is my life, my life is my career. I would never be at peace if I wasn’t working so hard.” trib.al/suc3yU6

Astronaut says Gen Z often quits when things get uncomfortable—here’s the Jeff Bezos Blue Origin training that taught her to push through | Fortune

From space rockets to 13-hour workdays, this millennial astronaut reveals the mind trick that can make discomfort your secret weapon to success.

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Oliver @ Pop Strikers @popstrikers.com · 5d

>Have story ideas percolating for a few years set in a dark, lightly cyberpunk-flavored dystopia

>In the meantime, real life BECOMES a a dark, lightly cyberpunk-flavored dystopia

>Lose motivation to tell that story, now just wanna make something goofy and dumb as an escape

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Oliver @ Pop Strikers @popstrikers.com · 5d

To be clear he also thinks things are fucked, just not as much as I do, and the reasons for the fuckery in his view aren’t as foundational. At least that was my takeaway. Maybe he’d disagree. Wouldn’t wanna put words in his mouth.

Oliver @ Pop Strikers @popstrikers.com · 5d

It was really seducing to accept the frame he was presenting. Between his conservatism and religious faith, things were not nearly as doomed as I felt they were.

Snapped back to reality pretty quick, but it helped me see how so many people aren’t outright losing it atm.

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Oliver @ Pop Strikers @popstrikers.com · 5d

Back in my home state for a bit. Saw my Dad yesterday for the first time in a bit. He’s a good guy, but much more right wing than me. Talking with him, for a second I felt a lot more comfortable with everything going on. It’s so interesting how he’s rationalized everything that’s happening.

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Oliver @ Pop Strikers @popstrikers.com · 6d

So I got this for free from my sister (I'm currently house-sitting for them while they're on vacation), and apparently THEY got it from a co-worker who modded it with a 2TB SSD...