Gearworks
Miscellaneous posts and updates that don't fit in to the main blog (and aren't included in the main RSS feed).
Halloween Month
As much as I like colorful characters and costumes and monsters, for whatever reason Halloween doesn't quite click for me. I'm not sure if it's always been that way for me; I remember going trick or treating as a kid, and I know I was excited to be dressed as a Ninja Turtle at least once (Donatello...
SAMMI: Frogblock Beta
Sick of the ugly nazi frogs? Me too. Don't want 'em in your Twitch chat? I can help with that one.
Content Farming
Went down a short, weird rabbit hole.
I wanted to test an aspect of the custom alerts I've made for my stream, and needed to see what max username length is (25 on Twitch, according to a Reddit thread) to try to adjust them so that longer usernames don't get cut off or pushed to a second line. Tha...
Display Model
Having some fun adding Easter eggs to the SFTL Gift Shop.
Game Bun
Putting the MiSTer to use again. Since the screen ratio is 9:10, it leaves a lot of extra screen real estate, so I added an extra bar to the side that a certain android appreciates. I also updated the colors on the filter for my avatar to match.
How it started
"You know what'd be cute for streams? A shop screen like Forgotten Worlds as an AFK screen"
OBS Crimes: The Gift Shop v0.5
I really should have come up with a proper naming scheme for this series of posts from the beginning. I also just pick and choose "good enough" advancements to increment the version number. (Also this posts makes a good test to see if I can embed video on the blog.)
Comment Sections Selections
I'm considering adding comments to the blog. I also don't want to regret it.
Magic Pixels
Looking back on my more recent experiments with OBS, one of the funniest / stupidest things I've done as a fix is add a single undetectable pixel that uses keyframe animation to move across the edge of an animation.
Far as I can tell Clip Studio Paint won't export every frame of an animation unles...
Bluesky and Numbers
Something that keeps flashing up about Bluesky over and over that irks me is that they're trying to present themselves as "better" or "safer" social media. This is totally hollow, particularly because it's brought to us by largely the same people that made things as bad as they are now, and also it'...