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Mom's passing
Nine months after being diagnosed with gallbladder cancer, my mother passed away this afternoon after three and a half days in hospice. She was very weak and tired towards the end but was not in pain, so it was as smooth a landing as one could hope for. She is finally free. -
Spacesynth Sampler Platter
Several more hours of spacesynth...
Spacesynth and Italo Disco are closely related--Spacesynth is instrumental Italo Disco with a bit more emphasis on science fiction and fantasy themes--hence the "Italo Disco" in the two album titles. Both genres feature wall-to-wall synthesizers and drum machines but Italo Disco uses normal singing while ( Read more... ) -
Spacesynth and Friends
It's been a while...
Earlier this week, a member of the Battlezone community posted a video of a project they were working on and I liked the music they had going in the background. I asked what it was and they sent me a YouTube link:
Apparently, this is a new(ish) album from a famous Dutch Spacesynth duo named Rygar whose members originally ( Read more... ) -
Dead Star codes
I'm not sure if anyone still reads this, but here goes...
Armature is playtesting an alpha build of Dead Star and I still have some download codes left. If you have a Playstation 4 with PSN Plus and can play on Fridays and Saturdays starting at 8:30 Central, I can send a code your way. -
Vectrex Lives!
I finally got around cleaning the contacts on my Vectrex game system and cartridges, which had gotten glitchy due to 30+ years of oxidation. I wet some paper towel with rubbing alcohol, wrapped it around a thin piece of cardboard from the back of a notepad, and pushed it between the contacts inside cartridge slot. The cartridges themselves were ( Read more... ) -
Kirby In Color
Behold The Psychedeleic Glory Of Jack Kirby's Argo Art, In Color At Last
The story behind the artwork itself is pretty wild too.
The colors are definitely a lot brighter than one typically sees Kirby's work:
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Weird Images from Google Research
Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks, figuring out how artificial neural networks for image classification work by essentially "running them backwards" to generate images. The resulting images are almost without exception very strange.
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Executable versus Script
I recently found that the compiled C++ version of my Snake game is significantly smaller than the Lua script version that runs in ConsoleLua. The executable is around 5KB while the script is around 8KB, and ConsoleLua is over 100KB (80% of which is Lua itself). That's... somewhat disheartening.
To add insult to injury, the Snake executable is ( Read more... )
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