My latest modern art creation: the warming of the soup.
Worth at least an extra ten thousand due to the ephemeral nature of its satisfying beauty.
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Did you whack him with it?
@[email protected] @[email protected] Doing this to random people on the internet seems rude and lacking self awareness. Doing this to your employer seems to take a... special something, and maybe limit future life opportunities
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Could these be... new features related to the new course draft?
Yes. Yes they could. #visualnovel #gamedev
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Figure 1: Smooth style with photos
Figure 2: Pixelated style with pixel art
Crunchier pixels in VisualInk
Read this post in its full formatted glory at https://blog.mavnn.eu/2026/05/01/crunchier_pixels_in_visual_ink.html
Pixel art has a certain charm all of its own, and visual novels in particular often borrow from the older games of yesteryear for their artistic inspiration.
But unfortunately, that means that if you're using a web based visual novel engine like VisualInk your assets can end up looking blurred and smudgy depending on the screen size where they are viewed.
VisualInk now has the pixel_style variable for choosing whether images that need to be resized are scaled using "Smooth" style (the default, good for photos and scanned hand drawn artwork), and "Pixelated" style for low resolution pixel art to be scaled up keeping nice sharp edges between the pixels.
As an example:
Figure 1: Smooth style with photos
Versus (excuse the placeholder images):
Figure 2: Pixelated style with pixel art
@blog Of course, the only issue here is that the screen shot on the blog is itself going to get scaled, but hey ho!
Ideas for the new course starting to solidify, with the plan being a five week online intro to creating #visualnovel assets of your own for under 18s with no budget (above and beyond having a computer) using tech you probably have around the house and open source software like #krita and #audacity. Official announcement coming soon. #HomeEd #GameDev
Also, if you have less terrible ideas for a course name, I'm all ears
Ideas for the new course starting to solidify, with the plan being a five week online intro to creating #visualnovel assets of your own for under 18s with no budget (above and beyond having a computer) using tech you probably have around the house and open source software like #krita and #audacity. Official announcement coming soon. #HomeEd #GameDev
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Security Engineers: "Automatically patch all the things right away!"
NPM infection # 683735
"... okay maybe wait a couple weeks on patching things ..."
@[email protected] "There's about five hundred thousand more valuable targets with the same vulnerability, so just think of it like Russian roulette with a 500,000 shot revolver. That shoots like a really fast machine gun. I'm losing this metaphor, aren't I?"
Been a bit quiet on the VisualInk (visualink.mavnn.eu/) front for a few weeks, but a minor release went out today which allows scenes to have names with spaces in. Previously a bug meant that you could upload scene backgrounds and give them a name with a space, but they then wouldn't show up correctly in your visual novel.
Also, look out for some new #visualnovel course news in the coming week!
Anyone else allegedly being a robot ? I've been asked again and again on a loop 4 times and not working
Might be a vivaldi related bug , but this is such a poor experience
@[email protected] I have a couple of websites that gets in this loop on one of my devices regularly. Other Cloudflare checks on the same device work, I can access the site from an other device, but the tick box just loops. The next day it'll be working again. It's been going on for years intermittently at this point.
alright friends, it's Wednesday, and you know what that means!
no? uh yeah, I have no idea either. sorry.
@[email protected] Same thing we do every Wednesday. Try to take over the world!
@mavnn nice, that’s very cool!
@[email protected] I think some of it came from previous experience with character generators disappearing and leaving people unable to access their old (or even current) characters. That said, I've realised this isn't quite what your were proposing: there's no proviso to release products built on top of the source code, I don't think
- all source remains property of the dev, not allowed to release source publicly etc
As an indie dev of both games and apps the idea of actually releasing software this way scares me of course and I imagine it would be very risky and open to abuse. But… *waves hands*… somehow?!
@[email protected] I've no idea how successful it was, but Dan Simon actually did this when he created the HERODesigner software (herogames.com/store/category...) for the Hero/Champions #ttrpg.
You can pay for the app, which is obviously what most people do, but you can also pay for the source code to modify the app with your own house rules etc.
I honestly have no idea at all how many copies of the source code were sold, but it was definitely interesting to see this model being tried out 'in the wild'.
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I wonder what the stupidest way for a business to fail with LLMs will be
@[email protected] @[email protected] It's going to be interesting seeing somebody beat the opening double tap of "we let AI delete our product" followed by "we let AI delete our product after seeing it happen to the other guys already"
youtube.com/watch?v=XKkYLmyT...
Niche, but fascinating; Wing is a musician and beatboxer who is sitting out the equivalent of the world championship this year to be part of the judging panel. He put together a one and a half hour video where he breaks down all of the submissions that qualified this year (in a particular category), talking about why he judged the way he did. It's a masterclass of clearly explained criteria, a sampling of the best beat box/solo acapella work out there today with expert commentary, and an insight breakdown of how musicality and technical skill can either enhance or detract from each other and why a technically impressive skill demonstration could be enthralling for other 'experts' but turn away the general public or even musicians from other fields. #beatbox #music #art #CriticalThinking
GBB26 JUDGE REVIEW
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Incredible. Every second paragraph in this article is lunatic nonsense.
One of the things I've long said about hiring is that you can always tell when you're talking to a junior dev who's going to be senior-staff or better someday. You can always tell when somebody was paying attention in the theory classes.
But good god you can also tell when people missed that day in gradeschool when somebody slowly went over "So, what is a computer, really."
@[email protected] Did... did he write that entire article without taking any responsibility at all for what happened? Not even a "I thought I'd put something in place but I was wrong"?
I... would probably sleep much better at night with that level of self awareness. And hurt the people around me a lot more.
he did a set where he pressed play on his mix, walked to the front of the stage, and did a dance on a loop for a straight hour. his commitment to the bit is incredible.
@[email protected] also one of the world's weirdest fighting game characters: youtu.be/GXwC4LhcjaY
Unlike Ronaldo, who even more bizarrely is a character in the same game but appears to have had no involvement, Ganacci was actually involved and showed up at a bunch of events and made a video of him being sucked into the game.
So yeah;if you wanting to see Ronaldo getting punched with the grandma punch, that's the game for you (it is one of his attacks on game...)
Wait...The DJ Is ACTUALLY COOL?! Fatal Fury Pro Matches
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I was like well think of a codebase as a shared narrative with an oral tradition with lots of tacit rules and he was like, yeah yeah I get it, it's the same here
@[email protected] I have used precisely this analogy in trying to explain how engineering teams function! As a data point, my dad has a classics degree...
New experience unlocked: stabbed myself in the head with a lemon tree.
(And if you somehow read the above as "it's OK for me to burn Claude tokens because I'm vegan" I will find you and I will slap you.)
Bodil: "I have a very particular set of skills"
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@spazahedron Because they can't track you they can't try to sell you six more lawn mowers to go with the one you bought yesterday, so they'll show you random stuff instead.
The ads are only "lower quality" insofar as the ad exchangers can't charge advertisers as much money for untargeted ad slots.
In other words, "lower quality ads" is a self-own by the bloated leeches degrading your browsing experience.
@[email protected] @[email protected] I once had a website pop up a dialog that warned me that I was receiving a "degraded" experience because "no ads are loading". insert Princess Bride meme here
