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Adiva
@adiblue.bsky.social
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Programmer, former gamedev, compulsive creative 🏳️‍⚧️

8-bit era kid through DOS, heavy metal, role-playing and more. Star Wars AND Star Trek.

Fun stuff w friends: https://conejamutante.itch.io/
Good ol' metal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDTsEUUH86o
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Adiva @adiblue.bsky.social · Nov 23
In the last few years I tried my hand at learning some C and maybe write some tiny games for the old #C64 (I don't have the skills or brains for Assembly).
It's beyond hard and the results are very simple, but believe me it feels great to watch anything you wrote run on a 40+ years old computer.
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reddpanderson.bsky.social
Unexpected obscure Commodore 64 game wisdom

Source: c64universe.com/2025/09/06/n...
Screenshot of Pig Quest II: The Last Pig (working title) for the Commodore 64. It features pixel art of an isometric forest scene with an anthropomorphic pig character on one side of a river and a bridge running across. There's a knight in armor at the other side. At the top of the screen are the words "the hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn."
November 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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xkcd.com
Fifteen Years

xkcd.com/3172/
Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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dungeonbuster.bsky.social
Rings of Power (1992) was an RPG for the Sega Genesis by Naughty Dog. Five centuries ago, the Rod of Creation was shattered and turned into eleven rings now lost. When a traitor slays your mentor who manages to teleport you away, the quest to find and unite them now falls to you! (a ring thread).
You are apprenticed to the greatest Sorcerer in the world and are busy learning the ropes until tragedy strikes in this isometric RPG. Things start off innocently enough for now as you enjoy life as a student of the magic arts. The title screen featuring the names of both developers who began the project. The battle screen for the game whisked players away to an isolated square like this to confront their foes.
November 21, 2023 at 12:55 AM
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kellyjbaker.bsky.social
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:

Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.

If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.

Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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nightshade.technology
why does rider feel the need to be microsoft word
November 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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korybing.bsky.social
One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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adashtra.bsky.social
America's first ever esports champion was Rebecca Heineman, a trans woman. She went on to found some of your favorite video game studios and worked on your favorite video games. Next time you see somebody rail about 'woke' and 'DEI'
Remember that.
Remember her.
gaymingmag.bsky.social Gayming Magazine @gaymingmag.bsky.social · 13d
"I code so others can dream."

Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer.

Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ games pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has died - Gayming Magazine
Rebecca Heineman, a trailblazing figure in the video game industry and a celebrated icon within the LGBTQ+ gaming community, has died.
gaymingmag.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
adiblue.bsky.social
The Internet was made to withstand a nuclear war. Unfortunately we never planned for the far worse menace of market-oriented centralization.
thomasfuchs.at Thomas @thomasfuchs.at · 13d
It's fantastic how we technology people have managed to turn a network that's supposed to be resilient to a nuclear war into something so brittle it goes down when someone misconfigures like one file at Cloudflare
November 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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thomasfuchs.at
It's fantastic how we technology people have managed to turn a network that's supposed to be resilient to a nuclear war into something so brittle it goes down when someone misconfigures like one file at Cloudflare
November 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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felipepepe.bsky.social
Rebecca Heineman's last message was for people to look up her departed partner, Jennell Jaquays.

Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons.

@nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her:
pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...
How Jennell Jaquays Evolved Dungeon Design, Part 1: Pre-Jaquays Dungeons
(This is a slightly cleaned up version of my two Bluesky threads on Jennell Jaquays, preserved in a hopefully easier to read format. Thank Amanda P for reminding me that having these things stored …
pathikablog.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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gifs-bot.bsky.social
FANTASY/ULTIMA4.GIF
November 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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thomasfuchs.at
Joseph Weizenbaum, 50 years ago
But the computer was used to automate the administration of social services and to centralize it along established political lines. If the computer had not facilitated the perpetuation and "improve-ment" of existing welfare distribution systems—hence of their philosophical rationales-perhaps someone might have thought of eliminating much of the need for welfare by, for example, introducing negative income tax. The very erection of an enormously large and complex computer based welfare administration apparatus, however, created an interest in its maintenance and therefore in the perpetuation of the welfare system itself. And such interests soon become substantial barriers to innovation even if good reasons to innovate later accumulate. In other words, many of the problems of growth and complexity that pressed insistently and irresistibly for response during the postwar decades could have served as incentives for social and political innovation. An enormous acceleration of social invention, had it begun then, would now seem to us as natural a consequence of man's predicament in that time as does the flood of technological invention and innovation that was actually stimulated. Yes, the computer did arrive "just in time." But in time for what? In time to save-and save very nearly intact, indeed, to entrench and stabilize-social and political structures that otherwise might have been either radically renovated or allowed to totter under the demands that were sure to be made on them. The computer, then, was used to conserve America's social and political institutions. It buttressed them and immunized them, at least temporarily, against enormous pressures for change.
November 15, 2025 at 12:10 AM
adiblue.bsky.social
Post a dramatic black and white selfie, aka I'm probably still good for the back shot of death metal album.
Black and white selfie of the poster at a heavy metal concert
November 15, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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thomasfuchs.at
"...a Google AI agent found an especially obscure bug in FFmpeg. How obscure? This “medium impact issue in ffmpeg,” which the FFmpeg developers did patch, is “an issue with decoding LucasArts Smush codec, specifically the first 10-20 frames of Rebel Assault 2, a game from 1995.”"
FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs
A lively discussion about open source, security, and who pays the bills has erupted on Twitter.
thenewstack.io
November 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
adiblue.bsky.social
It's november 2025, and I just installed #Vim on a fresh #Linux desktop. Good sturdy software you can always, always rely on even in the worst possible working conditions.
November 12, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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thomasfuchs.at
(via hachyderm.io/@Natasha_Jay...)
A cartoon of two programmers talking over coffee: Panel 1: Programmer 1 - Some day we won't even need coders any more. We'll be able to just write the specification and the program will write itself Panel 2: Programmer 2 - Oh wow, you're right! We'll be able to write a comprehensive and precise spec and bam, we won't need programmers any more! 1 - Exactly! Panel 3: 2 - And do you know the industry term for a project specification that is comprehensive and precise enough to generate a program? 1 - Uh... no.... Panel 4: 2 - Code. It's called code Source: CommitStrip.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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theoasisbbs.bsky.social
Commodore 64 Screen RAM Explained
#Commodore64 #C64Programming #AssemblyLanguage #RetroComputing #8bit

theoasisbbs.com/commodore-64...
Commodore 64 Screen RAM Explained - The Oasis BBS
Bård of Commodore Tutorials breaks down Commodore 64 Screen RAM, showing how to switch memory screens for game menus and more.
theoasisbbs.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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cait.bsky.social
we should not be letting any company get away with blaming AI for their failures. I'm not even sure how we got to this point. people are like "it's just a tool" okay so is a forklift and we still hold somebody responsible when it goes wrong and hurts someone. this is YOUR AI!
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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atariarchive.org
Intellivision Archive opens 1982 wirh Star Strike, Mattel’s knock off of Star Wars’ trench run that wound up as a high selling, critically (and artistically) acclaimed game youtu.be/lO0pup2Wizs
Star Strike: Intellivision Archive Episode 8
YouTube video by Atari Archive
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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vgdensetsu.bsky.social
I wrote a long article about Rieko Kodama, her career at Sega, the evolution of her company, the games she worked on (including some canceled games and/or games for which she is not credited), the status of women and working conditions in the video game industry, etc.
vgdensetsu.net/riekokodama/
Illustration: a portrait of Rieko Kodama with some of the games she has worked on. The dominant colors are yellow, purple and red. Counterclockwise from top left: Rieko Kodama, Alis and Lutz from Phantasy Star, Sonic in a maze, Alex Kidd and his motorbike next to Flicky on a waterfront pier, Joe Musashi and his dog near the Statue of Liberty facing a skyline, the three playable characters from Golden Axe seen from behind on the edge of a cliff, and one of the flying ships from Skies of Arcadia.
October 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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kevedwardsretro.bsky.social
VCR tape copying virus! Hilarious. I should have implemented a similar thing in my BBC Micro game protection systems.
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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studio8502.ca
No-vember is when we say “no” to capitalism.
November 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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raphkoster.bsky.social
Game design is simple, actually. Except when it isn't. Here are the 12 things you need to know.
Game design is simple, actually
So, let’s just walk through the whole thing, end to end. Here’s a twelve-step program for understanding game design. One: Fun There are a lot of things people call “fun.” But most of them are not useful for getting better at making games, which is usually why people read articles like this. The fun of a bit of confetti exploding in front of you, and the fun of excruciating pain and risk to life and limb as you free climb a cliff are just not usefully paired together.
www.raphkoster.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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thomasfuchs.at
“The Case that Penn & Teller use real magic”
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28d
“Perhaps the secrets of thinking are simpler than anyone expected—the kind of thing that a high schooler, or even a machine, could understand.”
The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
ChatGPT does not have an inner life. Yet it seems to know what it’s talking about.
www.newyorker.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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kevedwardsretro.bsky.social
You must watch this! The early history of ARM by Sophie Wilson, one of the co-creators of the ARM processor.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8MW...
"There were no assemblers..." - Sophie Wilson and Robert Catherall - ARM at 40 anniversary, Talk 3
YouTube video by The Centre for Computing History
www.youtube.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM