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Rajel Aran
@rajelaran.cyberelf.space
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Galactic Nostalgia Hunter.
she/her/flesh

Halfway between the black and gray is no place for a life to waste away
I'll take the road with all the stakes
~ TWRP - Starlight Brigade
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Someone posted this blank so I had to fill it out.
A post by mari costa, @marinscos: My girlfriend and I came up with a new lesbian alignment chart. The space below has been divided into four quadrants. The top of the vertical axis is labeled with a drawing of a sword. The bottom of the vertical axis is labeled with a drawing of a gun. The right side of the horizontal axis is labeled with a skull. The left side of the horizontal axis is labeled with roses. Gideon is written just below the sword at the top, Harrow is written on the skull at the far right, and Ianthe is written at the bottom left corner of rose and gun.
November 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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a telegram conversation, the remote party has sent two photos: one of a dual-drive Mac SE, and a G3 iMac. The poster's response is "The beginning and the end."
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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I'm using PCem here with an S3 Trio64 to run my DOS game dev environment at a lovely 1600x1200 resolution!
A laptop with blue and pink lit keys displaying DIV Games Studio 2 (open source hybrid edition) running at high resolution, with an open code window, some open resource file windows, menu windows, and 32 individual windows each containing a frame of animation of a spinning asteroid. The overall software color scheme is composed of a range of pinks and purples, customized by the OP
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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That's a good start, closer to what I was originally trying to do with the first one anyway
A 3D modeling application running in Windows 98 on a laptop with pink and blue lit keys. Displayed in the application are multiple views of an ovoid ship cockpit from different angles, including one with a test render from the "camera". Multiple sections have been cut out of the squished spherical shape in order to form the structural bars seen in the test render.
November 3, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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HELL YESSS OHGOD BY THE PRINCE UNDYING WHAT IS THAT
October 20, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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okay, time to uncomment these three processes and hope all the refactoring didn't blow up
Code text against a dark pink background. The following lines are commented out: object_scheduler(); update_objects(); get_radar_data();
October 20, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Bless the Maker and his water
also urine and feces are processed in the thigh pads
A LLM-generated image ostensibly about water conservation methods, but it's a bar graph with nonsensical metrics showing a representative sampling of rain and three other samples with the labeling growing more and more illegible. The last one is a symbol of a humanoid figure that has been modified to have a basic resemblance to someone wearing a stillsuit from David Lynch's Dune
October 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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and if you have an MT32, Dune II has *excellent* support for it, including some sound effects!
Westwood tended to support Roland MIDI hardware pretty well.
October 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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It's not often I'm browsing pre-made assets and find *exactly* what I'm looking for, but sometimes I get lucky!
papoycore.itch.io delivered some really solid sprite work here.
October 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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a soundtrack for workin' on the weekend
A tangara personal media player, the screen displays the currently playing track by BT, 1.618 from the album This Binary Universe. Just above the player is the front control panel for a pair of Yamaha YST-M10 desktop speakers.
October 13, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Sometimes a marketing team is just right on the nose
A screenshot of an ad for Temu, with a graphic of what appears to be a city skyline and the Statue of Liberty with the text "Temu United States" on top and below "clearance everything must go" The arrangement of images and text can be easily read to imply that the United States itself is on clearance sale.
September 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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alright, #RandomGameSaturday it is!
The UT99 total conversion mod Nerf Arena Blast was the second FPS I was allowed to play growing up (Descent was the first), and its subtle tweaks to the UT formula, smartly themed and well designed levels, and inclusion of "NerfEd" earned it a dedicated following!
An Android tablet with attached keyboard and mouse, currently running Nerf Arena Blast in a window. The player is in the starting lobby, an octagonal room with blue floors, yellow walls and red ceiling. There are two exits visible to the player on the left and right of the game window. The left exit has the words "point blast" written in blue above the doorway. The right side exit has the words "training session" written above the doorway. Between them is a scoreboard showing the current player's high score for this arena. a post game results screen showing the OP at the top of the leaderboard with nearly twice the number of points as the 2nd place bot. The player is standing in a room colored mostly blue, except for the yellow and blue nerf symbol painted in the center of the room, and purple highlights like neon streaks embellishing the edges of platforms and the doorway in the upper left of the screen. The player currently has the Nerf triple strike foam dart launcher equipped.
September 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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attempting a thing
an Android tablet with an attached keyboard running the Nerf Arena Blast Community Pack installer in Winlator. There is a purple Logitech G wired mouse on the right plugged into the USB hub connected to the tablet
September 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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September 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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This is what I've been using to make Equinox for DOSember
It's kinda like Godot long before Godot lol
A laptop with a pink and cyan-lit displays a pink and purple-hued integrated development environment, displaying a large number of frames of sprite animation, asset package windows, menu windows, and a large code editor window. A screenshot of the Equinox prototype, displaying a weird bonelike cockpit with pink and red tubes attaching to grey metal boxes for status displays. The craft flies above an SNES mode-7 style landscape of blue oceans, green forests and golden beaches. In front of the craft is a large 3D-rendered rock, with a red cursor pointing the relative direction to the closest object.
September 22, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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It is an indisputable fact that battlemechs are stored in the balls
A Clan Outpost-class dropship deployed on a planet's surface; its spherical ship structure supported by multiple retractable support pylons. There are temporary structures built near the the ship just outside the pylons, various people are performing their duties, and a madcat appears to be deployed off the right side of the ship, facing left.
September 19, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Stargate Command uses old PalmOS handheld game consoles as information transfer devices

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapwave...
a clipped image of the end of Stargate SG1 season 9, episode 13. A large yellow plastic case with foam padding is open to display two devices, stated to carry the cure for an alien plague. The devices are curvy electronic handeld game systems developed by Tapwave, called the Zodiac. It ran PalmOS on a custom platform with a discrete GPU. It failed horribly at retail, but seems to have found new life as sci-fi TV props.
September 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Sopwith
a side-scrolling flight simulator using the white, cyan, and magenta CGA palette. The screenshot depicts a set of white hills against a black background, tanks and buildings rendered in simple mainly pink for enemy buildings, and cyan for the player. The player's Sopwith Camel aircraft is on the left side of the screen, and appears to have taken heavy damage due to the number of "parts" that appear to be falling from it.
September 9, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Not bad in motion either, though it seems I might have some frame import issues to work out
#dosembergamejam
September 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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yeah they look pretty good
A screenshot of the SkyGuard prototype build, displaying the new cockpit graphics that appear to be a mix of technology and purpose-grown bone structure. In front of the player is a pink-highlighted space rock, and a red pointer representing the relative angle between the player orientation and the rock location. a closer look at the pink rock. The landscape has disappeared due to code issues, but there appears to be a dim reflection of the ground in the lower quadrants of the pink-tinged space rock Another close-up of a damn good looking space rock in front of the player cockpit. This one has no colored highlight, just the shading from an overhead sun and slight glimmer of the planet's reflection in the lower parts of the rock. another view of a regular non-colorful space rock through the front of the player cockpit. The rock sprites were 1997-era raytrace rendered at fairly high resolutions relative to the display resolution, and with enough animation frames to fill every screen refresh, so without looking too closely they *almost* look like real-time 3D assets in screenshot and gameplay. I wanted to push the envelope, just a little.
September 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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that's a rock
it's a good rock.
I have 864 of these (32frames x 3 types x 3 sizes x 3 rotations) that need to have transparency set and imported into the asset bundle.
one. by. one.

it better be a good rock.
a computer screen displaying a number of brightly colorer windows containing sequential images for animation, program code, assets listings, and a closeup of one of the animation frames containing a large grey and green-highlighted space rock. It is bumpy and roughly textured, and looks excellent at the rendered resolution. The desktop background is a deep purple/pink pattern, the windows have purple or pink titlebars, and the text editor window has a darkened magenta background.
September 7, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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I heard we got gifs now, have a bouncing estradiol
September 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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rendering individual frames of the craft resource meters changing length, after which I'll need to edit the frames to create one set of cropped frames for each gauge, a total of 64 images to retouch by hand post-conversion.
September 3, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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bone cockpit with integrated status display and resource meters, palette-optimized to 32 colors, since I only have 256 total to work with.
happy with how it looks so far! still needs a little fleshing out, though.
a 3D render of a helicopter-esque sci-fi cockpit constructed of bone seemingly grown as the structural component, with a status screen embedded into the calcifierous material in the center and resource status gauges colored neon green and pink arranged on either side. The cockpit is in front of a perfectly blue background to facilitate easier conversion for transparency in Div.
September 2, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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not sure if I like the bone cockpit, but also consider: fucking BONE COCKPIT
a laptop displaying TrueSpace 3 with a preview render of a helicopter-esque cockpit that appears to be made of naturally-occurring bone
September 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM