Shiny Vacation
@shinyvacation.bsky.social
🌸 Small Indie Dev
🌻 Retired VGM Radio DJ
🍁 Maddie's Mothman
❄️ Tired Day Job Haver (35, he/they)
http://shinyvacation.itch.io/hand-of-horzasha
🌻 Retired VGM Radio DJ
🍁 Maddie's Mothman
❄️ Tired Day Job Haver (35, he/they)
http://shinyvacation.itch.io/hand-of-horzasha
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Yearly reminder that if you watch The Muppet Christmas Carol on Disney+ make sure you are watching the full version with the cut song put back in.
Going to try very hard to be normal about Muppet Christmas Carol this year.
December 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Yearly reminder that if you watch The Muppet Christmas Carol on Disney+ make sure you are watching the full version with the cut song put back in.
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Unreal: "The EPA is moving forward with approvals for pesticides containing 'forever chemicals' as an active ingredient... The agency also announced plans to relax a rule requiring companies to report products containing PFAS and has proposed weakening drinking water standards for the chemicals."
November 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Unreal: "The EPA is moving forward with approvals for pesticides containing 'forever chemicals' as an active ingredient... The agency also announced plans to relax a rule requiring companies to report products containing PFAS and has proposed weakening drinking water standards for the chemicals."
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I don’t know when I last played Metroid Prime. Maybe 15 years ago?
It’s still very cool.
It’s still very cool.
November 29, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I don’t know when I last played Metroid Prime. Maybe 15 years ago?
It’s still very cool.
It’s still very cool.
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a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
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And like it's not just transphobia they do this with, it's racism and misogyny and disablism and homophobia too.
November 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
And like it's not just transphobia they do this with, it's racism and misogyny and disablism and homophobia too.
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So many people who imagine themselves to be Marxists have a deeply liberal and idealist understanding of transphobia. It's not a debate, it's a power struggle and if you aren't willing to clearly take trans people's side, you are a scab.
Nah, bullshit tbh. You don't deal with the presence of transphobes by debating them. That the guy arguing no felt comfortable doing so and wasn't immediately heckled into silence speaks to a fundamental fucking rot.
November 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
So many people who imagine themselves to be Marxists have a deeply liberal and idealist understanding of transphobia. It's not a debate, it's a power struggle and if you aren't willing to clearly take trans people's side, you are a scab.
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
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What's hilarious is that competent programmers, as well as people studying programming for the very first time, know that all code you write after about 4 hours is garbage. Totally useless, none of it worth salvaging.
Actual programmers hear "I coded for 36 hours" and hear "I gooned for 36 hours"
Actual programmers hear "I coded for 36 hours" and hear "I gooned for 36 hours"
Working 36 hours straight on Thanksgiving so Grok says Elon is in better shape than LeBron
November 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
What's hilarious is that competent programmers, as well as people studying programming for the very first time, know that all code you write after about 4 hours is garbage. Totally useless, none of it worth salvaging.
Actual programmers hear "I coded for 36 hours" and hear "I gooned for 36 hours"
Actual programmers hear "I coded for 36 hours" and hear "I gooned for 36 hours"
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Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
wgme.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
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"i hate writing NPC dialogue i don't wanna do it i need bobot to do it for me buhhhhh" you are like a little baby
November 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
"i hate writing NPC dialogue i don't wanna do it i need bobot to do it for me buhhhhh" you are like a little baby
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if NPC dialogue in a game is unimportant or boring, one of two things is happening:
1. someone did a bad job writing it
2. you didn't appreciate it, for whatever reason
don't put sawdust in your bread on purpose for fuck's sake
1. someone did a bad job writing it
2. you didn't appreciate it, for whatever reason
don't put sawdust in your bread on purpose for fuck's sake
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
if NPC dialogue in a game is unimportant or boring, one of two things is happening:
1. someone did a bad job writing it
2. you didn't appreciate it, for whatever reason
don't put sawdust in your bread on purpose for fuck's sake
1. someone did a bad job writing it
2. you didn't appreciate it, for whatever reason
don't put sawdust in your bread on purpose for fuck's sake
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i take frenzy damage every time i see someone go "well i just use it for the boring stuff". what are you TALKING about? if it's boring or unimportant, why are you putting it in? NPC dialogue is fertile ground for worldbuilding, creating verisimilitude, conveying important information, and hijinks!!
Buy a solo indie dev's game because I want to support them.
Find out it uses OpenAI to write "non-important NPC dialogue".
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Find out it uses OpenAI to write "non-important NPC dialogue".
🫠
November 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
i take frenzy damage every time i see someone go "well i just use it for the boring stuff". what are you TALKING about? if it's boring or unimportant, why are you putting it in? NPC dialogue is fertile ground for worldbuilding, creating verisimilitude, conveying important information, and hijinks!!
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was the same back on twitter. every time. always came up from comics/SFF/YA too. pirates, pirates, pirates, and the anger would come flowing. but whenever it came time to discussing how the publishers are damaging and exploiting these writers, everything got real quiet, real fast.
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
was the same back on twitter. every time. always came up from comics/SFF/YA too. pirates, pirates, pirates, and the anger would come flowing. but whenever it came time to discussing how the publishers are damaging and exploiting these writers, everything got real quiet, real fast.
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So instead of funding actual programs that teach kids how to do things and give them opportunities, we should steal from artists and call it "accessibility"?
All AI music does is devalue the work done by human artists. It’s not accessibility, it’s exploitation. We need real protections for artists against AI!
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
November 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
So instead of funding actual programs that teach kids how to do things and give them opportunities, we should steal from artists and call it "accessibility"?
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i've been meaning to do this for a while: list of my fav ren'py utilities/plugins/resources/etc. doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/21154.html
(in case of 403, archive dot org link: web.archive.org/web/20250000...)
(in case of 403, archive dot org link: web.archive.org/web/20250000...)
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
i've been meaning to do this for a while: list of my fav ren'py utilities/plugins/resources/etc. doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/21154.html
(in case of 403, archive dot org link: web.archive.org/web/20250000...)
(in case of 403, archive dot org link: web.archive.org/web/20250000...)
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there are already 2 states talking about vpn bans and it hasn't even been a year since they've introduced age verification laws. shit is dire and it's gonna sneak up fast
November 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM
there are already 2 states talking about vpn bans and it hasn't even been a year since they've introduced age verification laws. shit is dire and it's gonna sneak up fast
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they're a total black box. some suspect games get approved just fine some innocuous games get trapped in the hell dimension and no one knows why. the only consistent themes is if you have anything even slightly gay you're playing russian roulette on hard mode
November 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
they're a total black box. some suspect games get approved just fine some innocuous games get trapped in the hell dimension and no one knows why. the only consistent themes is if you have anything even slightly gay you're playing russian roulette on hard mode
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a few posts on the steam thing are referencing how there's tons of anime porn on steam and that is technically true but also they will ban japanese games or visual novels if they're having a bad day or the humours were misaligned on tuesday or whatever
November 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
a few posts on the steam thing are referencing how there's tons of anime porn on steam and that is technically true but also they will ban japanese games or visual novels if they're having a bad day or the humours were misaligned on tuesday or whatever
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I actually gasped when I saw that this resource guide was put out there to help folks. *That's* what I'm talking about.
Librarians are the freaking best, y'all. Book it. Done.
Librarians are the freaking best, y'all. Book it. Done.
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I actually gasped when I saw that this resource guide was put out there to help folks. *That's* what I'm talking about.
Librarians are the freaking best, y'all. Book it. Done.
Librarians are the freaking best, y'all. Book it. Done.
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No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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Get yourself a girl who is laser focused on getting in and out of Costco as quickly as possible
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Get yourself a girl who is laser focused on getting in and out of Costco as quickly as possible