Spencer Alves @impiaaa@octodon.social

Now that that's official, I should do a re-​#introductions​:
Hi, I'm Spencer! I do a bunch of things; often with programming, sometimes with games, and almost always on a computer. Check my website for some of that. On Mastodon, I'm known for my bots @doctormccoy and @domainhacker​​​, an emoji importer script, the little 🗨️ in the corner of Glitchsoc statuses, for being a geometric shape, and for the dont_at_me emoji.

Here are some of my political beliefs, in no particular order:
• De-fund the military
• End war
• De-militarize the police force
• Make the top tax bracket 100%
• Fund public schools
• Ban all guns
• Ban bump stocks
• Ban extended mags
• Ban semiauto
• Ban rifles
• Eliminate the death penalty
• Stop making games with guns in them

there are lots of others but these are the non-obvious ones

Apropos of nothing, if you ever need a spare programmer or some programming help, especially for a game or game-related thing, let me know. I've used Unity, C, JS, Python, Java, and UE4, but I'm also quick to learn.

P: Hi, Bill. Do you know who will cover the mill?
B: Hi Phil. I think that's Jill.
P: Jill's to fill? What if she's ill?
B: Maybe she'll have pills, or get someone else.
P: But who would shill? And would they be as skilled?
B: Maybe Gill? I don't know, Phil, just chill.
[enter Bob, stage left]
Bob: Chill, skilled Gill shills pilled, ill Jill, fills mill?
Phil & Bill, insulted & confused: …WTH, Bob?

I'm not giving my phone number to anyone I haven't met in person, but if you need something more or less immediate than Mastodon, you can try my same username on Twitter, Reddit, FB Messenger, Gmail, cybre.space, and maybe others.

TASTE ACQUIRED

someone should find that patch to change people's "visual" username and then rename @.gargron to @.jack

The mobile app debug menu button is a pikachu and I don't know why. like the least they could do is make it a bug-type right?

the XCF is 26 layers and 183 MB (compressed). I took 10 of my own photos and used 8 of them. the interchange reflected on the car is, coincidentally, the same one that I took photos of (none of the sourced photos are the same though). the exported, unscaled JPEG is 3147 by 8727 pixels (and only 2.7 MB!). I uploaded to 4 sites, all of which were at one point considered good for artists, but only one, dA, let me upload the full size and set license metadata.

"DAADDD" — I can only imagine what awful pun that car must have been the punchline to :D

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don't ask me what it means

new political spectrum: helpful vs helpless + hopeful vs hopeless

Field-Programmable Golfers' Association

I did try updating it myself actually, but it turns out it would take changing like 15 different dependencies, some of which are deprecated upstream, or depend on deprecated things

mastoooo when are you getting 🟣? it's already in twemoji…

auuuggghh, medium started using that same obfuscation that Facebook and Twitter do, so I can't block the aggravating highlight menu. to reader mode, I guess.

come to think of it, I wrote "virtual platform" to include things like pico8, but what distinguishes that? should e.g. HTML be included? it's an API just like an OS, should those? I want to say no but idk what line would be drawn that could include pico8 but exclude the others

Is there, like, a master list of homebrew toolkits for game consoles? or is it a thing I should write. Maybe generalize it to hardware and virtual platforms, open and closed, and their available development tools, official and unofficial. Would be interesting to have them in one place to compare.

HEY EVERYONE, HERE'S A NEW POST, just keep it between the two of us, mmk? 😉

"Images of British Modernity," a very large paperback collection of humorous drawings from contemporary (at the time of publication, >10yr ago) British (presumably) artists. I had actually removed it from the special books section (large format), but I was gonna put it back, I swear!