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I like video games, programming languages, and hacking things up with old video game hardware. I also post a lot about TV I'm watching, and sometimes books I'm reading too.

Used to stream on twitch (as megmactv) but don't really anymore.

Anything I say here is 1000% my own opinion and probably no one, including any employers I have or have had in the past, agree with me.

#NoUnroll

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I’m looking to hire someone to help design some creative stickers for my business. Neurodivergent friendly/fun stuff is a plus. 

They’d be free/throw ins for my customers orders, so not anything I’d be selling commercially.

I’d love to work with someone on the Fedi, so if you know someone who would be into this sort of thing, please show them my current branding/vibe on my Etsy store and send them my way. :) And of course, I’d pay them for their work!

It was never really about trans actors playing trans characters.

It was about trans people telling trans stories.

Cis people looked at our single most precious resource — our stories — and simply declared: "Is mine now."

And when we got upset about it, they claimed it doesn't matter. But we are in the life-or-death position we are now because of decades of cis people gatekeeping, mediating and editorialising our stories for their own benefit, and the self-exoneration will not fucking fly.

What if I told you that the writer/designer of the Gabriel Knight adventure games from the 90s has over the last decade been publishing steamy M4M romance novels online under the pseudonym "Eli Easton"

There is an interview about it here

https://www.wired.com/story/jane-jensen-eli-easton-interview/

One of Gaming’s Greatest Writers Is Busy Crafting Romance Novels

WIRED talked to Jane Jensen about her prolific publishing, shape-shifting dogs, and the hope of seeing 'Gabriel Knight 4.'

WIRED
@mcc I don't think so. Can't remember a specific thing to cite for it but I feel like it came up at some point?
@beandreams I feel like that might be above my level right now but I'd definitely be interested for later :)

Been trying to pick back up some French that I've lost over the years to lack of use. I did French immersion from k-5 but then switched out for grade 6 after my sister did the same for high school, which I now kinda regret.

Anyways, that means I have pretty good intuition about French grammar since that was drilled pretty hard in those grades, even though I'd have trouble articulating the actual rules or listing out full conjugation tables of the main irregular verbs. But my vocab is shit. I remember a lot of words, but I have big gaps for surprisingly essential words.

A while ago I was doing Duolingo (before it fully became abusive crap) and it really didn't help much with any of that imo. But lately I've been doing just straight vocabulary flashcards with anki and I think that's going a lot better.

Sometimes simpler is better.

@inthehands @pinskia @dalias yeah this more or less. It was, I think, for a while the closest Linux got to "it just works," especially on laptops.

I don't think that's been true for quite a while though, and it hasn't been unique for even longer.

Update: Spring.
@declan I'm jealous, a colour portable like this is basically my holy grail crt :o

Sticking my nose into ewaste this morning and found this cute portable Toshiba TV. The thing that grabbed me is that it is colour, most of those were monochrome.
Took it home, powered it up and it didn't make any bang noises or smoke. Knowing that it appears ok, I connected my PSOne to it and as you can see, it works perfectly with it (ignore the banding). This little TV will be great for vintage displays.

#retrogaming