tinser

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Enby guy (he/they) with lots of poems, stories, and art to share.
Excels at drinking liquids. Owner of too many t-shirts.
Has an MFA in poetry, but can't write a sonnet.

Doing #NaNoWriMo for the month of...#November

#poet #writer #writing #BadWriter #BadPoet

An Analog Mind (poetry/art)https://analogmind.org/
Poets Not Dead (personal blog)https://poets.notdead.org/
Currrently Reading!https://analogmind.org/currently-reading/
tinserSep 11, 2023
One of my favorite things about writing on retro videogames is that research inevitably leads to weird, unknown ports, especially of the homebrew variety. I've been putting together an article about Metal Gear, the MSX original, and I discovered it got an Amiga port in 2017, thanks to a decompilation project I didn't even know about.

It's a pretty close port, outside of running at a higher frame rate and with some unique versions of the compositions. But what kills me is the portraits that the dev added. They are just the most Amiga things I've ever seen, and I love it.

#VideoGames #RetroGames #MetalGear
tinserSep 6, 2023
I think about this particular #CalvinAndHobbes strip often. "Verbing weirds language" is a phrase that just lives in my head.

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 25, 1993 | GoComics.com

Calvin: I like to verb words. Hobbes: What? Calvin: I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember when "access" was a thing? Now it's something you do. It got verbed. Verbing weirds language. Hobbes: Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding.

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