Dana the Elf

For those wondering what I am working on of late, I have been contributing custom assets and user support to various HM64 port projects. I've also been coordinating with Tolkien Scholars and Font Designers to build consensus and reestablish common encoding of Tolkien's scripts to respect the UCSUR.

A Palestinian won the Nobel Prize last year

Algebra, numbers, principles of optics, medical encyclopedias, astronomy, hospitals, surgical tools, universities, coffee, lab chemistry--all of Arabic origin. This mfer had a brain worm, collects road kills, sounds like a dial up modem, works out in jeans. This is a uniquely American arrogance.

Getting 4K Blu-ray to play nice with PCs is a challenge... but I got it, and I got OmniDrive firmware dumping games a regular disc drive shouldn't even be able to read. Very nice now my GC laser is dead.

We come back to the idea of Execs who really don't understand art or why people make art, in any way, finding ways to absolutely annihilate those that do, in a death of a thousand cuts and then one big 400-person cut. It's heartbreaking. The western games industry kills a NIntendo every year.

Input Prompts is the largest collection of glyphs covering a wide range of input devices and platforms. It's also completely free and public domain. 🎮 I want it to be even better though so looking for feedback; what's missing? what can be improved? kenney.nl/assets/input...

Didn't take long for the NHS transphobic guidance to claim a life

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

Colorado. Michigan. 28 Democratic party elected officials with a national platform. Anti-trans ads being run by democrats. Ohio Dems censoring its LGBTQ+ caucus. South Carolina dems voting en masse for anti-trans policies. Never think what happened to UK Labour can't happen here.

Add "for Tax Purposes" to a movie: The Return of the King for Tax Purposes.

Zelensky: "When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations. Because there were fewer bots. It’s pretty clear where those bots were."

"Didn't they read the script?" Keanu Reeves once agreed to play a small role in a friend's proposed thriller, THE WATCHER. Soon after, he found his name forged on a contract, and the script revised to make him the main villain. His lawyers warned suing would be difficult, better to finish the film.

"People quit movies all the time. Why can't they?" Whoopi Goldberg wanted out from making the ridiculous THEODORE REX, but her producer had her on tape making an oral agreement to it, and sued her for $20 million. They settled on her getting $7 million, and the producer was barred from set.

"Why aren't they telling the truth about what happened?" Entertainment contracts often contain non-disparagement clauses, forbidding participants from making any negative statements about their employers. I've signed several. Nicolas Cage and Anton Yelchin were bound by one for DYING OF THE LIGHT.

Producers may send only sides, or even fake scripts. Agents get greedy for their commissions. Actors are stuck in the middle of nowhere. "We're taking this in a new direction." You don't want to be known as the diva who put a crew of locals out of work. Lawsuits are expensive. Excuses? Realities?

people keep making movies where the premise is "it's kind of like a man but it looks like a monstrous freak but it's nice and sexy and doesn't abuse the woman so it's basically the most romantic thing ever" and men keep not getting it.

The most fun thing ever to randomly see

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

WWE is forging ahead with plans to host major events in Riyadh while this is happening. This is reckless, stupid, and driven by greed. If they go forward with the planned events, they are putting everyone from top stars to the rank-and-file production crew in serious danger. They HAVE to cancel.

Still endlessly amused by the *validation* I feel, often complaining about everything being made for Hobbits instead of Elves, when the Hospital Nurses are all "hm... you're too tall for the beds... this is awkward..." Account for people proportioned like Jack Skellington, darn it!!

Genuinely shocked how soon Silent Hill Townfall has come to @gog.com! Really great sign of things - I hope more big publishers will be willing to put their big new releases out DRM-free right away, instead of waiting years to decide it's finally worth it.

Why am I not surprised that the freakout over a completely rational and legitimately beneficial integration of (sounds to me *local*) AI tools seems to be coming from *that place* again? They need a hobby besides witch-hunting things to be mad at.

Well, being rushed to hospital before sunrise was not on my list of plans for today. Somehow developed a viral infection that usually affects, like, 3-year olds, and is nothing to worry about, but in rare cases hits adults & does so with deadly force, requiring hospitalisation - I have all the luck!

Thread. Hypercharging gambling is going to hypercharge the ruining of lives. Doesn’t matter if you call it a “prediction market”, the end result is still The House Always Wins and they’ll encourage you right up to the point you lose everything you ever had.

Something that stood out studying for my book is that in the last 10 years we had visible pushes in academia for a more global interpretation & history of gaming... However, mainstream media & discourse went the exact opposite way - it's increasingly homogenous and worshiping an idealized past.

For years we had this conflict between reporting local realities X parroting foreign media like IGN, Kotaku & EGM Both sides lost. Apart from a few brave souls, the space is now almost entirely taken by AI slop and local influencers translating whatever viral post they see online. It's all this:

Shout out to this article that made me lose it: www.terra.com.br/gameon/vida-... Here a Brazilian claims that Pokémon was the "last great social game of the pre-Internet era", something insane to say in the country of LAN houses & locadora de jogos, where maybe the richest 3% could afford a Gameboy

My gods the dystopian state of this. It's just mask-off now; no pretenses of it being about enabling creative experiences, just... "we want to hoover up every bit of cash we can squeeze out of you."

It's astounding how little effort it takes one or two egomaniacs with a petty grudge to destroy five years of community building, and how little the invisible labour matters to people who aren't doing that work.

She was Hayao Miyazaki's "right-hand" collaborator from the '70s onward. Her name was Michiyo Yasuda -- the best color designer in animation. Yasuda's eye for color gave Ghibli's work a totally different look. We explore her methods: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-artist...

Your usefulness has been spent, cog. Now you are an unnecessary expense on the spreadsheet.

That people cannot tell that these posts are blatant satire is so incredibly distressing. Literacy is deader than dead.