The Astral Snowstorm

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I don't really know what else to do differently for my 400th post, so I decided to post this from the Haiku operating system. Hopefully this goes well.

Once again, I have stayed up for far longer than I should've, gng. 😴

@hutarikiri2025.bsky.social

I needed to pull myself back from the most unpredictable tech issue I've had yet.

The Astral Snowstorm reposted

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Those two Yor Forger pics has marginally improved my mood. Thank you Nick and Hutarikiri.

I really need a girlfriend, because I could really do with anything even remotely resembling love right about now.

So, I just got a ridiculously rude awakening from my own mother about dish washing, she pestered me about how I hadn't cleaned some dishes and I had to explain to her that I needed to wait for the dishes on the rack to dry before putting them away, thus creating more room for more dishes. 🧵 1/2?

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Unfortunately, she lives in Texas, the same state that pushed Bluesky to globally lock account access behind age verification. I'm not 100% on whether mu.social is also affected since it is based in Europe, if it is, then these might be my final few posts on Bluesky. 🧵 5/6

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Yes, I know VPNs exist, but unfortunately all that I know of (that aren't Mullvad) cost money, and I'm not exactly interested in adding that as a constant to my cost of living. I'm getting off this thread now, it's almost half past 7. 🧵 6/6

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With the continued nagging by my "loving" mother, I SNAPPED. I was pushed to the point of yelling and throwing objects in my immediate reach because I was not allowed to SLEEP, something I NEED to do in order to SURVIVE! All because I still had dirty dishes and guests were coming over. FML 🧵 3/4?

To sum it all up, My mom has broken my heart much like how my borderline psychotic father did last year, and I am NOT going to accept any apologies. The guest I mentioned earlier is a relative of mine, and let's just say I'm going to become a permanent guest at her place when she leaves. 🧵 4/5?

I had really tried my best to not escalate the situation because it was already past 6 in the morning and I'd like to go to sleep, but mom had other plans. Not only did she double down that I get back to washing dishes, she TRIPLED DOWN by closing the door with her staying in my room. 🧵 2/3?

I'mma be looking into Fluxer...

I've decided to close the invite to my Discord server (Astral's Snowstorm) as things aren't looking to great for Discord at the moment. The TL;DR of the situation can be best summed up with two words that have become incredibly relevant this year: AGE VERIFICATION

22 Sept

Do you remember? #Bejeweled

18 Sept

This reminds me of a very bizarre time when on Google Maps, the 'Mayr Field' in Freedom Park (Leesburg, Virginia) was misnamed as 'Hyrule Field'. It's no longer a listed location on Google Maps for obvious reasons, but I still have two images from the time to show that this was in fact very real.

Supper Mario Broth@mariobrothblog.bsky.social

The municipality of Zaragoza in Spain contains a "video game neighborhood" that began development in 2010 with a street called "Avenida de Súper Mario Bros" and has since expanded to 10 streets named after various video game franchises.

14 Sept

I would give context, but I won't... for now. 🙂

2 Sept

tcrf is alive, turns out they're getting DDoSed

The Astral Snowstorm@nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social

Welp, tcrf just died. Add that to this week's death toll.

nmcastralsnowstorm.newgrounds.comNMcAstralSnowstorm - newgrounds.com

2 Sept

For those who are curious, I'm also on Newgrounds. nmcastralsnowstorm.newgrounds.com

2 Sept

Miku's birthday is a constant in life, either that or me being a bit late to it. 🙃 #Vocaloid #VocaloidArt #MikuArt #MikuFanart #MikuBirthday

archive.orgNMc-AstralSnowstormarchive.org Member

1 Sept

It's September, and you know what that means? No, it doesn't mean fish, it means I'm officially Internet Archive-pilled. archive.org/details/@nmc... There won't be anything on there until I get finished with an upcoming art piece that I hope to have finished by the end of the day (Central time)

31 Aug

Sonic 3 & Knuckles & Dr. Robotnik & Dr. Robotnik & Dr. Robotnik & Dr. Robotnik is such a banger game, dude.

Tool-Assisted Speedrun clips@tasnocontext.bsky.social

Game: Sonic 3 & Knuckles (1994, Genesis) TAS Authors: BenInSweden, Chrezm, eandis & kaan55 Source: tasvideos.org/6890M

29 Aug

Welp, tcrf just died. Add that to this week's death toll.

29 Aug

Also, WOW that took forever to actually post.

29 Aug

ISTG this better not be OS runtime issues again.

27 Aug

So it turns out, I might've been wrong, twice. What I've discovered seems to suggest that although my internet was working fine (for the most part), it was actually my computer's operating system's runtime that was the problem.

The Astral Snowstorm@nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social

On second thought, I suspect my internet might be kinda crap, as there's other pages that seem to struggle with loading from time to time.

22 Aug

On second thought, I suspect my internet might be kinda crap, as there's other pages that seem to struggle with loading from time to time.

20 Aug

TIL Gentoo #linux is named after a real world breed of penguin.

19 Aug

I have no idea how we've ended up at the point in which the Internet Archive has become borderline impossible to use without it just completely collapsing in on itself.

19 Aug

#pikmin OG's will remember something similar to this happening in 2023.

Bob Pony@bobpony.com

It's been one year since the "Clippy movement" started. Big Tech is so scared of them! Honestly, that later trend over a number had more impact than that movement. And if Clippy were still around, didn't get phased out in the 2000s, he'll be exactly be like what Copilot is today.

17 Aug

All of this has me feeling quite conflicted as of now. I had been contemplating joining the Internet Archive in September as this year has had a *substantial* lost media problem, but with all of these technical issues raining down upon it, I'm starting to feel I should reconsider my decisions.

17 Aug

WOW. He's dead, Jim. 💀

17 Aug

That's the second time Internet Archive just collapsed in the span of a few days. 🙃

14 Aug

Well then, Internet Archive has folded in on itself like a cheap chair once again and only when I was considering writing this post has it mostly recovered.

7 Aug

It beckons...

Supper Mario Broth@mariobrothblog.bsky.social

An extremely bizarre oversight in Donkey Kong 64 results in two completely unrelated variables becoming "entangled", so that changing one affects the other. This may have some very unfortunate consequences, as seen in the image.

github.com.pdnA repository focused on collecting as much knowledge as possible on as many image file formats as possible. - TheAstralSnowstorm/Image-File-Format-Knowledgebase

5 Aug

So here's something stupid that I just recently figured out how to do, I replaced the thumbnail of _paint.net project files. If you are curious on how I managed to do that, I have (currently incomplete) documentation on how the format works over on GitHub. github.com/TheAstralSno...

3 Aug

Strangest occurrence I've had in a long while.

24 July

Today's photos: Clouds and crepuscular rays

23 July

This just in for a quick little update, I noticed that GNU GRUB can be displayed in the GPU's state of confusion with a garbled color palette.

The Astral Snowstorm@nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social

So I decided to disable Compatibility Support Module on my main PC so I can assure I am using EFI boot, but I wasn't expecting THIS. For some reason, doing this made my GPU output some absurd stuff while it shouldn't be receiving an image signal.

23 July

It's surprising to see a Windows 11 era version of an app still being able to run on Windows as far back as Windows 2000 RTM. Though, I suppose if it isn't broken, it's not worth fixing. And if that really is the case, then kudos to Igor Pavlov for creating a codebase that stood the test of time.

Bob Pony@bobpony.com

7-Zip is so OP for still supporting Windows 2000... RTM (aka no service packs installed) in 2026!

Accidentally stumbled into some bizarre Easter egg in the Microsoft Store if it is running on an older version.

Last night was undoubtedly a long one for me as I had spent all of it from 2 AM all the way to when I went to bed at 4:30-ish AM just diagnosing why on earth opening OBS Studio would consistently cause my graphics driver to just spontaneously crash.

Just migrated from Bluesky's main server over to Eurosky, so... Hello everybody... Again.

10 July

Anyways, I caught a moth. They're such oddly elegant creatures.

10 July

What just happened? I go on to my phone to open Bluesky and the first thing I see is a screen demanding I verify my age. Then I checked Bluesky on my PC and it was totally fine. Confused, I checked Bluesky on my phone again, and WHADDYAKNOW the screen didn't show up a second time. 🤨