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2026-01-31 05:50:55 UTC

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Commentary in the Chicago Sun-Times last month on Nortwestern University:
"... the Northwestern bargain endangers academic freedom and institutional autonomy, subjecting the university to ongoing federal control.
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Further, Northwestern insists the agreement makes no new policy regarding transgender community members. In fact, it bars gender-affirming care for minors and borrows its definition of 'sex' from an executive order that erases the existence of intersex, transgender and nonbinary persons. It appears to require the university maintain 'all-female' sports, locker rooms and shower facilities."
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/12/15/northwestern-caved-rotten-deal-donald-trump-administration-serena-mayeri-amanda-shanor

2025-10-08 23:49:02 UTC

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Child me had a very strong opinion on this.

2024-12-10 02:21:48 UTC

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Gotta have that Badnik Bounce.

2024-11-27 03:05:02 UTC

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Should Ralph be a king, a prince, or did he just crown himself emperor of the Aggro Crag?

2024-11-26 23:12:23 UTC

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Thinking of racing in platformers, I'm reminded of the Koopa Troopa in Super Mario 64. That one was on the ground, and considerably larger than Mario so I don't think you could interfere with its direction.
https://www.mariowiki.com/Footrace_with_Koopa_the_Quick

2024-11-25 05:57:32 UTC

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I feel like any homage to Nickelodeon Guts doesn't need any enemies getting in your way. But, maybe you have 2 NPCs to taking their own (inaccessible to the player) routes up?

2024-11-11 04:11:00 UTC

I tried out a bit of a #Castlevania ROM hack, Chorus of Mysteries, but I'm finding the hit detection and the character control to be a bit wonky. I was missing candles, multipliers fell through platforms, and I was able to make Armund jump backwards. The color palettes are nice, but the sprites are a bit difficult to distinguish features on. Before the end of the first level there's a series of candles which contain every subweapon; I don't know how I feel about that.
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/263/

2024-11-10 21:08:17 UTC

#randomizers
#FinalFantasy
I used a pre-generated world map and this is the worst bridge I've seen, yet.
https://cdn.masto.host/mstdngames/media_attachments/files/113/460/694/746/702/397/original/3fb3003b72c38a28.png

2024-11-10 00:15:03 UTC

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Sagan also blamed The Simpsons.

2024-11-07 18:45:35 UTC

♪ It's been the worst day since yesterday ♪
- some band that performs on cruise ships during an airborne pandemic

2024-10-29 04:34:25 UTC

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#randomizers
#Castlevania
#HarmonyOfDissonance
The old website Chapel of Resonance had a complete list of the spell fusions, with MP costs, screenshots, and whether you can influence direction or otherwise change the attack with your inputs. One thing not mentioned for the Gradius options is that it is possible to keep one circling around Juste for a bit by moving away before it attaches.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150306055004/http://www.chapelofresonance.com/games/hod/spell-fusion.html

2024-10-28 22:13:33 UTC

#randomizers
I'm trying the Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance randomizer again and my current game gave me bolt book + holy book super early. I've spent most of the game charging at things, other than when I made those Gradius options go behind Juste so the mirror skeletons could run into them. Pretty fun way to play the game, honestly.

2024-10-24 15:50:07 UTC

#RetroGaming
#FinalFantasyV
Bartz just has Boko and one pointless fight scene. This is actually just a test to see how Lemmy intakes posts from Mastodon instances.
https://physchem.science/@buerviper/113362520163310646

2024-10-22 20:50:47 UTC

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So, there are going to be genres of video games for which a randomizer can't work as part of the baseline experience. What about something which, on the outside, already seems to be random? It turns out, someone has made a randomizer for Tetris on the NES. I have no idea if it works well, but it exists. It looks like this removes some of the color palette rules so the pieces can be harder to see, but otherwise my first impression is... it's still Tetris.
https://tetrisrandomizer.com/

2024-10-22 20:26:36 UTC

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Introducing that randomness into a competitive game removes the idea that the game is fair. That 1 punch to beat Ryu is probably unsatisfying for both the Ryu player and the opponent who executes it. Or, rather than a punch, substitute the moves which already exist in Street Fighter but required higher-order execution or expending resources. Fighting game designers specifically spend effort coming up with ways to make limitations, and fans celebrate seeing people overcome them.

2024-10-22 20:17:03 UTC

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But, let's assume that patching the randomized game is trivial or the randomized game never has a logic issue which prevents completion. Can you make memorable gameplay which can be shared in the same way? Even with fighting games there are certain constants, which help to define the "story" of a match. If it turns out that for 1 match in Street Fighter, Ryu can be defeated in 1 punch, it probably doesn't become anywhere as memorable unless you have the context of, "This was not intended."

2024-10-22 20:07:51 UTC

Two of the most recent videos by @npub1jt9…eg22 as well as my own experiences with the Final Fantasy V Four Job Fiesta have me thinking about whether or not you can make a non-procedurally generated video game with a randomizer as part of everyone's initial experience. I recommend Four Job Fiesta rules because it can remove decision paralysis, but even that has limitations on how random it can be while remaining fun. Self-imposed rules are much easier to adapt than if a randomizer has a logic problem.

2024-10-09 05:15:45 UTC

#VGMWednesday
Vincent Diamante did the soundtrack for a J2ME cellphone #Castlevania game with the subtitle "Order of Shadows." The soundtrack is up on YouTube, including the unused track "Imposing Wall."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqgphA4vANI&list=PL6B2302009C7E3897&index=8

2024-10-04 01:47:30 UTC

#VGM
I've been playing Lufia: The Legend Returns for Game Boy Color and the standard battle music is lush. It has an intro and doesn't complete a full loop until 1:40. Someone on YouTube came up with an orchestral arrangement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvc0cA2n54s

2024-10-02 18:04:18 UTC

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Gotta burn enough fossil fuels to power several American homes just to make sure everybody can tell if they triggered an attack of opportunity.

2024-10-02 17:56:29 UTC

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"When playing WurstRPG through our virtual tabletop only NFTs may be used as player and NPC tokens."

2024-10-02 17:19:03 UTC

#VGMWednesday
It's October. Here's "A Ghost's Pumpkin Soup... for Pumpkin Hill" from Sonic Adventure 2 arranged by JungJongSoo for the Genesis. RIP Larry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7mf3u5LwlI&list=PLVZr2XYIG0UAgJ5m2VckKlPB9-cUING15&index=26

2024-09-28 19:01:46 UTC

When designing a game, make sure the core actions in the game can be performed by all of your characters. #ExtremeGhostbusters The Ultimate Invasion starts with a character selection screen, including Garrett. Ducking is a part of this game, not just to reload for this Time Crisis clone, but also in-between shooting sections. Garrett is a wheelchair user.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dngti6sO6zA&t=726s

2024-08-25 19:32:16 UTC

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Chicago's COVID-19 Wastewater Monitoring can be found here. For months, the data points on the graphs have stopped displaying their full associated dates (just month and year).
The wastewater detection data set linked from that is now up to August 21st.
https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/sites/covid-19/home/covid-19-wastewater-surveillance.html
https://data.cityofchicago.org/Health-Human-Services/COVID-19-Wastewater-Detection/urdi-w8wq/about_data

2024-08-22 19:00:04 UTC

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Just put a big old cloud behind the second picture and it's starting to look like the pachinko board in Super Mario Sunshine.
https://www.mariowiki.com/Pachinko_Game

2023-09-01 06:34:02 UTC

"The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty." - The Crüxshadows, "Sophia"