one my favorite game code tricks: Quake (1996) defined light styles with a simple string of alphabetic characters, with A as the brightest light value and Z as the darkest.
so style 5, "gentle pulse", is expressed as "jklmnopqrstuvwxyzyxwvutsrqponmlkj" while style 10, "fluorescent flicker", is "mmamammmmammamamaaamammma".
https://github.com/id-Software/Quake/blob/master/qw-qc/world.qc#L329

Go Straight: The Ultimate Guide to Side-Scrolling Beat-’Em-Ups

From Kung-Fu Master to Streets of Rage 4, Go Straight is a comprehensive guide to the world of street brawlers, featuring every major game in the genre, beautifully presented and expertly critiqued.

Available now: https://www.bitmapbooks.com/collections/all-books/products/go-straight-the-ultimate-guide-to-side-scrolling-beat-em-ups

#bitmapbooks #book #retrogaming #retrogames #gaming #art #reading #foryou #beatemup #gostraight #asmr #bookstagram #booktok #fyp

@JigmeDatse Thank you, I did need this! My daughter is in love with larval Mothra. She has four different toys, which she refers to as Moshu. I think I'm going to print the cover of this zine for her to hang in her room.

OK, not sure if anyone needs to know about this, but there's a zine called "Japanese Giants"... Here's an issue I found on Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/japanese-giants-issue-4/Japanese%20Giants%20Issue%20%2814%29%20600%20dpi.jpg

May be of interest to the #monsterdon folk.

@VCP Thank you for sharing! I plan to attend.

I'm pretty behind on my #WritingMonth project, but honestly that's okay. I'm trying to write something every day, no matter what, to keep up the habit, and if I end up with fewer pages than I hoped, that's okay.

@amin I feel this deeply. I'm way behind where I wanted to be. I've been pretty down and distracted since the election. On the other hand, I am writing SOMEthing again after years of being out of practice. I've also joined a local writing group with a friend I met in my creative writing classes years ago. The best part is that my daughter is excited about what I'm writing. There's a lot of positives that have come from joining #writingmonth even if my word count hasn't kept up.

One of the last coal-powered sheep.
Most sheep are all electric now.

#DefaidodonDay #DyddDefaidodon #Defaidodon

sober friends: don't let this be the thing that breaks your sobriety. if anyone needs to talk, i'm here ❤️

Seek people whose lives are hard, and make it easier for them.

Encounter people who have made their lives comfortable by making it hard for others, and make it uncomfortable.

Hope is a thing that fights in the dark.

They didn't give me a sticker this time so I had to make one.

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration #election2024 #HarrisWalz2024

Fani Willis has won her re-election as Fulton County D.A.

The US SENATE will have two new Black female senators:
Democrats Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland and
Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware!
#uspol #election2024

The Associated Press has called the Massachusetts US Senate race for Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

For live #Election2024 updates, see the GBH #News liveblog: https://bit.ly/48HcSmz

A bit of good news. One Nazi down in North Carolina.

Sarah McBride won??????? In Delaware??? We have our first out trans Congress member????

🩷 HELL YEAH 🩷

This.

friends this is white supremacy fighting tooth and nail.

The self-professed Black Nazi lost!! YAY!!!!!

Voters who signed up for Elon #Musk’s million-dollar voter giveaway are suing him and his America PAC, claiming entrants were misled about how winners were picked — Bloomberg