eniko

eniko, 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to gamedev

Big news: Kitsune Tail's Steam Next Fest demo is live now! Go get it at https://store.steampowered.com/app/1325260 and experience the first part of this queer furry love triangle wrapped in an SMB3 jacket

You should definitely check the options. There's a CRT shader in Kitsune Tails made by @JoshJers which isn't on by default (because people get upset by that kinda thing) but playing with it on is totally the recommended experience

And for those of you who have Steam Decks, we've verified it works on that, too! And there's a new reveal trailer, showing off some of the bosses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRBcm5fagUU

#KitsuneTails #QueerGames #GameDev #PixelArt

SomeGadgetGuy, 5 days ago to windows

It just clicked in my brain. What I haven't been able to articulate about why I'm so anxious about #Windows Recall. I'm sure others have already gotten to where I am.

It's worse than "a system that tracks everything you do" and stores that info in a basic database that could be easily compromised.
It's worse than a nanny surveillance tool for companies to spy on their employees.

It's inescapable.

It doesn't matter if I make a dozen "how to disable recall" tutorials. The second YOUR data shows up on someone ELSE'S screen, it's in THEIR recall database.

It won't matter if you're a master #security expert specialist. You can't account for EVERY other computer you've ever interacted with. If a family member looks up an old email with your personal data in it, your data is now at risk.

If THEIR system is compromised YOUR data is at risk.

I just went from "vague feeling of unease" to "actively writing templates to canvas elected officials, regulators, and attorneys general."

Njord, 4 days ago to animals

Freya has melted adorably in the heat
#CatsOfMastodon #cats

juulcat, 5 days ago to Minecraft

#Avoyd voxel renderer is out with Bloom and AgX Tonemapping.

I was surprised at how much nicer renders can be with some bloom. Comparison images and Avoyd download: https://www.enkisoftware.com/t/6208018276417536

#Voxel #Render #VoxelArt #City #Minecraft #MinecraftRender #VoxelEditor #GameDev #ScreenshotSaturday

Teaceratops, 5 days ago to random

Me: fridge is broken

Hubs: my beer was still cold last night though

Me: picks up fridge butter and puts finger entirely through it fridge is broken.

Uhhh... we have a couple of expensive months coming up (first trip to the UK in 5 years to see family). If you were thinking of buying some pixel game assets for you or a friend, now would be a lovely time for that ​:meowtears:​ https://teaceratops.itch.io

elilla, 6 days ago to random

> Google lays off hundreds of ‘Core’ employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico

capitalists are like "sorry, home office isn't compatible with our company culture, you have to be at the office for productivity reasons. whoops your job is now done via Zoom by someone with a 12h-difference timezone and a tenth of your salary"

unormal, 5 days ago to random

Doctor,

Lana, 6 days ago to queer

On the 20th of May, 1810, a member of the French nobility died. And nobody, including the attending physician who examined the body, knew what to write on their death certificate.

The Chevalier d'Eon had always had a naturally androgenous appearance, a fact which they capitalized on frequently throughout their life. The child of a minor French nobleman, d'Eon enjoyed the benefits of an education, excelling in school, and earning a law degree. After school, they took work as a political writer for a time, and then became secretary to a series of Parisian administrators, working in areas of finance as well as in history and literature.

But in 1756, they joined a secret network of spies known only to King Louis XV, and working without the official knowledge or sanction of the French government. d'Eon's mission was to infiltrate the court of Empress Elizabeth of Russia, and there, conspire with members of a pro-French faction of the Russian government against the Habsburg monarchy of Austria. At the time, Russian border crossings were restricted only to women and children. So, according to d'Eon's memoirs, they were forced to pass convincingly as a woman or risk execution. Thus disguised as "the Lady Beaumont", they served as maid of honor to the Empress.

Years later, d'Eon returned to France, awarded an enormous sum of money for their service to the King, and became Captain of Dragoons - a military title involving mounted cavalry. Later, they served in the Seven Years' War against England. When the war ended, d'Eon themself drafted the peace treaty, and was awarded another handsome sum of money for their efforts, receiving the title "Chevalier" - a French title of nobility roughly translating to "Knight".

In 1763, a series of political machinations saw d'Eon embroiled in a scandal. Having lived in London now for years, d'Eon published a series of letters detailing some (though not all) of their secret dealings as a spy. This breach of diplomatic discretion was scandalous in the extreme, but secured them the sympathy of the English public. In these letters, d'Eon claimed that the new ambassador to England, a man named Guerchy, had tried to poison them at a dinner. Guerchy sued for libel, and d'Eon strangely offered no defense at the trial. They were thus declared an outlaw and went into hiding. Eventually, Louis XV granted d'Éon a pension (possibly a pay-off for d'Éon's silence) and a 12,000-livre annuity, but refused a request to pay off the rest of their debts. d'Eon continued to work as a spy for Louis XV, but lived in political exile in London.

And here is where our story truly begins to get strange.

It was around this time that rumors began circulating in London that d'Eon was actually a woman, despite the fact that they routinely wore their military dragoons uniform, and claimed to be, and have always been a man. A betting pool over their true gender was started on the London Stock Exchange. d'Eon was invited to participate but declined, stating that an examination would be dishonoring whatever the result. After a year without any further updates, the wager was abandoned and the monies returned.

Then, in 1774, King Louis XV died, and d'Eon, sensing an opportunity to return to their homeland, attempted to negotiate an end to their exile. The resulting twenty page treaty permitted d'Eon to return to France, but demanded that they turn over any documents and correspondence from their time as a spy under Louis XV. Additionally, a clause in the treaty demanded that they present themselves as female during the voyage.

So the Chevalier d'Eon, now stylizing themself as the Chevalière d'Eon (a feminized form of the title given to them by Louis XV at the end of the war), and wearing their dragoon uniform, began making plans to return to France. However, now claiming to have always been a woman, they demanded recognition by the French government as such. They claimed that their father had to raise them as a boy, because his father could only inherit from his in-laws if he had a son. King Louis XVI complied with this demand, but required in turn that d'Eon no longer wear the military uniform and instead dress as a woman. Included with the offer was a substantial sum of money for a complete women's wardrobe. Whether it was because d'Eon really was assigned female at birth, as they claimed, or whether it was merely the money and station offered by the new King, d'Eon agreed. So, d'Eon returned to France a woman, and as punishment, was summarily banished to Tonnerre.

For the rest of their life, d'Eon would maintain this presentation, even offering to join with the Americans in the War of Independence, leading a battalion of female fighters against England, though their banishment ultimately prevented it. During this time there are accounts of the Chevalière d'Eon fencing, fighting, and participating in duels with other French nobility, always presenting as the woman they claimed to always have been. After the French Revolution, the king's pension vanished, and d'Eon was forced to sell much of their possessions to survive - though they did not give up their female attire. In 1809 at the age of 80, d'Eon suffered a fall and became paralyzed and bedridden. They died in poverty in 1810 at the age of 81.

But their story doesn't quite end there.

The surgeon who examined d'Éon's body after their death attested in their post-mortem certificate that d'Eon had "male organs in every respect perfectly formed", while at the same time displaying feminine characteristics such as "unusual roundness in the formation of limbs", as well as "breasts remarkably full". Though buried in an unmarked pauper's grave, there exists to this day a memorial in London listing the Chevalier d'Eon as one of the important graves lost to time.

Even by modern standards, the Chevalier/Chevalière d'Eon's gender identity is a bit of an enigma. Some have suggested they may have been intersex. Some choose to interpret their story as transgender or gender fluidity. Some have even coined a term - "eonism" - to describe similar cases of gender nonconformity.

Tell our stories.
#PRIDE #TransHistory

sylefeb, 6 days ago to random

1/ #TinyTapeout 7 just closed and these two tiles host my design! If it works, it will generate explorable terrain 'voxels' similar to the VoxelSpace Comanche 1992 game engine.

A terrain viewer on a small spi-screen
A terrain viewer on a small spi-screen

luckytran, 8 days ago to random

Hospitals in South Australia have paused elective surgery and declared an internal emergency due to staff being sick with COVID. The pandemic is not over. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-30/sa-public-hospitals-in-internal-emergency/103915690

The_Tim, 8 days ago to random

Got a very un-fun call last night from the local PD, telling me that someone broke a window at our tea & spice shop. 😨

We have insurance of course, but we're still going to be out the $500 deductible, which really sucks considering I'm still unemployed, unemployment benefits have run out, & the shop isn't profitable. 😩

If you like loose leaf tea & want to help, go place an order at https://chaicupboard.com/

plaguepoems, 8 days ago to random

The headline stated
that due to the new variants
“you will catch Covid again”
and though I recognize
that my words
have less reach than a headline
please understand
that it is not that“you will”
but rather that “you might”
so you might as well try
not to catch it.

Chromino, 8 days ago to animals

🚨 URGENT SITUATION 🚨

Our 4 year old kitty needs emergency eye surgery due to a suspected abscess or possible tumor behind her eye. We cant afford the bill with our limited income. The prognosis is very good, but as time goes on that decreases. Thread & info in my pinned posts

Please help if you can ❤️PLEASE BOOST! Share in other socials. $5, $10, $20, etc. Anything helps and it adds up

Cash app: $gardenfly

Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/jomacmeyers?locale.x=en_US

Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/minemo/goal?g=5

#CatsOfMastodon #cats

An adorable black, orange and white calico kitty sitting up straight and looking up slightly above the camera with big green eyes. Her ears are perked up, she has a cute little orange and pink nose, and there is a little black patch of fur under her lip that looks like a soul patch.

crowgirl, 8 days ago to random

99% funded! Put in a small pledge of about $10 and you'll get your name in, the eBook, and the audiobook if the stretch goal is met.

Fight the mass delusion! @violetblue

#Covid

The Covid Sanity Handbook by Violet Blue — Kickstarter

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/violetblue/the-covid-sanity-handbook

> Staying Safe In An Unsafe World

ashten, 8 days ago to random

me: why cant i find my vibrator???

me: connects to it and turns it on

cat: shoots into the air, horrified by the sudden vibration coming from the object shes laying on

glassbottommeg, 9 days ago to gamedev

Has anyone in #IndieDev / #GameDev done a concise walkthrough on how to navigate Content ID with original music, so that 1.) scammers can't claim it themselves, but 2.) Streamers streaming your game don't get Content ID'd by you having claimed it?

And doing that WITHOUT telling YouTube "oh sure this is free music" and getting it added to their big free pool and eventually seeing it used in, I don't know, an alt-right podcast intro. It needs to be free for contextual use, not like, in a global free pool.

Last time, our musician used Distrokid I think? Or one of the equivalents. Because they wanted to sell it on Spotify/etc while being hands-off on YouTube/etc. Supposedly Distrokid handles that elegantly, but I feel like I saw they're a bad idea lately?

RickiTarr, 10 days ago to random

Friends: Who are you listening to right now?

Me, very hip: Oh, you wouldn't know them.

This is a song playing the piano and howling and barking, and legit, he sounds pretty good. I've heard much more insane Mingus albums

slashie, 9 days ago to random

SKALD: Against the Black Priory releases in 1 hour! just enough time for you to check out our interview with the developer made for roguetemple just before you click that Buy button! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvpqiB2dCEY

plaguepoems, 9 days ago to random

According to a recent study
years after initial infection
COVID can cause
new health problems to appear
which is a reminder
that we will be learning
to live with this virus
for a very long time.

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 10 days ago to auscovid19

University of Maryland Study: N95 masks block almost all airborne COVID-19.

"In a head-to-head comparison of masks worn by people with active COVID-19, the inexpensive "duckbill" N95 came out on top, stopping 98% of COVID-19 particles in the breath of infected people from escaping into the air."

"Led by researchers from the University of Maryland School of Public Health (SPH), results showed other masks also performed well, blocking at least 70% of viral particles from escaping from the source – an infected person's exhaled breath."

Source: https://www.miragenews.com/umd-study-n95-masks-block-almost-all-airborne-1245832/

Study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-3964(24)00192-0/fulltext

@auscovid19

tylerzonia, 9 days ago to SanFrancisco

What is your favorite #SanFrancisco restaurant with outdoor seating (that can take a party of 8)?

ThomasNoppers, 9 days ago to boardgames

It's my birthday!

I'd love it if you gift me fan art of my board game Halls of Teknor OR if you'd even try the game for free:

https://www.hallsofteknor.com/uncategorized/you-can-now-try-teknor-in-your-browser/

#boardgames
#comics

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alex, 9 days ago to random

Getting ready to deal with the fucking World

eniko, 10 days ago to random

Holy shit the track The Anthropocene from Small Saga goes so hard

EDIT: link https://youtube.com/watch?v=25YGb1JX9bQ