(Brief aside before we begin: post on the group blog from the 13th! It's an overly-technical, highly obscure ramble about a program for getting better looking 8-bit paletted images, and yet another thing I found interesting from the PageMill CD-ROM. Just figured I'd mention that before we get started. I gotta get better at letting folks everywhere know what I've been up to.) So for well over ten years now, I've been putting off selling my games. The flipside to my dash over the past two years Read more

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Was jonesing to get going on some more marfGH work, so I finished up a new custom last night. This is for one of Brad Sucks' more recent songs, "In Trouble", and you can watch the chart in action here. It came out real purdy. Love the light show on it, and I think the camera work is pretty sick too. All this to say—Volume 2 is in progress. Expect it by Christmas like the last one. What's not necessarily apparent from watching it is how much of what's in the video is not stock at all. Even Read more

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I've been feeling better lately. I realized about the time I bought the tickets for this year's Wales trip (May into July!) that a lot of my immigration plans just started feeling out of reach, and a lot began to feel either pointless or off-limits. That's not the only reason things really fucking sucked for a bit—my cat died and my grandma is currently on her way out—but yeah. Easier to just play RetroAchievements sets all day. I've got more of a plan now for when I get back for the next Read more

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Things have been getting better, folks. Posting that last post on its own helped, but shortly thereafter, I got this really lovely, long email from an anon who lurks somnol.net and the journal encouraging me to keep going and to keep up the stuff I love doing, because people are out there looking. I don't know if they read my reply (I don't even know if my reply made it there, my email client was being a little sketchy), but to say it again: thank you. They also had some requests to see some Read more

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I've had something of a crisis of faith recently. For the entire time I've been mariteaux, I've been a full-throated supporter of the idea that whatever your niche interest is, you should share it loud and proud. I still get emailed about the Passion essay, most recently a couple days ago. People to this day tell me that what I said back then, what upset a bunch of people who aren't even around Neocities anymore, is still resonating with them, and that those words are what they couldn't say, or Read more

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