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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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  • Fast forward in emulators. Also, the menu toggle in Retro Arch.

    In Dungeons of Dredmor, an old mouse and KB roguelike, the community made a good layout where every button is mapped to a keyboard key to open the various inventory and crafting windows, etc. With the track pad right there to act as a mouse, it’s honestly just as good as a mouse and KB. Maybe even better.





  • Ah, yes, where blacks are the color of… garage door.

    If you could have a black backdrop and some way of preventing the projector from shining right in your eyes, it might be fun. That projector lens is going to be blindingly bright, and right in your face. It needs to come up from the bottom, behind the box, and you need to adjust the video itself so it doesn’t get stretched crazy tall when doing so. The mist/fog should come from a slit on the very rear edge of the box.

    Some projectors have a good enough keystone adjustment to not need to modify the video even when projected at such a sharp angle.














  • I just watched this the other night for the first time since the 80’s. It’s so bad! 😆

    And I say that as a lover of the book.

    Oh god, the weirding modules!

    “Muad’dib!” Pew! “Muad’dib!” Pew!

    Lynch didn’t want it to be a “kung fu movie”, but the whole fucking book was kung fu!

    They touched on the prophesy stuff, but never even hinted it was planted by the Bene Gesserit hundreds of years ago. The locals were chanting Muad’dib when he landed on the planet! He didn’t pick the name himself.

    So many unnecessary changes to the plot like Leto being confused on who was who and blowing the poison in the wrong face.

    And I never get tired of being angry at the “monitors are projectors” special effect trope. You ever stare into a projector that’s focused on your face? You can’t see anything but a bright light. You ever look at someone who’s looking at a monitor? You don’t see the words on their face! “But it looks cool!” No it doesn’t! It looks like shit because it’s so antireality.

    I’ll probably go see it.