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I need some simple copy work done. Copying pdfs into notation software and transposing. I can pay a bit. Let me know if you have time to get it done before Friday.

Chipsynth MD by chance? If so, I actually recently used the aforementioned technique on a project. It can certainly be done. :D

But because of the vocal track, you don't need that usual depth or attention to detail that you'd expect from the YM2612. Modulation and panning things across the stereo field makes sense if you're being pure to constraints while sounding huge, but you don't need that as much here I don't think.

There's a couple of things you could've maybe done a bit differently. For example if you wanted the guitars to sound less flat, do some left and right panning while making use of detune and vibrato (i.e., simulating what was done on Thunder Force).

this fucks actually.

"Canadian" citizens here's a petition to strip ICE of everything we have given them. Armoured vehicles, offices across the country, and the ability to operate and work here, which is not the US:

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Luna's owner took her to the groomer and this is what came out. She looks genuinely miserable. 😭

At least 24 girls reported killed in strike on school in southern Iran Dozens of children aged between seven and 12 hit in attack on Minab city

Don't miss the news that an Israeli missile destroyed an Iranian girls' primary school, murdering at least 25 girls between 7 and 12 years old. At this point it might just be muscle memory for the Israeli military.

www.middleeasteye.net/news/least-2...

Working on giving fire damage a real identity
Damage over time? AOE + Damage over time? Explode on death? Or maybe all of the above?
#indiegame #shooter

''Ermmm it's unprofessional to talk about ''politics'', you'll lose followers!''

Oh shit my bad, here let me say this instead-
Fuck ICE
Fuck MAGA
Free Palestine
Trans rights
Black lives matter

I could give two fucks if people unfollow, i'm not here to surround myself by bigots.

me: (playing monster hunter and gf is watching. carts to the most basic shit)
me: "i think i'm having a midlife lagiacrisis"
girlfriend: "we're breaking up."

maybe my take here is a little uninspired, but i'm noting that it's always dropouts that push for radical, destructive upheavals in sectors they whiffed it in.

Our next game is Verminsteel!

You're a bird with a broadsword, kicking thousands of fascists so hard they fly into the sun

PLEASE go wishlist it, it'll make me really happy and help me stop low-key panicking and stuff: store.steampowered.com/app/4352280/... #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

What I'm seeing is a race to the bottom where both audiences and creators are unwittingly trapped by expectations and don't exactly know how to break free. Both want something of fresh substance, but industry conditions can't reward true novelty. It can only incentivize the illusion of it.

You can't risk being too individualistic, because the rough edges and friction might scare away streamers. You're pressured to give people what they want, not what they need, otherwise they'll go and play something else.

It's exceptionally difficult to stand out due to cultural flattening. You have to make sure you use the right keywords, capsule art, design principles, etc in the "right way". You have to make sure people have a frictionless experience finding and engaging with your game.

Additionally, Indie is often lauded for creativity and innovation. It's been seen as a slice of the industry that is often years ahead, because we're able to take risks that big studios can't.

Except now we're now also feeling the pressure to stick to familiarity under the guise of limiting scope.

Most of my time spent as an indie composer has been largely under the poverty line. I anticipate many other freelancers in the game industry live a similar experience.

You have to really love this job to do it, and the economy is running out of reasons and incentives to keep supporting these jobs.

What radicalized me over the years is finding out firsthand how much work goes into a game only so most of its team can just scrape by. Not luxuries, but just be able to have a roof over their head and afford healthcare.

I'm not sure honestly. I was a firm believer in the idea of "a rising tide raises all ships" a few years ago. But the proliferation of slop, combined with predatory monetization and labour practices, can make the games industry a very difficult place to exist as anything other than a suit.

And what was the AI model trained on, Sam? Where did the fucking data come from, Sam?! 🪿

Maybe now that NI is going under and the public can wrest control of Kontakt from the usual win/mac hegemon, maybe a linux port will finally happen and I can totally move over for good. Right? ... right?

this was exactly a criticism of a chiptune album i put out years ago. This was back when chiptune = WIN was still around, and the blog post amounted to: "i wish some of the songs had endings rather than fades".

I never saw that same critique leveraged at music outside the chiptune scene. very odd.

We had a name for these people a century ago: robber barons.

Trustbusters would have stopped this by now if accountability still existed.

If we're still around in 100 years, entire courses will be written about this. You cannot throw out people's ability to participate economically *just because* swaths of private entities are a more lucrative buyer.

Parts manufacturers are abandoning consumers for tech "visionaries", who curry favor with the worst people in american politics.

We should call this what it is: a fascist kleptocracy, where all of the critical pieces of our digital infrastructure are being scrapped to limit our economic freedom.

Oh, didn't know you were comfy with trackers! In that case, yeah -- look at Furnace (or deflemask, as others have pointed out). It's a great option, I think.