updated the character limit on the blinkie maker! previously 15 characters, you can now attempt to cram a whopping 25 characters on your blinkies!! certain fonts and font sizes WILL cut off. use your best judgement ok?
today is the ten year anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub shooting. a full decade ago, i lost a friend and a coworker. i was lucky. i had friends that lost several people. today, please remember and fight for all those that have died to live the live they should have been free to. i'll always remember you, Cory.
writing is a fantastic hobby but the kicker is it's a lot harder to show your friends as it's progressing. with a sketch i can show someone and they'll be like oh that's an apple. you can't do that with words until you get a lot of them down. so i'll just be like damn fuckin. uhh. check this out
that's right. and that's just one of the several words i know
Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don't want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we're certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They're crying about opportunity cost for a product they're not even selling.
op i know you're probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company's out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it's a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can't be converted.
for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.
so like, i know a lot of people look at the original post here and go "well op just wants old video games to play" (which is valid! games companies should not be able to push shit to abandonware and then close it off) but also this is critical for like. biomedical research. if y'all had any idea how much basic infrastructure built on science relies on shit that is technically abandonware, you would probably be horrified.
i'm still getting settled over there, but i'm proud to announce i've opened my patreon!
so many of you expressed interest in supporting me, and i couldn't be more grateful! while i'm still hammering out the details of what support will look like, so far i know the following:
sketch dumps will now be posted exclusively on patreon
sketch requests will now only be for patrons
nsfw will now be posted exclusively on patreon, uncensored ofc
art will be posted on patreon on early, but i'm not sure within what time frame
i also wanted to share why i've elected to start a patreon. i made this post available for free, but i'm going to go ahead and copy and paste it here too for those interested:
typically i don't like to share details about my life publicly, but given that this page was launched due to changes in my life circumstances i figured it would be apropos.
on tumblr i have vaguely alluded to my poor health, including leaving work to go on disability and having had multiple UR/ER stays over the summer. i have a lot of chronic health conditions i'm currently struggling with, some of which aren't fully diagnosed yet, and the medical care for them eats up a significant amount of time and mental/emotional energy.
i live with gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, and autoimmune conditions which have required major life adjustments, immunosuppressing medications, physical therapy, and are pending surgery. i also have multiple mental health conditions, ADHD, and had cancer treatment in fall 2024 (which, while successful, will require life-time monitoring and is made worse by my immunosuppressants).
i'm temporarily leaving the work force in order to undergo exploratory procedures, treatments, and recovery/rehabilitation. during this time i will also be sorting out some professional training, with my ultimate life plan being to open a private practice i can run part-time.
by supporting me on patreon you will not only get access to art i will no longer be posting elsewhere (e.g., sketch dumps, nsfw, requests) but you will also provide much needed financial support as i undergo this care.
your support, and even consideration of your support, is tremendously appreciated! thank you all so much for your care and the community we've built together! 💕
hi all! first i want to thank everyone who's been supporting me over on patreon the last few months; i'm completely floored by all the support! the additional income has done wonders for reducing my financial anxiety and has been a major contributing factor in my ability to continue to focus on my health. 🫶
yesterday i learned that i'll be needing to have surgery again. between that and the flood i've new followers i've gotten in the last month i figured now would be a good time to promote it again.
