Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@chitter.xyz

I think that aside from delivery/curbside pickup, my greatest tools here are my chest freezer and air fryer. I know I talk about air frying a lot but I'm genuinely really happy with mine, and I don't miss restaurants aside from burgers and the social aspect. I think that eating the kinds of foods I ate when I went to lunch with coworkers helps bring back those nice memories too.

I've been thinking about what I can do to go to the grocery store less often, since I'm getting a little concerned with wanting to reduce my risks.

The main things I need to get frequently (due to going through them fast or them expiring quickly) are milk, bread, breakfast items, fruit, and sometimes beef.

I wouldn't mind just not using beef, freezing milk/bread or using shelf-stable milk, and getting canned/frozen fruit, I think.

I went to take a picture of the entire map on my "Tilemap Town" collaborative online map-making and roleplay thing, and looks like someone made a dick. I think I'll remove it.

I also see a nice-looking building with a waterfall and I have no idea who built it, so I guess random strangers bring good things too.

It'll definitely be prominent that it's a SNES game but I like the idea of doing something different from NES games that have Kickstarter campaigns where they're all like "wow!!! a brand new NES game!!!"

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Imagining like, a game trailer for Nova 2 that has logos for different platforms at the end, and it's just got "Super Nintendo Entertainment System" really casually next to Windows and Linux without otherwise making a big deal out of it haha.

Tried making Nova a little bit more neon, which is subtle but I think it helps her stand out better even against green backgrounds. May also try varying the dress color a bit, or try something else as the default.

Decided to play around with HDMA, and the gradient and parallax makes the simple background look cooler for sure. I found out I actually had a lot of the infrastructure already set up for per-background effects, so that was less work for me.
#gamedev #snesdev

After trying and failing to get a 68000 core working on my FPGA board, I managed to get a 65c02 working and running a simple program.

I'm not sure what I want to do from here, but I could make a simple BASIC machine, and get some text displaying through VGA and hook up a PS/2 keyboard. The bigger goals will have to wait until I have enough figured out to make something bigger.

http://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&p=251257 I've got my SNES simple game creation tool to the point where you can start to do actual game logic. It's definitely got a whole lot to go though and many features are missing.

I need to commit to some sort of exercise to replace what I got from biking to/from work every day.

Sometimes FPGA stuff is really intimidating due to just how much work goes into everything, and it's hard to share something you've made.

But I still wanna make cool things.

I got everything set up so I can compile and run FPGA projects, so I'm playing with generating VGA signals because it's a lot cooler than blinking an LED. Here I'm using dithering to bring it from 16 values per color channel up to 31.

I wish asking if someone roleplayed wasn't a socially unacceptable weird thing, because I honestly don't know how you're supposed to find people. I just know F-List isn't it.

I liked the Animal Crossing birthday event a lot and it touched my feelings even though it's all fake friendships

Today I learned that squirrels can survive falls from any height, so in giving Nova a lack of fall damage as part of her being a platformer character, I actually unintentionally made her more realistic to how squirrels actually are.

http://problemkaputt.de/gbatek.htm#ds3dtoonedgefogalphablendingantialiasing The Nintendo DS gets to claim its graphics hardware contains a "toon table," which is a great name

Oh hey I'm 25 now

I went on a bike ride with some coworkers and it was really enjoyable to see them again. A bike ride is a good way to be involved in something while staying a safe distance away from each other.

I really like those cheap freeze pops you find in the store around summertime but I always end up eating all the "good" flavors first and leaving the ones I like less. :p

Maybe just buying a bunch of a specific frozen treat I like all of is a better idea.