8 years ago I made this NES game called Lizard. I never know how to describe it... a quiet game of exploration, with a little bit of difficulty, a little bit of mystery. It was a kind of game I wanted to see more of, and I still look at it fondly.
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06A video game developer, musician and/or food builder from Ontario, Canada. Powered by burritos. Made an NES game about lizards? Sakanakao on twitch. NB any
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Pixels. What are they? We just don't know.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1101008925/lizard/posts/2255928
Improvised little potato knishes. They turned out very savoury! 🥔
I was going through some of my old music stuff and I found this cover of '39 by Queen that I did a while back. It's still my favourite Queen song.
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@0xabad1dea I'm reminded how I saw the term "gaslighting" go from a rare specific usage about lying to undermine someone's self confidence and manipulate them for personal gain... to its current widespread popularity, where it often just means "lying", or sometimes even just "has an opinion I think is wrong".
And sometimes it's hard to tell the difference, whether the speaker is actually making an accusation of lying/manipulation or not, especially because of the factors you just mentioned.
E DUDE ABIDES. I'm pretty sure this graffiti has been here by the lift bridge for about a decade now.
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@swiftyshq @mogwai_poet eBoy does have it on their site:
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https://db.eboy.com/spritebox/ik5KdCysKaq9sgydB
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@roddie@roddie.social I have a website (rainwarrior.ca) hosted by canspace, so I decided to start using its e-mail server.
Sometimes I remember this dumb YouTube channel I made to post fake GXSCC versions of NES soundtracks with stupid descriptions. I guess I thought it was funny, but I didn't have the stamina to make enough for anyone else to find funny, like, statistically.
The weather is just nice enough to start cycling, I think. Today I saw a nice sunset and rainstorm over Lake Ontario. Though I stayed mostly dry, it even started to snow a little bit as I got home. 🚴♂️
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@swiftyshq @mogwai_poet Their wikipedia article cites a The Verge article that says they were working on an Xbox campaign in the fall of 2013. I guess I'd suggest that's the most probable date of origin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBoy
https://www.theverge.com/2014/6/17/5803850/pixel-perfect-the-story-of-eboy
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@swiftyshq @mogwai_poet Actually, yeah that's gotta be it. The image has a signature. Eboy. (All 6 of the Xbox gamer icons preceding the pixel tree also have a similar eboy signature.)
Well I dropped my phone today, and it developed some pretty cracks. Thankfully it's under the surface and doesn't affect touch. Setting up USB debug now cause the next time I drop it I might need to operate it without the screen. Lasted a good 5 years though! GG Samsung J7.
Protip: ketchup packaging is designed to "accidentally" squirt out more ketchup than you wanted. Put it into one of these and have perfect ketchup forever.
I put some beets in my shrimp curry and it turned very red! Quite curious... 🦐🍛🍠
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Right from the very first message they sent to my new Gmail account in 2004, Google was reading my mail to serve ads.
One of the rarest items in my NES collection: Beyond the Pins.
It's a lovely short adventure/bowling game. It never got a release beyond its initial short run for people willing to gamble on a mystery cartridge.
Causing much mayhem, dropping drama!
Trash Panic on the PS3 had a pretty cool soundtrack.
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@swiftyshq @mogwai_poet Though, finding it on the Xbox page suggests that maybe this pixel tree is grouped with a couple of images that come before it? It definitely does not seem to group with the ones immediately after.
I found a site saying that the "EBoy collective" made that horse and the grey truck on pale blue background, linking to their website, which does claim they did create works for Xbox. So, they're my current best guess:
https://www.eboy.com/
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@swiftyshq @mogwai_poet This was the article I found: https://designculture.com.br/pixelart-a-beleza-quadriculada/
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@swiftyshq @mogwai_poet The eBoy signatures aren't consistent in appearance, but I think they're a close enough match for the one on the pixel tree.
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@swiftyshq @mogwai_poet It came in 4 seasonal variations! Sadly, the monster version only seems to exist in summer.
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@swiftyshq @mogwai_poet Oh hey, bonus, they also made the non-monster version:
https://db.eboy.com/spritebox/u7K5APXaY7QtJbnXb
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@mogwai_poet Oh, maybe this one was the original, made by someone called ReSampled and released as free for use. (No idea where the pixellated anythopomorphisized version comes into the picture.)
https://pixabay.com/vectors/tree-apple-tree-apple-leaves-3562076/
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@patagona@chaos.social I'm reminded of the Strudelsoft label that made a bunch of music designed for low bitrates, with floppy disk releases.
https://strudelsoft.bandcamp.com/album/chaos-y2k
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@rnd@toot.cat Yeah, the main problem is that there's very few people I can actually sent a PGP e-mail to. I've had it set up in Thunderbird for years but the number of e-mail contacts I have with their own PGP key is almost none.
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@JordiGH@mathstodon.xyz Well, you don't get to see their hair before the ending. Using the Lizard of Death is consequential, though, or using DULL to bypass the bosses.
The most memorable part of The Deer Hunter for me was always John Williams' Cavatina. Hearing it might have been the point in my life that sparked an interest in the classical guitar.
Cavatina John Williams best-ever performance (live on TV)
Got tricked into buying this "broccoli rice", which is just chopped broccoli stems? Cooked it, mixed with rice, roux, and spices to make some sort of broccoli risotto, which turned out pretty good.
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As an aside, people for years and years have been complaining that e-mail is not secure. We have PGP end-to-end encryption, and it's easy enough to use.
The problem is that gmail and other major e-mail providers want to read your e-mail, so they will not give you this feature. You have to take it for yourself.
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@JordiGH@mathstodon.xyz The leaning one is seen during the lizard mount/dismount. Otherwise they're just the different possible hairstyles.