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egypturnash

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About egypturnash

I'm a nerd who draws stuff. I used to dabble in programming but right now it's little more than "writes the occasional CSS" and "fiddles with making pretty light patterns via Arduino".

You might like some of the stuff I draw...

The Tarot of the Silicon Dawn: Bright, cartoony, full of modern imagery. There is a card named "Recursion", which has a type-in Python program in the text explaining it. Available on any big online bookstore (Amazon, B&N, etc) or ask your local comic/game/occult/book store. Decrypting Rita: A sci-fi web comic about a cyborg/robot lady with reality issues. Completed. http://egypt.urnash.com/rita/

I do not consent to my comments here, or anything by me you may find elsewhere on the web, being used to train your AI.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49196978

    The chat is still there in the corner of this post, with people typing nasty shit into it. Well have fun delving into programmatic censorship I guess. Or just take it out. If you t…

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    Comment #49196204

    All those gumdrop Macs sent me back to my time in a Flash cartoon shop that was filled with those things.

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    Comment #49171965

    A slop image header is a signal that the text is probably also slop. Why should I waste my time on the off chance that your text is not actually slop?

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    Comment #49171895

    I just assume that if you think it's fine to shit in my eyes with an AI image then you're probably also about to shit in my eyes a lot more with AI text.

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    Comment #49150850

    Oh darling. Stop playing AAA games, start playing real games from teams small enough to make unsafe choices. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD6ujQ0tHAv2qLS5FKH6B... - chopp…

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    Comment #49111094

    It's more Ron Gilbert's thing than anything else. Manic Mansion, MM2, The Cave, Thimbleweed Park, and now TWP2: Gilbert's. Possibly also some of the many kid's games he did https:/…

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    Comment #49065275

    > Turns out, cross-fading two 4MP images at 60 frames per second on a moderately powerful single board computer is not so easy. I needed to use GPU acceleration to make it happen a…

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    Comment #49043480

    Welcome to your new side project!

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    Comment #49027827

    Thanks for the corrections :) I sure spent a lot of time on Furry. I think the penultimate time I logged on there was something like a decade ago; the last time was to attend Tugri…

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    Comment #49014986

    There was a distinct split between people there for the grind and people there for the RP. I was there for the RP and I was mostly on MUCKs, MUSHes, and the occasional MOOs (multi-…

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    Comment #49009885

    Looks like. https://zx.tr/basinc/help/topics/manual_appd.html , scroll down. "Here is a program to throw coins for the I Ching. (Unfortunately it produces the patterns upside down.…

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    Comment #48984631

    There's a whole world of software that people are expected to pay for, one way or another. Some programmers choose to release their work for free. And some people use the paid soft…

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    Comment #48984582

    Even more concrete, IMHO: "People find my comics through Google search. Some of them become fans and subscribe."

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    Comment #48927831

    It started as a game, and grew into a fantasy console. It's by the same person who created pico-8, if you're familiar with that.

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    Comment #48894708

    Thanks <3

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    Comment #48894704

    Overall I feel like this is more of an advantage than a problem.

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    Comment #48886579

    https://web.archive.org/web/20260712230824/https://shellzine... also go read my comic about a robot lady with reality issues, http://egypt.urnash.com/rita/ , it's got cover quotes …

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    Comment #48885340

    I see you've never read The Register before. Their whole value proposition is "here is computing news from cynical, snarky viewpoint". Their motto "Biting the hand that feeds IT" h…

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    Comment #48882606

    I cannot help but feel like these drawing methods are more hassle than carrying around an actual sketchbook and a few pens/pencils. Whatever makes you happy, I guess; at least you'…

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    Comment #48808062

    Keeper needs an optimization pass so badly. Once I finished the first zone the framerate dropped to the floor on my Steam Deck. Presumably it runs okay on the current XBox, but it …

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    Comment #48805559

    Not in the FAQ but immediately at the top of my mind when I looked at the images: What is the provenance of these pets? Are they AI generated?

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    Comment #48786243

    Imagine: You are a programmer who is all-in on LLM code generation. You get so much written every day! Hundreds of thousand lines of code, and you barely lifted a finger. But... yo…

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    Comment #48767702

    TWN is totally 2600 fanfic. Except for the part where it's got a bit too much in the way of gorgeous art. Same size, same rhythms, same vibe. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles…

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    Comment #48764857

    Yet Another Yet Another Bulletin Board.

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