Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

For trans visibility week, I'm wearing a shirt that says "mh-" on it.

Got rambling on bluesky about it so I might as well post it here to make it official.

Having become frustrated with companies like Piko buying the rights to lots of old games, hoarding them, and generally just kinda being assholes about it, my goal for 2025 is to do what these companies won't and buy the rights to a 20+ year old game and make it public domain. It may be a terrible Klik & Play game that someone made when they were 10, but it will happen.

important context for the whole "The Onion bought InfoWars" thing. unlimited respect to the Sandy Hook families

if i can give one audio tip for people who work with "people talking" type audio it's this: compress dynamics

this marvelous filter in audacity will let you compress the volume into a smaller band. that way everything will have a more consistent volume level and there won't be parts that are loud and other parts that are barely audible

there's a lot more to audio editing and a lot more that can be done but the most important thing is that people can clearly hear everything that's said, and that's a compress dynamics thing

Many of you might already know that due to historical reasons, Japan uses two incompatible power systems with mismatched frequencies

That has its consequence in railways too

Meet Tokyo Central station. As you can see, western and eastern Shinkansen lines terminate here. They're not connected with each other and use different electrification depending on which part of the country the line goes to – 25kV 50Hz or 60Hz

Normal-speed lines use 1.5kV DC electrification

This small infodump was brought to you by @aroma who brought my attention to that detail

#railinfodump

the idea of a video game (like an RPG or something) where it tells you "press this button combination to do this thing" but every single thing has a unique button combination and that button combination remains possible to press perpetually after the moment you learn about it

so in the tutorial it says "press X to hug your wife" and that's not teaching you the interact button that's teaching you the hug your wife button and at any point if you press that button your character will uninterruptably go to their wife and hug her

video game where if you get 100 points you go up a level and by up a level I mean you teleport up one floor in the building you are currently in

So far today, Google has taken me to a bus stop that doesn't exist, and asked me how crowded i5 is, on a bus that also doesn't exist.

usually when companies are bought/merged I'm somewhere between "oh no" and "meh", but The Onion buying InfoWars' assets is really hilarious

Sometimes I feel like therapy needs to be longer. I don't know if I can untangle everything in the span of an episode of House, I need Avengers level of therapy