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yet another dragon ! hopefully next time different bosses support us : #indie #gamedev #8bit #16bit #retro #arcade #rogue #topdown #snes #genesis

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HACK the Developer1 year ago

Okay that shield tech is awesome, that's something I haven't seen in a video game yet and it looks so fun to pull off

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Sylph Arcade1 year ago

Thx yeah it is very cool to play, Still need to tweak/debug a bit, so I'm planning a mini demo to get some feedbacks

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RedDeer.Games4 years ago

Always with you - AAA Clock. Great retro game included! 🕐 #AAAClock #indiedev #indiegame #IndieGameDev #nintendo #OLED #switchOLED #NintendoSwitch

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Dillon Headley1 year ago

this looks so COOL!

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Sylph Arcade1 year ago

Tons of thx !!

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Vendetta1 year ago

LOVING THIS 🫡❤️

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Sylph Arcade1 year ago

Glad you do !

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Joel Santos1 year ago

I'm loving this gameplay and soundtrack!

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Sylph Arcade1 year ago

Thx a ton !

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2010D1HATER1 year ago

Yoo

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Sylph Arcade1 year ago

💪💪💪👌👀

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Mhokstache ✨

71,485 views • 3 months ago

250717 #ATEEZ #Hongjoong talks about Mingi’s health, renewed contract and why ATEEZ stayed, TOKTOQ pop (voice) live (rough translation): Anyway, those were some behind-the-scenes stories. I hope that since each member’s solo performance has its own unique color, you’ll also look forward to mine and find something exciting in it. I’ll keep working hard so there’s always something for you to anticipate. Honestly, for these solo stages to be meaningful, they need to be just as captivating and focused as our group songs. That’s why I keep pushing myself to stay on edge and come up with new intro ideas and experiments - it’s part of my mindset. So, that’s what I’m doing. 💬 My captain is in Tennessee. 🐿️ Yes~ 💬 Will you try Jersey (? t/n I’m not sure) next? 🐿️ (laughs) The weather’s been so nice lately. Really nice. I think we’re in more of a city area of Tennessee. 💬 Cowboy Captain 🐿️ (laughs) 💬 Europe soon? 🐿️ Ah, about the Insta post - I originally meant to upload it with music added, but it ended up just getting posted as-is. I really liked that photo, so I had it saved in drafts and re-uploaded it. But once I deleted the post, the draft disappeared too, so I was like, “Ah…” and just uploaded another one instead. Still, when I think of Nashville, there’s a certain song and artist that come to mind, so I wanted to use their music. I was already excited before getting on the plane, and when I saw the Nashville sign I thought, “Oh!” and took a picture. (laughs) I haven’t eaten yet. As for our condition, overall the members are okay, but Mingi has a bit of conjunctivitis right now. He’s the type who often gets allergic reactions or eye-related symptoms, so during yesterday’s performance he kept wearing sunglasses. Honestly, we all probably have little aches and areas that aren’t in great shape, but since Mingi’s is more visible, it’s more noticeable. Also, now that we’ve all renewed our contracts together and shared it with all of you, I feel like we’ve become even more affectionate toward one another. We’ve always talked about doing this for a long time, so it wasn’t a huge issue for us, but now that it’s been officially announced, I think it feels a bit different, somehow. It definitely feels like something special. To be honest, for the past few years - maybe from just under two years ago - every time we had a comeback, we were always asked about contract renewals. And internally, we would think, “Why doesn’t this question feel like such a big deal to us?” Of course, if we don’t say anything, people won’t know what we’re thinking. But we found ourselves wondering why that question never really hit us hard. We can’t share all the details, but when it came to the contract period, from the very beginning the members were in agreement: if we’re going to do this, let’s do it long-term so we can feel secure and stable. That was something we all agreed on early on. We had a lot of conversations at the start because this isn’t something you take lightly. That’s part of why we took our time before telling you. But choosing to go long-term - honestly, all of us felt that was the right decision for ATEEZ and ATINY. Of course, if we had made the announcement earlier, maybe it would have been more comfortable for both us and the fans. But now that it’s timed with everything else we’re doing, and now that we’ve been able to share it with you all in this moment, I actually think it turned out better this way. It wasn’t something we took lightly or prepared casually. We seriously talked about it for a long time among ourselves. And now, talking with all of you like this, I feel even more confident that this decision - choosing to stay on our path as ATEEZ - is the right one. I’m really happy about it. And honestly, since we’ve already built our foundation, starting over somewhere else was never really a viable option for us.

Irene | AhgaTiny🍋

29,761 views • 1 year ago

$CRM: "Let me just talk about how people make a buying decision, because I hear some of these stories. When somebody knocks on your door, are you going to open the door and give them the keys to your safe or the code to your safe, to your family's jewels? So every day a CEO of any firm is going to get 50 cold calls. Somebody can do it different or better. How is a decision really made? First of all, does the firm, in this case Salesforce, have the product and service that we need? Second, do you have the engineers, the architects, the professionals to work with my team in order to bring it, that vision to reality? And then lastly, even if another firm had those first two, who is the firm standing behind it that can be there through good times and bad times that's going to stand behind that product or service? So if we line up all three, that's where a good trusted partnership exists. That's why we went with Salesforce. So we worked with your team, literally hand in hand. We said we want to streamline processes, we want to take out latency in the code, we want to do X, Y, or Z. Your team was there in the trenches at every level, engineers, architects, building out the vision. But then it's not just pie in the sky... on the white sheet, it's implementable. We have 76 agents running side by side with our employees. A good example is in our call centers. We have Agent Wingman. I'm an aviator, so I think they named it because I like Wingman. Agent Wingman is going to save me nearly $1.6 million this year, has decreased our call handle time 10 percent this year, 50 percent reduction in after-call work times, and 40 percent reduction in held calls. So better experience for the member, remember they can go 8,000 other institutions, I want them to have a great experience each and every time with PenFed, it's got to be right each and every time. Yet I want my employees to do the knowledge work, building trust in the relationship, not entering what just happened on the phone call. We have agents that listen to the phone call, transcribe it. The human's still in the loop, they approve what was just talked about, but then it's 360 if the transaction occurred in the branch, web, mobile. So the next person that deals with that consumer, that member, they know exactly the relationship. They know what we might want to sell them next or what they need next for their daughter, their graduation. So it's creating a hyper-personalized, omni-channel experience without having 400 people I need to meet with. I have 12 strategic partners that are allowing us to power the business." — James Schenck, CEO of PenFed (Pentagon Federal Credit Union)

Marcelo P. Lima

44,853 views • 1 month ago

EXCLUSIVE: HONG KONG ANTI-CHINA GROUPS AWASH WITH MYSTERY CASH Investigators found millions of dollars delivered to Stand News "in a clandestine manner", a court heard. The loss-making anti-China media outlet in Hong Kong suddenly went from deep debt to having millions in spare cash. The discovery, revealed in court recently, is an example of how China-hostile groups in Hong Kong acquired donations equivalent to tens of millions of US dollars between 2014 and 2020. The G-7's Financial Action Task Force warned during this period that crowdfunding donations had become the new way for clandestine funders to transfer cash around the world at high speed without being traceable, with the cash sometimes used for terrorism--which is what happened in Hong Kong. . CROWDFUNDED TERRORISM In a case in point, a mysterious woman came to visit a Hong Kong protest group called Dragon Slayers Brigade and gave them instructions on where and when to set up a crowdfunding bid. They did so – and money quickly poured into their bank account, more than they could use. After setting up a Molotov cocktail factory, obtaining an AR15 assault rifle and financing a team of staff, leader Wong Chun-keung gave himself a stress-relief break in which he spent some of the funds on football betting. “I used about HK$300,000 [US$40,000] of the donations to gamble. For me, it was a way to de-stress,” he told a court. The suddenly wealthy group obtained high grade explosives and planned a terrorist-level bombing in Wan Chai which would have caused massive casualties, had police not stopped them hours before they set the bombs off. . CELEBRATING VIOLENCE The anti-China Stand News carried interviews with members of the Dragon Slayers Brigade, presenting them positively and "romanticizing" their violent mission, a court heard. In fact, it has become clear that money is the key to fully understanding the protests in Hong Kong. From 2014 onwards, anti-government activists and anti-China media groups found themselves awash with cash. These tens of millions of dollars were in addition to the tens of millions handed out in Hong Kong since 1994 by the National Endowment for Democracy, a US group specializing in overseas political interference "to advance US interests". The cash is also in addition to the secret sum of US$2 million set aside for the Hong Kong protests by America's Open Technology Fund, a unit of Radio Free Asia, a Washington DC "news" outlet. And it is in addition to the millions of dollars known to have been handed out to anti-China activists by Mark Simon, a one-time US intelligence officer working for Jimmy Lai's Apple Daily. TOO MUCH, TOO FAST While most crowdfunding activities are legitimate and harmless, examples in which large sums of money are moved in a highly charged political atmosphere are suspect, particularly if the money arrives very quickly, investigators said. Hong Kong journalists watched one anti-China group in the city obtain a large sum of cash at high speed using crowdfunding in August of 2019. "A new gofundme campaign created yesterday has raised over US$1.97m in two hours this morning," amazed journalists at Hong Kong's Dimsum Daily reported. This was extraordinary, not just because of the speed, but because the group was virtually unknown. Called "Freedom Hong Kong", it supported a gathering of protesters under the slogan "Alliance of United States, United Kingdom and Hong Kong, sovereignty lies with the people". It presented itself as Hong Kong people calling for western nations to impose sanctions on their own community. This made no sense, but since the crowdfunding sites were in the US, police could not trace the origin of the funds. Hong Kong journalists noted that Freedom Hong Kong was registered in the United States. . STAND NEWS MONEY MYSTERY The donations money-transfer technique can be traced back a decade. In 2014, an anti-China media group called House News, which attracted too little advertising and was losing $600,000 a month, closed down. But six months later, it relaunched itself as Stand News. It still had almost no advertising, but was suddenly cash rich, through "donations". When the media outlet wiped its website and stopped posting material, investigators found a reserve cash account containing HK$61 million (US$8 million): an extraordinary amount of spare cash for a non-profit website without a functioning business model. . APPLE DAILY PUZZLE Similarly, Stand News' former partner Apple Daily was losing more than HK$1 million a day, sometimes twice that, during this period. That means it was losing between US$1 million to US$2 million a week, month after month, year after year. But it always had vast amounts of spare cash in its bank account. Business reporters from other Hong Kong publications openly expressed puzzlement about where Apple Daily's money came from. "We cannot help wonder if its existence were a powerful propaganda machinery…" said business writers at Dimsum Daily. . ANTI-CHINA PROPAGANDA Stand News overseas director was a man named Evan Fowler, who co-founded a China-hostile website called the Hong Kong Free Press, before returning to the UK to work for a hard right group called the Henry Jackson Society. In 2017, that society was revealed by the Times of London to be taking 10,000 pounds a month (more than US$13,000), delivered by Japanese contacts, to spread negative news about China to the mainstream media, including The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and The Economist. . VIOLENCE, HOSTILITY AND CASH It's clear that the key to fully understanding the Hong Kong anti-China movement is cash, and it's easy to find multiple examples. Here are four more: 1) In another Hong Kong court case, a 17-year-old Hong Kong youth arrested for violent protests, revealed to a court that he maintained "a spare flat to keep his bombs in". Hong Kong is literally one of the most expensive places in the world – how can a 17-year-old afford a spare apartment? 2) At yet another court hearing, an anti-China activist called Wayland Chan talked about being given a company by Mark Simon, a former US intelligence agent, working for Apple Daily. Simon told him that the company was of covert nature and could be used to liaise with foreign organizations and collect funds. 3) One group using crowdfunding to attract large sums of money at speed called itself the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund. A court heard it received HK$270 million (US$34 million) in donations between June 2019 and October 2021, and cash went to anti-China lawyers, international lobbyists, and hostile foreign organizations. Two of its trustees were directors of Stand News, and one worked with the "revolution industry", a cluster of hybrid warfare consultants which uses street protests to promote US interests. Not Hong Kong interests, US interests. 4) In yet another case, HSBC in 2019 closed the accounts of a group called Spark Alliance, which also claimed that the HK$80 million (US$10.3 million) in their account came from crowdfunding. That group presented itself as a noble foundation providing support for arrested protesters. But investigators found the account was managed by an 18-year-old involved in drug trafficking, with some cash withdrawn and spent on unrelated items. . FALSE NARRATIVE Why is the narrative you see about Hong Kong in the media so different to the truth? The western press is doing its job, which is to demonize China to manufacture consent for the US to go to war against a developing country which is daring to rise peacefully. That doesn't mean that individual western journalists are necessarily bad people. Some probably really believe that America is a wonderful country that wouldn't dream of interfering in politics outside its own borders, and that the Chinese are warlike people who will shortly invade Australia as a prelude to taking over the world. All the rest of us can do is to try to present a fairer picture of what's going on and hope the truth will spread.

Nury Vittachi

121,115 views • 1 year ago

** MEGA Parodius Scaling Effects Part 1 ** One of the big challenges with the Parodius Megadrive port is Stage 8's boss - The puffer-fish *Pooyan* with his full screen scaling effect. The goal is to be very close to the arcade (with extras on top ) so I thought lets tackle it head on to see how close we can get. I was also keen to jump into another scaling code rabit hole haha. Pyron pulled out all the stops and got me the source frames and reworked the BG tiles for this test - a big thankyou to him , Vector Orbitex is busy working on Stage 2 tracks so the team is working hard all round on this port. The MD has no sprite / background GFX scaling hardware , however the VDPs Vertical scroll can be updated per scanline to help vertical scaling on backgrounds, but there is a cpu cost to manage all the interupts so thats not free either. With the Horizontal scaling there is no help at all , apart from a semi-friendly packed pixel format for the cpu to work with, its not quite chunky format but better than planar format still for scaling. So its falls back to the 68k CPU to do all of the horizontal expansion which is the largest cpu cost. Basically drawing strips of either 1x, 2x, 3x or 4x wide columns at speed. So we are one week into this Boss's routine and you can see from the below video the horizontal scaling is implented ( vertical will be in the next update ) . We are scaling from 1x to 4x in the video below in 74 steps for testing . The column distributions are always a bit painfull to do - thankfully they are all worked out now. This is the third scaler I have built and the goal was with this one to make it really flexible for use in other projects also, sometimes when you optimise something to the last degree all the flexibility gets taken out of it. Currenty scaling at 12-25 FPS update here, I had some rules against some optimisations which I would use and some I wouldn't , thankfully we are a bit ahead of the Arcades animation frame rate here still and I may yet find optimisations that fit within the scope. We have vertical scaling and sprite spikes to add yet so Im hoping i can find a few more optimisations to offset things when they are implemented also. In a scale frame update we are processing close to 42000 pixels in ram before using DMA to send to VRAM . Using a 41x16 (656 tile scale buffer) - single buffered for now due to its size in VRAM. So thats nearly 21k in tiles ! I had to re-organise ram a bit to support a buffer of that size for the stage. The scaling function is written in 68k assembly , with a little C code handling the Vertical interupt code ( so the game logic can actually run & DMA updates etc ) . The DMA routines are in assembly also and customised for large chunk size ( big blocks of tiles ) which suits the scaler. I had some race conditions to sort out where the cpu was faster than DMA (sending tiles from RAM to VRAM ) and in some cases where it wasn't so it had to be balanced. We may be able to add more detail into the top and bottom of the background yet but its low priority for now until all the other bits are in !! #SGDK #SegaMegadrive #Genesis #Parodius

Shannon Birt

25,545 views • 6 months ago

Steve Jobs, Aspen 1983 ================ I'm not a natural artist. I can create simple drawings, cut them out, and paste them into documents. This allows me to combine images and text before sending them electronically. Anyone in Aspen can then access their mail and see the drawing by dialing a phone number. We're at the beginning of a revolution. The personal computer is a new medium, and society and computers are truly converging for the first time in the 1980s. In the next 15 years, this initial phase of widespread tool adoption will be complete. During this time, we have a real opportunity to do this well, or to do it poorly. Many of us at Apple are dedicated to doing it well. I want to discuss one final concept before we open the floor to questions. What is a computer program? It's a strange concept. Like an electron, you can't see or touch it. Computer programs have no physical form; they are simply ideas expressed on paper. They are archetypal. Let's compare computer programming to television programming. If you watch tapes of JFK's funeral, you'll likely experience similar emotions to those you felt when you watched it live. Through television programming, we are adept at capturing and recreating experiences. It's expensive and somewhat limited, but we can do it effectively. You can truly feel the excitement of Neil Armstrong landing on the moon. Computer programming does something different. It captures the underlying principles of an experience, not the experience itself. These principles enable countless different experiences that adhere to those rules. A perfect example is a video game. It follows the laws of gravity and angular momentum, creating, for instance, a simple Pong game. The ball always obeys these laws. No two Pong games are ever identical, yet every game follows these fundamental principles. Another example is a program called "Hamurabi." Seven-year-olds play this game where they become King Hamurabi of Sumeria for ten years. The game presents scenarios: "King Hamurabi, in year one, you have 1,000 bushels of wheat, 100 people, and 100 acres of land. Land trades at 24 bushels an acre. Do you want to buy or sell land? How much do you want to plant or feed?" If you don't plant enough, people starve. If you plant a lot, people from neighboring villages will come to your prosperous village. It's a crude macroeconomic model, but these children will play for hours, learning. We need to develop better and more sophisticated models, but this is an interactive learning experience none of us had growing up. Again, thousands of individual experiences, all based on one set of underlying principles. In school, I had a few great teachers and many mediocre ones. Books were my salvation. I could read Aristotle or Plato directly, without an intermediary. A book is phenomenal; it goes straight from the source to the reader. The problem is, you can't ask Aristotle a question. Looking ahead 50 to 100 years, if we can create machines that capture an underlying spirit, set of principles, or way of looking at the world, then when the next Aristotle arrives, perhaps they will carry one of these machines. After they're gone, we could potentially ask the machine, "What would Aristotle have said about this?" We might not get the right answer, but we might. That's incredibly exciting and one of the reasons I do what I do. Now, what would you like to discuss?

@jason

112,272 views • 1 year ago

I am no longer a human being, nor even anything. I have become a walking void. The days repeat themselves as punishment for a crime I don't remember committing, and the night is longer than life, and memory is full of unspeakable things. Even the tears have left my eyes, and my heart no longer has room for another collapse. I am so tired of being broken that patience has become meaningless. Dostoyevsky says that the most difficult battle a person can fight is to be a broken person inside and yet try to appear strong to the world.. But I'm not trying anymore.. The mask of strength I pretend to have has fallen and only pain remains.. My dear friends and loved ones... With deep sadness and sorrow, I inform you that the army killed Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qureiqa, and Al Jazeera cameramen in front of the gate of Al-Shifa Hospital... They are trying to silence us... They don't want the truth to be revealed... My colleagues sustained minor injuries when our office was damaged. The photo below shows the damage to our office at Al-Shifa Hospital... I could have been the one who got hurt if the assassination had happened the night before... My friends and loved ones, tonight was absolute hell in Gaza. Tanks fired hundreds of shells, some close, some far away. They also launched a violent fire belt... For those who don't know what a fire belt is, I invite you to watch the video below. Warplanes drop a large number of missiles, one after the other, on a specific area. Note that the sound of the explosions in reality is much more terrifying than what the cameras show. The explosions also cause an earthquake throughout Gaza. Can anyone endure this terrifying minute? That minute doesn't count as 60 seconds.. That minute is counted by the number of heartbeats .. My dear friends and loved ones... When the sun rises, the first thing I do is check on the cats who have been through a difficult time. Everyone knows they are sensitive creatures and are frightened by the sound of explosions. I fed them and provided them with clean water with the help of my son Ayman. Today is Ayman's birthday. He is now 14 years old. I wish circumstances would allow us to celebrate. Maybe next year we can celebrate and have a good time in peace... but on one condition: if we stay alive.. It seems that the army's plans to occupy Gaza City have begun to be implemented... and there is a possibility that I will leave my home and leave everything behind. I still buy cat food and food for my family on a daily basis due to the high prices, despite the influx of some food supplies... I appreciate your support very much and I am very grateful to you... I am grateful to everyone who has stood by me unconditionally and without reason. I am very grateful to everyone who supports me morally and financially. I am grateful to everyone who loves us sincerely and unconditionally... Your prayers and supplications are with us in these difficult times.

help cats

42,846 views • 11 months ago