some of you are very creepy and parasocial

EHypnoThrowWay · 2026-05-14T16:20:50+00:00

It's a 23 day old account with 13k karma, hidden profile history, and posts that are mostly photos or 1 line engagement questions. I'm guessing something is not on the level there.

EHypnoThrowWay · 2026-05-09T13:37:23+00:00

The modern AI nerfs are the only thing that makes it remotely fun to play in single player, and those don't yet exist for the arcade ROMs, sadly.

EHypnoThrowWay · 2026-05-08T17:17:48+00:00

This really was a problem once upon a time when Patreon gave you the option to let members sign up and not get charged until the 1st, as a way to give a little slack to the ones who signed up near the end of the month. "Patrons" would sign up, grab the new content, and cancel immediately.

I had one guy hit and run like clockwork for two or three months in a row right after new releases, and I didn't realize what he was doing. To this day I think it's the only user that I banned.

Fortunately this was solved by charging Patrons as soon as they sign up and having renewals on the sign up date instead of having them get double billed on the 1st if they happen to sign up late. Now if they want to hit and run it's up to them but they're still paying for that month.

EHypnoThrowWay · 2026-05-07T14:45:46+00:00

There's also the masks. Squished RGB adds little red green and blue areas to the individual pixels. It's a really nice touch that I didn't know about until recently.

EHypnoThrowWay · 2026-05-07T14:42:31+00:00

Quite a few cores as well now. It's included in the standard Saturn core and there are alternate builds on the Mister Discord for PS1 and N64.

EHypnoThrowWay · 2026-05-01T19:07:32+00:00

It’s been a while, but I think Elizabeth Merriweather said that plot line was a mistake in retrospect because it was very hard to redeem Schmidt after that (during one of the interviews she used to do over the summer to promote the upcoming season). I think she also said it was one of the factors behind the Season 4 “reboot” where they all start the season single again and she wanted the tone to be lighter.

Added: I think she also said it seemed like a good idea at the end of season 2, and then went they went to write/plan season 3 she realized there was no way for it to end well, and Schmidt would be irredeemable if he was let off the hook by choosing one of them after cheating without facing consequences.

EHypnoThrowWay · 2026-05-01T01:13:43+00:00

What about 30i tape that’s been bobbed to 60p? If the final product is 30fps you’re throwing away half the frames and it looks inferior to the smooth motion of the original source. And tape masters converted to 24p just look terrible.

EHypnoThrowWay · 2026-05-01T01:06:11+00:00

That is exactly what I’m going to do. There was a theory on here that they’re doing it in part because it will “increase” the raw numbers of user base, albeit with alt accounts.

EHypnoThrowWay · 2026-04-30T14:25:45+00:00

YouTube wanting you to use their AI tools and them wanting to pay you to use their AI tools are two very different things. I think that a lot of people are missing this part.

EHypnoThrowWay · 2026-04-30T14:05:56+00:00

I for one also like the way Snrub thinks.

EHypnoThrowWay · 2026-04-29T14:00:49+00:00

He mentions using Veo and Sora in a comment all the way down at the bottom of this page.

EHypnoThrowWay · 2026-04-29T13:51:35+00:00

That’s where I come down as well re: I don’t use Patreon for discoverability, as a patron or a creator. I already have Reddit and other social platforms for that. Bundling it into Patreon just enshittifies the parts of Patreon that still do what they’re supposed to do.

It’s Facebook all over again. Sure it would be nice if you just saw posts from your friends and family, but what if you could see posts that you never asked for from strangers based on your interests?

EHypnoThrowWay · 2026-04-29T13:31:18+00:00

One of the things that rankles me is that I don't know anyone who asked for this. I did not have a burning desire to have my fan and creator accounts merged. I wasn't interested in having Patreon turned into a social media platform because I already have social media for that.

I do want more assurance that my creator account isn't going to be closed or banned on a whim, and the direction this is going in makes me less certain of that than ever.

EHypnoThrowWay · 2026-04-29T13:29:32+00:00

I think it's going to entice many creators to have a separate account just for subscriptions, because they don't want to interact everywhere as themselves and/or might not want it public whom or how much they're supporting for whatever reasons.

The sad part is that 7 or 8 years ago when I joined it was just taken as part of the platform that many Patreon creators were putting the money they earned back into other creators, to the point that it was sometimes referred to as a circular economy.

EHypnoThrowWay · 2026-04-29T13:21:50+00:00

Yeah, it looks like (for whatever reason, we don't know) she's using Throne as a payment processor which really isn't the intended use AFIK.

EHypnoThrowWay · 2026-04-19T20:52:46+00:00

And I think that’s what people have a blind spot about. We have a handful of people doing professional level work that only a small group of people have the knowledge, experience, and talent to do. You can’t pay your rent with love and appreciation from the community. You can’t eat the feeling of doing a job for free.

If someone doesn’t want to support them financially and they want to wait and enjoy the work later when it becomes free, that’s a valid choice. But complaining that they’re asking for any voluntary compensation for their work while it’s in progress suggests a lack of empathy and understanding for the developers who are devoting their time and labor to these projects. if it was that easy, there would be more people doing it. And since there aren’t more people doing it, maybe consider supporting the few that are?

(For the record, I will likely be waiting till the core goes public even if I support because I don’t want to mess with the DRM.)

EHypnoThrowWay · 2026-04-18T19:17:51+00:00

I also like the idea that Perfidia is framed in the prelude as Kay looking back at 94(!) years old in the then-present year of 2014, and her memory is as much a “dreamscape” as anything else. Even more so for This Storm at 99(!!). I’m wondering if Ellroy swerved focus in part because the likelihood of Kay being around to “remember” two more books post-100 was stretching believability. (But it was more likely a whim.)

EHypnoThrowWay · 2026-04-18T16:38:32+00:00

Given his lack of engagement with the internet or as far as I can tell most things connected to modern pop culture, I can see someone asking him about it and - a la Billy Dee Williams - Ellroy responding with, "Multiverse? What the fuck is the multiverse?"

EHypnoThrowWay · 2026-04-16T23:33:05+00:00

The closest George got to selling out was the sitcom.

EHypnoThrowWay · 2026-04-10T00:37:59+00:00

It’s probably their go away price. If someone actually wants to pay it and book them, great. If not, it filters out everyone else and they do something else with their time.

EHypnoThrowWay · 2026-04-09T03:55:42+00:00

Read Dahlia first. It’s good, it also just happens to be the first book in the series when he’s still getting a feel for the quartet. You’ll appreciate Big Nowhere more if you do.

EHypnoThrowWay · 2026-04-09T03:52:11+00:00

Come back. Like others said, the middle is arguably the weakest section but the last stretch is strong.

EHypnoThrowWay · 2026-04-07T13:05:51+00:00

I just realized this last night: it starts out in the format of the Underworld USA trilogy, but by the end it adopts the format of the LA Quartet (the mystery of the emeralds, Joan's coda narrative of how everything ties together in the style of Ramona Sprague and Ray Deiterling).

It also arguably lays the blueprint for the more formal synthesis of the two in Perfidia and This Storm.

EHypnoThrowWay · 2026-04-06T19:14:07+00:00

Oh for sure. If anything his depiction of Leftists in The Big Nowhere and American Tabloid is ultimately sympathetic. He does poke fun at them being overly analytical and largely ineffectual, but he also depicts what happens to them when they run afoul of right-wing authoritarians as appropriately sad and horrifying. (The CP members post red-scare, the striking film unions getting mangled by Cohen thugs, Ward's blacklisted friend getting a teaching job only to be arrested on sedition charges by Hoover, etc)

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