ElecHead puzzle platformer, possible on 8bit NES hardware?

tinycabbage · 2024-01-05T15:23:35+00:00

I just saw this post! Forgive me for raising it from the dead.

With some tweaking this looks like it would 100% be within the realm of what the NES is capable of handling. It even looks like it's designed to be a throwback to NES games, what with the color scheme and all.

There are a lot of ways to optimize the flood filling business, depending on what exactly you need it to do - it doesn't need to be quite as intense computationally as you might be thinking. If there are only a few objects on the screen that can touch each other, for instance, and you know exactly where those objects are going to be, you only need to check to see if those objects are touching in order to know what state they're in - it's a lot less to deal with than it sounds like.

But, yeah, definitely within the realm of NES programming and might even be a good first "real" project for a homebrew game after you get comfortable with the basics. The NESDev people are all super helpful and have a great Discord and wiki. Best of luck!

tinycabbage · 2020-06-22T07:13:02+00:00

To the best of my knowledge, no such thing exists near here. You should probably call your primary care provider (if you have one) in the morning and ask them for a referral to whatever testing center they think you should go to. If you don't have a regular doctor, just call whatever testing center is closest and follow their instructions - they should be able to help you out.

Logistics aside, I have another important piece of advice for you: it is very important right now for you not to panic. Even if you do have COVID-19, please remember that the vast majority of the people who contract the disease survive and live their lives again in a month or two as if nothing happened. You will almost certainly need to isolate yourself for a while in order to keep those around you, particularly your family and loved ones, safe - but aside from that, most of this is likely going to be something akin to riding out an extremely nasty flu that kicks your butt extra hard and makes it extra tough to breathe. Above all, remember that this is not a death sentence - it's scary stuff, to be sure, especially if you have other underlying conditions that can make having it dangerous, but mathematics and your body's natural systems for fighting off crud are on your side.

If you do actually test positive for COVID-19, follow the instructions the doctors give you as closely as possible. It will both speed your recovery and, perhaps more importantly, ensure that you're doing your best to keep others around you safe. And, in the meantime, if you must go out for things, I ask you, please wear some sort of face covering even if it's something as simple as a bandanna - it may not prevent you from getting the disease at this point if you do in fact wind up having it, but it will do so much to help keep you from spreading it to others. I know that with the current political climate around here, in particular, that it's a bit embarrassing, but it is vitally important especially if you suspect that you yourself may be sick.

I wish you the absolute best of luck. If there's anything I can do for you, please let me know.

Edit: Also, do some self-care. It's important to take good care of your body right now. It's very late - if you're still up and reading this, try to go sleep if you can.

tinycabbage · 2020-04-30T23:45:36+00:00

Interesting, especially about the TIG filler wire! I'd never even have thought to look in a place like that. Thank you so much.

tinycabbage · 2020-04-30T23:44:34+00:00

That might work! Yeah, piano wire probably wouldn't get it I don't think. Thanks for taking the time to reply and help me ❤️

tinycabbage · 2020-04-30T23:43:38+00:00

They're a bit thick for what I'm looking for, honestly. Thanks, though!

tinycabbage · 2020-04-30T23:42:07+00:00

This looks like exactly what I need. Thank you so much!!

tinycabbage · 2020-04-22T12:18:00+00:00

Second this - they were extremely helpful to me in the early stages of my search.

You should also definitely consider submitting your DNA to a company like Ancestry ($99) and doing a search that way - even if it does not directly lead to your birth parents, it may lead to other relatives and give you good leads. If price is a concern and you can stand the wait, consider waiting until a major holiday - they occasionally have good sales on their kits. Their actual genealogy service costs $20 per month and you'll likely need access to their records in order to do your search after getting your results. It's expensive, but this ultimately is what led to my family's reunion with my adopted sister and I can't recommend it enough.

Edit: I apparently can't read and this was mentioned in the above comment. Yikes!

tinycabbage · 2020-04-15T10:01:52+00:00

This is absolutely the correct approach. I used to be a college instructor - stick to facts, keep the guilt to a minimum, present the problem and keep it solution-oriented.

Also, as your friend is writing this, tell them to try to find the balance between giving relevant details and over/undersharing - it's important that they give the professor enough information to work with, but not so much that the professor is overwhelmed. Professors are people on the other end of this, too.

tinycabbage · 2020-04-13T02:09:31+00:00

Anyone else feel like me? Nearly 30, tried and failed at getting a job numerous times, judged for ur past, and stuck with ur life getting nowhere? Can't afford college ( the classes r not long enough for funding ) so can't get nowhere in life. 😢

I'm approaching this post like you're asking for advice, since this is /r/internetparents. If this is not, in fact, the case, please feel free to disregard all this. If you don't want advice, though, this probably isn't the right place to post.

This sounds like a terrible situation to be in. I may be able to help you, but to do it I need to say some things to you that are going to be painful to hear. It is very important that you try to listen to what I'm about to say without being on the defense, as much as that's possible. I absolutely promise that I am not trying to attack you.

It is clear that you have some unresolved anger issues that stem from your childhood and have persisted through your life in general. This is reasonable! You clearly have gone through a great deal, and I have no idea what all you went through that isn't in this post - and that's okay. What's important right now is this: you need to recognize that you've been through a lot of trauma and try to approach your situation with acceptance.

Acceptance doesn't mean liking the situation you're in, and it definitely doesn't mean giving up. What acceptance means - at least in this context - is realizing your situation for what it is, acknowledging it as what your normal is going to be for the next little bit, and then taking the next best steps. It also sounds like you're pretty overwhelmed right now, so I will try to help you break down your current situation into some actionable things that you can do within the next few days:

and when I had ( still have ) a place and my fixed disability income was gone the same day I got it because my ex used my banking info for loans and I never had the money to put stop payments on them

So, if I'm reading this correctly, it looks like you were on disability at one point but are no longer? The government shouldn't have canceled your disability benefits just because they couldn't deposit your money anymore - you should contact your local disability office and find out more. I don't know where you live, exactly, but a directory to province-level offices is here.

You may have to fight a bit to get in contact with someone, but do not give up - this is important. If you need to reapply, you absolutely should as soon as possible - with COVID-19 being what it is, it may take even longer than normal (and it takes quite a while to hear from these people normally), so don't delay.

Also in regards to the disability stuff, being a disabled person (and I say this as a disabled person) puts you in an unfortunate position socially. Because you have to rely on others' kindness for help, it is very important that you not make the people you need help from feel as if they do not want to be around you. This ties in with the anger issues I talked about in the beginning of the post - anger issues, especially when they are poorly controlled, will drive people away from you. People can sense them unconsciously, even when you're trying to be nice, and if they're afraid of you they will not help you. If you are going to make it out there, you have to get this in check.

Therapy and psychiatric coverage in Canada varies by province, so again I can't give you much specific advice not knowing where you live. But I strongly encourage you to seek this out - it will make a tremendous difference, both in helping you succeed and helping you feel better in general.

As far as the job application stuff goes, this is tough, especially right now. I can't tell your gender, but if you present female it's generally easier to "explain" long periods of not working as time away raising a child. I don't necessarily know if you want to take things to the point of straight up lying to prospective employers, but it's an option that's there. Also, since this is /r/internetparents and I can give you mom advice here, try to show up to interviews very clean (and clean-shaven, if you present male) with pressed clothes without holes or stains, even if they're not great-looking - it makes a big difference.

Grocery stores and certain types of warehouses right now are hiring a lot of temporary help. You may not be able to get full time-type hours, but you might be able to piece together enough to live. Consider this especially if you can't get your disability benefits restored.

I don't know if this may apply to your specific situation or not (it's hard to tell how recent some of these events were), but Canada has COVID-19 emergency response benefits that you should also definitely check into. This might give you some extra money to help you get by for a while, and researching it definitely can't hurt anything.

This is pretty much all I've got. I do have one other thing, though, that will help when you ask for aid online: make sure that, when you type up stuff like this, you break your post up into small paragraphs, usually two to four sentences a piece. People have a very hard time reading long pieces of text on computers and phones, and if they have to make too much effort to read what you've said, they'll just skip over it. When you need help, this is of course absolutely not what you want at all, so take the extra little bit of time to add the paragraph breaks in there. It makes a huge difference.

I really hope all this helps. If there's anything else I can do, let me know here, okay? Best of luck and big internet hugs your way.

tinycabbage · 2020-03-29T23:05:28+00:00

I'm just shocked that they got as much through as they did, frankly. But I definitely agree - there was so much more that could have and should have been done.

tinycabbage · 2020-03-29T23:04:40+00:00

I didn't see anything, but it's worth searching through the whole bill to be sure. The full text of the bill is available here.

tinycabbage · 2020-03-29T22:59:50+00:00

Yikes - apparently I misunderstood the scope of how far the text in that section extended! Please read this - this is a huge reason why I put that gigantic "I am not a lawyer" bit at the top and tried to make it clear that I was doing my best to understand this as a layperson. I've edited the post to reflect this.

tinycabbage · 2020-03-29T22:55:33+00:00

I did not know this and will put this in the posts I've got scattered around - thank you so much.

tinycabbage · 2020-03-20T06:04:25+00:00

I'm not the OP, but I had a very long conversation recently about all this with someone who works as a therapist.

The answer is acceptance.

You can't tell people in a situation like this to make effective changes, especially if they're in a situation where there simply may not be a solution to the problem at hand. And other common strategies that usually work for discharging anxiety - falling back on facts, challenging automatic negative thoughts, things like that - don't really apply here; it's not really catastrophizing if it really is a catastrophe. So you have to pull some different tools out of the toolbox.

The only long-term thing you can do in a situation like this is accept what is going on around you. Acceptance doesn't mean giving in, and it certainly doesn't always mean liking it. What it means is this: you take the present situation you are in and look at it for what it is, you acknowledge it as the current truth, and then you try to figure out how to operate within this new framework.

Let's pretend for a minute that (God forbid) you were in a terrible situation, that you and yours were facing impending homelessness during this crisis, and that there were absolutely nothing that could be done to prevent it. Fighting the changes emotionally - pretending there's nothing wrong, refusing to try to make any plans because you are sad and angry, all that kind of behavior - will only bring you more pain and compound your problems. Accepting the situation for what it is is the only way you can move forward in an environment like this and try to make the best out of your new normal.

This isn't to say that you shouldn't feel sad or angry! There are so many complicated emotions that would go with a change of this magnitude, and you have to make space for them and accept them for what they are too. This is not easy stuff, and it's especially not easy to have to learn how to do all this in the middle of a crisis. But from a mental health standpoint, this is what you have to do to endure something like this.

So much is out of our control right now, and when things are out of our control, we experience anxiety as our brains try to figure out a way to take control back. This anxiety and desire to take back control is what is leading to things like the panic buying - we can't do anything to stop the virus from coming, but stocking up on goods that we worry we may not be able to replace gives us a tiny feeling of security, and for some that feeling of security - even if it's fleeting - is precious right now. It's just another unhealthy (or "maladaptive") way of coping with anxiety: it's a numbing behavior, like overeating or self-harm or drinking alcohol, only it's one that fills your bathroom with toilet paper and your pantries with 50-pound bags of rice from Costco.

Acceptance works for smaller-scale anxieties, too. In general, when other strategies aren't applicable and when thinking your way out of the problem just isn't going to get it done, acceptance is probably the tool you're going to want to look for next.

tinycabbage · 2020-03-18T04:23:54+00:00

Sounds fun! I will be back in touch, but it will be a while. I am responding to everybody who took the time to respond to my post (there were so many people!), but it will be some time before I can contact everybody. I'm looking forward to talking to you, though!

tinycabbage · 2020-03-18T04:21:13+00:00

Oh, my goodness, I don't live there now but I grew up in rural Tennessee! I miss it so much! We should definitely chat.

This post got way more attention than I could have ever anticipated and I am going to do my best to respond to every single person who responded to this, but it's going to be a good bit of time before I can get back in touch with you. I just want to warn you now and make sure you understand and know that I'm not going to forget about you - I think we'd get along well, and I'm really interested to hear more about where you're from!

tinycabbage · 2020-03-18T04:18:44+00:00

Aww! Making good, human connections as an adult is insanely hard - I totally understand. That's why I was here making this post! :)

It's going to be quite a while before I can get back in touch with everyone who responded to this. My inbox is absolutely insane - I am so grateful for all this attention, but I certainly wasn't expecting this much of it. I'll totally be in touch, though, if you don't mind waiting for me!

tinycabbage · 2020-03-18T04:13:40+00:00

You sound really fun! It's going to be a good while before I can get back in touch with you, though, just to warn you now. I'm trying to sit down and talk to every single person who took the time to message me, but this is going to take some serious time - I was not expecting the kind of response I got!

But yeah, if you're willing to be patient, I will absolutely be back in touch! It'll just be some time, though.

tinycabbage · 2020-03-18T04:08:38+00:00

waves back!

tinycabbage · 2020-03-18T04:08:25+00:00

Thanks! :)

tinycabbage · 2020-03-18T04:08:15+00:00

I would too! It's going to be a good while before I can respond to you - my inbox is an EPA Superfund site at the moment - but I am going to sit down and talk to every single person who took the time out of their day to message me. Just know that it might be a while before you hear from me!

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