13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

Wandering monster. Writes stuff. Makes things. Tech writing, software preservation, game dev, weird fiction, some occult references.

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Experimental games & Twine abuse at https://mightyowlbear.com
Personal game reviews at https://hauntedgames.net/

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Age: Middle. My Linux and black metal anecdotes are old enough to vote.
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2026-07-04 18:37:30 CEST

I am going to need security bloggers who clearly understand why the AI-in-everything push is a problem to stop using diffuser-generated images to illustrate their every single fucking article.
Go and use woodcuts by 15th century printmaker and all-round pretty boy about town Albrecht Dürer instead if you're running out of ideas.
https://picryl.com/collections/albrecht-durer-woodcut-prints
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer
https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/116/862/669/609/463/601/original/fe3ec203afad6c92.jpg

2025-04-27 10:35:23 CEST

I know this is the kind of question I probably ought to sign up to Bluesky to ask but:
Do I know anyone who's applied (successfully or unsuccessfully) for a European arts grant to help fund production of a video game or other forms of interactive art?
And if so, could I ask you a few incredibly basic questions?
#GameDev #Arts #ArtsGrants #art

2025-02-03 12:50:06 CET

Friends, is noauthority.social a full on fash server or is it just incredibly badly moderated?
**Edit:** between some kind responses and a bit more unpleasant checking, they're definitely fashy on purpose. I casually found holocaust denial, racism, and anti-vax content.
I've blocked them from the servers I admin and recommend doing the same.
**Previously:* Trying to work out if I should bother poking their admin or just blocking them from my servers outright.
#fedimeta #fediadmin

2024-12-06 18:01:14 CET

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They're... ghosting a social network?
And yeah, people should absolutely try all kinds of services and forums.
I love fedi and currently run three different servers, a number that's only likely to increase, but I'm absolutely going to try bsky once I get a datastore server set up to host my posts, as a bunch of my music and gamedev friends FINALLY left Twitter and popped up there, and I miss them.

2024-11-12 10:43:35 CET

This week's #TuneTuesday theme is #SciFiSongs
I was going to say that I'm not usually super into sci-fi themed bands, but that is 100% a lie.
Friends, this is Hawkwind.
Hawkwind - Spirit of the Age (1979 Live version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze1lVah7o5s
Lyrics: https://genius.com/Hawkwind-spirit-of-the-age-lyrics
A musical setting of a poem by the band's troubled sometime vocalist and lyricist Robert Calvert, this dystopian affair was originally released in a more muted form on 1977's Quark, Strangeness and Charm, but I vastly prefer the vocal performance (uncertain if Bainbridge or Brock but I think the former?) on this astonishing live version, found on the Live 1979 album. It's heavy, intense, bleak, and Tim Blake's electronics are god-tier.

2024-09-16 09:35:36 CEST

How do you pronounce fstab in your head?
(Regardless of how you think it is intended to be pronounced.)
#Linux #knives

2024-08-22 19:43:28 CEST

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this take is correct