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Re:Flash Back: An "oral" history of Flash on Thursday May 29, 2025 @09:30PM (#44131954)
Tumult Hype is a very slick, modern equivalent to Flash and it exports HTML5! It's definitely the easiest way to develop Flash-like html5 apps if you miss the Flash workflow.

https://tumult.com/hype/

Re:Flash Back: An "oral" history of Flash on Thursday May 29, 2025 @08:22PM (#44131628)
Before it was Flash, it was a vector drawing tool called FutureSplash.. in the early 90s i worked at fractal design corp (creators of what's now corel painter) and the Futuresplash folks were interested in selling it to us.. that was before it had an animation timeline or scripting features. I was kind of an in-house artist and the founders really wanted my opinion on whether or not it would be appealing to our customers, like how i as an artist felt about it.

My feedback was that was kind of cumbersome compared to our other tools, and didn't see the potential appeal to our user base and recommended against it, and we declined the offer.

Ultimately I'm glad Macromedia did acquire it because adding scripting and animation appealed to the already diminishing Director/Shockwave platform.

I do wonder how things might have been different had we decided otherwise and acquired Futuresplash-- there'd have been no Flash as we know it!

It's amazing how little decisions we make in the past can project out over time and have larger repercussions.

Transphobia Is the Antithesis of Transhumanism

There’s a fundamental irony in seeing someone claim to be both a transhumanist and a transphobe. The two ideologies are not just incompatible—they’re diametrically opposed.At its core, transhumanism is about transcending limits: biological, societal, and psychological. It champions the idea that we can redefine ourselves, upgrade our capabilities, and evolve beyond the constraints of what it...

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Re:S1: The $6 R1 Competitor? on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @09:20PM (#42958222)
if you don't want to dip your toe in the festering pile of crap that is X:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yvBqasHLZs

Re:Random Thoughts about Unity on Saturday August 24, 2024 @12:22PM (#41339296)
Nice one Aras. I can't say I recognize the company anymore, so disfigured from what it once was, but I still love the engine and editor and still use it day to day.
Re:How we built JSR on Friday April 12, 2024 @11:46AM (#40014231)
Am I the only one here who saw the title and had hoped it was a post-mortem for Jet Set Radio? :)
I am reminded of Blahaj Quest

https://blahaj.quest/

Re:ChatGPT cut off date now April 2023 on Thursday October 26, 2023 @02:28AM (#38022362)
Jan 22 here
Re:Romanian Mint Rubbing Association (RMRA) on Saturday May 20, 2023 @03:16AM (#36010007)
a place to discuss mint rubbing, the ancient Romanian practice which will completely changed your life for the better
Re:How to Make Good Small Games on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @11:20AM (#35629263)
Very well written. I really dig this. Thanks!
I got it to generate a cube and an apple in .obj format, legit enough to import into maya, though the apple looked more like a gem stone
Re:Deck.of.cards on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @07:13PM (#35533001)
Re:Deck.of.cards on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @07:10PM (#35532974)
Aw i was hoping it was gonna go to Gregg Turkington's Deck of Cards project

https://www.heinetwork.tv/episode/deck-of-cards-teaser/

Re:Big Ball of Mud (1999) on Friday April 07, 2023 @11:34AM (#35482711)
aka main.cpp
It's come to my attention that there are several vendors on Amazon who are selling clay and chalk products 'for eating'. These products are targeting people who have pica/geophagy, the urge to eat earth. Amazon is marketing a number of 'edible' clay and chalk products to folks who engage in geophagia, or eating earth. These products are not cleared for human consumption and are usually high in lead, cadmium, arsenic, barium and other heavy metals.

This report from the PAWJ has some interesting statistics on the consumption and health effects of kaolin consumption.

Example: https://a.co/d/80JbEuV

Hard to imagine something as loving and magical as Tiny Speck's game, Glitch, wound up getting pivoted into office productivity software acquired by a titanic mediocrity such as Salesforce.

As a former Glitch player it just makes me think of drinking bureaucratic water.

Re:I still use Flash in 2022 on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @04:35PM (#34086693)
Man I miss Flash too!

Tumult Hype is the closest thing to it, but the editor's Mac only.

https://tumult.com/hype/

Re:The Commodordion on Friday October 21, 2022 @06:39PM (#33293738)
This is the best thing ever! Wow! Great work!