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1 day ago

i have been playing an obscene amount of assembly language tetris and found several error handling flaws i probably otherwise wouldn't have noticed.. so close yet so far from finishing the project

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projectc190

4 days ago

guess who just officially programmed a working tetris game in assembly language

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projectc190 4 days ago

i just ironed out a bug and it seems to be completely functional now..writeups to come later & still need to make more adjustments before i can record demo videos :')

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projectc190

1 week ago

writing out some chinese characters for my mahjong page background had me thinking about how u can tell who actually speaks the language by what their handwriting looks like

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projectc190 1 week ago

then it got me wondering about how it works in russian, which i've learned a little about before. i know people practically never write in block letters (i.e. the way cyrillic is displayed on a computer) but how people even read russian cursive is a mystery to me

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projectc190 1 week ago

another interesting detail is that i've hardly written in chinese by hand since the pandemic. anyone else have a similar experience? idk, just wondering

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iwillneverbehappy 1 week ago

russian cursive is just like english cursive :p some letters are different but the differences are consistent. for written japanese i know people often “smear”/abbreviate strokes so that some characters are only readable via stroke order and the general contour of the kanji/kana

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iwillneverbehappy 1 week ago

for written korean the stroke order must also be correct for handwriting to look natural. particularly in stylised handwriting, whether cutesy gel pen or archaic ink brush. i never noticed it before, but handwritten english seems much more lenient on stroke order…

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projectc190 1 week ago

@iwillneverbehappy i guess it makes sense it's similar to english cursive, i think i've just been spooked by seeing terrifying images like this: https://files.catbox.moe/c8uwkb.webp lol. also huh til that japanese cursive is seriously condensed: https://files.catbox.moe/u76ydp.webp. i've only ever seen anything like this in some very flowy styles of chinese calligraphy

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projectc190 1 week ago

it's interesting that you point out stroke order influences how characters look because now that i think about it you're absolutely right. i guess i hadn't considered it before because i've always just written (chinese) characters based on vibes, so generally left-right, top-bottom. (is my handwriting secretly shit?) i can see how writing strokes randomly would result in wonky ill-proportioned characters though

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iwillneverbehappy 1 week ago

the unreadable russian cursive is kind of a meme (equivalent of writing “minimum” in english cursive, sort of a worst-case scenario). top-down and left-right heuristic for chinese characters is a thing + correct me if i’m wrong, but once you learn the stroke order of a radical, that ordering will be correct for every instance of the radical in other characters, right?

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manulzone 1 week ago

I've had conversations about this describing the difference as between writing and drawing letters/characters (literacy in the latin alphabet comes up at my job fairly often). People will start a letter in insane places if never formally taught. I love it.

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manulzone 1 week ago

Very obvious when people are drawing the picture of a word instead of writing it out once you know to look for it.

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visualculture 1 week ago

@manulzone “drawing a picture of a word” is such a good way of phrasing it

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projectc190 1 week ago

@iwillneverbehappy that seems a lot more realistic lol. and about the radicals: i think so? that's how i've always taken it, anyway. though i studied the language from the same textbooks as kids in china when i was a kid i've hardly formally learned stroke order, it was always just heuristics.. or maybe i just zoned out, who knows

projectc190 1 week ago

@manulzone i second visualculture, drawing a character vs writing it is exactly what i was getting at!

bandaid91 projectc190

1 week ago

your art is so gorgeous

projectc190 1 week ago

thank you! : D

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projectc190 updated project c190

1 week ago

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projectc190 1 week ago

new book review & added some decor to the reading and mahjong pages as well as a couple other adjustments

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projectc190 suboptimalism

1 week ago

i have no idea when it went up but your notebook entry about mahjong soul is so spot on lmao. it took me a long time to get into the game ngl; i started by miserably losing in ranked, came back to it a year later and basic defense strategy finally clicked after playing on and off for a couple months

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suboptimalism 1 week ago

yeah i wrote that a couple weeks ago right before going to vegas, haven't really played at all since then, had a resurgence of interest in dance games instead

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projectc190 1 week ago

completely understandable lol

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projectc190

2 weeks ago

mips tetris update for my feed dwelling neocitizens https://files.catbox.moe/ygv8qn.png

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projectc190 2 weeks ago

i definitely made out the project to be way more scary than it really is; this is trivial asf honestly

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projectc190

3 weeks ago

not sure if other webmasters have this experience, but often when i reread things i previously wrote on my site i find it stiff and awkward and i revise it. ironically this means writing more means i sound more natural and then have a larger backlog of prior stiffness to rework. or maybe it's all in my head and i am insane

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projectc190 3 weeks ago

at this point i may as well have a meta page on my site to yammer about what it's like maintaining it

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projectc190 meowlecules

1 month ago

hi, only letting u know as a comment on ur site because youve listed a neocities-specific email (and might not expect people to actually write to you): i sent you an e-mail recently! hope we can chat and hope youve been well

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projectc190 chrysanthemum

1 month ago

i love your reading log page!

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projectc190 updated project c190

1 month ago

updates.html

outlinks.html

miscellany.html

miscellany/visiting-chm.html

miscellany/how-i-study.html

miscellany/graphics-hoard.html

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tsumugsfish 1 month ago

love the new layout ٩(◕‿◕)۶

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projectc190 1 month ago

@tsumugsfish thank you!!

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projectc190

1 month ago

there are demons in my head and they are telling me to rework my layout

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n-has-a-site 1 month ago

Rework your layout

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projectc190 updated project c190

1 month ago

updates.html

projects.html

project c190

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projectc190 1 month ago

big changes to the projects page, most notably the trees article i've been mentioning for months! it's pretty much there, so i figured there's no point in continuing to nitpick and decided to release it. i'm still gladly accepting feedback, though.

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projectc190

2 months ago

does everyone on goodreads read with their eyes closed

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projectc190 2 months ago

there is rly no faster way to get my eyelid to twitch than to look at the goodreads page of a book i am reading lmfao

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vanillamilkshake 2 months ago

real 😶

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manulzone 2 months ago

Goodreads is so funny. What in the world are people experiencing while reading

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projectc190 decayedg1rl

2 months ago

ok i feel stupid for not seeing this before but your nin page is so good; ppl who can appreciate tds are real ones i love it. btw, i used to listen to phm every day in order like a lunatic for weeks on end so hearing "purest feeling" for the first time is seriously a trip. its still definitely very charming though lol, like if phm had a distinctly 80s vibe. are u planning to see nin on tour by any chance?

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decayedg1rl 2 months ago

it really is a trip yeah, makes sense given Trent was only involved in Synth Pop before NIN but I'm glad they went in the industrial direction loll

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decayedg1rl 2 months ago

I would definitely go if I didn't have such big fear of crowds aaaaaa

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projectc190 2 months ago

i second that, industrial goes hard and i love the distinctive style they've developed. also shit that's real.. i wanted to go but missed out on tickets unfortunately, might try to snag some somehow but i'm not too hopeful ab that

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projectc190

2 months ago

i can't be the only one that reads the abbreviation of convenience store woman as comma separated walues

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badgraph1csghost 2 months ago

the first time i saw NFT my brain immediately read it as "near-field testosterone"

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projectc190 updated project c190

2 months ago

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projectc190 cheytopia

2 months ago

hi chey, i was wondering if you're still interested in beta reading my cs article. if you are, can you let me know what your email is so i can send you the pdf? tysm :>

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cheytopia 2 months ago

Hiii yes 100% it's cheytopia3000@gmail.com !!!

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projectc190 2 months ago

ty, sent you an email!

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projectc190 angelogistics

2 months ago

hi, i saw your comment the other day and was wondering what your email is so i can send you the article pdf for beta reading? thanks in advance!

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angelogistics 2 months ago

puppetdreamcave@gmail.com works! :-} if you want to send me the kind of feedback you're looking for too (grammar, cohesion, flow, w/e) that would be sick, otherwise i can give general thoughts ofc

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projectc190 2 months ago

thanks, just sent you an email with more info ^^!

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projectc190

2 months ago

my fuckign article is 2.2k words long and i haven't even started talking about redblack trees. anyway.. please let me know if you are still interested in beta reading🥹

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angelogistics 2 months ago

not sure what redblack trees are but that sounds super interesting id love to beta!

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