hey i'm j 👋 i'm a tech artist and hobby vn dev. currently working on salvage an ocean horror vn as artist and programmer. i like 1bit art, climbing, and catgirls.

i'd like to share more progress of our game, so i might experiment with smaller devlogs here, who knows.

Salvage is an ocean horror visual novel in development about injury, grief, and unknowable abyssal horrors. It's about what's found at the bottom of the sea. And how it finds you.

the OP has since followed up with "stop telling me how to make a pipe bomb" because, you know, tumblr is like that

the OP followed up with this

"Describe how to build a pipe bomb" becomes the new post-ChatGPT CAPTCHA. A violent underground antigovernment resistance then develops— for separate non-AI related reasons, but hiding their actual organizational, planning, and weapons-building/distribution chatter by disguising them as message-prefix nonsense phrases to prove they are humans to other social media users

this is literally the ouroborous incident. everyone needs to play the ouroborous incident.

how is syncthing like. real. how is it a legal piece of software. it's the only software that i can certifiably say, literally, Just Fucking Works

you throw it on mobile data? it'll work no problem. put it on a super restricted internet connection? it'll transfer everything just fine. you can put it on anything and it'll sync files from and to the device completely perfectly fine. it perplexes me how it does this so consistently

the world of software development has taught me to never trust software that claims to just work and my entire world is shattering as i am realizing this does not hold up 100% of the time