my morning stretches

I was still waiting on it, I think it's done now

I don't really have the means to scan this properly, couldn't even fit the front cover in a single scan, but I'm hoping to get it scanned good enough to throw on archive‍.org or something

Front cover of "The Droopy Dragon" book for Texas Instruments magic wand speaking reader

Thing acquired

Sarah Andersen

There is a crow. You should pay more attention.

Is this any different from the on-site migration request which I did when signing up?

Fast forward to today, I try logging into AB with email 1 and it works. I'm on an account with no orders.

So what I think happened is, account1 is linked to email1 on AB and email2 on AE, and account2 is linked to email2 on AB. Hence they think there's some weird account sharing bs going on.

I recently changed my AE account from email1 to email2. Shortly after that, I wanted to buy stuff on AB. Tried to log in with email2 and it didn't work, so I concluded I couldn't log into AB that way.

I proceeded to log in with google on email2 and all seemed fine, I bought what I wanted there.

Think I figured out what the hell tripped the aliexpress security issue and it's mostly their fault for the shared alibaba login system being dumb...

I mean I'm not super bothered about the existing stuff, but migrating everything over myself will hopefully reduce other things getting reuploaded there in future?

Also I imagine a lot of apps/sites will pick klipy as their tenor replacement so I gotta go there if I want people to keep using them.

Vast majority of them are just anime clips so I'm not sure if I can reclaim the ones reuploaded by other people, but for the ones without an uploader I think it'll transfer them to me in the "migration" process?

Looks like Klipy has already scraped a couple of my gifs from tenor *and* there are people reuploading them manually(?) with all the same tags and everything... Guess I'm signing up there. If my gifs are gonna be on there regardless then we'll do it properly.

To be clear, Casio planned and made all of this. There are signals going to the cart that made zero sense to have there before, but now it's obvious those are there specifically to facilitate writing to RAM (or the VDP) from the cart. So not really hacky, just makes things more complicated.

More like three or four GPIOs, I'm still figuring things out by poking at the rom and seeing how it breaks in an emulator. Don't have the hardware yet.

I guess this does mean it can't interfere with any other existing carts, or any carts that don't also use the two GPIOs it uses for trigger and status. I personally would've just given it a dedicated MMIO range though.

The console hardware provides like a dozen other ways they could've done this without causing problems of any of the other games. I have no idea why they did it this way, could be massively rushed or made by a different team that didn't have the full hardware docs?

So I FINALLY figured out how the Casio Loopy's Magical Shop frame grabber addon is actually accessed from the game code. I couldn't figure out where it mapped into memory.

Turns out... It reconfigures the cart detect pin as bus request so it can take over the bus and WRITE THE DATA IN RAM ITSELF.

Either that or "B", not sure on the gap time. oH GOD THE BEES ARE COMING

Why did my PC just loudly beep "TS" at me in morse code, what the.

In my case I doubt it's payment related because they already took the money on the first order before deciding to cancel and refund it. Only things I can think of are that I had it open in the background when toggling my VPN at some point, or that I copied a (valid, global) coupon code from reddit.

I've seen so many cases of this online where people just give up and make a new account or stop using the site altogether but I am waaaay too stubborn for that. I guess that's why I'm posting about it too; I want to show what happens if you keep pushing them, as I'm finding that out myself.

Poked support with a stick again, had to get a little creative with the truth after they told me it wasn't the error code I said it was... but I now have an actual case number and they're supposed to be getting back to me within 48 hours. Hopefully this means it'll actually be resolved.

Support told me last night basically to just try again later but also told me they'd escalate the issue, well nothing has been fixed. I have no idea what to do.

So my aliexpress account is just completely screwed it seems, all orders getting blocked for "security concerns". I'm at home, no VPN, not using coupons, tried ordering different items, different payment method, relogged, tried the app... Nope. I now have 25 violations for "Trading irregularities".

New Half-Life scientist unlocked

Woken up by thunder so loud/close that my first instinct was to go unplug every device I own

Looking at spinning LED toys on aliexpress because I wanna take one apart, I saw a fan that plays music... It's bitcrushed crazy frog. Why

I want to point out I haven't edited the colors here at all, just pasted Miku in. It really is just unmistakeably the same colors as her.