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Elissa

@vampiress@eigenmagic.net

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🏳️‍🌈 The lesbian roadkill of the information superhighway. 🎥 Video Game Creator, Photographer, Filmmaker, writer, etc. 🦘 Southern Hemispherican. 🧛‍♀️ she/her 🐞 [Note: please don't @ me with game bug reports on here, as they get often get lost. You can find an email address at the Funtime Electrics link.]

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Joined November 20, 2022

Personal Blog:

https://goodnameforablog.com

Vampire Stories / Games:

https://expectproblems.itch.io

Films:

https://www.youtube.com/@expectproblems

Funtime Electrics Games:

https://funtimeelectrics.com

Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 3w ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

I remember, years ago, watching Apple keynotes and, corpo-fap aside, often being excited for some new device or other. Have felt the complete opposite for basically a decade at this point. Yesterday I got my XTEiNK 4 Pro. A simple enough ePaper device. Had a play with it, nuked the OS and seamlessly installed CrossInk instead, turning it into a MUCH better device. That? That's the good feeling. The only good feeling a device can give me these days. When it lets me do what I want with it. It's not -gadgets- that I've lost excitement for, it's hating that what I"m usually being sold is just another hook, going into my skin, keeping me tethered to some corporate service or other.

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 2mo ago

Quite a few friends of mine are academics, teaching in universities. One was just saying she hit a new low - not one student, not ONE in her tutorial had done the reading. All just read a chatGPT synopsis. She's utterly despairing, as the uni itself just makes motions to hand-wave it. They have to pass students, you see, to get their money. They can't just fail all of them. Or even most of them. It's gotten so bad she outright said "I honestly wouldn't trust a degree handed out after the existence of chatGPT. They mean nothing."

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 3w ago

Boosted by @oxy@social.bsdlab.au

THE UFOs FROM OUTER SPACE! The only science fiction film which DARES ask the question... what if Martians were Aussies? Watch it now! https://youtu.be/XA_1cjceSDk

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 1mo ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

Deck & Conn, my dieselpunk turn-based spaceship command game is OUT NOW on Steam! It's on Linux, macOS and Windows, with a 20% launch discount! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3828500/Deck__Conn/

store.steampowered.com

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 1mo ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

I just noticed that in the new Naked Gun, they renamed the Crypto Dot Com Arena in LA to the Ponzi Scheme Dot Com Arena. A+ work

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 3mo ago

Replying to

The TL;DR version is essentially this: Writing code is not just creative in the "writing code is an art as well as a science" sense, but also in that every line of code you don't write is a million tiny design decisions you are NOT making.

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 3w ago

Coffee update: more coffee

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 1mo ago

Someone over on Bluesky is modding Deck & Conn, reskinning it to make it Star Trek. So cool! Going to have to add proper modding at some point for them. https://bsky.app/profile/nwheeler.bsky.social/post/3muqzea6bls2a

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 2mo ago

"There's a storm coming."

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 3mo ago

Anyway, now seems a good time to show prototype 4, or [sekrit project].

I posted some hints about it months ago, but since then I've been spending my spare time and most weekends working on it.

Art by the amazing @marceles_pixel@mastodon.art and myself.

#GameDev #IndieDev

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 2mo ago

A non-exhaustive list of things I hate this morning:

Discord

Seriously, fuck Discord. I hate almost literally everything about it and I hope it enshittifies so much people stop using it.

But, mostly, I hate that there's functionally no competition for it.

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange Absolutely. And here I am, pre-ordering a remake of a 2014 video game I've played a million times, because I have absolutely zero faith that 99% of the remaining companies that make big open world games of the sort I enjoy can even do that any more without corporate profit mandates making them utter garbage. My house is full of physical media, I subscribe to almost no streaming services, and the most excitement I get when I acquire hardware is... when it's 20 years old.

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 2mo ago

New partner last night: "I miss when the internet was a place you WENT to." I mean, it's a sentiment I've heard before but it was really lovely hearing it said by her.

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 3mo ago

Re-watching Con Air as I work today.

I love how '90s movies so often, no matter how absurd their core premise or plot got, played it dead serious, without the post-Whedon wink-and-a-nod to the audience that modern flicks feel obliged to include out of insecurity.

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 3mo ago

I've pushed Dungeons of Freeport 1.0.10 up to the open beta branch on Steam.

A small bug fix in this one, and some new work I've been doing on the aesthetics of certain dungeons. Pretty happy with the results but it needs a bit of testing.

And just a reminder - #DungeonsOfFreeport, my play-once-a-day classical roguelike extraction game, is still 30% off on Steam and Itch!

And you can even play it on 64-bit Raspberry Pis from itch.

Just a reminder - if you own it on steam and are enjoying it, tell your friends and leave a review to help me out!

#GameDev #IndieDev #Roguelike

https://funtimeelectrics.itch.io/dungeons-of-freeport

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4579170/Dungeons_of_Freeport/

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 3mo ago

Welcome to 2026. Your average morning headlines:

That TV show you love is cancelled
That celebrity you like is, unfortunately, a transphobe
Record storm and/or heatwave somewhere in the world
Computers are worse & more costly than even one day before
Cat photos tho

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 3mo ago

My re-watching-Con-Air hot take:

The Fairchild C-123 Provider is a fucking beautiful plane.

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 4mo ago

Dungeons of Freeport, our play-once-a-day extraction roguelike is now fully out on steam and itch!

Huge thanks to @marceles_pixel@mastodon.art, @Nekomancer@tech.lgbt and all our testers for making this happen.

https://funtimeelectrics.itch.io/dungeons-of-freeport

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4579170/Dungeons_of_Freeport/

funtimeelectrics.itch.io

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 2mo ago

Replying to

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 2mo ago

The problem with making things, is that when you're done the thing exists, and that's not always a good thing.

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 2mo ago

My self-education in slashers continues with the second part of tonight's double feature. It's already a lot less good than Halloween.

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 3mo ago

(BTW due to my AI-sucks averaging-machine blog post going viral my mentions are all over the place right now, so apologies if I miss an @ from someone. I'll come back to check on it once things slow down a bit.)

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 4mo ago

Aziz, LIGHT!

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 4mo ago

Certain people I know on here are going to love this one.

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@abstractcode@eigenmagic.net Yeah. And for sure a huge factor is Australian education becoming an industry.

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 2mo ago

Me, watching A Bridge Too Far: "Y'know, I don't think this Operation Market Garden thing was a great idea, actually."

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 3w ago

Replying to

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io Wait. Guillotines are a technology! Does that count as a technological solution?

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 3w ago

I keep thinking of the problem of LLM companies scraping private websites to the degree that hosting costs make them to expensive to continue. At what point do we just kind of, move all the human stuff to a kind of dark-web situation?

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@tuban_muzuru@beige.party Hah. Yes, that's a good observation. It's a skill I was good at.

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 4mo ago

Outstanding day, too tired to function, so going to go head out to see a friend before my legs stop functioning. Will reply properly to folks tomorrow but for now -

Our little project is sort of inspired by terrible low budget 1950s scifi - what if the Martians decided to invade Earth... but all Martians are Aussies? For prep before hand we watch stuff like Plan 9 from Outer Space.

Most of it shot in one day, just got some pickups and miniature work to do tomorrow (YESSSSSS fuck I love miniature work).

May even include a puppet.

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 4mo ago

Typed 'bs' and hit enter expecting the usual auto complete to bsky to go over to Bluesky. Didn't quite autocorrect fast enough, but DuckDuckGo 100% gets what Bluesky is all about.

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 2mo ago

Replying to

Big post, Hunt for Red October details

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 4mo ago

Anyway, good morning! This weekend I'm directing a short film, because that's the kind of thing I felt like doing.

So I'll be a little sparing in my social media usage, beyond posting the odd image.

Have an excellent weekend, and I'll see y'all on the other side!

Time to slam an espresso and look at that shot list...

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 3mo ago

Today's background watching while working on Deck & Conn:

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 4mo ago

De-lish!

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 2mo ago

Replying to

Hunt for Red October details

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 2mo ago

Replying to

Hunt for Red October details

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 2mo ago

It's a Friday, meaning I want to throw all technology in a skip and go drink paint thinner at a bar.

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 1mo ago

Starting to think there's more going on in this "Twin Peaks" town than I'd previously considered. 🤔

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 4mo ago

Good Morning! Welcome to UFO Weekend, day 2.

With my birthday over I'm spending today dumping footage captured yesterday (many of the fabled gigabytes), sorting them, and preparing for a later start today as myself and a more minimal crew of *checks notes* one go get some miniature shots and pickup shots to complete shoot.

I'm going to need a bigger coffee...

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 4mo ago

Replying to

Though t be fair this is more about "Instagram just firehouses random shit at you" rather than anything else. At the moment it's apparently a weird combo of steam train POV driving videos, flying videos, and busty goth girls, because I posted a selfie a while back and The Algorithm concludes I must want to see more of what I post. Remind me to never post selfies to algorithmic hellservices again.

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 2mo ago

Replying to

Hunt for Red October details

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 2mo ago

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Hunt for Red October details

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 4mo ago

Exciting personal news: I finished watching all 5 seasons of Miami Vice for some reason, including the Lost Episodes which I inserted so I got it all in roughly intended airing order. Ask me anything, I guess. Now I gotta watch another Miami-shot TV show I guess... (Yes, I've already seen all of Dexter & spinoffs, Burn Notice [which rules], Bad Monkey, RJ Decker and even Florida Man [which isn't great, and mostly isn't even filmed in Florida]. I don't count StartUp as it's filmed in Puerto Rico. I guess I could go to Bloodline now? That's mostly in the keys, but the keys are cool.)

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@twilliability@genart.social I think so. I'll look at retargeting it to an earlier SDK after the weekend. Are you on steam or itch?

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Elissa @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@masek@infosec.exchange Oh no. Extra bad given replacing storage has gotten so expensive.

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