Notices by Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club), page 4

it has been ZERO DAYS since I foolishly tried to process dozens of hours of video on a low-powered laptop that's in my lap

@curtmack @mcc nasty!

@leo @mcc AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

@Pibble well I'm doing it on my laptop which has a small hard drive. eventually I'll paste the rest of TNG, but I only have S1 on here for now

@mcc AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MSBUILD

one of my previous jobs involved automating MSBuild and it was an endless nightmare

@irina yeah that's my usual option. I can write a 5 line python program that does what a 2 line batch program can do, but at least I'll understand it

@funkylab yeah I'm a recursive sicko

@Ongion powershell is an option, but I'd rather learn more batch than powershell. more universally usable in the circles I live in

I accidentally tried to upload 7gb of star trek episodes to mastodon

that was a terrible mispaste

I am, sadly, a sicko

there's a certain level of sadness you have to reach to learn how to do a for-loop in batch scripting

bash? sure, that's normal. but if you want to iterate over some files on a windows command line? you're a sicko

@aburka nah, I'm in america.
I do have a patreon, though:
https://www.patreon.com/foone

@jevvv I understand complete, and thanks for helping!

@SuperSluether thank punk is everywhere

I'm currently unemployed, mostly bedridden, and trying to find a new doctor who* is actually interested in treating me. It's a whole thing.

If you could donate a couple dollars, that'd really help me. Thanks so much.

* Not that one. A time machine is not required, though I wouldn't say no to one.
https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing
#mutualaidreqest

@MekahimeAkari @NanoRaptor that punk is everywhere!

but I can't remember if I had anything more specific in mind before I got detoured into switching emulators, kinda*.

* I started with TASing on BizHawk, and then switched to scripting mGBA. This was for Reasons, but it also didn't really happen? I only changed emulator frontends, not emulators. I was using the mGBA-core in BizHawk in the first place, so I was always using mGBA. I'm just now using it directly (in its own frontend) rather than as a module in a different frontend.

I suppose just to streamline the testing of patches to modify parts of the game. It certainly does that.

so I did all this, and that's good, but I've not gotten much sleep and this took a couple hours.

so... I've completely forgotten WHY I needed to do this.

Here's how I documented it.
My script runs the game to frame 2000, after pushing the A button at 4 different times. Then screenshot. I can tell from the thumbnail if it made it to the dialogue or not! so I just manually bisect the numbers until I get minimums.