#fishmech

[bestofmidi]

Now remastered in Super Mario 64 soundfont!

still the same midi as before!

#midi #best of midi #temporary secretary #paul mccartney #mccartney ii #fishmech #1980

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

Before you vanish forever, I need a list of the top 10 most smoochable shark species. Godspeed, Frank.

"Top 10 most smoochable snooziest species" is easier, but the top ones are

1. Bald Eagle

2. Golden Eagle

3. Scarlet Ibis

4. Puppy (generally)

#fishmech #fishing-for-blood

[secondbeatsongs]

@fishmech replied to your post “”:

@secondbeatsongs well the convenient thing for winamp skins, is the skin file is actually just a renamed zip, containing standard image formats, and for these freeform "modern" skins introduced in winamp 3 onwards, xml files describing what parts of the images are meant to do what function/display what info etc. older winamp skins that are confined to the standard window shapes are even simpler, cuz you just need images in a renamed zip file

@secondbeatsongs i'd reccomend starting by simply making copies of the default Classic and Modern skins that come with winamp , and just start editing off those as templates to get a feel for what works and what doesn't. and of course any modern graphics package should offer tools to create simple gradients and fake reflections and all the rest key to this particular style, you'll just need to make sure your output files are in the right sizes.

​so the good thing about this is that windows media player skins pretty much work the same way, so I'm sure I already know how, skills-wise - I made a bunch of WMP skins as a kid, so I know how to do the XML and the hover images and everything.

it's really the amorphous shiny-smooth graphics that I love so much, and that's what I desperately want to learn how to do. I want to make things that look like weird old mp3 players! I want the cluefinders laptrap aesthetic! I want to make things that look like they stepped out of a late-90s or early-00s disney channel original movie!

so yeah! code-wise and image-formatting-wise, I can do it. but unfortunately I am not good enough yet at the shiny fake reflections to make things exactly how I want.

ah well. I'll get there eventually!

also, for funsies: here are screencaps of some of the WMP skins I made back in the day:

...y'know, looking back at these, these are pretty good, considering I was 12-14 when I made all of them! I was not bad at graphic design, turns out!

and a lot of them have bonus stuff - the ones that have a picture for the play button, the picture changes into something else when you hover over them - like, in the Mythbusters one, the truck explodes, or in the ASOUE one, the eye turns into a picture of Count Olaf.

there's some fun alt text too (esp in the ASOUE one)

and if you hover over Adam and Jamie in the Mythbusters one, little speech bubbles pop up with quotes from the show

these are like! not bad for a literal twelve-year-old! I'm proud of past!me!

#fishmech #young wizards #twilight #mythbusters #eragon #nancy drew #asoue #wicked #narnia #those are all the fandoms of the WMP skins in the screenshots #ah the mid-late 00s 🥲 #personal #sbs rambles

[annalrk-art]

sigma klim buying his goofy outfit at the store

love the idea he specifically wanted a version with the woman on it and was Very Serious about it

#i've been asked #fishmech #sigma klim #vlr #zero escape #fanart #my art #2022 art #also i saw your response about uploading ze snippets i've written and i'm gonna do it at some point i swear #also i don't think i've uploaded any sigma art before this

[homenecromancer]

I mean… I am so far out of the loop I couldn’t tell you what the Fox News ecosystem counts as, but it is specifically that, and wow. lotta ads for random sketchy supplements… the one I am gonna remember for a while, though, is the “DO YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO IF SOMEONE OVERDOSES???” public-service-announcement kind of ad, on a sports channel. grim

my grandparents are in their 80s, so actually a bit older than the target demo for shit like “hello boomer men, take this supplement to ~increase your testosterone~”. but it is kinda funny to look at the ad variety and be like. oh here’s a hyperlocal ad for a carwash, no people visible. here’s a normal-for-2023 ad for insurance, mostly young actors. here’s a political ad for some right-wing freak. (I look over at my grandparents and think “it’s gotta be really really weird when everyone in advertisements if young enough to be your kid, if not younger”). is your dick crooked well we can maybe help with that if you go to this website DefinitelyNotADrugAd.Com. are you a boomer who is afraid to admit you’re getting older yeah we have a drug for that too — we have joint-trouble drugs, we have supplements that will deeeeefinitely boost your testosterone… I got carried away, anyway I don’t watch any television + run adblockers, so all advertisements look a bit fake to me now lmao

#replies #fishmech #long post

[eleemosynecdoche]

4 , 9, 16

4) Yes. I seem to have resting smileface.

9) Probably the time someone pretended to be the commander of AFRICOM to try and slide into my DMs, or alternately, every time someone tried to use Shakespearian English.

16) Yin Metal Ram, tropical sun sign of Cancer, sidereal sun sign of Gemini. I could go into even more depth and calculate moon and planetary signs, aspects, domiciles, etc.

#asks #fishmech

[erintoknow]

14, 31, 79, 90

14. Breakfast for dinner or pizza for breakfast?

breakfast for dinner will do in a pinch but pizza for breafast is heartburn all day

31. What’s a show that everyone loves that you didn’t?

i'm thinking too hard about this question to try and think of a show i know of that 'everyone loved.' Feels like everyone is into critical roll and the idea of committing myself for 60 3 hour movies/podcasts sounds fundamentally salvageable to me - even the edited 1ish hour TAZ podcast was pushing it. uuuuh, everyone seems to love the pirate show our flag means death? i've never actually watched it but i've gotten so sick of seeing it feel my dash it became my first blacklisted tag haha, sorry posting friends, no hard feelings

79. Do you like surprises?

no - well, let me clarify - a surprise i don't know is coming can be fun; a surprise i know is coming is anxiety and anxiety is the gut killer

90. What has been your favorite book you’ve read in the last 5 years?

my /least/ favorite book? oh boy, hmmm possibly it's Ariadne by Jennifer Saint? it's a YA retelling of a greek myth, so that's already an uphill climb, i'll grant it, but it just... doesn't do anything interesting with the story and then ends in pointless tragedy. just a really disappointing take on one of my favorite myths

#ask game #fishmech

[semusepsu]

25, 12, 2

25: A song by an artist no longer living - Thought about doing a Linkin Park song since Chester, but I decided to go with this one

12: A song from your preteen years - I was super into this song as a preteen, which I first heard in a Bionicle promotional video.

2: A song you like with a number in the title - Many potential ones here, but this is Seven Devils by Florence + The Machine

#fishmech #music post

[lime-bloods]

wait. the quest bed ghosts appear in the flash called REMEMBER because those are experiences the main characters did have in their "current lives" but don't remember.

CRISIS OVER!!!

#thank you @fishmech for pointing out that dead ghosts DO operate the same way as dreaming ghosts: intermittently.

[unpretty]

I’m sorry for the mental damage you sustained with that flashback. But that surprise nuke takedown of fishmech was a thing of beauty. 10/10 internet discourse. Perfection.

i should have just quietly blocked her but i was just so shocked to see fishmech fishmeching in 2022 that i lost my mind a little bit

#original #i should state for the record that quietly blocking her is the right move and no one should be like #harassing her #because i'm pretty sure she's on a kiwifarms shitlist so she has enough problems #my intention wasn't any kind of a callout it's just there's a level of terminally online where you lose all sense of perspective #and fishmech is like eight levels beyond that #if i instantly recognize your username from over a decade of infamously bad posts you are not in a position to be condescending i'm sorry

[bestofmidi]

Now remastered in Undertale soundfont

same midi as the previous ones!

#midi #best of midi #temporary secretary #paul mccartney #mccartney ii #fishmech #1980

[secondbeatsongs]

@fishmech replied to your post “why do we live in a hell world where a company...”:

microsoft word for android/ios supports rtf without paying. and as far as i'm aware it has all the same functionality without having an existing office subscription besides access to a larger amount of OneDrive storage space

​nah, tried that - it can open the files, but if you want to save any edits you make, you have to save it in a different format :/

(unless there's a different app that I'm not seeing - I could only find the Microsoft 365 app when I tried earlier, not one that's just Word)

#fishmech

[mmmmalo]

@fishmech says: nepeta surfing

[transhuman-priestess]

Dashboard synchronicity feat. @foxgirlwitch and @fishmech

[homenecromancer]

@fishmech replied to your post “thoughts that aren’t long enough to be their own...”:

Logitech MX Vertical is what i use now when im not using an MX Ergo trackball instead. the "Wow Pen Joy" series is what I used to use and they were mostly as good but easily 50-60 bucks cheaper

​🫡 thanks, im gonna give one of the Wow Pen Joy things a shot & see how it works for me

#replies #fishmech

[vriskarlmarx]

I was tagged by @tangled-pixel-harpsichord to name 3 songs that have been stuck in my head for the past few days! I'm making a new post because the thread was too long lol thanks for the tag and also your musical taste is 👑 impeccable.

1. La familia, la propiedad privada y el amor - Silvio Rodriguez

2. X ESO BB - Jere Klein and Nicki Nicole

3. Klámstrákur - Hatari

no pressure tags @jeannie-youre-a-tragedy (silvio being on here is your doing btw) @idridian (hatari being on here is your doing) @pseudotsugas @fishmech @blondiest @aristotels @sylvia-on-the-run and whoever else wants to do it :3

#tag game