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HYPERTEXTHERO IS NO HERO, BUT PLAYS ONE ON THE INTERNET, FLYING BETWEEN WORK AND
PLAY TO BRIGHTEN THE DAY ☀️ SEEING THE VIDEO GAME ART FORM THROUGH GRAPHIC
DESIGN, PHOTOGRAPHY, DRAWING, WRITING, MUSIC, AND LOL.

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CELESTE

❦ Wednesday, 13 November, 2024



Notes that will become a writing about a beautiful cult-hit pixel platformer
game called Celeste that you tried once a while back.

Gameplay videos will be recorded live on your HyperTextHero electric twitch
consciousness stream.


HYPERTEXTHERO CELESTE MOVING VIDEO GAME FILMIC IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT ART-CHIVE


NOTES

Ongoing notes about the HyperTextHero Celeste experience:

 * Elegant pixel graphics art direction.
 * Smooth movement mechanics. Jump. Hold. Holding activates certain things.
   Double jump in any direction. Move character in mid-air. Nuanced force
   feedback control response.
 * Curious story. Climbing. Overcoming adversity. Trying again. Learning from
   failure. Perseverance. Secret areas. Tapes. Strawberries. Love interest?
 * Difficult, with the right amount of challenge and fast reload after death for
   quick iteration, making it pleasurable to overcome obstacles. Player wants to
   keep playing, keep climbing, keep going.

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Enlightened Imagination For Citizens ✶

Alan Kay:

> In our world, we have enough power to topple our most important systems, but
> not the power to restore most of them.


TUESDAY, 12 NOVEMBER 2024

Learning in depth ✶

> One of the great paradoxes of education is that only when one knows something
> deeply can one recognize how little one actually knows.

…

> In her portfolio is a beautiful large sheet on which she had written, almost
> like a medieval manuscript, a copy of W. B. Yeats’s poem “The song of
> Wandering Aengus,” with an illustrations of the ‘glimmering girl / With apple
> blossom in her hair’ and of Wandering Aengus who had looked for her for so
> long, and thinking when he had found her that they would pluck ‘till time and
> times were done / the silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the
> sun.’

Don’t Be a Sucker ✶

> Scope & Content: Dramatizes the destructive effects of racial and religious
> prejudice. Reel 1 shows a fake wrestling match and “crooked” gambling games.
> An agitator addresses a street crowd; he almost convinces one man in the
> audience until the man begins to talk to a Hungarian refugee from Germany. A
> Nazi speaker harangues a crowd in Germany denouncing Jews, Catholics, and
> Freemasons. Reel 2, a German unemployed worker joins Hitler’s Storm Troops. SS
> men attack Jewish and Catholic headquarters in Germany, and beat up a Jewish
> storekeeper. A German teacher explains Nazi racial theories; the teacher is
> dragged away by German soldiers.

Via Armin Ronacher.

Booklets ✶

> Print, cut, fold, staple. Drop off at a little library, big library, bus stop,
> coffee shop, laundromat, workplace, dentist’s office, the mailbox of your
> crush…


FRIDAY, 8 NOVEMBER 2024

1933 and the Definition of Fascism ✶

Ancient and military historian Bret C. Devereaux:

> And if hearing about these things that happened is unpleasant, well, Polybius
> offers the solution: “men have no more ready corrective of conduct than
> knowledge of the past” (Plb. 1.1.1). We must correct our conduct.


TUESDAY, 29 OCTOBER 2024

Imgtlk Garbatella 2024 ✶

A somewhat random project powered by food, wine, and @erikvaningen.


MONDAY, 28 OCTOBER 2024

Paradise: Tove Jansson’s public paintings ✶

Exhibition of public artworks by Tove Jansson at the Helsinki Art Museum. I’m
not familiar with her art, but loved The Summer Book.

Tove Jansson: Bird Blue, 1953 (detail). © Tove Jansson Estate. Photo: HAM /
Maija Toivanen.


TUESDAY, 15 OCTOBER 2024

The quiet art of observation ✶

Succinct description of one of the key insights in The First and Last Freedom.


SATURDAY, 12 OCTOBER 2024

There’s something wrong with suburbia ✶

Intro video from a channel called Not Just Bikes with “stories of great urban
planning and urban experiences from the Netherlands and beyond.” Found
StrongTowns.org via the channel, too.


THURSDAY, 10 OCTOBER 2024


SINGLE BEST TWEAK

❦ Thursday, 10 October, 2024

A place to list single best tweaks that’d make something much better, greatly
improve it.

This will often be about a video games, a primary topic formed by
HyperTextHero’s brain and fingers clacking at keys on the keyboard, but other
things can and will appear, from music to visual design.

I’ll begin with the same tweak type for two space games, Delta V: Rings of
Saturn and No Man’s Sky: Better sounds when firing mass drivers and microwave
beams in the former, and the scanner in the latter, with less treble and more
bass. A sound heard often needs to be particularly pleasant so we don’t tire of
it.

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WEDNESDAY, 9 OCTOBER 2024

Rest of World ✶

Haven’t dug deep into it, but this seems an interesting find. A nonprofit
publication about parts of the digital world outside the usual technology media
coverage, showing underserved communities’ unique perspectives.

I like the dynamic logo with diacritics that change when you refresh the page.


WEDNESDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2024

Hope produces space and time? ✶

That question is the last thing the physicist John Archibald Wheeler wrote in
his journal, at 95 years old. Quite a question.

The longer I live, the more I appreciate Kurt Gödel’s proof that we can never
know everything about the universe.

Defeating Heisenberg ✶

Jesse Schell, writing in chapter 2 of The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses,
that I borrowed from the local library and am thoroughly enjoying:

> But there is still a greater challenge of introspection. How can we observe
> out own experiences without tainting them, since the act of observation itself
> is an experience? We face this problem quite often. Try to observe what your
> fingers are doing as you type at a computer keyboard and you will quickly find
> yourself typing slowly and making many errors, if you can still type at all.
> Try to observe yourself enjoying a movie or a game, and the enjoyment can
> quickly fade away. Some call this ‘paralysys by analysis,’ and others refer to
> it as the Heisenberg principle. This principle, in reference to the Heisenberg
> uncertainty principle from quantum mechanics, implies that the attributes of a
> particle cannot be observed without affecting those attributes. Similarly, the
> nature of an experience cannot be observed without affecting the nature of
> that experience. This makes introspection sound hopeless. While it is a
> challenging problem there are ways around it that are quite effective, though
> some take practice. Most of us are not in the habit of openly discussing the
> nature of our thought processes, so some of the following is going to sound a
> little strange.

…

> All this talk of experience brings out an idea that is very strange indeed.
> The only reality that we can know is the reality of the experience. And we
> know that what we experience is ‘not really reality.’ We filter reality
> through our senses and through our minds, and the consciousness we actually
> experience is a kind of illusion — not really reality at all. But this
> illusion is all that can ever be real for us, because it is us. This is a
> headache for philosophers, but a wonderful thing for game designers, because
> it means that the designed experiences that are created through our games have
> a chance of feeling as real and as meaningful (and sometimes more so) than our
> everyday experiences.


TUESDAY, 1 OCTOBER 2024

The Axis Unseen demo ✶

Bow with elemental arrows? “Heavy metal horror” game by someone who worked on
Skyrim, Starfield and Fallout? Yes, I’ll try it out.


SATURDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER 2024

Screenshot from last Thursday’s Helldivers 2 session ✶



Part B, that is, due to a WISPy internet connection. Part A is here, though I
left the echo voice effect on for half the stream, again 😅 Streaming can be
hell!


DEAD CELLS

❦ Saturday, 28 September, 2024



The plan is to finish this roguelike platformer melee parrier of a
side-scrolling shooter game called Dead Cells which has stats, loads of weapons,
obscure lore, and high-speed movement action in randomly generated biomes with
sound soundscapes.

I’m starting with a fresh save where nothing is unlocked and will reach the end
of the base game this time, with some help from experienced players, while
noting down thoughts here.


HYPERTEXTHERO DEAD CELLS VIDEOS ORIGINALLY STREAMED LIVE ON TWITCH:

 * 3
 * 2
 * 1
 * 0.3
 * 0.2
 * 0.1


NOTES

Dead Cells’ rogue lite design philosophy keeps you moving forward despite
setbacks by letting you unlock permanent progression elements like new gear and
skills that persist the next time you play. Like in life, a little bit at a time
goes a long way.

One of the typefaces you can select in the user interface, Adys, is designed for
people with dyslexia.

The game runs on a Mac laptop so I can take it with me where I go.

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HOW TO TURN OFF FUJIFILM X100VI LCD SCREEN WITH A BUTTON PRESS

❦ Saturday, 28 September, 2024

The Fujifilm X100VI’s DISP BACK button cycles the LCD display, but doesn’t turn
it off, even with other display mode shooting settings selected.

As a workaround I set the Q function button to cycle the LCD display view mode
setting so that I can turn it on and off when photographing, like this (click
for larger image):



Reddit discussion with further tips about the LCD.

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FRIDAY, 27 SEPTEMBER 2024


THOUGHTS ON THE FUJIFILM X100 DIGITAL CAMERA SERIES

❦ Friday, 27 September, 2024

Here are my notes ⇣ about the Fujifilm X100 series of digital cameras (currently
the Fuji X100VI) that I’ve been using since 2013 when I bought an X100S after
photographing with Leica M9, M8, and M3 rangefinders and other cameras for many
years. Links to videos and photos will appear shortly.




X100VI

I wrote a postcard from Seattle to the boss at Fujifilm with thanks for making
the X100VI and asking how to get one more quickly to The Camera Shop in Traverse
City, Michigan, where I was on the wait list for the illusive camera after
paying an advance in February 2024.

Not sure if the card helped, but I got a call from Molly and drove up to get my
X100VI (here’s its manual) in September 2024.

The X100VI is somewhat popular due to social media marketing dance meme
craziness and its classic film camera looks inspired by the Leica M3 design. It
does deserve to be admired since it’s a very nice digital camera with unique
features:

 * Both an electronic viewfinder (EVF) for precise focussing and exposure
   preview, and, most exciting for this candid photographer, an optical
   viewfinder (OVF) with a clear view of the real world with a frame over it.
   Each can be quickly switched to using a lever selector on the front of the
   camera, and the X100VI can even place a thumbnail of the EVF view on the
   corner of the OVF, which they call the Electronic Range Finder (ERF) so you
   get both EVF and OVF simultaneously. This thumbnail gives you a glimpse of
   the balance and composition of the photo in the corner of your real-world
   optical view. Bravo!!
 * Weather sealing for wet conditions.
 * Neutral Density (ND) filter.
 * A quiet leaf shutter that lets you sync flash at most any speed.
 * Ability to transfer photos to your pocket computer or up to the “cloud”
   wirelessly. Not something I’d use regularly, unless in a remote place on
   assignment with no computer.
 * Giganto 40 megapixel sensor that enables the useful existence of a digital
   teleconverter so we have 35mm default “seeing” field of view (full frame),
   50mm “looking” view (hold your arm out straight and open your hand and that’s
   roughly the 50mm “normal” HCB view), and 70mm “examining” portrait view. You
   can also get adaptors to get the 28mm “perceiving” view, and maybe 21mm
   “sensing” view.
 * High Efficiency Image File (HEIF) format to help your storage media and your
   pocket manage the big files.
 * Image stabilization for those who want very sharp photographs yet have shaky
   hands and, or, photograph in the dark.
 * Even Koudelka likes it.

Though it looks like one, the X100VI is not a mechanical rangefinder camera
because the control ring of the lens keeps spinning rather than stopping
somewhere:

> The great advantage of a rangefinder is this: With some practice and
> experience you can reliably focus the camera without putting it to your eye or
> pointing it at the subject. You can do this because the lens rotation stops at
> both far and close focus points and you can judge the focus distance by
> feeling the relative position of the finger tab on the lens, or, if you’re
> less experienced, by looking at the distance markings on the lens.

So not the perfect digital camera for this photographer, yet, but given the
price of Leicas and their competition, it is close enough.

Thank you, Molly, Gavin, Bob, Jason, Fuji bossess and employees, ship and
airplane pilots and controllers, delivery drivers, food, infrastructure,
manufacturing, and government staff, artists, tax payers, and everyone else in
human civilization, including you, who make the existence of a machine that
records moments in time, like this one, possible.

⇡




NOTES

Ongoing thoughts about the Fujifilm X100VI will be noted down here and edited
into the paragraphs above over time.

 * Dynamic range of the sensor is much better than the X100S, with lots of space
   to bring up information back up under or over exposed areas of the image
   (especially underexposed). Good camera for candid night photography also
   without flash.
 * Set up > Screen Set-up > Information contrast adj. > Dark ambient lighting
   makes the menus red, like in a dark room or submarine. Very nice.
 * Time shown on display is not time left in battery. I think it’s video time
   left in SD card? =todo: find out
 * Important to at least try to not care what people think when making art.
 * Distance marker in the EVF could be larger (the marker and one of the
   numbers, like 5 or 7).
 * ERF shows film simulation. Color, black and white, etc. I like to keep the
   preview image on black and white with a yellow filter. Form and balance 1st.
   Color 2nd.
 * The typographical baseline of shutter speed numbers align to marker. Best if
   it aligned with the center of the shutter speed number instead, which would
   make the setting clearer at a glance. Better usability wins over typographic
   rules.
 * Face detection seem to only work in through-lens digital shooting mode? A
   curiosity mainly and not something for me as I’m used to using distance meter
   in X100 series.
 * Camera feels nice in hand, smooth controls, not too heavy. Solid.
 * Need to press release half-way for metering when using flash, or you’ll have
   a ~1 second delay from shutter press to release.
 * “Reverse smile” of Romans. Eyes smile ︵ ︵ while mouth remains fairly thin —
   need to look at eyes to see the soul.
 * Lightroom speed editing RAW 44.1 MB X100VI files in a 500 GB portable SSD
   attached to a MacBook Pro M1 with 32 GB of RAM is fast. HDD is much slower.
 * High ISO images up to 12800 have fine grain and manageable mottling, with
   discernible noise patterns in blacks only when pushing exporuse over 2
   f/stops. Still best to limit to ISO 6400 and use lower shutter speed. Does
   image stabilization (IS) come on always? Haven’t tested it much and don’t see
   an IS icon when shooting. =todo: Test IS.
 * Converting HIF files to DNG makes the fan turn on in my M1 Macbook Pro.

How to turn off Fujifilm X100VI LCD screen with a button press:

 * Shoots film in Log format. Stereo mic with noise-reduction filter as an
   option.
 * Many braketing and filter options to create particular effects like panoramas
   and classic film simulations in-camera (press Drive/Delete button to access
   the menu).
 * Mechanical ISO selector by lifting the shutter speed dial and rotating it,
   thus changing the numbers in a little window on the dial. Beautiful old
   school design.
 * Default ISO sensitivies from 125 to 12800, and auto ISO available so you can
   set a particular shutter speed or aperture and have the camera automatically
   change the ISO to get a good exposure. High-sensitify “extended” ISO values
   of 25600 and 51200.
 * Check focus either on LCD or in the Electronic Range Finder (ERF) by pressing
   the rear command dial.
 * Story about accidentally dropping and kicking the X100S, which kept on going.
 * Lightroom performance. Is it slow? How are the RAW files without the bayer
   filter over the sensor?
 * Insert Yakuza 0 reference about difficulty of finding camera, like fighting
   for real estate in Tokyo.
 * Wanted: Trip to Japan to photograph.
 * 2 million menu settings. Needed to study the manual to understand how to turn
   a lot of things I don’t need off.
 * X100S candid photos.
 * User interface. Touch screen.
 * Check and report back on battery life of the official Fuji NP-W126S and
   perhaps other batteries.
 * No charger included (Fujifilm BC-W126S Battery Charger). Needs to be
   purchased separately. We can charge the battery inside the camera by
   connecting it to a computer using an included USB-C cable.
 * X100VI is around 50 grams heavier than prior X100s.
 * Tiltable LCD monitor.
 * Manual ISO selector.
 * If uninterested, lazy, or lack the time to develop raw images in your own
   workflow, there are a selection of film simulation settings that are applied
   to JPEGs in-camera.

Other interesting still cameras:

 * Fjorden grip to add physical controls to your iPhone.
 * Pixii Max Leica M competitor.

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THURSDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER 2024

♫ Holding On ✶

Beautiful song and video from The War On Drugs.

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HyperTextHero is no hero, but plays one on the internet, flying between work and
play to brighten the day ☀️ Seeing the video game art form through graphic
design, photography, drawing, writing, music, and LOL. Currently playing with
Arma Reforger, Dead Cells, Flight Simulators, Generation Zero, GTA, Helldivers
2, KitHack Model Club, Noita, X100VI 💫 Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, Mastodon,
Patreon, Instagram. Copyright © 2024 by Simon Griffee. ⇡

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