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i made that mastodon boop sound

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imagine a snake with a big, wide, toothy grin. thats a scart cable

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is there a kind of therapy you can have, or like, a drug, which stops you from flinching at anachronistic language in tv period pieces

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nice thing about brighton is the amount of old lesbians with bouffant haircuts

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@hazel very good city to get served a pint by a lady who looks like jon pertwee

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for once the whole sky tonight actually is that dark purple out of the db16 palette. its like being inside a tumblr pixel art blog in 2013

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interesting that "portable computer with a really good keyboard and a really good battery life" doesn't exist since the two trends went in opposite directions

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you: im a writer, i do all my writing on an ipad, it's really handy

me: oh? how is the keyboard?

you: it's great! i went for the upgraded, deluxe keyboard rug over the standard mat. i love the mushy feel. it takes me back to the mechanical giants of the golden age of typing: the sinclair zx81. the texas instruments speak & spell

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@ratkins i don't :(

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ive never played any of the (3d) fallout games, but occasionally i read stuff about them and i'm like "wow, looks like i missed out" and then i go look at a screenshot of fallout 3 and the textures are so high contrast, gritty, yet blurry, the lighting so hazy and muddled, the bloom so overwhelming, the hues so lacking, that my eyes can't even parse what's going on or what anything is, and i remember how that aesthetic's takeover of the action genre completely lost me on a whole decade of gaming

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i'll admit that i'm completely underinformed on all the games that came out in that period, but in my defense every time i looked over at a game someone was playing, it was always some kind of ruined city. not even a city of peeling painted stucco or sandstone or red brick, only ever a grey city. they'd always be stepping over piles of concrete and rebar. the screen would have decals of blood and dirt splattered over the lens so you were spared from actually seeing most of the graphics

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it's a strong aesthetic in its own terms, and i would actually be unhappy if they remade it with a more tasteful, balanced kind of palette. i think it would lose all of its character; the style is worth preserving. this does mean, however, that i will never be able to actually play it. small price to pay though. it's for people who aren't me, the people of 2008, those mysterious creatures whose eyes just work very differently to mine

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nerds love to make a new thing that's better, but actually make it worse in several important ways, so that nobody uses it, and then they can complain about nobody using it

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average photo on my phone looks like this

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you'd be surprised how often you can solve a "math problem" you're having with your code by printf debugging, noticing the size of the error in your calculation is similar in magnitude to some other variable you're using somewhere else and simply adding that variable to the offending expression, and noticing that that somehow completely solves it

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you feel bad at that kind of hacky code, right. but then you look at like, the source code for some million-unit-selling game, and it's full of the same kind of thing, only they write it in a fancy way using a bunch of vector operations with comments like
// transform object into milkspace
// skim precomputed full-fat coefficients (defined in milk_constants.h)
// perform milkspace alignment and project from milkspace back into spacespace

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there's a lot of things you'll never know about because everybody references it obliquely and nobody straight up says the thing that you're supposed to know

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why did they call it doom when they couldve called it Dungeon Faster

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guy in 1967 the demand for electric harpsichords has increased over 900% in the last six months, and as a result we're closing all our other production lines to focus on winding special harpsichord pickups. you could say i've bet the company on it, but it's a sure bet. the future of music

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absolute state of the bbc archive channel putting up footage with bob deinterlacing

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if you're not british, the context is that, like many bbc presenters, bob deinterlacing spent the last years of his retirement in prison for horrific crimes

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making ravioli code (calling delicious function pointers wrapped in setjmp/longjmp)

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Deeply unpleasant space opera setting where every species has just the one defining attribute and the defining attribute of humans is "the species with bones"

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@mcc throwing a bone up into the air is of course how you get space vehicles

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may the 1rd be with you

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a few days ago i woke up in the middle of the night, and tapped the following note into my phone:

"There are 50 humans for every 1 pigeon. pigeons are precious"

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i just looked it up and i wasn't far off, it seems like the ratio is like 20-40 humans for each pigeon. just imagine that. i try to picture it. i see 40 people all standing round this one pigeon, petting it, feeding it, pointing at it, in awe of the pigeon

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@ratkins nope

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