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nach

@nach@social.gfsc.studio

(Weird games curation, bicycles, house renovation; dabbler in neuroscience and maths) #nobridge

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nach, to random
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has anyone nipped out to check if Wales is still attached to England?

Edent, to random
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UK friends - do you have an air conditioner?
If so, which one?
There are so many different options and I don't know how to choose!

Boosts, as ever, appreciated.

(UK replies only, thanks. Not interested in fans & ice-cubes. Will be run off solar power, so I'm comfortable with the energy usage. Yes, I hate having to ward off reply-guys with these long disclaimers.)

nach,
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@Edent yes, I bought an Electriq one for a yearly event, which worked out cheaper than renting one by year 2, and I get to use it during heatwaves at home. They're based in Huddersfield: https://www.electriq.co.uk/ct/heating-and-air-conditioning/air-conditioners

jonty, to random
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"Why am I so tired"

Oh, it's because I stayed up late trying to figure out why a group of Portuguese real-estate agents are keyword-stuffing company names, and why a guy called Neville has spent 22 years creating hundreds of companies that make him look like a judge.

nach,
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@jonty Apart from the name "Neville", this sounds like a William Gibson plotline

Bobbins, to random
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I mean, this is categorically and demonstrably untrue and the history of games says 30 seconds to proving it as a nonsense.

“Creating an open-world game isn’t so much about building a world from the ground up anymore. It used to be a process where writers and artists would build a rich tapestry of lore, create interesting landmarks to densely pack into the world, and then, from there, the seed would blossom into a beautiful and engrossing landscape”

nach,
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@Bobbins I loved the deep lore of GTA III

nach, to random
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In 2024, I seem to be switching:

Search engines give me the same useless answer, over and over: SEO-optimised content bucket full of search query flavoured slop.

Perplexity.ai often gives a wrong or slightly-wrong answer, but for now it's one I can at least check or work from

nach, to random
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I'll be putting together Curios for WASD, in London again this April. Submissions close today. We wanna see all your games and gamelike stuff please: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/17jJzRu9NzmAYB50oLWZxmIgZLC8MCb-o_7TKiCl6TGM/edit

nach, to random
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Periodic reminder that Consent-O-Matic is one of the only things keeping the web bearable to use at the moment: https://consentomatic.au.dk/

CatherineFlick, to random
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Every so often I pop over to Bluesky and it feels so much like it’s a popularity contest, squabbling for follows and likes. The vibe is just really… angry? Desperate? I dunno. Not for me really.

nach,
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@CatherineFlick I keep forgetting bluesky exists, because it seems to be people recreating all the bits of twitter I still didn't like after blocking the worst of it

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    nach,
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    @k @matt303 One of the really well designed aspects of BPW is that the trails have entry features near the start, indicating exactly what kind of features and how big you'll encounter further down

    jk, to random
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    wanted to look up what the hell was going on with the big new apple product and i started typing in "apple vision" and then i remembered that was actually the rumored name, and the real name they announced was something else, like apple reality pro or something. so i typed that in and i found out that actually it was called vision after all. so that's how well their brand awareness is going i guess

    nach,
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    @jk i can't think of apple vision without it being sung like the chucklevision theme

    nach, to random
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    @Bobbins @k just got briefly, enormously confused by this advert

    anarchiv, to random Norwegian
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    Honestly I believe if you could make a dick grow 8 cm in three weeks that would probably do irreversible damage to your plumbing

    nach,
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    @anarchiv the 8cm is all extra glans

    psychicparrot42, to random
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    I tell people “it’s an old boxing injury”. They don’t need to know it was Wii boxing 🥊🥊👀

    nach,
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    @psychicparrot42 i used to be boxer too, until i took a wiimote to the knee

    nach, to random
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    if someone set me a difficult navigation problem that required trigonometry, then i would simply spend a few hundred million years evolving compound eyes with arrays of radial tubes that translate angles relative to my body into brightness at given points in my visual field

    nach,
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    Looking up how moths and other invertebrates compensate for movements of astral bodies they use for navigation, and: most don't. They just fly in a very big arc as the night progresses

    nach,
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    This reminds me of how we thought bats must have amazing sonar capabilities to fly in crowded caves and not crash into each other. Then someone filmed some with high speed infrared cameras, and found out they just constantly smash into each other

    nach,
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    @Virginicus I can't find the one I remember, but there's a bit on it from 5:20 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPEPX4z4KBw

    Basically, low mass and good at flight recovery

    nach, to random
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    extremely inefficient cloud computing service named "Always O(n!)"

    nach, to random
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    Fucking hell, that Christmas dinner episode of The Bear

    nach, to random
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    Local climbing wall is starting up some LGBTQ+ nights. I think they've missed a trick by not calling them "Be Gay, Do Climbs"

    gregeganSF, to random
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    Have they fixed the bugs in Spotlight so that it will actually find all the files that contain a word you’re searching for?

    Probably not, but at least the search bar has been made more rounded, so not finding the file you were looking for will be more aesthetically pleasing.

    nach,
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    @gregeganSF I'm thinking of going back to Quicksilver, which is what we were all using at the job I left in 2011 before Spotlight made it, but alas now too itself, redundant

    mcc, to random
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    Imagine if Tescreal were some sort of sauce used in a dessert popular in Spain. I bet it would be delicious
    https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110669869789632089

    nach,
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    @mcc the best Tescreal is made using only the finest rationalized logical fallacies

    jonty, to random
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    would anybody like an ASK NOT FOR WHO THE VENGABUS IS COMING / IT IS COMING FOR THEE sticker because I have a lot of ASK NOT FOR WHO THE VENGABUS IS COMING / IT IS COMING FOR THEE stickers

    nach,
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    @jonty yes please :)

    jonty, to random
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    I make my own fidget toys. My favourite is this MASSIVE NUT you can spin on your fingers.

    If you want one, the files are on thingiverse: https://thingiverse.com/thing:6143237

    A giant nut spinning on my thumb

    nach,
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    @jonty this might sound bad, but: I found mine under a bridge. It's either from 1840 or 1906, and needed quite a lot of cleanup

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    I've been putting off a project for months, and every day I feel worse because it's another day of lost data.

    Turns out I built it two years ago and it's been quietly running ever since. I have absolutely no memory of this.

    Well done past me. Nice work. A+.

    nach,
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    @jonty A few years back I tracked down and bought a rare book as a present for a friend, then needed to search for something from him in my email… and found a decade old email in which he thanked me for a copy of that book

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