matt bluelander 🏴 @matt@cybre.space

Nice short investment portfolio you got there... it'd be a shame if someone were to... artificially overvalue it 😈

Person who chooses to exercise instead of sleep: "Melatonin? More like hella-tonin' these delts 💪 "

Why do things keep evolving into crabs? Why *wouldn't* they? I mean, if you had the option, wouldn't you?

lol sumatra reader doesn't let you copy text when you're reading in ebook mode, just "fixed page" (i.e. PDF) mode. I thought this was a bug or something that hasn't been implemented yet, but it's intentional, because "many ebooks often start along the lines of 'no part of this publication may be reproduced without permission of the publisher'" https://forum.sumatrapdfreader.org/t/copy-paste-in-epub/677

rufkm

"Don't tread on me"

Counterpoint:

The international agency that issues standard ISBN book numbers is known as the "International International Standard Book Number Agency" https://www.isbn-international.org/

the 90's neoliberal fantasia as experienced by daria morgendorffer, millennial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shSLPcp4C18

I unfollowed everyone and softblocked all my followers on twitter, then locked the account and let it lie dormant for years. I recently logged in again because I needed to get a message to someone who didn't have any contact info other than twitter, and it's still suggesting accounts based on who I was following like 5 years ago. How creepy is that?

My fancy noise cancelling headphones broke. Had them less than 3 months. Not surprised, they feel like they're made of fudge. I didn't like them anyway, the ANC was amazing under ideal conditions, but using a fan or being out on a windy day meant amplified wind noises, and they made a painfully loud pop noise whenever the bus hit a pothole. Ordered a different pair of earmuff headphones from my last pair, let's see what fundamental flaw they have. Maybe the battery will explode and incinerate my ossicles. So many exciting possibilities

Good movie, except they expect me to sit there for 2 hours and pretend I don't know that Tom Hanks isn't Mr. Rogers. I'm not a damn monk, I know who Tom Hanks is ffs

Headphones broke? Sorry, you shouldn't have put them around your neck when someone starts talking so you can hear them, or turned your head sharply while wearing them, or worn them for more than 3 hours at a time, or worn them outside, or taken them out of their protective case

Huh. Are they called "goiryas" because it sounds like "gorilla" because the boomerangs they throw look like bananas? 🤔

"I thought it said 'GG F7' but it's underlined" lmao

The first good game I ever played was probably Home Bound, which I would later learn was a Frogger clone. But it had things that I recognized (cars, bugs, logs, a frog) and a clear and achievable goal (get the frogs home, don't get hit by cars)

Sure, it sucked that it just repeated the same thing over and over, but I could tell it was getting harder each time I cleared the screen. I had a long-term goal that, if not interesting, was at least tangible: "see how many times you can get all 6 frogs home before you run out of lives. Try to clear the screen more than you did last time"

The worst subgenre of arcade games is "stuff comes at you constantly, in increasingly large numbers, until you eventually die." Why play at all if everything's futile? At least in Frogger you get to see happy frogs every once in awhile. At least in Donkey Kong you occasionally get to save Pauline. What do you have to look forward to in Missile Command? You're never going to save those cities

Tombstone City on the TI-99 was one of the first computer games I ever played, and dang what a confusing experience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ma1PLGJYEY

What am I supposed to be doing? Why is any of this happening?

The help screen only compounded my confusion. I was familiar with old west tropes but about the only thing I recognized here was "tumbleweed". I knew in my heart those black things were cactuses but I didn't know why they were calling them "saguaro". What's a morg? What's a schooner? Why am I shooting missiles? Missiles are from spaceships, not cowboy times

Today I recognize that this is supposed to be a quirky take on "Centipede" and it sucks, but for a 5-year-old who still had a hazy idea of what video games were, it wasn't unlike a fever dream

I have a lot of the same questions about it now

The music for the town where everyone's asleep in the SFC version of Dragon Quest 3 is extremely eerie and cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOWDnbrz30k There's also lullaby remixes of all the town themes for when you go there at night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB4sdAYZ98w

I'm digging it

Holy crap, Blåhaj is over 3 feet long and it only costs 18 bucks? No wonder everyone has one. I didn't have a good sense of its scale from the photos I've seen. If I lived somewhere with an Ikea, that would have been an impulse buy for me too.

Dungeon 9 is kicking my ass (heck wizrobes) so I'm going to find the last heart container and the silver arrows before I give it another go. Pretty sure I know where they both are.

I don't know if I like the "burn every bush and bomb every wall" aspect of this game; but on the other hand, finding secrets is a lot more exciting than in any other Zelda game. 🤷