Going to be honest with you. The fact that *dril* is visibly making plans to leave Twitter means this app is dead, dead, dead.
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I feel like Wordle is the first time a new website has broken into peoples’ rotation of three websites they use anymore. A fourth website, if you will. To me that’s the future of the web: not cry/pto, just people being willing to go to websites again.
Everyone’ posting the other Phoenix Wright screenshot, so I’m posting this instead.
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Huge retro game news: LSD Dream Emulator has been 100% translated into English, and the patch is out as of today. It translates all of the text-based dreams in addition to the menus. romhacking.net/translations/5
I'M SORRY WHAT
Moon is an influential art game, an adventure game that takes place in the aftermath of a JRPG - no more fights to win, no villains to defeat. It's unique and I've hoped for some form of English release for years.
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It's true! Onion Games is bringing the cult-classic "anti-RPG" MOON to the Nintendo Switch...
... in English for the very first time!
The game will be out in Japan on October 10th, and available in English worldwide... not too long afterward!
Read more: oniongames.jp/news/moon-is-c
It’s very funny to me that over the past ~15 years, internet libertarianism has moved from “copyright is obsolete, information wants to be free” to recreating copyright from first principles, except the copyright registry sets the planet on fire.
Sadly-lost aesthetic: ultra–girly 90s arcade games
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The Chrono Trigger DS devs tried to make the hidden boss hard by giving it ridiculous stats, but instead they made it super easy to trigger an integer overflow and kill it in one go by healing it.
If there’s one thing I’d like you to take away from what’s happening in Texas, it’s that people who live in conservative places are real people who don’t deserve what’s happening to them, and many of them don’t have the choice to just move.
Today was my last day at GitHub. I’d been there for five years, so I’ve got a lot of feelings about leaving.
As much as I appreciate the people there and the things we’ve done, I just couldn’t get past the ICE contract.
The fact that so many people hate AMP the $3 iOS plugin to get rid of it is #1 in the app store is kind of an incredible sign of what a bad technology it is.
Thank you, Google, for thrusting “technology so awful we’ll pay $3 to get rid of it” upon us.
You ever fuck up a release so bad the government bans your entire industry
Today’s award for innovation in passive voice goes to
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Programming language where <<<<<<<, =======, and >>>>>>> are valid syntax
The Google Project Zero write up on the iMessage zero-click vulnerability is incredible. I promise you won’t be able to predict the directions this is going. googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep
Reminder the “I support equality, but the feminists want more rights than men” strawman is literally 100 years old
This is why libraries shouldn’t keep circulation records. Exact same patron privacy issue libraries have been fighting for decades.
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A school board candidate in Iowa is promising to get the names of every student who checked out certain LGBTQ books from the school library and to notify their parents. Also threatening to punish the school staff member who ordered the books. twitter.com/tt_dubs/status…
PLEASE WATCH THESE MOTHER CATS TAKING CARE OF THEIR TWO LITTERS OF KITTENS facebook.com/hhrescue/video
TIL there was Windows 95 beer (in 1995). Promotional run of Sapporo Black Label given away on release day. ranranlan.seesaa.net/article/870651
Software went downhill after we stopped distributing it on brightly coloured floppy disks
Oh my god, Discord finally got rid of the gamer loading screen messages. I’m so happy! It’s a small thing but this always bothered me.
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The desire to contribute nothing of value beyond having “been there first”, and saying this technology is good because it makes that possible
So we all *knew* Google was bad for the web, while their high level employees tweeted about how they had the best interest rions, but it really is infuriating seeing how much they’ve sabotaged web technology for their own ends in these unsealed court documents.
The “no politics at work” guy really likes using his company’s blog as his personal soapbox huh
This isn’t a penthouse this is the set of a 1993 CD-ROM game twitter.com/hello__caitlin
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It doesn’t matter what anyone else tells you. This is the metaverse and we had it in 1997
My fave Github trick not everyone knows: add ?w=1 to PR URL to ignore whitespace changes! Really useful when a bunch of code got reindented
Just found out there was a Garfield JRPG for mobile phones and it uses the FF6 dialogue box format and font. mobygames.com/game/j2me/garf
Did you know there’s a unicycle pro skating game? You should probably definitely back this on Kickstarter. kickstarter.com/projects/daffo
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Now here’s a fun find. Someone’s scanned the NBA Jam TE “save initialization” sheet. The game infamously shipped with a bug that broke saving games, but someone found a workaround before it shipped so every copy of the first run came with this leaflet telling you what to do.
Have you ever looked at the Skyrim sweetroll model up close? Because it’s really bad.
Every night before bed, repeat this to yourself in the mirror to remind you of all your daily accomplishments
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What was the first queer computer game? So far as we know, it’s Caper in the Castro, a Mac Hypercard adventure game that was released in 1989. It follows the adventures of lesbian detective Tracker McDyke.
You can play it in your web browser too. archive.org/details/hyperc
One of my favourite Twitter bugs ever was the time that @/2880249322 started getting notifications intended for @/0xabad1dea.
The statistically most unwanted song in the world is *incredible*. ubu.com/sound/komar.ht
So this isn’t to defend Apple, but: it’s interesting how social media apps intentionally crippled their own mobile web sites, pushed people into apps that have to be distributed through platform holders, then acted surprised when the platform holders tightened their rules.
PROTIP: if you don’t want to update to macOS Catalina, and you don’t want Software Update bugging you about it, just run this in your terminal:
sudo softwareupdate --ignore "macOS Catalina"
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The tiger used to be flawless. Look at that roundness and zest for life. And now… this
Oh no. This board game did its research on Japanese monsters using Wikipedia, and ended up including a monster that’s actually Wikipedia vandalism. johnbrieger.com/blog/?p=321
My employer, Shopify, announced layoffs today and I've been affected. If you're looking for someone with deep experience with developer tooling and developer environments, I'd love to work with you.
New mammals just dropped twitter.com/tammybutow/sta
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Ars picked the best image to illustrate “PGP is hard” for the Adobe thing arstechnica.com/information-te
I just found an *entire visual novel* coded as… an interactive PhotoCD. Compatible with Mac, Windows, CD-i, and Saturn. It was released by Idea Factory in 1995, and the credits indicate it was probably the product of a single person.
Apparently a catfish at the Virginia Living Museum caught a pacifier that was dropped into the water and decided they liked it?! wtkr.com/2017/04/26/vir
The thing that amazes me with the Stadia shutdown is how poorly they handled communication. Developers shouldn’t be finding out that you’re shutting down your platform, that they’re actively making games with you for, from Twitter!
I’m never not thinking about the AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean, which is a convenient proxy factory bean superclass for proxy factory beans that create only singletons docs.spring.io/spring-framewo
New blog post: investigating the mysteries of Spellgram, an unreleased Mac CD-ROM game from Outlaw Star creator Takehiko Ito. There’s nothing about this anywhere online - you read it here first!
cdrom.ca/games/unreleas
Going to finally end the “first index 0 or 1” argument with my new programming language where the first index is -1
Absolutely no surprise here. Twitter was already an aggressive, polarized platform and the algorithmic timeline made that much worse. Even if you use a chronological timeline, everyone else around you is having their emotions manipulated - you’re still affected.
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"Twitter used to show people the latest posts from accounts they followed, but in 2016 it launched an algorithm to serve 'relevant' tweets to users... we found that the recommendation engine appears to reward inflammatory language and outlandish claims." economist.com/graphic-detail
There’s a lot of really dangerous misfeatures in Windows 98, but this has to be one of my favourites. “I found an executable you might like. Is this good. Would you like to run it” is so obviously harmful in the era of the internet, but at the time seemed maybe vaguely helpful.
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First time seeing this field. What’s a legacy pronoun. Are legacy pronouns going to be disabled in a future update
Apparently so many people are mad at Discord that “nitro” is trending just because people are talking about canceling their subscriptions.
What’s going on with twitter right now is pretty disturbing, but it’s *also* the most effective “learn by watching” lesson in resilient system breakdown I’ve ever seen in public.
Thinking of inventing audiophiles for compilers and insisting Rust cryptography can’t be as good as OpenSSL because it doesn’t have the warmth of undefined data
Love video games talking about "how far would you go for revenge" as though it's an interesting plot and not the only thing AAA games have been allowed to be about for the past 20 years
Building an object-oriented programming language where objects can roll a saving throw against their destructors being called
Twitter deathwatch update: Japanese twitter users are sharing tips on what to do if your account gets banned, because apparently Japanese users are now being randomly banned for perfectly normal behaviour. Feels like misfiring spam detection.
I see we’re careening closer to future where the US military has to defend a lawsuit over breaching first amendment rights in Twitch chat
In honour of the death of vine remember that this is the best vine ok vine.co/v/i7QwgFAXwUY
If you have old CD-Rs and DVD-Rs with content that’s important to you, please go back and back those up now. The longer you wait, the less chance they’ll be readable.
Finally, some good news: theguardian.com/world/2020/oct
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Know what happens in Canada when we fail to pass a budget? There’s an immediate election. It’s a pretty good technique.
Finally, games are good again
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And at the same time we had Google employees publicly claiming AMP was “open” and good for the web, we now see evidence they knew Google was intentionally sabotaging non-AMP pages to make it look more necessary.
Thinking about one of my favourite ever about screens.
(From Caper in the Castro, C.M. Ralph, Mac, 1989.)
Any sufficiently advanced image technology is indistinguishable from ImageMagick.
Sorry heteros, but pride month isn’t ending. We’re heading into pride month 2 baby
Today’s funniest Apple packaging bug: Apple accidentally shipped an Intel-only build of mandoc in macOS 12, so if you’re on an ARM Mac without Rosetta, you get errors every time you run `man`.
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Check out that brand-new Star Fox 2 art, too! Miyu and Fay are back baby!
