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• Post #2591467

  Above islands and the sea glowed the sky Above the sky burned the sun

• Post #2591465

  Thinking about Master of Puppets (1986) → Doom E1M1 (1993) → Hysteria (2003) → At Doom's Gate (2016) → The Only Thing They Fear Is You (2020)

• Post #2591464

  Finally built my OWN dedicated quadplay arcade setup! Raspberry Pi 500, scavenged monitor, bar-height table from Amazon, all open source software, and many, many hours figuring out how to hide the cables :) The fancy part is the Tankstick, a big upgrade from the Xbox controllers I've been using. To keep it simple I went with two proper arcade sticks and buttons and then kept Xbox controllers for players 3 and 4. This gives a small footprint while still allowing four players with full c...

• Post #2591462

  I took a walk on shore and there was a beautiful seaweed rainbow and a lot of memorial benches. Memorial bricks and benches and trees...imagine a society where the time, money, and effort put into life celebrations--weddings, funerals, birthday parties, graduations--was instead put into civil infrastructure. A couple and their friends build 10m of sidewalk over the course of a weekend to celebrate their union. Every piece of public infrastructure has the name of a person on it. Public investme...

• Post #2591461

  One thing I learned from sci-fi that the person who designed my boat at J&J Design design not, apparently: Do not put the critical valve lever behind the glass door, *inside* the reaction chamber. Locate it in a nice safe place where we can rotate it *without* anyone heroically melting their face off to save the ship. (bonus: check it periodically to make sure it moves freely)

• Post #2277474

  I felt sorry for a friend who was frustrated with the I/O portion of writing a Rogue/Dwarf Fortress-like game this morning. Text mode is surprisingly painful in 2025 compared to 1985, when you could just grab a pointer to the text framebuffer and poke bytes. So, I made a little open source library that presents a proper, modern graphics API for text mode games! textgame runs directly in the terminal on macOS, Linux, Windows 11. 32-bit unicode, 24-bit color, double-buffered, keyboard input, bli...

• Post #1914744

  Back on the sea for the first time this year...

• Post #1038599

  OMG there is an entire unicode playing card deck now. I feel like I just received a birthday present! 🂡 🂢 🂣 🂤 🂥 🂦 🂧 🂨 🂩 🂪 🂫 🂬 🂭 🂮 🂱 🂲 🂳 🂴 🂵 🂶 🂷 🂸 🂹 🂺 🂻 🂼 🂽 🂾 🃁 🃂 🃃 🃄 🃅 🃆 🃇 🃈 🃉 🃊 🃋 🃌 🃍 🃎 🃑 🃒 🃓 🃔 🃕 🃖 🃗 🃘 🃙 🃚 🃛 🃜 🃝 🃞 🃟