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• Post #3769628

  In 1982 there was an #Atari 2600 game named "Name This Game," with a $10,000 prize for the winner. I played the game today. It's not bad at all; kind of like Space Invaders where you're a diver sitting harpoons at a hungry shark and a giant octopus. But the company went bankrupt before the contest ended so a name was never chosen. In the 1990s another company held a contest to pick a name for it. The winning entry was "Going Under." That's just brilliant. https:...

• Post #1532674

  Hi! I'm still trying to decide where my home on the interwebs should be. I want to use Mastodon more. I like all you people! I also want to try using Lemmy instead of Reddit. I know Lemmy is largely devoid of people, but it kind of reminds me of pre-1993 Usenet.

• Post #1532673

  I bought a New Nintendo 3DS XL from a coworker, replaced the damaged shell with a new one from AliExpress, and I love it! Been playing New Super Mario Bros. 2, Pokémon X (my first Pokémon game), and とびだせどうぶつの森 (Japanese release of Animal Crossing) on it. Also recently I took two dead 2011 MacBook Air laptops and rebuilt them into one working one. It runs the latest version of Linux Mint beautifully, and gets 5-6 hours from its new battery. I use it for writing. Not bad for a fifteen-year-old co...

• Post #1532672

  Rabbit rabbit rabbit!

• Post #1532670

  Something I picked up from my local #writers group meeting the other night. This is advice I need to inscribe on my heart. (Paraphrased; I didn't record their exact wording.) We had guest speakers, awardwinning authors José Pablo Iriatre (they/them) and Elle E. Ire. Jose was talking about their ADHD, and the difficulty of writing when they have a mental vision of this perfect story they want to create but the first few sentences they write down are, in their words, "crap.&...

• Post #1532667

  My teammate was talking about his titanium dental implants, and I said he probably sets off metal detectors, and he said he doesn't because titanium is non-ferrous, so I called him "Non-Ferrous Bueller" and I'm happy that he got the reference.