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• Post #4472977

  The Bridges of Castle Rock County The Children of the Crappy Main Street The Hotels of Hobb's End Corner #monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

• Post #4381675

  #coffee

• Post #4345113

  I got up late, haven't been commenting on Hawk the Slayer, but no joke this is one of my favorite fantasy movies. It has so little budget, but it's willing to do *anything* just like a D&D party. Hawk isn't the most emotional dude but he rides & fights OK. Giant & Dwarf are the *best*. I often had half-giants in my old D&D campaigns. The nuns, like all Clerics, are fucking useless. Synth soundtrack's kick-ass. Old Man Palance is miscast as "brother" but...

• Post #4196791

  I admit I did not have "Boy George supports genocide and AI" in my apocalypse bingo. WTF.

• Post #4126087

  Berti Gordon presents, The Beginning of the Ending of the Middle Part II-A: The Metal Years. NEW THRILLS! GRASSHOPPERS! KISSING! ♫ It's natural right baby. ♫ Oh, is this another Mr B Natural short from MST3K? Car 254, where are you? Reporting a 984-2. I just made that up! That's not a real police code! "You won't believe this! Send help!" Yeah, they'll send the loony squad for you. Boring, but also badly-paced & shot in the "dark". #monsterdon #begi...

• Post #4123575

  Bring me the head of the 5.25" floppy disk! https://archive.org/details/compatibles-pc-magazine-2-mai-1987/mode/1up #retrocomputing #wtf #guillotine

• Post #4022404

  FIXME https://mdhughes.tech/tools/fixme/ I keep most of my project planning in comments in the source files. TODO: Usually main file has a bunch at the top, then I put more where I should add things later. FIXME: Above or on the line where I know I need to keep working, this is broken/suboptimal. XXX: Incomplete, often just needs cleaning up. NOTE: Not a problem yet, but keep an eye on this. Often I just find these while browsing my code, but to get a proper task list, I type

• Post #3906800

  Jughead tells you to reject slop: https://archiecomics.com/bite-sized-archie-293-sacred-vs-slop/ #ButlerianJihad

• Post #3867817

  Having seen a reference to the Jargon File, I went & looked at it again. http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/ Why can't we have anything nice? The ESR update was super useful, nobody cared about most of the MIT TMRC stuff now, LISP was obscure, Unix won. Anyone today using a Lisp, even Medley, runs it on Unix (or Windows? Is someone so debased?) Early Internet & Unix needed documenting, & ESR stepped up, seemed fine at the time. He made an Intercal compiler! Then he turned into a...

• Post #3759514

  HEBOCON: The Robot Contest for Dummies [The Jury Selections, The 18th Japan Media Arts Festival] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46ivFpsmEVQ It's Sumo AND Robots AND stupid art projects! It's like everything I love in one place! I could make a really crappy robot, I've got some motors & LEGO wheels here, put a 9-volt on 'em and they'll flail around. Plastic Terminator skull? Hellboy fist piggy bank? The tissue box with dildo legs was *perfect*. #sumo #robots

• Post #3725956

  Out of Arizona Teas for breakfast, oh no. Dig in back of cupboard, I HAVE A SINGLE MR BROWN LEFT! #coffee

• Post #3703911

  One positive thing of this LLM slop vibecoding bullshit. We can now see who ever coded because it's fun, inspiring, awesome. And who coded because it was a job less demanding than construction work. And then there's hackernewses, who were in it for a biz scam. Make more money! #butlerianJihad

• Post #3616275

  ENTER THE CAVERN OF UNKNOWN HORRORS! Man, I'm in 2026. You gotta do more than a single 50 ton spider (really? I don't think it's more than 1/2 ton) to horror-fy me. #monsterdon #EarthVsTheSpider1958

• Post #3597359

  My darling. The enemy shelling continues. Morale is low. Tiny Dog will not cease barking, and why should she? The whole world is explosions and fire. If we live, send socks. That was a particularly loud one. I dare not stick my head out to see whose house was flattened. —if my neighborhood was narrated by Ken Burns

• Post #3560823

  I really do worry about the mental health of GNU/Linux users. They're like FOX "News" viewers, so much completely anti-reality shit fed to them it starts backing out of their mouths. "We're the only free people! The UN/New World Order/Apple/Communists/Fluoridators are going to make you wear masks/use their app store/bottled water and take away mah guns/compilers/precious bodily fluids!" Dude. Chill the fuck out, it's not like that. #l...

• Post #3560822

  This is the meme (original sense) that just baffles me the most: "Mac OS isn't open!" You can do anything to it you can to any other BSD Unix. You can compile & run anything. Most of the source is on https://opensource.apple.com If you think "there's no FOO", do a search for FOO mac, you'll probably find it. There's UI & UX (not the same thing) problems currently. Maybe 27 rolls back to something saner. But ev...

• Post #3560821

  Faster Than Thought https://archive.org/details/fasterthanthough00bvbo/page/n9/mode/2up History of computing, circa 1953. #retrocomputing

• Post #3545595

  Not my maddening non-euclidan sunken city, not my alien horrors from beyond space & time.

• Post #3458854

  It's a tiny girl! Just like my anime figure collection! She'll look so good next to Madoka! Are they really intelligent if they chose Tommy? "How come you look like a tiny teenaged mall tramp?" Meaning of life & afterlife denied 5 minutes in. That's philosophy done for. #monsterdon #zarkorr

• Post #3370098

  LET'S DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN! #monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld

• Post #3362520

  @ewhac@mastodon.social @dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz *22/7 is fine for most real uses. Or you can use a piece of string.

• Post #3320699

  This poor monster. It just wants to set the world on fire & stop our dependence on oil. WHOM AMONGST US DOES NOT? Ultraman/SSSP is the real monster. #monsterdon

• Post #3007875

  Seedpeople accurately depicts what allergy season is like for me: Plants spewing goop on me & transforming me into a growling monster. #monsterdon #seedpeople

• Post #2870302

  Programming an LGP-21 computer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFwBFLhCJyA #retrocomputing #fractal

• Post #2870301

  BEHOLD, A MAN! https://atomic-chronoscaph.tumblr.com/post/817507030281715712/rudy-the-robot-remco-1968

• Post #2870300

  Protip: Never volunteer. It's always a trick to make you do stuff. #protip #lifehack #antiwork

• Post #2870299

  Where do you set the image for a Mac so it shows up in Airdrop? I can set one for ME (goddamn thing doesn't have a file chooser, only iPhoto albums, but drag-drop works). But I don't see one on About this Mac, or anywhere obvious… It just shows a white disc for the computer. #apple #macos

• Post #2870288

  ALSO: Last episode of the Lower Decks idle clicker game I've kept running off & on for like 2-3 years. Clicking into it now. #startrek #lowerdecks #mobage

• Post #2845833

  TIL "Atari" (Infogrames Fr) actually owns the US Wizardry IP now. But not the JP IP which is running Daphne. *AND* there's an Atari version of Wizardry on Switch. Which is tempting. I was considering running the giant Wizardry 1-3 image on an Apple ][ emulator, but that does seem to be kind of a pain in the ass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdTPjKc5fD8 #wizardry #retrogaming

• Post #2769703

  Have a little more coffee, keep the meter in the green: NO COFFEE - DANGER! It has been 0 days, 14 hours, 42 minutes since Mark had coffee. https://cyberhole.online/coffee.html #coffee