@heckmaybe.bsky.social Quick question, is it possible for the Lifeline vods to be uploaded to the Youtube site? The game came up in conversation and I wanted to link them, but it seems they're gone (forever?)

So you've run into that age-old problem: every time you mispronounce semicolon as "se-mico-lon" over and over, people quickly make you stop. But did you know that if you sneak into the wilderness during new moon, you can say that word incredibly wrong as many times as you want?

These oven gloves I've got are shedding a lot of their internal lining, thus upgrading them to "exciting gloves that make removing things from the oven an exciting experience".

You know hard drive prices are actually, seriously in trouble when a tweet about WizTree, the disk usage graphing freeware, gets 11K retweets

Alexander the Great trying increasingly harebrained schemes to trick his weary troops into letting him invade India, including Opposite Day, ventriloquism during a vote call, and publicly raising a signpost reading "←Macedon" then spinning it around in the dead of night

BRB renaming the links section of my site to "awesome list" and rehosting it on GitHub so people actually take it seriously

Just noticed that this packet of dental floss I've got here will allegedly expire in 2023. Is… that possible

I just learned this word and I already despise it. This word only exists to titillate linguistics majors and make innocent people lose at trivia

Everyone's moved onto http://enclose.horse when I'm still not done with http://endless.horse yet : (

You are now manually excreting bile acid into your duodendum in response to a digestive intake of fats : )

It's killing me that right now both of Earth's famously inhabitable hemispheres are 45 degrees, but it's Fahrenheit in the north and Celsius in the south

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3382070/Queen_of_treasure_isle/ – Playing "Queen of Treasure Isle". I wasn't sure what precisely the reviewers meant by "amazing pixel art", but it turns out it means it's stuffed full of pictorial descriptions like these:

It feels right, somehow, that the human body, a purely natural creation of the epochs, is maybe the most important single object to learn to draw.

The JS with statement is funny because it's clear what problem it solves - heavy use of, say, Math methods requires typing "Math" dozens of times - but the solution isn't "make it easier to assign methods to short variables", it's "invent a wacky new kind of variable altogether".

Knowing you're going to be the last full generation to live and die before the generation ship actually lands is bittersweet at best and existentially confronting at worst.

"To play a match, you first need to pick who wins and who loses. Formerly, this was decided at the end of the match, but to avoid issues if the match is called due to rain or from everyone spontaneously forgetting the rules, it is now customary to do this first."

"Hm, finished the tutorial? Take a glance over here. Your eyes don't deceive: there are indeed two goal squares, and BOTH require a crate pushed on them! Alas, it pains me to reveal that here, in the real game, only a cruel, ceaseless vortex of anguish and despair awaits you!"

"They say human reflexes can't compete with cyber-defense anti-intruder constructs operating at the speed of bytes… what they don't realise is that shouting "PFWOOOSH" and waving your arms around while you break into a sprint is like a 2-second speed boost if you do it right."

Waiting until the cicadas' song has finally puttered out for the night before shouting "ENCORE", thus obliging them to start up all over again.

*finishes Angeline Era on Inferno difficulty and then looks at a single room in the Love Eternal trailer* Yeah I Ain't Doin That

Favourite CSS property that sounds like an early-10s videogame marketing term is probably "touch-action"

Every card in a deck is so sure that they won't be the one to end up on the bottom once a shuffle begins - but every card still remembers that one distant, vexing moment that they found themselves between the table and the full weight of everyone else.

Violins are kind of like dogs and cats in that if you make them bigger and bigger they turn into similar-looking but different instruments.

github.com/game-icons/icons - Looking at these "open source game icons".

Out of curiousity I searched "Metroidbrainia" on Bluesky and the most recent result was less than a day ago. So I guess that one's sticking around for at least a decade.

Post a game that no one else remembers

*sees package at the supermarket produce aisle labeled "MICROWAVE IN BAG"* *looks inside* *only contains food*

I used to think it was a bit strange for the caves in Donkey Kong Country to be palette-swapped into such divergent colours as brown, puce, purple and green, but now I'm realising that it's representative of tourist attraction lighting (source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yi...)

Walking up behind Michaelangelo in the midst of working on David and explaining that he could save a lot of effort by only sculpting the front side and placing it against a wall, in modern English

Titanium Court is definitely getting gassed-up to the stars and back, but the mass coyness toward describing its terrain-placement puzzle mechanics is giving me some pretty high expectations. It's gonna be funny if I play it and it turns out to somehow just be Otostaz (2002).

This was one of my standout picks from last year's Shortbox bsky.app/profile/gobl...

Donkey Kong Bananza should have had exactly one banana that was taped to a wall.

I think the one big "verbal tic" I've picked up from Deltarune 3+4 isn't even any line of dialogue, but just doing big meaty finger-snaps like the one Tenna does to transition into his boss fight screen.

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People often use "Swiss army knife" to mean "utility that does every major and minor task in this problem area in the best way possible" but to me that feels quite off from the real-world object, which is meant to use very little space to do a lot of things very suboptimally.

Open source utilities and formats having goofy names like JSON or WASM or Brotli or FLAC or CHD or Zstd may get old sometimes, but by gum it sure beats video encoders and color space format names all being handfuls of numbers like BT709 or H265.

Just read an article lamenting that plenty of laypeople now believe video resolution, as presented by YouTube and Twitch players, is a measure of video compression loss instead of video dimensions… which is a fact so dreadful that it had simply not occurred to me >_>

Tried to look up who came up with - specifically - the idea for giving the Playboy bunny costume sleeve-cuffs attached to nothing. Wikipedia says it was added in 1962 by Renee Blot, but the only other source I could find for this is a 2017 blogspot reply. web.archive.org/web/20180305...

I think UTF-8 is the only time when software engineering actually successfully solved a huge problem definitively forever - and yet, even then, I still know of a few situations where you really do need UTF-32 instead of it (for constant-time arbitrary indexing).

It's been the Year of the Horse for a full day and no one's posted "Everything happens so much" yet…

Why is this one of the Archive Dot Org frontpage's "top collections"

Now that Betty Boop is public domain, I'm awaiting the Mr. Boop TV adaptation with pre-twiddled thumbs.

I'll admit I'm curious about the acclaim for Urban Myth Dissolution Center, but I've started to get word that the official English TL is bad…

Saw a thread asking people what their favourite game was when they were alive in 2005. Straining the ol' rememberbellum makes me realise, even though I was playing Thousand Year Door, Smash Bros. Melee, and a LOT of NetHack, the truest answer… is probably Sexy Parodius in MAME…

I haven't really thought about Umineko or spun it around in my head in about a year and a half, but I will give Uni Akiyama credit: one listen of Black Liliana from the OST is enough to drop me right back in there.

They just did an RPG Maker default assets classical music game from Freem on RTA in Japan - you love to see it.

I am somewhat dismayed to report that on X fka Twitter, the "For you" tab has gone into overdrive. *doesn't clarify what this means*