Kind of wild that this was the release order of the first of the major classic RPG's in the US: 1. Phantasy Star 2. Dragon Quest 3. Phantasy Star II (!) 4. Final Fantasy Sega was going HARD. The tables turn later on when PS4 is released between FF6 and Chrono Trigger.

Danish parliamentarian Rasmus Jarlov speaking to MS NOW on Stephen Miller comments regarding Greenland: "I hope he’s kept away from young women, because that’s the mentality of a rapist. You can’t defend yourself, so I’m going to take you. That’s basically what he’s saying."

Chicken and waffles tonight

more keyboard avoidance shenanigans, just ran into this bug when trying to scroll on a multiline TextInput, it nasty: github.com/facebook/rea... I think I have some code recently that didn't do this in a similar situation, now where was that...

I have been sitting on this cartoon for awhile, particularly happy to finally release this panel into the wild.

Playing Phantasy Star II, feeling like there's some lesson in there today vis a vis Mother Brain and AI. They just stopped checking if the AI was correct, and it started creating biomonsters and floods and destroying planets.

I remapped the C button to left trigger because, in Phantasy Star II all you need to do is mash C to win, but the dungeon maps are ridiculous, so I needed the other hand to scroll around a map on my phone.

Do App Store external betas even work? I previously hadn't really tried them, but now I've submitted twice and they've both taken many days to resolve. The first was rejected with a cryptic "this app is too similar to something else", and the second one has been in Waiting for Review for 6 days.

The US has removed the rotovirus vaccine from the recommended course for children. Future generations will hear RFK's crackly voice singing, "DoOooOo Your oWn ReeeseArCh" as their toddlers projectile vomit

The Sega Genesis doesn't have nearly enough RPG's, but the best ones (Phantasy Star 4 and Shining Force 2, duh) swagger so hard.

Ok, THIS is what a proper Democratic response sounds like. Why is this so hard for the current leadership?

Folks, it's with a heavy, heavy heart that I report...

Confirmed: Final Fantasy III's endgame is as sick and sadistic as everyone says it is. Random battles every 5 steps, no save points across like 4 different dungeons, bosses don't have much HP but it's game over if you don't beat them within three turns.

It's time to leave your lucrative office job and go work at a factory, where the robots have taken all of the jobs

MY SOUL IS READY, BONDI. HOW ABOUT YOURS?

Sometimes, it's the little things that make a big difference. I forgot that Expo Launch would automatically invite my App Store Connect team to Testflight, was pleasantly surprised by this email ("oh yeah... it does _that_!"). Going from zero to this all inside a web browser is pretty rad!

Let's make an app with Replit!

Working on a tool to help with FF4: Free Enterprise runs. Did a pretty good job on the first pass, which makes sense as this is pretty structured data already on the internet. Copied an incorrect detail about Eblan Cave from a popular FAQ, had Tellah joining in Kaipo, missing Giant of Bab-il

Time for my 6th playthrough of Final Fantasy 4: Free Enterprise this month: 1. Beginner 2. Intermediate 3. Advanced 4. Fabul Guantlet Mk 2 5. Ombidexturous (hilarious...I made Edward a berserker) 6th will be a challenging / brisk Falcon% ff4fe.com

Like Greene, the bubonic plague is among the most perfect of the Lord's creations.

if the mta sold F/M swap merch they'd be funded for the next decade

The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died. New, @propublica.org

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

Think the word is mostly getting out b/c I haven't heard too much confusion the past few days, but def follow the React Native / Expo-specific instructions if you're mitigating the recent RSC CVE's. Most aren't affected, but good to read on to be sure! expo.dev/changelog/mi...

all i'm saying is that there were better options

With the ACA expanded tax credit expiring, let's get political. I would not be doing what I'm doing now if not for the ACA, which made it possible for me to have healthcare at my first mobile dev job at a very small startup, as I had four kids by then, including one with a pre-existing condition.

This year's family Christmas letter has some visual elements (I'm bad at this), so I went to Figma. Ended up in their AI prototyping tool accidentally. A few hours later, print layout is done in React code and includes a QR code to an interactive version- the Figma Vite export hosted on EAS Hosting

working for fox news or the white house must be so easy. any failing can be blamed on immigrants. "sorry for the late reply, an immigrant had my gmail password." "need an extension on this assignment, an immigrant deleted my file." "sorry i didn't pay the bill. immigrants."

immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes

Quiero que alguien me dirija una partida de D&D de aventureras retiradas compartiendo casa. Nada de aventuras, sólo una partida de compartir casa y beber té y tener situaciones cotidianas pero con personajes de nivel 20 con artrosis y problemas de novios

Final Fantasy 4: Free Enterprise is a treasure

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

For stupid reasons I can't articulate, I've been playing Final Fantasy II all week. This is the one where you have to level up your stats by attacking your own party members for hours on end. Huge opportunity missed by not having a "scrimmage" mode in Pixel Remaster. Might as well lean into this!

One dream of mine that just won't die is to produce Final Fantasy VI: The Musical! [Rapid-fire post-Narshe character introduction sequence] Cyan: 🎶 "Kefka killed my family, he poured poison down the drain" Sabin: "I can't bring them back but watch me suplex this ghost train" 🎶

maybe not the best moment for it but i finally condensed my “why react server components” into a short blurb that does well on HN

i named my fists Nineteen and Eighty-Four because you're going to hate the next two minutes

It finally showed up at 8:30 already halfway over, after: - 1 minute of college football - 12 minutes of ads - 17 minutes of Jeopardy - Zero acknowledgement by @cleveland19.com

The Paw Patrol Christmas special was already scheduled too late at 8pm, but now it's 8:13 pm and we've seen 1 minute of the end of the college football post game show and 12 minutes of ads.

Apple tells me there's nothing wrong with the system

CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES

Happy 3000 miles on an e bike! (Since Sept 2023)

I barely beat the Gil Turtle in Final Fantasy 5 in a 4 job fiesta with Mystic Knight, Summoner, Time Mage, and Red Mage, but didn't realize you run into it again, so there's no evidence :-/. Think I'll leave the gil and be happy I did it once.

Why do the Trump people always feel the need to say that 'not only is there not a problem, but there has never been less of a problem at any time in history?'"

App Store reviewers used to often give you a sentence of context for their rejection and/or a screenshot clarifying the issue. Now they just reply to me with canned responses and I have to tease the reason out of them, just like Play Store.

FOURTEEN DAYS. Still in "Waiting for Review" status.

Jesus Christ.

Thanks to @antifapatriot.bsky.social

I've never watched a Fantastic Four movie. But whenever I see "Fantastic Four: First Steps," it sounds to me like the name of a baby food. And when I see their outfits, I think, "yup, this is definitely the PJ Masks of superhero movies."