Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Oumuamua is not aliens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wICOlaQOpM0

@MadokaMeowgica Good mewning

If you see packs of wolves while out shopping on Black Friday this year, please remember that it's the full moon, they're werewolves, & they're just hunting for bargains. Like you.

The Joust to Defender hack is missing the smart-bomb button (because the Joust box has only one game button: flap), but if you're adventurous, you can transplant the game ROM into the Rampage box, which has two game buttons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeNS3JnLmNc

Retro handheld game (not too big for CW):

And Joust to Defender hack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kRvsfbadIs

Oh, wow! It turns out that Basic Fun put 2 games in 1 for some of their Arcade Classics boxes & controlled which 1 loads by a jumper pad on the logic board. Just to the right of the game-on-chip blob is J1: On the Centipede & Joust boxes, the pad is open, & on the Q-bert & Defender boxes, the pad is shorted.

The open pad can be shorted out with a screwdriver or soldered switch hack.

Centipede to Q-bert hack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUY7CD6vilk

Another game I've been wanting to play since the '90s is a Game Boy game called "Catrap," a puzzle platformer. It was released in Japan as "Pitman," but c'mon, "Catrap" is a cooler name.
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/catrap/catrap.htm

As little-known as the game is, I'm surprised it actually has fan art: https://www.deviantart.com/horriblepencilist/art/AKA-Pitman-268812260

I'm playing it as Catgirl instead of Catboy because of course I am. :3
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LB: I still want that outfit.
https://wxw.moe/@catgirls_bot/101084495286584874

... Why do you go through the trouble of writing documentation fitting perfectly into the help manual system that's been around literally my whole entire life plus a few days, then just landfill it in the docs directory instead?

@Phorm ✨ 💖 ✨

@JulieSqveakaroo I probably was once upon a time, but I've slept since then.

@Phorm That's a cosmic level taunt, aye. :<

@kitten He hasn't had the chance to reverse gay marriage by legislation yet, thankfully, but he has been busy nominating & appointing federal judges who have moderately to strongly anti-LGBT predilections.

@kitten This Vox article sums up pretty well what he actually did or actually attempted to do in 2017 alone: https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/1/22/16905658/trump-lgbtq-anniversary

Since then, the most notably outrageous of the things he's done or at least attempted are directing HHS to redefine gender to eliminate trans recognition as a concept: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/us/politics/transgender-trump-administration-sex-definition.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur - https://www.gq.com/story/trump-war-on-trans-people

And finally convince the only trans celebrity who endorsed him to recognize & admit she was had: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/caitlyn-jenner-i-thought-trump-would-help-the-lgbtq-community-i-was-wrong/2018/10/25/3c4cd61e-d86a-11e8-83a2-d1c3da28d6b6_story.html

I kept expecting the clip to end with Kermit the Frog exclaiming in the robotic Gorf voice, "Prepare yourself for annihilation, space cadet!" Alas, I don't have a clean sample or the video editing skills.