Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

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?

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.

I went looking to see if anyone made a bad movie based on the arcade game Gorf, & I found something better: https://youtu.be/fKNJLeVncug

I don't follow or boost image bots that don't source (bonus: and credit) the images they post, and neither should you.

when I have to stop & look whether it's the yuri bot or catgirl bot that posted the cute girls with cute girls, it's a good day.

current status: mame64 a2600 -window -resolution 640x480 -joystick -cart packages/roms/atari/2600/ms-pac-man/ms-pac-man.a26

... Is some of the delay from python 3 itself?

Consecutive runs on the same source file with rst2html from py27-docutils:
0.41 real 0.36 user 0.03 sys
0.40 real 0.27 user 0.12 sys
0.39 real 0.33 user 0.06 sys
0.40 real 0.29 user 0.10 sys
0.40 real 0.31 user 0.08 sys

txt2tags is much simpler in structure while still being complete enough for my needs. Also, I don't have to provide a dummy template to get just an (X)HTML fragment out of it. Best of all, its only dependency is python.

But it has 2 drawbacks: I can't specify image attributes like dimensions, which means the page could shift while loading; & it depends on python 2, not python 3.

txt2tags: https://txt2tags.org/

docutils: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/

Source file: 62 lines.
Output file: 5 HTML paragraphs & a poem div or table.

Times of consecutive runs:

rst2html-3.6 (py36-docutils):
0.77 real 0.68 user 0.08 sys
0.69 real 0.66 user 0.03 sys
0.69 real 0.60 user 0.08 sys
0.70 real 0.65 user 0.05 sys
0.70 real 0.63 user 0.07 sys
txt2tags (txt2tags):
0.20 real 0.18 user 0.01 sys
0.22 real 0.20 user 0.01 sys
0.22 real 0.19 user 0.03 sys
0.20 real 0.19 user 0.01 sys
0.21 real 0.18 user 0.02 sys

:3