Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

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

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