@jk There's some neat lore around Dig Dug. Exidy was showing a prototype digging game called "The Pit" at a trade show and a bunch of curious Namco engineers were poking at it.
"We described how you would find the Dragon and blow it up. Not ‘you kill it’ but specifically ‘you blow it up’. The Japanese gave us an old-fashioned look then made expanding gestures, then “boom”. The point being that when we said “blow it up” they thought “inflate.”
we're gonna do the thing again. you put your name in the bucket and i shake the bucket around and pull out a name and that person gets to tell me what to play. saturday september 2 at 4 or 5 pm. things are weird right now so i can't set an exact start time, but it will be around then hopefully. slushie will be there to offer commentary and moral support and probably poke fun at me when i beef it. hope to see you there.
if you have images that were poorly scaled up (non-integer) with nearest neighbor resampling, here's a script to fix those images: https://gist.github.com/Lana-chan/5b4604c8a03b21a897161afa01bd3542
if you like the stuff i do please support me: https://ko-fi.com/squirrel
if you're in the UK, please email your local MP to express your concerns about the online security bill's E2EE interception clauses.
I put together an email explaining my technical background and my concerns with the bill, and sent it to Nadia Whittome MP. she is still currently supporting the bill despite expressing some concerns, but the email conversation has left her with some key questions about the viability of the nebulous "emerging technologies" purported by the bill's proponents.
begging for help moving.
https://cohost.org/xkeeper/post/2667340-i-am-no-longer-merel
i don't need money, i need locations. i need suggestions. i need help.