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i think the sg-1000/sms is like the platonic ideal of a "video game"

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i have a mega drive project in the works but i think i set myself up for failure with that one. i really want to develop for the sms so i might try to do that first

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toying again with the idea in my head of a sms/sg-1000/coleco portable with a z80 and pico vdp. batting it around like a cat with yarn

@bnys @anna i don't think it's bad i just don't think it replaces the 10 year old fujifilm whatever point and shoot i already have in my drawer, especially not for that price

@anna i read through a Verge review on the X half and at the end of the article they pointed out camp snap and wow i think this is a way more interesting way to view digital in an analog way

@anna like, i love cameras, digital and analog, but everything below DSLR level seems to have stagnated about 15 years ago?

am i missing something amazing this one does?

@anna at a glance i'm struggling to see what it does that a phone camera doesn't

i got 2 bonus chances on puzzle swap and immediately completed 2 entire panels since struggling to get new pieces last i played it in like 2014

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hah my last streetpass was 9 years ago until i installed netpass on my 3ds

couple of weeks ago we started a new minecraft modpack and server and i decided we should build a big mall. so i wrote about malls a bit to elaborate on why i want to build one forums.transbian.love/?page=th

@anna sometimes we need to try something that we think will feel wrong to remember what feels right

the discord loading screen factoid "in the ancient days discord was a browser-only app" is hilarious to me because in 2025 it didn't stop being a browser-only app they just started shipping the browser

Since the original DOS "Microsoft Editor" is in the news because of the brand new "Microsoft Edit" here's your reminder that the original MS-DOS 5 editor wasn't even a stand-alone program, but rather just QBasic in disguise.
All EDIT.COM did was launch QBASIC.EXE with the /EDCOM parameter (undocumented parameter, although the official /EDITOR does the exact same thing.) That's why EDIT.COM itself is only 413 bytes.

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