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i banged on this drum SO HARD at my last job. no other developer cared and the designers never saw the finished product close enough to notice

RT @desandro@twitter.com

New Gmail has fuzzy icons. Designed for 24x24, squeezed into 20x20. Google Material themselves wrote the best tutorial on icon pixel rendering 🤦🏻‍♂️

🐦🔗: twitter.com/desandro/status/15

what do you mean janky isn't an accepted wordle guess >:(((

shit for shit as the comparison might be i would much rather come home to boris johnson than come home to bolsonaro

as someone who hasn't gotten not a job but not even ONE INTERVIEW since may, nobody wants to hire anymore

RT @euthyphro@twitter.com

“Nobody wants to work anymore” is capitalism for “it’s getting harder to exploit the poors.”

🐦🔗: twitter.com/euthyphro/status/1

jeff ranting about the pause button being on the *console itself* on the sega master system, and how sometimes it paused the game but some later games used it to trigger a status screen and that meant you had to sit close to the console 👌👌👌👌

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"you get home and HBO is there, and you're like, did you know there's full frontal nudity in Revenge Of The Nerds? and you're like, well we're watching *that*" - Jeff Gerstmann recalling the "latchkey kid" era

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"Rambo asking if we get to win this time. Not if we keep catching bullets like that, RAMBO. JOHN." - Jeff Gerstmann, dying again in Rambo for the Sega Master System

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it's a lot less versatile. which is what makes it all that more challenging to compose for and makes it more characteristic. which are the things i enjoy

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i don't care what anyone says i like the SN76489 sound over the 2A03

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"Okay. Now we just have to not di-FWUUGGHHH" - Jeff Gerstmann, immediately getting killed in Rambo for the Sega Master System

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"I got L. Which means I've got length now. On these bullets." - Jeff Gerstmann, 2022

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i already have a healthy cache of links for this and i don't even have any code for the website itself done yet !!! I'm excited!! this is going to be a neat corner of the web, i hope

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