Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@mavica weebo is shaped like a friend

@saxnot yeah, I mean, if you look at this, it's beautiful, it's the movement from an A. Lange & Soehne Datograph and it's a work of art

and it costs about as much as a house

and a Casio F91-W that's available for $10 will do everything that this does and do it more accurately

@saxnot I'm a massive nerd when it comes to watches and I have a particular appreciation for mechanical ones as opposed to quartz or computerised ones like the pebble

Joking aside, the Piaget Altiplano is a fantastic piece of technical mastery, it's really really hard to manufacture a mechanical watch that's so thin so props to them

but to call anything like that "affordable" is just ridiculous

@saxnot even thinner than a Piaget Altiplano, it must be worth tens of thousands!

"affordable"... I don't think that word means what you think it means Hodinkee

There's a TV show in this concept I'm sure, meetings that must have happened

skits throughout time about all the really weird meetings that must have occurred

like the one about the orion project, "we want to ride nuclear explosions into space", "you mean like, a nuclear reactor creating thrust in a controlled way or something right?", "nope, blow up a nuke behind us and ride the shockwave", "... YOU WANT TO DO WHAT?"

Meetings I wish I'd been in: The one where Abraham Lincoln received the offer of a whole bunch of elephants from the King of Siam to help in the north american civil war

"Next on the agenda, the King of Siam is offering to send us elephants"
Everyone in the meeting: "what?"

@mavica @revenant well, since a court held just to declare someone guilty is known as a kangaroo court that's the furry side of the market open

@mavica playing doom: cack, a demon!

@evie I mean, I know I'm not supposed to make it with reactor coolant but the kettle's all the way over there

@mavica in visual style that is, you have your map, you're on the map, and you move based on where the enemies are

yeah, might not be your thing but if you're bored at a terminal at any point maybe give it a go, it's surprisingly good

@mavica it's more rogue than infocom is what I'm trying to get at, except there's fewer characters you have to remember

@mavica it's not actually that bad as text based games go, it gives you a command prompt that you tell it certain things to do and it gives you little maps and stuff in ascii

@mavica in the bsdgames package on most linuxen there's a game called trek

it's a star trek strategy game in the terminal

you're in the enterprise hunting around for nasty klingons to blow up

@mavica whoops

should I tell @mavica about the star trek game that's in bsdgames or would that just utterly kill byte's productivity...

@mavica ah, damn, that would have been super convenient

@mavica wow, that's a lot of them

is pixelfed a flickr replacement? I remember it being a some-image-thing replacement but I can't remember if it's a flickr or instagramy thing replacement

@mavica "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

@mavica I love it!