My little bee-themed PICO-8 game, Beebold!, is available here if you'd like to spend a few minutes being a kobold and chasing down lost bees to return them to their hives: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=31013
computers, family mention
@softgoat I honestly don't know, I haven't used a microsoft product in years, I'd assume there'd have to be but I'm not the person to ask
computers, family mention
@softgoat I seem to recall that sometimes it's the microsoft account thing that asks for a phone number for 2FA stuff?
Haven't used it for years so I don't know but could plausibly be what's going on there
Ooh, shiny, new Seiko Prospex watches
Two tunas, two arnies, all in the "street" lineup
https://www.fratellowatches.com/meet-the-seiko-prospex-urban-safari-watches/
I do like the concept of the arnie but my wrists aren't anywhere near big enough to support a 47.whatever mm case size
@mavica you wobot
gore mention
@mavica oof
uspol, covid-19, bleakly silly (I hope)
News report from 4th November 2020:
...and the winner of the 2020 presidential election is, the first candidate ever to win the election as a write-in vote, coronavirus!
Really, we should have seen that coming
Now for updates on the alien invaders who are eating everyone's faces we go to Zzzzworp McGee...
imagining a @mavica cover of Take On Me where byte is just saying "beep"
beepbeepbeepbeep beep beep beep beepbeepbeepbeepbeep
blatant misinfo
@Waces the IOC didn't like that three cruise ships were called Olympic-class and tried to sink all three
They failed with the RMS Olympic, and succeeded with the Britannic and Titanic
Yeah, the IOC did the Titanic
@mavica I've had a think and come up with some ideas, no idea if they're any good
Assembly robot: you always see industrial robots making cars and you can too! just like, with scale models of stuff
Computer vision: there's a thing called https://www.bemyeyes.com/ where you can volunteer to identify visual things for blind people, could be a helper robot!
AI doing things: mechanical turk or similar maybe? Short tasks that just have you working as an AI, also gets you some beer money
Hedgehog wrangler, cat feeder, octopus whomst love smol critters
"i never thought someone could be such a watch nerd and yet here you are" ~ @maple