Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es
- the stuff i do
- https://wildweasel486.github.io
He/him. Puzzle-Adventure Hybrid with RPG Elements. Supports 3D Acceleration. He Is Essentially What He Believes. Just in case, 🔞, LGBTQ+ 👍, DOS 👌, 🐂💩👎.
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Double rainbow all the way across the sky.
... What? I'm hip with the times, aren't I?
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When eight-year-old Emma Glenfield wanted to know more about why magpies swoop at people, her teacher (Luke Carr) encouraged her to gather data and analyse it.
She noted that the birds seemed to target tall balding men, and created an online survey with the help of her mum. The survey went viral, with over 30,000 respondents.
The results, as shown in a brilliant Lego graph, demonstrated that the birds do target balding men more frequently (with less than 1% margin of error, thanks to the large sample size).
"According to magpie expert Darryl Jones, professor emeritus at Griffith University, it's the first time anyone has ever examined the link between magpie swooping and appearance."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-09/magpies-swoop-bald-more-often-survey-finds/103297520
The ABC article includes more details, along with this excellent Lego graph (and other great pictures).
@GFD hot(?) take: the stanley parable is a visual novel
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Oh my FUCKING GOD
I finished dumping 99.99% of a very old, damaged, backup CDROM that was previously unreadable. It took 3 days and I was super excited to find what old data I put on it. The disc had UDF sessions, because that was common at the time for just Adding Files non-rewritable media.
So I mount that shit in my Windows 98SE box, and lo and behold, this is all that was on it.
I would be absolutely upset if it wasn't so fucking funny
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sherwood forest, screenshot, apple II (1982) https://www.mobygames.com/game/9302/sherwood-forest/screenshots/apple2/42955/
@fraggle@octodon.social You give up:
- balls that fly
- being able to blame the wind when your shot misses
- that nice long pleasant 250yd walk from the tee
- all of your clubs except one
- golf cart rides
you receive:
- all putting all the time
- bouncy walls
- the presence of kids
- shame
- a don quixote complex
- that last hole that just eats your ball and sends it back behind the counter at the clubhouse
@mcc A very merry cake-thumb 🎂👍 to you. Here is one of my favorite sky photos I've ever taken. The resulting image isn't nearly as vibrant as I remember the sky actually being that day, but the way the camera desaturated it makes me think film-noir, sort of.
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tbt to when i was installing an extremely out of date linux distribution for the #lols and got this amazing error
@TonicBH I always worry when that much stuff in one category shows up at a thrift store at once. Was somebody getting rid of stuff in a hurry? Argument? Death in the family?
I can't imagine why else someone would dump off all of their Trek tapes in this photo from 7 years ago.
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I realized I need a serial mouse to reinstall NT4 onto this machine. but that shouldn't be a problem, right? I've got a whole drawer of old mice, I just need to grab the first serial mouse out of there.
This was the first one I found.
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@mcc @RavenWorks https://www.mobygames.com/game/613/populous/screenshots/snes/36534/ oh dang yeah these are great.
also apparently the TG16 version had little bombermen: https://www.spriters-resource.com/turbografx_16/populousthepromisedlands/
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One of my earliest DOS gaming memories, Populous (1989), is apparently now on Steam. But I can't tell if it includes the "Promised Lands" expansion disk, which added several new maps and graphics sets, including one that turns the Good vs Evil factions into Amiga vs Atari ST, respectively - a rivalry I had no idea about, as an american kid.
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Since I'm once again doing design/font work,
if you didn't know, there's cooler letter-testing phrases than "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."
You can also use "Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vows" and feel like a total badass typing it into the font sample
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i'm taking donations and/or commission work https://maple.pet/commissions https://ko-fi.com/squirrel
- the stuff i do
- https://wildweasel486.github.io
He/him. Puzzle-Adventure Hybrid with RPG Elements. Supports 3D Acceleration. He Is Essentially What He Believes. Just in case, 🔞, LGBTQ+ 👍, DOS 👌, 🐂💩👎.
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