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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@SomaFMrusty@defcon.social I was staying at a hotel room a month ago that had one of those (an Alexa thing, don't remember which model). I was able to ask it to play a few SomaFM stations through it, but when I asked it for Secret Agent it told me "I might be able to help you at home, but not here." Ah well - the rest of it worked alright. 👍
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me: *presses play on an app*
app: Great! Your journey is about to begin! Just some questions first. Where were you born? How would you describe your income bracket?
me: *dismiss*
app: Got it! We'll ask you next time before asking you questions.
me: *presses shuffle button*
app: Got it! Shuffle enabled until tomorrow.
notification: Somebody enabled shuffle playback on your account. Click here to verify
notification: 🏆ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: Power user
app: Do you want to rate this app?
@UncreativeAndUnoriginal That one had escaped my notice so far, I'll just go ahead and wishlist that because it looks fun and slightly chaotic. ☺️
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Went outside to smoke, shut the door, turned around and found myself face to face with a coyote.
He skidded in his tracks into a sit, did a 180 on his haunches, claws skittering on the cement, and LAUNCHED himself down the street, clipping his rump against my partner's car and setting off its alarm which set off MY car's alarm, and then the garage floodlight turned on, which turned on the NEIGHBOR'S lights.
All in a span of less than five seconds.
I witnessed a moment of pure, unadulterated chaos, leaving me with a deeper understanding of the animations of Scooby Doo and Wil E Coyote.
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https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/golfswings.html - Going live with a slightly more analytical article for Golfshrine, as I think about how being good at a golf video game is nowhere near the same thing as being good at actual golf.
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alien invasion, editing tools, acorn 32-bit (1990) https://www.mobygames.com/game/64213/alien-invasion/screenshots/
https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/golfswings.html - Going live with a slightly more analytical article for Golfshrine, as I think about how being good at a golf video game is nowhere near the same thing as being good at actual golf.
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IT'S HERE!
My in-depth history of "Instant Graphics and Sound" — the little-known text protocol for bringing vector art and music to BBSes — has reached the sad (almost) final chapter: "Legacy".
It begins with a look at two psychedelic pieces from fall 1991 that I consider the artistic pinnacle for IGS.
https://breakintochat.com/blog/2024/10/24/instant-graphics-and-sound-part-6-legacy/
BOOSTS APPRECIATED!
#longreads #atari #atarist #dev #gamedev #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #computers #textmode #textart #history #bbs #bbsing #igs #pixelart
thank you Matt Grey for this wonderful new image that I will save for when it is most needed
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they should reboot the ernest movies starring john cena
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star wars, cartridge, famicom (1987) https://www.mobygames.com/game/28550/star-wars/cover/group-48367/cover-130145/
https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/gsdigital.html - I get a little grumpy-old-man today about digital ownership and whether I actually feel like documenting my disorganized, spread-out library of downloadable golf games.
Whoever's following me from Cohost and misses my fiction: I've been slowly reposting (and updating) some of my stories I wrote for the writing-prompts over here: https://weaselswriting.dreamwidth.org/2024/10/ (and some new stuff besides).
@winampskins the shuffle/repeat buttons are amazing on this one!
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snes_sim_city_by_hankola.zip
https://skins.webamp.org/skin/08a8b260fa4d47dc9a83af8487d6669f
@foone back in the day, I refused to have any icons on my desktop besides the recycle bin, and went to the trouble of manually deleting them all.
one afternoon, windows XP still offered to help me remove "unused icons." 🤷♂️
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Directing a horror gaming documentary is weird. Sometimes I'm trawling through archival records, other times I'm puzzling out how to craft a compelling story from ~50 interviews. And then there are moments where I'm a digitised Keanu Reaves getting beaten up by flying books. (And I wouldn't have it any other way.)
- 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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