Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

me at 4:58pm in the damn northern hemisphere these days:

Taking a break from awful things:

Scientists taught rats to drive cars. The rats quickly learned to rev the engine and take longer routes just for fun.

Bonus: Watch the researcher do a little happy leap when the rat gets into the car.

https://theconversation.com/im-a-neuroscientist-who-taught-rats-to-drive-their-joy-suggests-how-anticipating-fun-can-enrich-human-life-239029 #science #tech

I leave you with some SyQuest ASMR sounds.

#RetroComputing

COMPART/PACMAN.GIF

Cecil II - The Revenge - Geoffrey Hamilton

He big ears

#furry #furrysocial #meme #owo

Modulate that like button, resonate in the comments, amplify the waveform with a repost, follow to reduce distortion, and consider jamming with me on a comic if you love MDiD on MIDI!! 🎹

Speaking as someone living in Hungary, to friends in the #USA:

The greatest weapon the system has is outrage fatigue. Doing so many unimaginable things at the same time that people just sigh and go on. Having so many things to protest that you run out of days and hours. Piling on so you start focusing on surviving with your bare mental health day to day.

Pick your cause and stick to it. Support others who focus on different causes. Don't try to do everything at once.

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#IndieDev #GameDev

When your toilet handle breaks and all you have laying around are some spare pinball flippers

Today I learned that the first Super Mario Bros. romhack was released not in the 2000s, or the 1990s, but in 1987—two years after the game's original release. It was called "Tonkachi Mario". It wasn't a modified EEPROM in a custom cartridge, it was a hacked version of the Famicom Disk System port of Super Mario Bros. Being stored on magnetic media made it a lot easier to edit.

But wait, the Famicom Disk System used custom proprietary disks, how are you going to edit those?

It turns out that Tonkachi Mario was actually the bundled demo that came with Tonkachi Editor, which was an unlicensed third-party tool that was basically a primitive hex editor for Famicom Disk System disks, operated by the regular Famicom controller.

The Famicom Disk System came out in 1986, so within a year of it's release, somebody reverse-engineered the drive, reverse-engineered the Famicom, wrote a toolchain to make their own custom programs, wrote a hex-editor, reverse-engineered Super Mario Bros. and made their own custom version. Oh, and Tonkachi Mario requires speedrunning tricks like glitching through walls to complete, so the creator had to have those skills too.

I wouldn't be surprised at somebody doing that *today* now that we have resources like the NESDev wiki and YouTube videos about how to get good at speedrunning tricks. But in 1987? Wow.

https://glitchcat7.com/the-complete-history-of-kaizo-mario/

#retrogaming #romhacking #homebrew

stuffed a #raspberrypi #pico #w inside a #toy #guitar and taught it #midi

The Thing That Should Not Be - Brad Matter

Introducing Teller!
Silent partner to Penn Jillette in their Magical Duo, Teller is an accomplished talent himself. Performer, author, master magician and published in Nature, but also one of the co-architects of Desert Bus! Join us in giving him the hero's welcome he deserves!

Crazy graphic of the day.

Wage theft greatly eclipses all other forms of theft value: https://www.tcworkerscenter.org/2018/09/wage-theft-vs-other-forms-of-theft-in-the-u-s/

Just bought a typewriter.

You can tell it's old because it's got neofetch on it.