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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

Ahead of the storm, I just found this monster puffball mushroom trying to break through the cover of English ivy that perpetually threatens to invade from the north (my neighbors' yard). This thing is 901 grams, and larger than my entire head. I didn't know puffballs could get this large. Considering puffball steaks for dinner. #Mushtodon #FungiFriday #Food

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 2w ago

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But, I can only be so violent. I want to cut away at the plastic shell, but not possibly damage anything else inside. This calls for paper. If you cut a 2.5 cm circle out of ordinary paper, put that on the business end of a Dremel or similar high-speed rotary tool, then you can use it as a cutting disc for plastic. It goes through thin plastic (soda bottles and the like) as if it wasn't even there. But it won't go through steel or glass, because the paper isn't hard enough.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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I had an excellent #Swapfest: I sold *eight* 486 Compaq laptops, watched dozens of people enjoy Super Mario Bros., and made one person very happy by selling them a 24" Toshiba CRT television. I met the people who refurbished and were selling all the Sony Mavica floppy disk cameras last year! They're super nice and bought a weird camera from me. #Boston #CambridgeMA

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 2w ago

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The 4 Y-screws on the back of Melty Switch came out fine, and then the first JIS screw on the top, and then there are two JIS screws on the bottom, flanking the charging port ... Huh. Going back to that first picture of Melty Switch, you may all realize along with me that the plastic has warped so badly that there's no longer any way to access those screws. (Also, this closeup is giving me Cronenberg vibes, and now it's creepy.) My solution is violence.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social

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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Decades ago, I posted my calculations for the caloric density of Tokyo. There was a friendly argument going on about why Godzilla always heads for Tokyo, and I argued -- with math -- that it's because major cities are where the calories are. Still proud of that one to this day, even if it's lost to time.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

Um. Help? #NewEnglandVintageComputing

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@outofprintarchive@retro.pizza "If you're willing to throw maturity out the window ..." What an awful way to think and live. I'm a middle-aged straight man, and I've been a hell of a lot happier in my life because I'm not concerned over whether Rocket Slime was mature or manly enough for me to play it. The entire "bright and colorful games are immature" cohort has done immense damage to the gaming hobby for decades, and needs to either get therapy or walk into the sea. (Rocket Slime is a great game.)

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@joel@fosstodon.org You've got me starting a run of it on the Wii U now. It weirds me out that they mirror-flipped this version to make Link left-handed again. I played the game on the Wii originally, and I keep getting confused and turning in the wrong direction to get to places I remember.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@aburka@hachyderm.io @FritzAdalis@infosec.exchange I have a 1st generation Pinecil, and it's always worked well. But, I've also never updated the firmware, because it's always worked well.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

I'm taking 20 minutes in a hammock in the back garden while the clothes dryer finishes. I can smell flowers on the breeze as I read the new Murderbot novel. This is better.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@joel@fosstodon.org "I am realizing that pretty much every difficult section of the game so far is actually telegraphed and accounted for if you know how to read and take a hint whenever the game gives it to you!" My younger kid is having a similar experience with Breath of the Wild right now. It's obvious to me that the player should talk to NPCs, and read signs, but my kid barrels right along as fast as possible, and inevitably gets stuck. It's a good lesson for me, that "intuitive" isn't always so.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

If anyone else there is using KOReader on a jailbroken Kindle, there's a relatively new plugin for borrowing ebooks from your library via Libby/OverDrive:

https://github.com/kaikozlov/acsm.koplugin

At first it did not want to do anything at all on my device; it didn't even show up as a an option under "Open With ..." in the file browser. But, I realized that my installation of KOReader was a little out of date. Updating KOReader to the current version made the plugin function correctly.

#KOReader

GitHub

GitHub - kaikozlov/acsm.koplugin: ACSM plugin for KOReader — read library loans from Libby and OverDrive on your e-reader

ACSM plugin for KOReader — read library loans from Libby and OverDrive on your e-reader - kaikozlov/acsm.koplugin

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@tiredbun @billgoats I used the information and guides here to jailbreak my Kindle: https://kindlemodding.org/

kindlemodding.org

KindleModding - Home

The best resource for Kindle modding on the internet

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Walking my kid to school this morning, and this mining bee (that's what iNaturalist tells me) was crawling slowly down the middle of the sidewalk. I let it crawl onto my finger and then transferred it up to a flower. Didn't want it to get stepped on.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@younata@hachyderm.io I think that Nintendo is the only company to handle the limitations of resistive touchscreens well (in the DS/3DS/Wii U), by designing menus and games that recognize those limitations. Pretty much any time I've used a resistive touchscreen from smother manufacturer, it's been frustrating. I've never been able to spend more than few minutes with a Palm device, though. I gather they also did well?

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@karlauerbach One of my parents has arthritis in their hands, and putting in a rotating passkey in 30 seconds is genuinely difficult for them some days. It makes them panic, and they just want to go back to using passwords with no time limit.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@cazabon@mindly.social I appreciate a purpose-built display for a purpose-built interface. An LCD panel emulating a VFD display (for example) never looks right, either. (The photograph is of my CD player, built in 1990.)

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@msbellows @djsundog @ifixcoinops I'm up around Boston, and those penny squishing machines are *everywhere*. You can't walk five minutes in this part of the country without tripping over a museum, historical park, or a Site of a Significant Event, and every time we do my kids get annoyed that I don't keep pennies in my pocket.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Is there a separate category for Car Jank?

@BigBadBiologist@bitbang.social

bitbang.social

BigBadBiologist (@BigBadBiologist@bitbang.social) - Mastodon

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@Hundstrasse@retro.pizza I always have the 3D slider all the way up, unless I'm showing my game to someone else. I have a New 3DS XL, and the eye tracking function they added to that makes the 3D much more usable than with my brother-in-law's 3DS.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@b4ux1t3 "When you write code, you’re…probably (_probably_) not going to kill anyone." My work is radiology-adjacent, and the Therac-25 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25) will live in my nightmares until I die. I think it's a large part of why I rear back in disgust at vibe coding.

en.wikipedia.org

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@TechTangents@dialup.space That Voodoo3 card made such a huge difference because it was PCI. There were a ton of low-end computers being sold back at the end of the '90s with integrated video (I had friends with the horrifically bad Intel i740 on the motherboard), and no AGP slot. A PCI card that you could pop into a Celeron 333 to play Quake 3 with an acceptable frame rate was nearly miraculous.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@scribblemacher@mstdn.games @Hundstrasse@retro.pizza No, the infrared isn't perceptible at all. I don't think humans can see infrared (I'd love to know if some people can), but it's detected well by the camera sensor.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@Hundstrasse@retro.pizza With the New 3DS, an infrared LED is set into the top bezel next to the camera. It shines on your face if you have 3D switched on, and the camera tracks the infrared reflections from your eyes. The system uses that to determine your eyes' positions, and can make adjustments to the screen to compensate for head movement. It updates very quickly, so you can tilt your head or the 3DS and it won't interrupt the 3D effect at all.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@tschak@oldbytes.space This is some sort of affront to technology, and I and my Atari Lynx are here for it. It was a portable console that supported 8-player multiplayer! If a game console from that era is going to emerge from the primordial ooze and play over the Internet, the Lynx is a good choice.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@simon @0xabad1dea Absolutely this. This note is a remarkably public, "My client refused to respond to any of the numerous requests for clarification. The only response was a terse, 'You have what you need.' I have done my absolute professional best, but I am not a mind-reader."

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@BigBadBiologist The USB cable in my car keeps ending up one with the phone-end on the floor of the passenger footwell (due most often to certain children who will remain unnamed). I was cleaning up the garage and I looked at the eye-screw in my hand, thought of the hot glue gun in the office, and decided, "I can solve this. I can perform cable management in the most amateurish way possible."

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@rodneylives @ComicContext I thought they you were quoting Dr. Doofenschmirtz, until I scrolled further.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@BigBadBiologist You're selling yourself far too short. Your streams are the right balance of entertaining and educational. I am a lot better at desoldering and cleaning up boards, thanks to your example. Also, I never get tired of the new ridiculous intro theme.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@foone@digipres.club I have a CRT monitor from 1995 with VGA, RGB, and serial ports on the back. I would be willing to bet that you could degausse it via software. If it were working right now. And not partially disassembled, looming at me from the corner and insisting that I find out why it suddenly stopped working one day.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@b4ux1t3 Getting a job because you need food and shelter is never selling out. We all need to live.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@Hundstrasse@retro.pizza I can play Mario Kart 7 in first-person mode and using the gyroscopic steering, and 3D works well. Also, that's the most impressive and terrifying Mario Kart experience.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@b4ux1t3 He convinced the CEO to cancel the consulting contact, negotiated a $25/hour raise in exchange for taking over all computer training work, and the company was still saving tens of thousands of dollars and got better training. My brother told me this as a lesson to always assume slick consultants are grifters.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@b4ux1t3 The main reason I don't turn into a consultant is because I doubt I'd be able to look at myself in the mirror.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@vga256 We didn't have Encarta, but my parents sent me and my siblings off to university with Microsoft Bookshelf on CD. That was genuinely useful software, I think I still have my disc somewhere.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@abban@mastodon.ie That's a fantastic cabinet. What Raspberry Pi are you running in there? I have a handful of Pi 3 and 3Bs, I should find out whether they're enough for a decent arcade experience.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@jaykass@mastodon.online I don't listen to much new music, but my local college radio station and Radio Paradise (https://radioparadise.com/) are both good at keeping me from becoming a complete fossil.

radioparadise.com

An eclectic musical adventure...

Radio Paradise streams highly curated, eclectic mixes of music -- chosen by real humans -- with unparalleled audio quality.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@jeffluszcz I have read so many times that an S-video cable will stand in for an ADB cable, and they're easier to come by. I have yet to try it, myself, although it isn't as if I don't have S-video cables here.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@jeffluszcz I have still never made it to the opening day of the Swapfest. Thanks for posting pictures. Hope to be browsing and taking pictures in May.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@crystal717 Your website is amazing. I've lived through all of those design trends, it's cool to see them collected and explored.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@wcbdata@vis.social @SuperSelena64@vmst.io She's got a better collection *and* she's better at repairing the consoles than I am! I'm still early along that journey.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@scribblemacher@mstdn.games Creepy Black is exactly that, a physical bootleg of the ROM hack. It was for sale at a flea market last year, I picked it up for the novelty. I haven't actually done much more with NFL Blitz than verify that it works! I couldn't just leave a loose cartridge on the sidewalk, though, I'd have been wondering about it to the end of my days. The same box also had a a Game Gear and a few cartridges for that. The Game Gear needed some repairs, but now I have one of those, too.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@codewiz@mstdn.io And all of them are either alarmed or unhappy. [No, wait, one looks like it's not taking any crap today.]

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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Is there a current guide to using this sort of Intel/Nvidia dual-GPU system on Steam, on a computer running LMDE? I'm comfortable with Linux, and an involved set of instructions, I've just never worked with this sort of hardware configuration before and am having difficulty finding where to start. Thanks if you have any information.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 2w ago

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The obvious (to me, anyway) solution: disassemble Melty Switch, extract the entire right rail module, and install it in Lefty Switch. That gets me a second working Switch, and I can keep Melty around for parts. As usual, the #iFixit guides (https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Nintendo_Switch) are my reference here. Good stuff. First roadblock was realizing that I didn't own a set of JIS screwdriver bits. I put in an order and waited a week.

iFixit

Nintendo Switch Repair Help: Learn How to Fix It Yourself.

The Nintendo Switch is a handheld game console that can be played on the TV via a docking station, or on the go. Released March 3rd, 2017.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@SFFMagazineCovers@zirk.us The person wearing the bubble helmet and the leopard-print body suit is so incongruous that it's making me twitchy.

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