I was tired enough that I checked to see if that was an actual quote from the article you linked.

I bought the game yesterday on the switch 2 having never heard of it. Jury’s out if I like it or not, but the music is great.

He has a spinning HDD apparently.

I think it’s his white eyebrows and “crest” on his head.

I would let my dog in bed with me but he twitches ad barks in his sleep

If I had a nickel for every indie game inspired by Zelda and Dark Souls where you play as an animal I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s odd it happened twice.

Edit: I’m not saying Mina (or Tunic) is lazy or derivative. Tunic and Mina draw on different parts of what make Zelda Zelda. Tunic is all about the “Where do I go now?” and “How do I do this?” feeling that the original Zelda had. The first Zelda was also my first Zelda, so Tunic hit me square in the nostalgia. Mina is drinking heavily from the GB/GBC Zelda well, Link’s Awakening and the Oracle games in particular. It’s more combat-focused vs Tunic, so the two games fill different niches despite having similar inspirations. I just wanted to squeeze in a P&F reference.

EveryCircuit is an electronic circuit sim rather than a game, but I thought it was fun and it helped me upgrade my ham license.

I also like LocalSend. Not quite as automagical as airdrop but it’s cross platform

Does anyone remember Gagfilms’ stuff before Annoying Orange?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_8n2Qgguto

For medication names, I’ll pronounce every vowel like the letter name, so A is “eigh”, E is “ee”, I is “eye”, O is “Oh”, U is “you” and Y is “why”.

So Ibuprofen is “eye-byoo-proh-feen”

That people in medieval Europe thought the earth was flat. Even had a history prof in college repeat this (granted she was an American history prof, so 🤷‍♂️. Makes the modern flat Earth movement even more perplexing.

My favorite bit of evidence for this is in Dante’s Purgatorio. He opens several cantos by mentioning where the sun is in the sky at different points on the globe at a given time, in Rome, India, and the island of Purgatory, which he puts antipodal to Jerusalem, so halfway between Chile and New Zealand.

The whole bit about Columbus proving it was round is bogus. He thought the earth was smaller than it actually was, which is why he said he could hit the East Indies before dying of starvation by sailing west. Lucky for him there was a whole other continent in the way. Could you imagine traversing the Atlantic, the entire breadth of North America, and the Pacific?

I call it a superstition but honestly the more I think about it the more it sounds like plain common sense. You shouldn’t name something (airport, highway, public institution) after someone who’s still alive.

Mah boi! This console is what all true warriors strive for!

A friend of mine seemed to have every game system growing up. He even had a virtual boy. No CDi though, but it was through him I learned there were zelda games for a non Nintendo system. Blew my 90s kid mind. Sometime it still gets me that Sonic games are now playable on 3rd party systems.

No social media. All the stupid stuff I did and said as a kid stays where it belongs, haunting my memories as I lie awake at 3 AM.

As a blind computer user I’m shocked at how many people forget touch typing exists. I learned earlier than most, by necessity, and didn’t have to take the then-mandatory keyboarding classes in middle school.

I got the 10 MB figure from the game properties screen on Steam. Perhaps that’s just world and player files, or whatever’s synced with the cloud. Anyway, it’s a very small footprint for a very nice game.

USB A has 4 pins. You could use a tip ring ring sleeve cable like on a headset

Terraria is just north of 10 MB, and it’s still (?!) only $10. That’s $1 per megabyte!

It definitely does. have way more references.

“bus factor” I believe it’s called. How many people have to be hit by a bus to crash the project. As for stuff I’ve experienced. Ham radio overlaps a fair bit with FOSS, so there’s that. Last year there was an argument between the team developing a new digital voice protocol (M17) and the guy who develops the most popular modem for digital voice (MMDVM). I had a raspberry pi with an MMDVM hat whose SD card had corrupted, and I couldn’t be bothered to fix it until a few weeks ago. When it went down it could do M17, and when I brought it back up it couldn’t. That’s how I found out.