In addition to the criticism here (proprietary, for-profit, orientation-dependent, and the often not-thought-through multi-layer coding), this system is not very useful vs acquired tritonomaly. If blue and green are similar, it sucks that their symbols are also really similar.

Here’s the OP. Thanks to Nyoki on Antenna for finding all this.

News websites are among the very worst websites in the entire world. Always have been. We need real news, real reporting, real journalism, but the ad tracking badweb around it is like cement shoes.

News and journalism websites absolutely totally dropped the ball many years ago and has never recovered it. Now perhaps they’re not to blame for it anymore than an oil painter is to be blamed for not understanding JPEG artifacts but this is one of the main reason the world is so messed up now.

This isn’t new. We’ve been drenched by garbage web since the nineties with Dreamweaver and Flash and huge pixmaps. But even so, it’s refreshing to see it called out.

MegaDuck Homebrew and ROM Hack Showcase.

A collection of Homebrew and ROM Hacks for the MegaDuck clone console

Okay so I know I complain about Delta Chat a lot but this is the single worst change of the many bad changes. Removing migration to/from other PGP mail apps/accounts.

Delta Chat (which is by a wide margin my most used and most important app) moves further and further from good. It’s insane, it’s like I’m

There is no truly primordial woodland in England: every square foot of woodland in the country has been managed, in some sense, at some time. The best we can claim is “semi-natural ancient woodland” – by definition land that has been forested since at least the 17th century, and only lightly managed since then.

Interesting! But here in Sweden we do have primordial woodland which we ought to be very careful with. 😔

Lars has been a new prolific poster on Antenna lately!

I’m determined, this year, to leave home more often without bringing my phone. I’ll start with short trips, and try to build up to going a whole day without it.

I think having a phone with you (a dumb phone, that is. Leave internet behind) is good actually, because I’ve found it’s been useful when I’m in an accident or in other trouble. That said, I often do forget my phone. I come home and see my phone there where it’s been the whole time because I forgot to bring it. And I don’t bring it from room to room either. That has often backfired as I’ve found myself in situations where it would’ve been good.

Uh? I don’t understand what’s going on. 😔

I don’t mean to be ignorant. If there is a workaround or fix that’s well-known I’d love to know it. I know I’m not the sharpest tool in the proverbial 🤷🏻‍♀️ and I genuinely don’t know what happened here.

Ten Reasons Why the PC Engine is the best classic gaming console.

Welcome to the PC-Engine, the console that excels in just this, without setting a foot in a newer era with fancy GPU stuff. You get a nice low resolution and the perfect amount of colours.

The PC-Engine has 3-bit or 8 shades per channel colour, allowing 512 colours in total. That basically allows all the important colours to be shown, from candy colours for kawaii shooters, to muddy colours for army schmups. the PC Engine can use 241 of them for foreground sprites, and 241 for background images. The image is rich coloured, yet it remains palleted.

I’m looking into how to build their app image from scratch; at least that way I’m sudoing something that’s free software and not a random binary.

I later found that this issue is known but marked as a WontFix on their issue tracker.

KCRW Question Everything.

Two veteran journalists set out to document Israel’s systematic destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system: hospitals attacked, medical workers killed, doctors detained without charge. The BBC commissioned the film. Then pulled it.

Sometimes killing a story is routine. Sometimes it’s a scandal, even immoral.

Delta Chat continues their misguided, wrong-headed and evil war on email.

The flipside of these kinds of mechanics.

…is when levels start to depend on them. If a room is designed assuming coyote time or wall jump exchanges or the extra double jump if you do it before leaving ground, it becomes more stressful than forgiving. Lots of games have levels that depend on you needing to deliberately coyote time and that feels super bad.

I love “Danger Room” and Dandân is definitively on my radar but now so is this “JundJund”.

Vi behöver en FOSS-version av den här.

Socialdemokraterna lade en lapp i mitt brevinkast där dom skryter om sin strama migrationspolitik. Vad håller dom på med. 😔 Tack, jag tolkar det som ett hotbrev.

Såhär såg det istället ut 1965.

Vi kan inte bygga murar mot omvärlden, murar som betyder isolering och tillbakagång.

I really love the Zelda sequelitis episode (the Castlevania IV was preaching to the choir for me because I was always frustrated by the inelegant mismatch of its 8d whipping with the traditional daggers-and-bottles level design, and the Mega Man X one I’m just not into, and the Castlevania II was just AVGN’s and Goemon047’s points restated, but the Zelda episode was revelatory and I love it for that) but Arin added a li’l more context recently.

Here’s an excerpt from his full post.

I found it really exciting to bring game design to light in a fun way for people that don’t usually think about it. I hope I succeeded in that. But if I could go back, I think the in-your-face hyperbolic know-it-all character would go the way of the dodo. I suspect that aspect of it may have done some harm for game design discourse. And that sucks.

Wizards of the Coast.

The jitte and sai serve similar combat roles, but the jitte is more traditionally Japanese and hence a weapon Splinter would be more familiar with.