@gavi i watched the jan misali video :3

@breaadyboy i think part of the joke is just how over-used it is (or has been) in an unironic context. saying “x is LOST MEDIA?” is supposed to be funny less so because of the phrase itself, and moreso because it is mocking a perceived oversaturation of content about lost media

@breaadyboy oh there’s actually lots of algorithms involved, video games are very algorithmic and always have been. in fact, most retro video game analysis videos are less about how programmers managed to compress and optimize their game, and moreso about how the games work and what causes bugs. also, kaze emanuar’s videos on further optimizing super mario 64 are deceptively fascinating.

@breaadyboy i mean i know but it’s worth a shot. there’s a lot of interesting stuff buried even in something as seemingly simple as the first super mario bros. game

@breaadyboy i mean this maybe doesn’t count but most technical retro game analysis is close

is there youtube programming content that’s in between “codingslop and they just talk about features they added to thing” and “guy livestreams programming in silence” where they get into the details of the code but it’s still edited? essentially i need more sebastian lague

@AppleAmps i mean their tendency to breed is part of the lore

@anemone literally! when i heard that he was whining about 2020 again i was like. dude. you already won your second term. maybe he’s just malding about the fact he’s going senile and that he’s not as good at lining his own pockets as he might’ve been. senalding perhaps

@AppleAmps just wait until you find out about gylptodons

@AppleAmps am i one of those

@the alright!! because of that i’ll considering accepting monero in the future, after i have accounts for holding real world dollars. it seems mostly like what the most appealing, reasonable promises of crypto are without the not actually being those promises + ancap bullshit

@the is monero any less awful for the environment than other cryptos?

one of my little side hobbies is rescuing dead graphing calculators at thrift shops

i found this TI-83 completely dead with 25+ year old leaking batteries inside of the bay, and brought it home for $8.

after a little cleanup of the battery bay and contacts with a weak acid, it sprung back to life for the first time in decades. amazingly, the original owner's programs were still intact, thanks to the backup battery.

per every canadian math teacher's instruction, the original owner - Fraser D. - had his name engraved into the shell. 😀

this calculator is destined to go back into use as soon as i can find a local math teacher who wants it in their classroom. given that a TI-84 calculator is still $190 in canada - a truly disgusting price for a computer running a 40-year-old Zilog Z80 processor (!), a free TI-83 will sound good to some kid out there.

(whom, i hope, will spend all of their Math 10 time learning how to program TI-BASIC instead of solving polynomials)

#permacomputing #calculators #retrocomputing #yeg

@bluestaggo lol

I did a lot of half-serious virtue signalling yesterday because it was fun but in all seriousness this massive pseudo-woke hate campaign against Argentina is just racist.

"Oh but they're bigoted/white/right-wing/whatever!" is literally just the zionist "try being gay in Palestine, heh, thought so" argument repackaged from the left. All of you were rooting for Egypt, try googling how they treat queer people.

And like, you do get how papering over a whole country as being a "white homeland" is literally a far-right talking point, right? The Argentine right-wing wants that narrative to take hold so they can erase the very real experiences of Argentina's massive indigenous and afro populations, you're doing their work for them. Also ignoring the massive and well-documented history of leftist organizing in Argentina.

@FawnOverFun @AppleAmps i didn’t root for anyone! i don’t watch sports!

@bluestaggo into in what way?