Notices by crab amplifier (outie@slime.global)

hey, gamedev fedi! do we have anyone here who worked, or knows someone who did, on Deathmatch Maker for Virtus Corporation (Cary, NC, USA) back in 1997? Trying to track down who the cover artist for this thing was

because look at this magnificent thing

(credits: https://www.mobygames.com/game/41986/deathmatch-maker/credits/windows/)

y'alright, luv?

@mcc @cwebber guy wrote his own fuckin chip tracker for the ST back in the day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tncZlwnLm4g the fuckin chip bass in this haunts my dreams 30 years later

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdayL8x0mcw

NINTENDO DID YOU THINK THIS THROUGH

@thomasfuchs my grandfather was a Wehrmacht soldier who spent a couple of years after the war in a POW camp and while he was never an overt Nazi while I knew him, he carried enough veiled racism with him for the remaining 50 years of his life that even as a young teen I noticed it

It gives antifascism a very weird personal dynamic and it's profoundly unsettling that so many Germans seem to have forgotten how widespread these very close and personal connections to the Nazis still are.

@annika goatscraping: farming all the posts of a popular person into a database for LLM training

tired: defederate nazis
wired: defenestrate nazis

@djsundog @mcc my old PC case had a blue power LED and the fucker was so bright it cast a visible, sharply defined circle of blue light on the wall opposite on the other side of the fucking room

@stepleton @tubetime @TechTangents I forget the version but at some point in the Linux kernel there existed a `panic("huh?!\n");` in `smp.c`

@Polychrome fwiw I had an OLED smartphone around 2010 and that was just fine for its entire lifespan

@mawr @PsyChuan remind me, where did that come from again? I remember everyone having a good laugh at the time but I forget the detail...

@babe I can't get over the Pokémon stripper with the totally unprompted guns

and the heart shaped thong

Facebook Messenger has added ai-generated stickers and it's going exactly how you'd expect

@naptowncode @funkula @doot I keep thinking about yon survey suggesting something like 80% of Americans think they could take a goose in a fight versus like 30% of Europeans

which I choose to read as a second-degree expression of a gulf in childhood experiences of being chased by an angry goose as a toddler between the regions

@naptowncode @funkula @doot similarly of course: anyone who's ever been seaside and observed seagulls descending upon some poor sod with a tiny plate of chips knows about birds

@doot there's literally an entire website dedicated to logging attacks on cyclists by Australian Magpies to warn people since you do not want to get attacked by a bird while riding a bike https://www.magpiealert.com/

@doot cycling routes to avoid in Sydney dot png

@mcc "consent is just a matter of asking often enough"

-- techbros, 2010-

just thought I should make this clear again over here too: