Notices by Jake in the desert (jake4480@c.im)

@captainarcee yesss I don't have time to try it on my phone yet but I put it on there and I'm imagining how the controls are gonna work, it's gonna be wild to see 😂 thinking about trying to connect a controller via Bluetooth for it.

Sega is discontinuing support for 9 retro games that were ported to iOS and Android years ago -they've made them all free and removed in-app purchases. I just grabbed Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe Classics, Super Monkey Ball - check out the list here and grab them in the app stores asap before they disappear, there's Streets of Rage and Sonic too, etc: https://www.theverge.com/news/688167/sega-retro-games-forever-program-free-download-ios-android-crazy-taxi-sonic

#SEGA #MobileGames #CrazyTaxi #GoldenAxe #MonkeyBall #StreetsOfRage #SonicTheHedgeHog #iOS #Android #RetroGaming #SegaGenesis #SegaMegaDrive #iOSGames #AndroidGames

#NowPlaying one of the greatest songs ever written
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq-gYOrU8bA

Ctrl-ZINE is an independent smol web project, and its Issue 17 Vol. 2 happens to contain pieces by two of my favorite people on the fediverse. @rootcompute has a great piece here about his time on and thoughts about the fediverse, and @ttntm wrote a love letter to one of my own favorite games here, Diablo II.

Free PDF to read/download: https://ctrl-c.club/~singletona082/zine/2024/Ctrl-ZINE.Issue.17.pdf

#SmolWeb #fediverse #DiabloII #Diablo #zine #zines #FreeZine #FreeZines #TechZines #CtrlZINE #PDF #PDFs #decentralization #decentralized #fedi

Any time I hear anyone say 'content' or 'consume' when they're talking about looking at art or listening to music or watching a film, I instantly tune out and have no interest in what they have to say. When people think of things in those terms, it's gross and I'm out. Don't do that. Don't call it 'consuming' 'content'. Don't use that phony, bullshit lingo. Call it what it is-- art, music, or film and that you're viewing it, or listening to it, or watching it. Be a human. Not a corporation.

Developer Jonas Eschenburg has ported Doom to the Atari ST https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/doom-slithers-and-dithers-its-way-with-a-16-color-atari-st-port

#DOOM #AtariST #RetroGaming #Atari #16Colors

I wasn't aware of the ads PC Connection made in the 80s and 90s with raccoons, but they're definitely great, and this is an excellent write-up on them: https://technologizer.com/home/2025/04/22/pc-connection-ads-raccoons

#RetroComputing #80sComputers #90sComputers #PCConnection

@hor32 perfect for hiding those brass knuckles and also warming and protecting your hands as you're Nazi punchin

This dude Donnie Russell II adapted Rogue, Nethack and others for the Game Boy Advance and you can grab em all here from his drive. Pretty damn cool: https://sites.google.com/site/donnierussellii/gba-games

#GameBoyAdvance #Rogue #Nethack #GBA #GameBoy #roguelike #roguelikes

🎨: Das Frank

My theory is that there was so much UFO activity in the 90s because the aliens were pretty impressed at all the great albums coming out around that time

Some Pac-Man and other alien space invadery type symbols now in Unicode, via this Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement: https://unicode.org/charts//PDF/Unicode-16.0/U160-1CC00.pdf

#Unicode

Late #Caturday of Cubone, mid-sentence

@killyourfm @mforester 😂🤣 totally, I can see that. Yeah, there's too many great games I need to try on it not to do it haha

@mforester awesome writeup! I still gotta mod mine. One of these days haha. It's on my list 😂

'Absurdly gory', 'too graphic' 🤣 The Toxic Avenger flick with Peter Dinklage hitting theaters August 29!
https://metro.co.uk/2025/01/24/absurdly-gory-film-too-graphic-released-finally-coming-cinemas-22429459

#ToxicAvenger #TheToxicAvenger #PeterDinklage #horror @horror

The oldest olive tree is in Ano Vouves, Crete, and it's estimated to be 2500-4000 years old https://mossandfog.com/the-oldest-olive-tree-in-the-world-is-over-3000-years-old

#science #Crete #Greece #history

Started Scanners today as I realized recently I haven't seen it-- one of the few (David, now that his kids make flicks) Cronenberg things I haven't seen. So good. Only about a third or a fourth of the way through, psyched to finish. That head exploding scene, and Michael Ironside, too. Wild stuff

#movies #films #film #Scanners #Cronenberg #horror #BodyHorror #80sMovies #1980s

Fascinating experiments done with humans and ants.

"Unsurprisingly, the cognitive abilities of humans gave them an edge in the individual challenge, in which they resorted to calculated, strategic planning, easily outperforming the ants.

In the group challenge, however, the picture was completely different, especially for the larger groups. Not only did groups of ants perform better than individual ants, but in some cases they did better than humans."

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-ants-superior-humans-group-problem.html

#science #ants

Apparently we think at about 10 bits per second. It can go up slightly, but that's all still filtering the trillions of external stimuli that are all around us and being perceived by our nervous system. Pretty wild, man

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-quantified-the-speed-of-human-thought-and-its-a-big-surprise

#science #thought #cognition