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

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

@thanius AWESOME read!! 😀😀

Quality advice

Godzilla (SNES, 1993)

Apparently the "hacktivists" that have been DDoSing the Internet Archive are doing it because they think the U.S. government is Zionist. Regardless of whether that's true, the Archive is nonprofit and has nothing to do with the U.S. government.

And ironcally, of course, the assholes who are doing this and destroying human history (not just U.S. history, either) are posting about it on X, a "service" that is now owned by one of the richest fascists in the USA.

Great job, you fucking fools. Get fucked

RIP the incredible James Earl Jones, known for so many things.

Some of my favorite work of his was as Thulsa Doom in Conan the Barbarian and in the Simpsons Halloween specials.

He will be so missed.

Someday, companies will require you to use devices that allow Internet nag screens to physically pop out of the screen and to grab your eyelids, holding them up, in order for the company to literally 'inject' an ad into your eye

@fistfulofdave 😂 does have a Microsoft-y feel now, yeah. And same, I've used it since OpenOffice. But it's such bs that Microsoft wants to charge for Office now, this laptop I've used for 5+ years that I paid for this version of Windows 10 then that was installed on it - no way am I paying Microsoft for Word or Excel. And LibreOffice is so similar, I don't need it for crazy complex things on my personal laptop. Just basic word processing and spreadsheet stuff. So it's nice. But yeah, the UI is very reminiscent hahaha

I won a contest @libreoffice held, and I got all this KILLER LibreOffice swag from them.

I've used LibreOffice for so many years, from back in the mid 2000s when it was OpenOffice. It's better than Microsoft Office. It's totally free and open source, and you don't have to be logged in like you do now with Office.

Try it out if you haven't, you won't regret it.

https://libreoffice.org

#LibreOffice #OpenSource #FOSS