I just learned this word and I already despise it. This word only exists to titillate linguistics majors and make innocent people lose at trivia
This game is like La Mulana except you only get the tablet scanner 4 hours in, and the ancient history revealed by the tablets looks like this
Everyone's moved onto http://enclose.horse when I'm still not done with http://endless.horse yet : (
It's bringing some new and revolutionary obstacle ideas to the Indiana Jones-style deathtrap ruins platformer
Enticing shop item description
You are now manually excreting bile acid into your duodendum in response to a digestive intake of fats : )
It's killing me that right now both of Earth's famously inhabitable hemispheres are 45 degrees, but it's Fahrenheit in the north and Celsius in the south
Storytelling is easy
At first I felt this was biting Dot Zo Games's "地底へドンドン" a bit hard, due to borrowing the bomb and its "secret" bomb jump closely – but they've thoughtfully extended it with more capabilities. For instance, the bomb jump enables the even more secret technique of… running.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3382070/Queen_of_treasure_isle/ – Playing "Queen of Treasure Isle". I wasn't sure what precisely the reviewers meant by "amazing pixel art", but it turns out it means it's stuffed full of pictorial descriptions like these:
While the body's specifics have, sadly, always been a space on which to inscribe ideologies and strictures of such human-made concepts as "beauty" and "health", the human body in the general transcends human design and intention - precedes it - yet is fully inseparable from us.
It feels right, somehow, that the human body, a purely natural creation of the epochs, is maybe the most important single object to learn to draw.
At least it still has some dignity to it, unlike the 'void' operator, which, despite being both incredibly simple and completely safe, only exists to solve a complete non-problem and doesn't do anything useful otherwise.
The JS with statement is funny because it's clear what problem it solves - heavy use of, say, Math methods requires typing "Math" dozens of times - but the solution isn't "make it easier to assign methods to short variables", it's "invent a wacky new kind of variable altogether".
Knowing you're going to be the last full generation to live and die before the generation ship actually lands is bittersweet at best and existentially confronting at worst.
"To play a match, you first need to pick who wins and who loses. Formerly, this was decided at the end of the match, but to avoid issues if the match is called due to rain or from everyone spontaneously forgetting the rules, it is now customary to do this first."
"Hm, finished the tutorial? Take a glance over here. Your eyes don't deceive: there are indeed two goal squares, and BOTH require a crate pushed on them! Alas, it pains me to reveal that here, in the real game, only a cruel, ceaseless vortex of anguish and despair awaits you!"
"They say human reflexes can't compete with cyber-defense anti-intruder constructs operating at the speed of bytes… what they don't realise is that shouting "PFWOOOSH" and waving your arms around while you break into a sprint is like a 2-second speed boost if you do it right."
Waiting until the cicadas' song has finally puttered out for the night before shouting "ENCORE", thus obliging them to start up all over again.
*has a 106% save file in Super Meat Boy* I Just Don't Like That Kind Of Platformer
*finishes Angeline Era on Inferno difficulty and then looks at a single room in the Love Eternal trailer* Yeah I Ain't Doin That
Favourite CSS property that sounds like an early-10s videogame marketing term is probably "touch-action"
Every card in a deck is so sure that they won't be the one to end up on the bottom once a shuffle begins - but every card still remembers that one distant, vexing moment that they found themselves between the table and the full weight of everyone else.
Recently I heard a touching story that this specific Mario Maker level was deleted from the servers for some reason, but after hearing of the death of the creator, the community worked to manually recreate it from footage like this… https://x.com/webbedspace/status/1257321965410414593
Violins are kind of like dogs and cats in that if you make them bigger and bigger they turn into similar-looking but different instruments.
*A week passes* Hey… it's called "Titanium Court" after Titania from Shakespeare, isn't it?
(Leon remarked, as if it won't be a Blue Prince type title where it means three things)
Out of curiousity I searched "Metroidbrainia" on Bluesky and the most recent result was less than a day ago. So I guess that one's sticking around for at least a decade.
Post a game that no one else remembers
*sees package at the supermarket produce aisle labeled "MICROWAVE IN BAG"*
*looks inside*
*only contains food*
I used to think it was a bit strange for the caves in Donkey Kong Country to be palette-swapped into such divergent colours as brown, puce, purple and green, but now I'm realising that it's representative of tourist attraction lighting (source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:YinZiYan_-_%E9%93%B6%E5%AD%90%E5%B2%A9_-_Silver_Cave_44.jpg)
Walking up behind Michaelangelo in the midst of working on David and explaining that he could save a lot of effort by only sculpting the front side and placing it against a wall, in modern English
Titanium Court is definitely getting gassed-up to the stars and back, but the mass coyness toward describing its terrain-placement puzzle mechanics is giving me some pretty high expectations.
It's gonna be funny if I play it and it turns out to somehow just be Otostaz (2002).
Somewhat dismayed to report that Twitter aka X has now changed the "Following" tab into "Following 🞃", which requires an additional click to actually get chronological sort. I sure wonder how long this is going to stick.
Donkey Kong Bananza should have had exactly one banana that was taped to a wall.
I think the one big "verbal tic" I've picked up from Deltarune 3+4 isn't even any line of dialogue, but just doing big meaty finger-snaps like the one Tenna does to transition into his boss fight screen.
…
Like, I've handled a Swiss army knife and the scissors are not great. Having to use the corkscrew or the screwdriver with only the rest of the knife as grip would get old very fast. I think only the knife blade lives up to the hype, and even then it's on a hinge.
People often use "Swiss army knife" to mean "utility that does every major and minor task in this problem area in the best way possible" but to me that feels quite off from the real-world object, which is meant to use very little space to do a lot of things very suboptimally.
Open source utilities and formats having goofy names like JSON or WASM or Brotli or FLAC or CHD or Zstd may get old sometimes, but by gum it sure beats video encoders and color space format names all being handfuls of numbers like BT709 or H265.
Just read an article lamenting that plenty of laypeople now believe video resolution, as presented by YouTube and Twitch players, is a measure of video compression loss instead of video dimensions… which is a fact so dreadful that it had simply not occurred to me >_>
In closing, if anyone has any idea what's actually going on, I'd appreciate it.
Not only am I unable to identify the existence of Renee Blot, but the 2011 article cited for Wikipedia's paragraph (https://archive.is/0Xs5U) openly contradicts that claim.
(FWIW I actually find the reply more credible than a long-after-the-fact claim by Hefner himself…)
Tried to look up who came up with - specifically - the idea for giving the Playboy bunny costume sleeve-cuffs attached to nothing. Wikipedia says it was added in 1962 by Renee Blot, but the only other source I could find for this is a 2017 blogspot reply. http://web.archive.org/web/20180305164225/https://blog.fidmmuseum.org/museum/2017/09/a-colony-of-colors-the-iconic-playboy-bunny.html
I think UTF-8 is the only time when software engineering actually successfully solved a huge problem definitively forever - and yet, even then, I still know of a few situations where you really do need UTF-32 instead of it (for constant-time arbitrary indexing).
The fact that humanity had to head back to the drawing board on something as bland as UUIDs, as recently as one-and-a-half years ago, really says a lot in that context.
It's been the Year of the Horse for a full day and no one's posted "Everything happens so much" yet…
*starts typing complete list of complaints* First of all, there's way more than 1,151 of those on the internet; seco
Why is this one of the Archive Dot Org frontpage's "top collections"
Now that Betty Boop is public domain, I'm awaiting the Mr. Boop TV adaptation with pre-twiddled thumbs.