re: Them's Fightin' Herds
@porsupah Depends on how much fighting game experience you have. The easiest of the five difficulty settings allows for simple play that boils down to "react to prompt with button". It's a good place to start, and I should probably spend more time there getting comfortable with blocking and evasion before I do any more work on actual damage.
It also has a story mode I dipped into for a couple hours earlier, and so far it's like a slow piece-at-a-time tutorial. It's an overhead RPG-style thing that jumps to the fight-game part for combat. Goofy and delightful!
@hystericempress Mmmmmmm... okay, you've convinced me!
@hystericempress One Must Fall: Battlegrounds supposedly did that, though I never played the game. I do love much of what's on the OST, though.
Now I really want to try this game, though I know I'd never be any more than an amateur at it.
It's called the demoscene, Mom, and it's art!
(actual headline: Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany)
@LexYeen Just ask any bovine!
@porsupah I accidentally a 3 and meant 4. Oops!
Wrote up how I fix git history to remove my deadname -- https://devcara.com/blog/2021/3/on-deadnames-and-git/
T-Mobile and Sprint will share your browsing activity and apps used with advertisers, unless you opt out by April 26:
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/03/09/t-mobile-ad-targeting-data-collection/
(Links also provided to opt out of similar shenanigans by AT&T and Verizon)
@LexYeen Since you mention Emperor Norton I, I present part of a project which never made it to fruition:
@Leucrotta I know, right? French doesn't even use the W!
The Duwamish tribe (from the Pacific Northwest region of present-day US and Canada) have launched a petition demanding federal recognition!
https://www.change.org/p/federal-recognition-for-the-duwamish-tribe
Please take a moment to sign if you can!
Just got my census invite, reminder that if you're in a household where someone else will fill in your info for you and you're not out about something you can request a code so you can submit your own details that will overwrite anything they put and they won't be able to find out #census #census2021
i think the amiga famous 'boing ball' demo is like, everything you need to know about the concept of illusion. it pretends to be a bouncing ball, using 3D shapes to create an image of a ball. you're impressed that it was able to draw those 3D shapes. "what a successful illusion of a ball!" you say, completely unaware that there were no 3D shapes, and no polygons, and you were fooled by the real, second-order illusion, accomplished using separate bitplanes and color cycling
PSA: If you run a mail server, don't use http://dnsbl-3.uceprotect.net as an RBL. It lists basically every VPS provider as a potential spam source and they charge server admins a $100/year "whitelisting fee" to get around it.
Their dnsbl-1 and -2 RBLs are based on actual spam reports.
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