@packbat Ooooooh!
I mean, I'm not a PICO-8 thing-doer, but I love making bitmap fonts... as though the "market" weren't already utterly saturated. :)
US Govt covid tests for free
https://special.usps.com/testkits ends sept 2, and apparently you can have up to three orders. Get yours in!
US peeps: If your income is at or below 200% of FPL (or you rely on SNAP, Medicaid, WIC, SSI, FPHA, VA Pension/Survivor, Free/Reduced School Lunch, certain Tribal Assistance programs, etc) the Affordable Connectivity Program can help with your internet bill ⤵️
@packbat More than once, I've said, "My code works now and I'm so angry." How are ya s'posed to troubleshoot code that works? :)
Transphobia
@Owlor "I may not know why this software crashes on launch a fifth of the time or why our error logs keep filling up with the letter 'K' or even what a 'type mismatch' is, but I know that there are $0002 genders and you can tell them apart by one of a string of digits the government picked for them years ago!" *types confidently, not even forgetting the semicolon this time*
Since we were thinking about hardware demands, we went ahead and published our manifesto on the subject, "why isn't this a doom 2 mod": https://packbat.itch.io/why-isnt-this-a-doom-2-mod
full text is on the page, but there is a plaintext file and an audiobook-style mp3 reading of it available as downloads
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Watching Infinity Train could help you resolve ethical dilemmas like "is it moral to pirate an edifying and culturally enriching show that would otherwise be unavailable to you?"
The worldwide report for the 2022 Gender Census is now published: https://www.gendercensus.com/results/2022-worldwide/
It's about language preferences about genders beyond the binary.
You can also read a summary of the big three questions (identities, titles and pronouns) here: https://www.gendercensus.com/results/2022-worldwide-summary/
Past medication fuckery.
@packbat There was the time my spouse dropped off a new prescription for estradiol. Given its tendency to thicken the blood, their doctor also had them taking aspirin as a blood thinner. Trouble is... the pharmacist read the estradiol scribble as warfarin, itself a strong blood thinner. Cue weeks of increasing irritability from hormone withdrawal... and slowly increasing issues with lightheadedness and random bruising. It was that last that really got our attention, so we sorted things out and no crisis came of it. As a bonus, once we went to correct the issue, we got to see a pharmacist turn ghost-sighting pale!
@packbat That is a chilling read... in part because none of it surprises me anymore.
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