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It's strange to think that there are people right now on this planet attempting to work out how to create actual literal stars in laboratory conditions.

cities that have a "homeless problem" would not have a homeless problem if they just gave the homeless people homes

it's weird to think that the nintendo DS was originally going to just be a spinoff of the gameboy line and they were planning to go back to more conventional gameboys after it

i wonder what portable games would have looked like if not for the massive success of the ds

thing we noticed at the grocery store: dark chocolate M&Ms claim to use 50% cacao chocolate (which is not particularly dark but okay), yet dark chocolate peanut M&Ms use 49% cacao chocolate

why do they use different recipes

why are game genres so badly named

RPGs are rarely about role-playing and far more about experiencing a story (particularly JRPGs; WRPGs and cRPGs are more focused on the RP part of the RPG)

FPSs aren't necessarily about shooting and being first-person, they're about reflexes and fast-paced action. just going by the name alone, Metroid Prime (very clearly a metroidvania) and Portal (very clearly a physics based puzzle game) would be FPS games, which they really don't fit in with the rest of

The price of helium, like helium itself, is very volatile.

Why is it that you can still get hand versions of many power tools, but hand drills aren't really made anymore?

it does exactly what it says it does: it attempts a number of different ways to crash your browser (only after you tell it to though)

I like that https://www.crashmybrowser.com/ exists

*atari 2600 style beep*

why is it that one of the most memorable lines ever seems to be "NOT RAIN NOR SNOW NOR GLOM OF NIT
WILL STAY THESE MES ENGERS ABUT THEIR DUTY"

it's not a particularly poignant line, it's not even terribly important to the story it's from, it's just that glom of nit sounds funny

i am just extremely stressed right now and need affection but also i'm in the sort of mood where anything suggesting physical contact is Bad

okay apparently internet is back now

that was about three hours of what ffelt like some kind of psychological torture or something

aaaaagh having internet out is such a horrible experience when internet is your only way of interacting with people, especially when it's somehow out in a way that makes it so that I can _see_ things people say but I can't say things back and I get all that anxiety of "what if they get worried, what if they think we're in trouble or somethin gbecause we're not responding" and i can't even post this right now as i type it because of it and i have no idea when it's going to get fixed and aaaaaaaa

this is worsened by the fact that most of the things we do to help cope with stress require an internet connection... and when the stress itself is over not having an internet connection it kind of compounds on itself and just makes it way worse

i just want to at least know what the hell is going on

the ATmega microcontroller, or the AT controller

if you aren't aware, the original game had a system where spyro would accelerate from a stop when you pressed any directional button, so quickly tapping the button would allow you to move a very short distance, and pressing to either side while holding forward would allow you to get more angular precision based on how long you pressed the side button; it works really intuitively and we've only ever seen it in spyro and super mario 64 ds

spyro reignited apparently doesn't have the original's dynamic dpad controls

which is kind of a shame because it was the pioneering game of that system and it worked really well, gave you precision moving around a 3d world without needing an analog stick

maybe i had a point when i started but i forgot it somewhere along the way and that's okay

did I have a point in writiing out all this?

no

in case you can't tell, we've never used most sega controllers. just the dreamcast one