the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

I wonder how expensive it would be to get a top-of-the-line windows 98 computer put together out of used parts today, something that would have been extremely high-end in 2001

thought: can you grow a bonsai saguaro?

i guess you might want one now if you have some fancy surround sound setup or something but other than that every motherboard has integrated audio hardware and modern CPUs are more than capable of doing all the FM synth, wavetable synth, and direct sample playback you could need

remember back when sound cards mattered?

"Isn't that obsolete?"
"Obsolutely!"

i appreciate that the person who named SCSI is on the record as intending for it to be pronounced "sexy" but everyone calls it scuzzy instead

pangolins are cute

frustum is a delightfully strange word.

kinda want to make a breadboard computer but that's really expensive and we don't have room for it

<beeping>

marxaroni and cheese

there is literally no situation in which the word "utilize" is better to use than the word "use"; they mean exactly the same thing and the former just makes you sound pretentious

...I guess if you want to sound pretentious it would be better to use "utilize" then, huh

apparently something about pride flags happened while we were grading stuff?? what happened

random thought: is there any way to get windows 10 to be more aggressive when it comes to memory compression?

when playing minecraft we run up very close to running out of memory and would really like a way to avoid that without having to upgrade our RAM since that's expensive

75.

just realized that all the fire emblem characters with the critical hit final smash do a multiple of 3 damage for hitting said final smash

I like this little touch

in the fire emblem games, a critical hit does exactly three times what it would normally do, which is always an integer, so the critical damage is always a multiple of 3

idea: want to get a picture of a genderfluid or polygender character (Aditi perhaps?) presenting as different genders and combinations thereof, and just generally being GNC

Reading about sorting algorithms

Gravity sort feels like cheating. It achieves O(1) run time with O(n) space but it requires O(n) processors working in parallel to get those figures of merit

I appreciate that even among this competition, the game.com hasn't gotten a single vote