Rachel Stantz @arjache@awoo.space
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- ENG/ESP/日本語
I tell stories.
Joined Apr 2017
Did mixed nuts ever actually come in cans that looked like the ones full of spring-loaded snakes?
@pandora_parrot I always recommend Polar Bear Cafe. It’s basically an absurdist coffee shop AU with talking animals. Very sweet and kind, with lots of puns which they take great care to translate.
@disappearinjon Liquid smoke, scotch…seems like there’s a cocktail recipe in there somewhere.
I realize I have the privilege of not needing to market my online presence, but I don’t want a new “global town square.” I’ve spent the past decade feeling a little stressed by the idea of being in the town square. I want to go to the park and watch the birds and play with the dogs.
Rachel Stantz
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I found this backup tape while sorting through boxes — the final resting place of Sound Bytes BBS.
Turns out I can still fire it up in DOSBox and browse through everything as a time capsule.
Though the farewell message suggests the BBS would return in summer of 1996, the world moved on quickly, and the BBS scene — as it was — disappeared just like *that*.
By the time 1996 did roll around, we were busy building our area's first dial-up ISP, and there was no turning back.
@benjedwards Deja Vu had such an incredible soundtrack on the NES. Like Maniac Mansion, it’s hard to imagine playing it on any other platform because it just wouldn’t sound right.
I’m sure the writers who are on Substack find some value in the platform, but as a reader I find it incredibly obnoxious. If you want me to read your thing don’t put it behind a modal dialog and don’t ask me to subscribe before I’ve even read anything.
Rachel Stantz
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📅 Happy 32nd Anniversary to Commander Keen!
🔫 Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons, the first game in the Commander Keen series, was released on December 14th, 1990 for MS-DOS.
💾 This was the first major platformer for the PC!
@mcc it’s pronounced “Englebert Humperdinck”
Rachel Stantz
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Here are some screen grabs of Nintendo dev tools from the 90s. Made for the Sony NEWS workstation by SRD this software was called CAD-TOOL and 3DCAD. #gamedev #retrogaming
“Rachel you’re from the US why do you say ‘rubbish’”
Because there’s no one word in American English that conveys garbage/trash + recycling + compost other than perhaps “waste” and that just sounds wrong.
Various states on the state diagram of living in an apartment:
* There is too much rubbish. This is going to take me months to take out without completely monopolizing the bins.
* Okay I finally got my act together enough to take out some rubbish, just this week’s priority rubbish…oh the bins are full.
* Oh the bins are mysteriously empty. Did they collect a day early? How much can I put in without being rude?
* I just needed 3 things shipped to me. Why is my apartment full of cardboard again?
Rachel Stantz
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Usenet: find your people! there are several dozen of them on rec.arts.funny!
Listservs: find your people! there are 100 of them on this obscure list devoted to Marxist cultural criticism
Blogs: find your people! each time one of them visits your site, your little counter will increment! look! it has reached four digits!
Social media: find your people! there are several million strangers who are calling you names!
Post-social media: find your people! there are several dozen of them!
You know, for being a writer constantly surrounded by murder, that Jessica Fletcher really has her life together.
Rachel Stantz
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@seananmcguire Hello and welcome to Mastodon! My username is the same here as on twitter.
@ironheadjane As an elder millennial who was online before the web was really a thing, I am frowning.
Rachel Stantz
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once you have defeated gender you may wear its strictures as you please, not as trappings but as trophies
big dalamud vibes on birdsite tonight
@nex3 I think you need to be able to toggle between both modes, because often I encounter code that looks deceptively local but on deeper inspection turns out to have outside dependencies with weird side effects
obligatory grumble about languages that are neither functional nor strictly safe like rust
- Pronouns
- she/they
- Languages
- ENG/ESP/日本語
I tell stories.
Joined Apr 2017
