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In Quake console command "showturtle 1" will show a little turtle icon in the top left corner of the screen when frame rate drops below 10 fps.

finally checked Antichamber off my to-play list. great lil puzzle game

Something I noticed in these two weeks of Unity discourse is that developers are so immersed in their specific practices that struggle to grasp how different genres are dependent on, and entrenched in, currently available technologies.

8 bit platformer dude: "Just switch to Godot"
ascii game dude: "Just make your own engine"
Third-person shooter dude: "Unreal is clearly the best choice now"

Ok dudes (it's always a dude) but... it depends?

need me a girl who's a complete enigma. looking for an utterly inscrutable gf

hot dogs, or as they call them in japanese, "onigiri" (ogre fingers)

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onigiri in name only, for they are neither oni nor nigiri

happy 30th anniversary to #Myst tomorrow!! i don't normally do much pixel art, it was fun to stretch a bit #art

hot dogs, or as they call them in japanese, "onigiri" (ogre fingers)

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onigiri in name only, for they are neither oni nor nigiri

2832. Urban Planning Opinion Progression 

title text: If they're going to make people ride bikes and scooters in traffic, then it should at LEAST be legal to do the Snow Crash thing where you use a hook-shot-style harpoon to catch free rides from cars.

(xkcd.com/2832)
(explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php)

i meant to start working on episode 2 of nesdevlog today, but kinda got waylaid by some stuff. i'll try to get it out over the weekend - it'll be a long one

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i want to make games on linux and have basically no programming experience. if i were to start learning one, what programming language should i learn? :boost_ok:

edit: am leaning towards lua! i have a tiny bit of love2D experience so i at least have touched it before, even if i don't really know what i'm doing or remember the syntax

we need a browser + extension that will show downloads in a bar at the bottom of the window like download statusbar, and that can open the downloaded files with a simple click or double click

we refuse to use chrome or anything chromium-based

does anyone have suggestions
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we need advice on browser stuff

we have been using waterfox classic ever since firefox updated and broke all the old extensions, because there is one extension we need for accessibility reasons (called "download statusbar")

waterfox classic is having increasing amounts of trouble with modern websites and the recent mastodon update means we might??? just have problems with plush.city, our main social media site, going forward
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