🫏 Animal #168 🦥
I figured it out in 6 guesses!
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🔥 6 | Avg. Guesses: 6.8
I just discovered https://phanpy.social/ , and this is the most excited I've been about a Mastodon web client since that one that looked like Google+. And this time I'm actually excited about useful things, specifically:
- thread support that often displays the thread inline on my timeline and always comes with a very prominent indicator that I'm seeing something from a thread
- an optional "boosts carousel" that separates boosts into their own timeline-goes-sideways chunks every so often
metazooa spoilers for 167
i am upset about this one because the taxonomy is subtly but objectively incorrect
🪰 Animal #167 🐍
I figured it out in 9 guesses!
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🔥 5 | Avg. Guesses: 6.8
🦊 Animal #166 🐎
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 4 | Avg. Guesses: 6.8
to clarify what i'm looking for, i want the oldest game *by its listed release date on Steam*. i know there are some pongs and zorks and such on there that are (in some form) strictly older than 1983, but the versions on steam are updates or collections or remakes with newer release dates; this also disqualifies stuff like atari 2600 games that were put up there as part of newer collections
oldest release on steam update: i found dragon's lair on there, so the year to beat is now 1983 https://store.steampowered.com/app/227380/Dragons_Lair/
For folks with 3DS CFW, someone has now written a tool (a patched version of gm9, specifically) to force refresh the NAND, with an option to list how many bad blocks it found so you can see if you're getting anywhere with repeated cycles: https://gbatemp.net/threads/corrupted-cartridge-fixer-release.628539/
Nintendo Switch and Nintendo 3DS cartridges use NAND flash for storage , not mask ROMs. Like all Flash memory, they "leak" charge over time and eventually lose data.
The Switch and 3DS card reader tells game cards to "refresh" themselves periodically. https://gbatemp.net/threads/nintendo-switch-3ds-cartridge-lifespan.591607/
But, some users are reporting cartridges already dying, especially ones they haven't used for years. I wonder which of mine already don't work.
Just a reminder that you don't own any data you can't back up. Buying physical cartridges and game cards isn't enough if they're using technology that inevitably deteriorates over time.
🦜 Animal #165 🐾
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 3 | Avg. Guesses: 6.8
VVVVVV is back on its 14th birthday with a major new update - now available for the first time in more than 20 languages! Check it out! https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/70300/view/3888358641554236790
Today I will be posting thoughts about Aaron Swartz, who died on this day in 2013. The academic community should be much more aware of him, and challenge the massive problem of academic publishing that we are all part of. Let's make it our mission to tell people about Aaron and what he stood for.
#academic #academicmastodon #academicchatter #copyright #publishing #openaccess #publicdomain #otd
Aaron's Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
am i overthinking the lore of a game about spraying preposterously dirty objects with a pressure washer? yes, but someone has to do it now that matpat has retired
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