penduin @penduin@birb.site

@Jo
this from a fellow minnesotan?! sincere apologies on behalf my adoptive home state. most of our sewers are in fine working order, but evidently that particular turd got away and is now online.

@balrogboogie

dear greedy corporations and ignorant governments,

we already gave you tld's like .com and .gov so stop trying to take over and/or wreck the rest of the internet. play nice or gtfo.

sincerely,
the entire human race

holy crap, i just hit my phone's back button to close an image (like i always do), and... the image actually closed! my place in the timeline didn't vanish or anything!!

a bigass thank-you to whomever implemented and/or merged this.

@virtual and vice versa! ;^)

@Alisca same reason people run windows. they want pain and contortion, they want basic actions to become cumbersome or impossible, and they want to look ridiculous, all in the name of being "normal".

(this is a joke response to what seemed like a joke question. if you rock heels and/or windows and enjoy it, more power to you! :^)

just played the megaman 11 demo. feels very much like mighty no. 9 to me -- i don't dislike them, but they don't capture that nes/gameboy magic either. interesting-but-kinda-goofy mechanics, neat-but-missing-pixel-precision stage, meh music, frustrating boss. (my same exact assessment for mm11 and mn9 :^) i'm curious what the mighty haters will think.

@thomasfuchs @dosnostalgic i had to look this up, and sure enough, not a raycaster! such similar effects and artifacts, drawn with surprisingly different strategies. cool!

@rickward very difficult to choose a favorite zelda, or one i most relate to, but i had to go with link's awakening. it combines the most fun and interesting aspects of the first three games, and has the most concentrated dose of charm the series has seen.

tetris (nes, tengen)
zelda: link's awakening (non-dx)
super metroid
xenoblade chronicles (any)
metal gear solid: the twin snakes

@Jo if it was me, i'd say to check if you're carrying them already.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/30/lenovos-yoga-book-c930-swaps-the-keyboard-for-an-e-ink-display/
my tastes are exactly opposite of whomever this is for. i'd replace a laptop's lcd display with e-ink, and make the keyboard big and chunky!

alexa,
at 2am every day, play death metal music at maximum volume.

i have not yet had it in me to say this out loud when visiting friends/relatives who own such a device.

@scearley today i learned how to covertly drink bloody marys anywhere, while convincing anyone nearby that i'm not drunk, just eccentric.

@UberGeek (which, to this day, many of their own plugins don't follow. and which, at the time, was 100% undocumented. but yes, i'm the unreasonable one, for submitting a working patch which people still ask for and use.)

please let's not argue about this any further. my point is that "make a pull request or quit whining", like any form of respect, runs both ways.

@UberGeek well said. conversely, projects should take care when rejecting patches for features which users are begging for. https://penduin.blogspot.com/2011/05/gimp-color-range-mapping.html

so, crystal pepsi is a thing again, huh? i don't drink pop anymore, but i'm willing to try a really weird-looking rum and coke.

to the 90s; may some of that optimism also make a comeback.

double #catmouflage @book @autumn

#caturday

@sonicbooming exactly. :^) and there are games where i enjoy the emergent stuff. just not that one.