guerin78.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Nerd/Geek. AvPD. Retro Game Hoarder (Mostly PSX-Wii Era).
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Followup: My initial inspection was excessively optimistic.
All three bins with top handles leaked, although the water drained almost immediately to the bottom so the damage to (most) items at the top was minimal.
Multiple books and a ton of notepads are, unfortunately, destined for recycling now.
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Actually, this one actually makes sense: PICO-8 games are distributed as .png files, so that's a necessary feature to support the retro8 core.
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For the record, it's so slow because it's being transferred to an SD card from a USB-connected external HDD. Frankly I'm amazed I'm getting transfer speeds as good as I am.
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Steam runs. Right now any specific game is a crapshoot, but the games ecosystem as a whole is improving constantly (because the Steam Deck runs on linux, and more and more games are targeting it natively.)
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I recently had to buy an emergency supply of TP at the dollar store, so I assure you that the regular rolls do, in fact, exist, even if the major brands have largely abandoned them.
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As a reminder: Usborne gives away their 80s programming books for free at usborne.com/books/comput... . You'll need to emulate the systems they were originally written for, these days, but they're still an excellent introduction to programming.
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Okay, after a quick check of Google (I'm local, and I didn't even know the numbers on University Ave went that high) that doesn't seem like a terrible place to build more housing. There's even transit access already.
K-W really needs infill projects more than new construction, but it's something.
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Problem: the main guy responsible for all that is from there.
You'd just end up with Mayor Ford (again) doing the same things he's been doing as Premier.
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Unfortunately, even among devs who should know better, a lot of that progress STILL seems to be of the "code it for Windows and let Proton figure it out" variety. 😐
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I haven't seen much of this, though tbh as someone who's not normally a fan of Pokemon I'm not surprised.
People arguing that the Mystery Dungeon games aren't actually roguelikes, however....
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Ironically, I generally find HTML UI development less annoying. Partly because I'm old enough to remember what it was like pre-CSS, and partly because I'm not doing it professionally and therefore have a higher tolerance for scuff than a pro would need to have.
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True, but I wasn't talking about HTML. My main experience is with trying to pick up game/desktop app programming again now that I have the free time, after far too long away.
In that space, every design tool I've tried thus far is a confusing, under-documented mess.
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I would kill for something as simple and powerful as VB6's UI designer. (Doubly so if it were Win/Mac/Nix cross-platform compatible.)
Every UI design tool I've tried (admittedly, not THAT many) has, ironically, felt like it was made by people with no experience designing UIs.
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Sadly, my mother (the primary tea drinker in the household) won't drink anything other than the worst tea possible. When asked, after a nearby supermarket chain discontinued their store brand, she couldn't name even one major brand that she enjoyed.
I suspect she doesn't actually like tea.
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The first I remember was the ColecoVision port of Gateway to Apshai.
While it made me love roguelikes to this day, I've tried playing it since, and... it's impressive for 1K of RAM and 16K of ROM, but that doesn't make it GOOD.
Still kinda want to code my own version someday, tho, even so.
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I'll be honest: I bought my T430 mostly because it was the cheapest thing available when my gaming PC died. But while I'm technically dual-booting with the Win10 it came with, I've been using Mint exclusively for months, now. Mostly because the Linux video drivers aren't complete crap.