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thomaswinwood.bsky.social
All cops are bastards. Trans rights are human rights. Black lives matter. I may not live up to my ideals, but that doesn't mean I don't hold them.
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Are there any fonts which use Unicode arrows and ligatures to provide glyphs for fighting-game motion inputs? e.g. this for the sequence of U+2193 U+2198 U+2192 (↓↘→)

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

you can just mute the president's name btw. like you're allowed to do that

submitted 47 days ago • 7 comments

I'm guessing "certain Switch games may not be supported on or fully compatible with Switch 2" means "like three launch games were made with a prototype development kit which is too old for backwards compatibility, the developers didn't update them after release and wouldn't respond to our emails".

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Something I'm curious about: genre fiction has cottoned on that "ready, aim, fire" is wrong because "fire" originates from musketry (where you apply fire to the powder to ignite it) so instead we get "nock, draw, loose", but do we know how volleys of arrow fire were coordinated historically?

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

It's entirely possible for this to be useful without diminishing human releases. For example, anime subtitles often don't match the voice lines in the English dub because they were translated separately (on the assumption that people either watch with dubbed audio or with subtitles). 1/

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

@bretdevereaux.bsky.social There's someone spamming up the comments in your most recent blog post with incendiary remarks about other commenters. I thought you'd want to know so you can take any action you deem fit.

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment