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  the Clowns are playing a game in "the oldest ballpark in America" (in Birmingham, AL) today and they opened the pre-show with a huge tribute to a bunch of notable historic Negro Leagues players who played for the original Clowns at various points, with a special shoutout to the fact that all of the names they mentioned played in the same ballpark that the modern Clowns are playing at this weekend it always gives me fucking goosebumps when they lean into the historical aspect l...

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  anyone on my feed heard of the game Rivage? it popped up on my Steam recommendations calendar the other day and just released https://store.steampowered.com/app/4094660/Rivage/ it looks pretty sick, they’re definitely trying for the same kind of atmospheric puzzle-exploration style that Myst and Riven were known for but my Steam recommendations calendar is literally the only place i’ve heard of it and i usually only bite on a release if i’ve seen someone actually play it or have otherwise hear...

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  RE: https://squad.town/@QuietMisdreavus/117315136841665802 tangent: i am once again begging game devs and publishers to Please Add Captions to your trailers if they’re going to have speech in them invariably i have to crank the volume way up to understand a game trailer nowadays if it’s not the indie-standard “verb your noun” stuff set over the game soundtrack

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  managed to beat IGTAP the day after it came out, nice i liked this little stinger at the end of the credits roll there’s more stuff to do, naturally, but it seems like i’ve done all of the “main progression” stuff it’s a very interesting game. it almost scratched that precision-platformer itch i sometimes get, but the hitboxes can sometimes feel a bit frustrating at times. i enjoyed it a lot, and would recommend it for anyone who is looking for “an incremental game that’s also a platformer” l...

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  RE: https://mstdn.social/@diniremix/117037745116826833 it’s really cool to see the kinds of code that the new implementation enables, like there’s a lot of semantic work going on to validate what you *meant* and not what you *said* i feel like there’s a lot of that in Rust in general, when you also think about the absolutely incredible amount of work that has gone into diagnostics as well also i remember hearing about the original Polonius back in the day, it’s sick seeing that that work neve...

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  ModRetro is back in the retro-game spotlight with a new gadget, so it bears repeating: “Do not buy the war crime N64” https://aftermath.site/war-crime-n64-palmer-luckey-m64-modretro/

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  my previous job (which was also my last job pre-transition but that’s just a coincidence) involved writing maintenance and diagnostic scripts for a series of medical laboratory analyzers that had been in the market for like 15 years by that point. if you’re in the business you’ll recognize the company name but it’s not important here. what was important was that as a result of working on these machines, the office had several literal clinical-chemistry labs with several of them set up to do QA...

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  Discord has been increasingly showing me their stupid "Quest" ads multiple times a day now, and it pisses me off that i can't pay to be rid of them

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  fill your world with love today

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  lmao i’m becoming a sports person, just spent two evenings in a row watching banana ball games

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  fantastic question, random youtube rec, i will not be watching for the answer

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  sometimes i remember that the Safari "Hide Distracting Items" feature exists, and i *love* the way it just poofs the thing into dust when you click it, it's so satisfying

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  RE: https://squad.town/@QuietMisdreavus/116581646042403639 one thing i find interesting comparing banana ball to MLB is that the combination of "teams being staffed from minor-league players", “smaller/newer sporting league", and “teams encourages to showboat on the field to accrue trick plays”, errors (in the baseball-stat sense) are more likely to show up. flyaway hits aren't automatically an out, passes aren't always caught, hell, even pitches aren&...

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  i feel like the RG Rotate is one of those rare handhelds that is both stylish and small enough to fit into women’s jeans pockets https://youtu.be/Mh0nlM7kso8

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  i need to find someone who is as into weird game categorization shit as i am because i'm trying to suss out the difference between "idle games" and "incremental games", and specifically what game(s) spawned the trend of incremental games on steam and in the process i'm building up a mental model that should just be a fucking blog post or presentation, and oh my god i need to sort my fucking health shit before i become a video essayist for real

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  i can tell my new antidepressant dose is working because i am Completely Full Of Words now lol

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  fascinating new paper that theorizes a broader neurobiological framework for ADHD that points to markers that can be tested and treated and explains more about the symptom cluster than previous models in summary, the paper introduces a model wherein the brain can’t properly regulate energy for the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for things like planning and impulse control. it can look like not having fuel at all (which leads to more inattentiveness) or only receiving energy in bursts a...

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  oh lmao i thought it was a mistake that the pride wallpapers went out with the release candidate builds of iOS/watchOS the other day, turns out i just completely missed the press release https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/05/apple-introduces-a-new-pride-collection/

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  aw man, Everything Is Crab has DRM issues in GameNative and doesn't run :( i was really excited to try this game i guess i have to dust off my Steam Deck to run it 🤷‍♀️

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  my mother-in-law has a Savannah Bananas game on, and i feel like their alternate-universe baseball league is something i could get into i just love that they don’t take themselves too seriously, but they also stick several rules in place to keep games from dragging on forever

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  here’s an app idea that’s been kicking around the back oh my head for a while and probably won’t see the light of day by my hand: i want a weather app where the at-a-glance view shows the highest and lowest temperatures *in the next 24 hours* rather than in the current midnight-to-midnight span i live in a dry plains climate, and i frequently need to know whether the temperature is swinging because it’s the normal swing for the season, or because a cold front is coming through and i can’t trus...

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  me just now: i am interested in the C programming language as an art project, not as an engineering tool

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  our cat was staring at us from across the room, so my partner eventually said “Jasper, are you a person? blink twice,” and that motherfucker BLINKED TWICE what the fuck do we do now

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  same energy

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  i forget where this crossed my feed, but this breakdown of doing low-level memory shenanigans to cut down tail latency on memory reads (by duplicating the data and sharding the copies across different memory controllers) was extremely fascinating https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKbgulTp3FE

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@mdreid/116292374264941891 the reason so many trans people are in software is because they are predisposed for success: in the most vulnerable time of their lives they have to put up with naming things and cache invalidation

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  first: Tom Scott is back, baby, and he's better than ever second: the first video (on Nebula for now, but will be on YouTube next week) features the most English conversation i've ever witnessed, where three blokes stand around going "if you were a cheese, what kind of cheese would you be” https://nebula.tv/videos/tomscott-i-helped-break-a-142yearold-bell-and-thats-okay