Violins are kind of like dogs and cats in that if you make them bigger and bigger they turn into similar-looking but different instruments.
*A week passes* Hey… it's called "Titanium Court" after Titania from Shakespeare, isn't it?
(Leon remarked, as if it won't be a Blue Prince type title where it means three things)
Out of curiousity I searched "Metroidbrainia" on Bluesky and the most recent result was less than a day ago. So I guess that one's sticking around for at least a decade.
Post a game that no one else remembers
*sees package at the supermarket produce aisle labeled "MICROWAVE IN BAG"*
*looks inside*
*only contains food*
I used to think it was a bit strange for the caves in Donkey Kong Country to be palette-swapped into such divergent colours as brown, puce, purple and green, but now I'm realising that it's representative of tourist attraction lighting (source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:YinZiYan_-_%E9%93%B6%E5%AD%90%E5%B2%A9_-_Silver_Cave_44.jpg)
Walking up behind Michaelangelo in the midst of working on David and explaining that he could save a lot of effort by only sculpting the front side and placing it against a wall, in modern English
Titanium Court is definitely getting gassed-up to the stars and back, but the mass coyness toward describing its terrain-placement puzzle mechanics is giving me some pretty high expectations.
It's gonna be funny if I play it and it turns out to somehow just be Otostaz (2002).
Somewhat dismayed to report that Twitter aka X has now changed the "Following" tab into "Following 🞃", which requires an additional click to actually get chronological sort. I sure wonder how long this is going to stick.
Donkey Kong Bananza should have had exactly one banana that was taped to a wall.
I think the one big "verbal tic" I've picked up from Deltarune 3+4 isn't even any line of dialogue, but just doing big meaty finger-snaps like the one Tenna does to transition into his boss fight screen.
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Like, I've handled a Swiss army knife and the scissors are not great. Having to use the corkscrew or the screwdriver with only the rest of the knife as grip would get old very fast. I think only the knife blade lives up to the hype, and even then it's on a hinge.
People often use "Swiss army knife" to mean "utility that does every major and minor task in this problem area in the best way possible" but to me that feels quite off from the real-world object, which is meant to use very little space to do a lot of things very suboptimally.
Open source utilities and formats having goofy names like JSON or WASM or Brotli or FLAC or CHD or Zstd may get old sometimes, but by gum it sure beats video encoders and color space format names all being handfuls of numbers like BT709 or H265.
Just read an article lamenting that plenty of laypeople now believe video resolution, as presented by YouTube and Twitch players, is a measure of video compression loss instead of video dimensions… which is a fact so dreadful that it had simply not occurred to me >_>
In closing, if anyone has any idea what's actually going on, I'd appreciate it.
Not only am I unable to identify the existence of Renee Blot, but the 2011 article cited for Wikipedia's paragraph (https://archive.is/0Xs5U) openly contradicts that claim.
(FWIW I actually find the reply more credible than a long-after-the-fact claim by Hefner himself…)
Tried to look up who came up with - specifically - the idea for giving the Playboy bunny costume sleeve-cuffs attached to nothing. Wikipedia says it was added in 1962 by Renee Blot, but the only other source I could find for this is a 2017 blogspot reply. http://web.archive.org/web/20180305164225/https://blog.fidmmuseum.org/museum/2017/09/a-colony-of-colors-the-iconic-playboy-bunny.html
I think UTF-8 is the only time when software engineering actually successfully solved a huge problem definitively forever - and yet, even then, I still know of a few situations where you really do need UTF-32 instead of it (for constant-time arbitrary indexing).
The fact that humanity had to head back to the drawing board on something as bland as UUIDs, as recently as one-and-a-half years ago, really says a lot in that context.
It's been the Year of the Horse for a full day and no one's posted "Everything happens so much" yet…
*starts typing complete list of complaints* First of all, there's way more than 1,151 of those on the internet; seco
Why is this one of the Archive Dot Org frontpage's "top collections"
Now that Betty Boop is public domain, I'm awaiting the Mr. Boop TV adaptation with pre-twiddled thumbs.