I somehow totally forgot about it for years now, but I can’t wait to catch up, yay!

Semi-random, but how do you feel about Evan Dahm’s work (Rice Boy, etc) or Winston Rowntree’s (Subnormality, etc)?

Perhaps a kink for someone ignoring you/bored of you?

Funny timing, I’m actually playing through the games right now. I had forgotten about the little quips it has about the game industry!

Feels so different using a gamepad on a modern PC, I still remember playing it as a kid with a keyboard and CGA graphics. The shareware version of course, ha.

Felt cute might be a little bit of a little bit of a day off but I think I have a hard time finding my driveway 😧

Same here, so grateful for being able to reconnect and strengthen community.

Yay connection! 🧡

But but but that’s not Unix! https://fqa.9front.org/fqa0.html#0.1.1

(Seeing plan9 running on real hardware always makes me unreasonably happy, so thank you!)

Gosh, my daddy’s family is from north Georgia, and he came across one of these guys as a kid. It scared the crap out of him!

I’ll admit, I’ve always wanted to see one in the wild… maybe one day. Big lil snot otter.

Oh gosh, that’s giving me flashbacks to one of my third semester computer science classes at college (Intro to C and Compiler Design).

One of the very early assignments was creating a red-black tree. Thankfully I was already pretty familiar with C, but I don’t think that was true for anyone else in class… totally super didn’t scar me or anyone else.

… and I literally only just now got the joke, oops 😅 if only we could all be left-leaning red-black trees

Yes, I think that’s exactly it, she’s just ridiculously herself, vulnerable, unfiltered 💜

And thank you for the kind words of support for my journey! At least I’m in a much better headspace than I used to be, learning how to be more me has really helped with that.

Fat phobia is probably the prejudice I am most personally and intimately familiar with, and it has continued to astound me the depth of self hatred and external vitriol it can inspire.

This feels like such a poetic expression of the mental dance that turns in to emotional knots. I think it’s fair to be angry that there exists enough social and cultural pressure to be “acceptable” that people would undergo a fairly dangerous procedure that intentionally removes one of the greatest simple pleasures in life. And it’s not a coincidence that far more women get bariatric surgery than men.

I feel the knots in my own head when I think about the wegovy prescription I recently got. My decision was made because I have enough health issues that this would theoretically help, but do I get excited about the fact that I might be able to just get cute clothes from random shops again? Do I get excited at the thought that maybe more people will think I’m pretty and maybe I could finally find a partner or even just have someone flirt with me? Absolutely. Am I excited that maybe doctors will stop blaming my weight for my chronic issues that started long before the weight? Yes. Does it feel like a deal with the devil, even without the potential horrors of bariatric surgery? Also yes. (And is that too many rhetorical questions in this format? Seems likely 😅)

I’m not sure I have the energy to debate anyone about this, but I thought I would share my own perspective 🩷

Thank you, Wren, this has given much food for thought!

I like to imagine that the animals are the same intelligence as before but we can understand them?

In that case, I think it would mostly be super annoying and creepy (especially birds omg can you imagine??), but there’d be some sweet highlights with beloved companions and fascinating interactions with cephalopods and cetaceans. I feel like apes would really be a “through a mirror darkly” kind of sitch, even more so than now.

We’d also need to adjust our ethical, cultural, and legal frameworks, too!

What if humans could get all of their nutrients directly from the sun and air and water?

Oh god, folks at work started using that in PRs recently, it eats at my soul! Or something less dramatic.

I think it depends on my intestinal fortitude for the day… both figuratively and literally 😅

I think you’ve maybe done some of the ones on this list, but I the there’s lots of fun variations to be had maybe? https://www.rei.com/blog/hike/you-dont-need-anything-to-play-these-games

“Fortunately, Unfortunately” seems particularly fun 😁

This wikiHow seems to have a few fun ideas too? (Color my surprised!) https://www.wikihow.com/Talking-Games-to-Play-with-Friends

Apologies, I hope it’s not rude to give links instead of direct suggestions!

Also… thanks for making a warm space 🧡

That’s fair, and sort of what I assumed, but I don’t quite have the experience to say for a fact, so much appreciated!

Ironically I’ve only done modem stuff when I was very young and also somehow most of last year. But also maybe I get a little paranoid when it comes to talking to devices, and maybe I’m extrapolating my current i2c woes too far 😅

I’d like to concur about reading the receive buffer faster than it is filled!

Hopefully there is some end of line character that can be parsed for, but if not, a timeout should be fine like you said.

Curious what baud rate is being used.

Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam, amirite?

Always love your history tidbits!

That’s a bummer! I’m watching it on Netflix in the US (it’s leaving tomorrow, boo), but even here it looks like slim pickins without buying it

And… I should maybe note as I’m watching this again, I forgot how much a product of its time it really is, lord have mercy. Still campy as all get out!

Trying!

About to watch Death Becomes Her for affirmation 💅

what babe?