Notices by matt 🏴 (matt@cybre.space)

@ajroach42 Oh also "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge" came out 3 months before American Idiot and it was such a spectacularly better pop punk album it's insane to me that anyone gave a shit about Green Day. Next to MCR American Idiot sounds like the blandest, safest, lowest-energy dad punk imaginable

There is no "night crew" on the internet. I refuse to engage in this hemispherical chauvinism

Scott Benson wrote about working with Alec and it's a tough read but very good https://medium.com/@bombsfall/alec-2618dc1e23e

I don't know what I mean by "good". Illuminating, touching, cathartic, devastating, relatable, goddamn we need to start talking about this shit

@KitRedgrave Yep, it's still available here https://www.cavestory.org/download/cave-story.php (I was wondering this a few days ago too so I looked it up)

Google, who became the most powerful corporation in the world by selling web ads: Hey in the future every computer program should actually be a website. Don't worry about why, just do it. It'll be cool. We're the vanguard of technology or something

People: ok

People: hey why does this calendar i downloaded have ads in it

Google: Haha cool

Newspaper vending machines are so weird. Anyone can pay for one paper and take all of them, and that clearly doesn't happen or else they'd have stopped doing it or changed the design. So why have a coin-activated lock at all? Why can't I put a dollar in a slot and get a paper? Surely the extra 25% from people willing to pay it (because who has exactly three quarters on them ever) will offset the occasional person who will take one without paying?

I'm watching someone stream Baba and I'm happy to see that I'm still able to easily figure out the solutions to the old puzzles again even though I haven't played in months. I think it's one of those rare games that gave me a small but permanent critical thinking bonus

You've spent your life trying to transmute lead into gold, but can anyone transmute your heart? One down-on-his luck ex-geologist thinks he knows the formula, but it's going to take a pretty strong reagent. Will you let him warm you up with his exothermic charms? This summer, alchemy meets geochemistry in a steamy date-em-up you won't soon forget

Mike Godwin, the namesake of Godwin's law, patiently explaining to a professional journalist that it's ok to compare people to nazis when they're doing a thing that the nazis did

An all tuba Hoobastank cover band. Call it Tubastank. Why do I gotta fuckin think of everything

Just got several dozen content id strikes on years-old videos that use music that was very carefully selected because it was in the public domain or available under a creative commons license

daredo GmbH, Audiam and ONErpm just decided that they own all that music now, complete with fake band and album names, and the assurance that these are the "original mixes"

Fucking thugs

Every week I learn about some new weather phenomenon that if I saw when I was a kid would have made me believe that fairies and magic are real

Idea: a small program that runs on your work computer. You put in your hourly wage, and at random intervals throughout your shift, it pops up a little notification that you just made X amount of money in Y length of time, with a nice coin-jingling sound effect. You click a button to collect your loot, and it adds to the running total for what you've made that day and overall.

Heh, Zed "python 3 is a mind control conspiracy" Shaw (https://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/nopython3.html) sells a Python 3 book now. I guess they got to him too, those bastards

Oh, Giant Bomb's community GOTY list is up. Here's mine. I didn't bother submitting it. It's as useless and arbitrary as any other list because it's impossible to play everything that comes out in a year, but here are 10 games I like, and you may like too, if you like the same kinds of games I do

1. Dragon Quest XI
2. Nairi: Tower of Shirin
3. Jazztronauts
4. Warioware Gold
5. Paratopic
6. Deltarune
7. Fortune 499
8. Battle of Polytopia
9. Dead Cells
10. Subnautica

Remember that if you have a thought comprised of multiple posts, if you don't thread them (post each one as a reply to the previous one,) it's impossible to get the full context down the line. I just saw a post boosted from October that I can tell from the replies is part of a series, but since it's not threaded there's no way to see the rest of it. I'd have to go to their profile and just click "show more" until I get through the thousands of posts they've made in the last 3 months.

@wohali Twenty years ago we had "baby it's cold outside". Now we have no more babies, no more cold, and no more outside.

To me, the thing that exemplifies "work smarter, not harder" is the Fallout 3 train hat - instead of creating an entirely new system for a train, they just have an NPC wearing a hat which is an entire train, hidden under the floor and running very quickly.

It's absurd, and someone could have spent a lot of time and effort on a new system to get the the same result in a less absurd way. But this works, so why not?

So my new motto is, "don't be afraid to wear a train as a hat."

It really incenses me that most of the people around me who are "on my side" only want to talk about Russia conspiracy theories and make fun of the president and make shitty parodies

For fuck's sake can we stop pretending to be helpful and actually talk about what's causing our problems? How do people not realize that focusing on this circus sideshow bullshit is exactly what the klepto class wants?

Oh, you don't wanna mess with that guy, he's big into organized cybercrime. I hear he has ties to the Really Simple Syndicate.