Notices by Spindley Q Frog (spindleyq@mastodon.social), page 14

@theoutrider I used Franz for a while, which basically takes the approach of "if everything's an electron app anyway, might as well be just one" https://meetfranz.com

@ajroach42 if you link me some of those tiny DOS computers I might buy them and thus help you resist the temptation to do so yourself

@theoutrider I had the experience of watching The Wizard of Oz for the first time as an adult and having the entire running time be just constantly like "Oh, so THAT'S where that Simpsons joke comes from"

@theoutrider @bentosmile yessssss, Chibi-Robo does this extremely well

@theoutrider I really admire how in that intro the scream sample is repurposed to become a coughing fit, and the “eating” sample is repurposed to become a burp

@theoutrider I always associate this with the Gobliiins series https://youtu.be/gciLkQ-cvsc

@ajroach42 ohhhhh this looks like it'd be REAL great with an optical arcade steering wheel that can just spin and spin forever
(I sold a Pole Position cabinet 7 years ago because moving it was impractical and I still miss it)

@nicknicknicknick yeah I was trying to be a shit because I vaguely remembered an old game with that name existed, but it looks pretty rad after all. Fractals!

@nicknicknicknick

@heathcliff You could put this caption on anything. Anything!

@hellojed I should boot it up - is there a tourism mode? All I want from it is to be Noctis But Pretty

@technomancy haha, I work with that guy!

I bought myself a Game Boy Game Genie and thought, what’s the most bullshit Game Boy game I could cheat my way through? So I gave myself infinite lives and ammo in Bart Simpson’s Escape From Camp Deadly, but forgot that if you throw food in front of a counsellor he makes you eat all of it
And I had
Infinite food

@Riley yep, that makes perfect sense.

this is a huge reason why the owning class will happily band together to destroy poor people in the name of protecting their wealth -- at a systemic level, they _must_ do so in order for their wealth to continue to be real

so eat 'em

it's not strictly meaningless to say "Jeff Bezos is worth $150 billion", but it doesn't mean anything resembling what you might naively think it does
his ability to have infinite money is completely dependent on his ability to continue to convince other rich people that if they buy pieces of his company, they will be able to sell them for more money later
if he decided "I want to use my fortune to help poor people" he would instantly "lose" substantial amounts of his fortune

it took me a long time to realize that when you invest money, you're spending it, and eventually if you want that money back, you need other people willing to buy the thing you spent it on, because ALL of the language around finance is designed to obscure this

"market value" is such a weird abstraction
like "$6bn has been wiped off the market value of Twitter" or "Facebook lost about $119 billion of its value" literally just means "people aren't willing to pay as much for shares of the company right now"

nobody has actually lost any actual money they haven't already spent

@jk oh god hard 'g' keygen is SO terrifyingly plausible

@mogwai_poet I don't really have anything to say to this except GOD RGGHH SEETHE THERE AIN'T NO JUSTICE

I wonder how much smaller the audience would've been if Home of the Underdogs hadn't championed the stuff. That's certainly how I first stumbled on it.