This Thanksgiving my kids and I will be celebrating the traditional way: Wearing our Gauntlet T-Shirts in recognition of the first videogame to feature a roast-bird mechanic (and saying "ELF NEEDS FOOD BADLY, PLEASE PASS THE POTATOES" at dinner).
Many are the people I have confused over the years by proclaiming "red warrior needs food badly" as I grab something to eat. None of them displayed the classical education and fine tradition you have instilled in your family @[email protected]
I think it was Socrates who said, “Don’t wait on anyone else to do epic shit.”
Or was that Shakespeare?
@[email protected] to be fair, I suspect with a sufficiently loose interpretation of 'translation' nearly every good mentor who's ever lived including many parents have said that.
@elricofmelnibone @matthewskelton <pedant>
https://latrespace.com/poetry-olympics/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_rap
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) was well known for wowing people at parties by “spontaneously” reciting poetry that in fact he had carefully composed beforehand. I think of that as a status move (that is, adversarial).
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] the Welsh have a good few centuries on that en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisted... (depending if we assume competitive implies adverserial)
@[email protected] I'm genuinely curious: what would be the rationale for it not being OK?
Also, my mum doesn't bother reverse engineering; if it's a small restaurant she just asks how things are made! Most chefs seem to enjoy talking about it. (Large or chain restaurants are obviously a bit different)
@[email protected] @[email protected] i do not like capsules.
@[email protected] I find them horrific on quite a number of levels, I have to admit.
Me, looking at student's screen: that's great, but we'll need to replace the character image with one that's yours before we punish your game
Ten year old: But that is my image!
Me: It... has a watermark logo from a well know YouTuber?
Tyo, proudly: I took the screenshot myself!
Me: ...pass the pain killers, I'm going to be here some time...
@cstross @dryak @whybird yeah I find it shocking how little someone of my younger relatives know about how computers actually work in spite of sometimes using them since they were toddlers like I had to spend half an hour explaining to my cousins oldest how to copy a video from her phone to her laptop without using the cloud she didn't even understand that her phone keeps the video as a file on her SD card let alone what folder it was in it doesn't help that MTP is a piece of shit
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] this stuff really isn't obvious any more! My son is dysgraphic and uses a keyboard at school, and had to have a long discussion with a teacher explaining why he couldn't turn off his Internet connection while completing an assessment in Google Classroom. The teacher hadn't realised that he wasn't writing on his own device, and you know what? I don't blame them! How are you supposed to tell where things are anymore from within the 'user experience'?
By popular demand (also known as "at least one person asked") you can now try out VisualInk scripts without creating an account.
Just head to the example script from the demo, tweak things as you'd like and hit run at the bottom.
@[email protected] @[email protected] see also aeropress. Even easier to clean, and only needs a kettle not even a stove. I mean, I live in Italy and regularly get compliments on my coffee, so it can't be too bad. I suspect because I spend the money on decent Fairtrade beans rather than 'capsules'...
@[email protected] @[email protected] Of course, you do have to ignore the bizarrely pretentious cult around them in some groups online, but that's easy given they're other people online, and ignoring other people online is a required life skill these days anyway. Especially when they're being pretentious about a (checks notes) simple plastic plunger?
@[email protected] preaching to the choir, i love them.
@[email protected] @[email protected] see also aeropress. Even easier to clean, and only needs a kettle not even a stove. I mean, I live in Italy and regularly get compliments on my coffee, so it can't be too bad. I suspect because I spend the money on decent Fairtrade beans rather than 'capsules'...
@mavnn That was very impressive!
If you like beatbox/acapella that's a bit geeky then you might like Maytree.
https://youtu.be/lGQDiYIfFXs?si=XoItD0shzikaZXn3
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@[email protected] I have come across Maytree, they're great fun! Not as mindblowing in how they do stuff, but still really tight musically and very, very, silly in a good way.
Wing and friends get pretty geeky too; they got invited to headline at an esports competition ( youtube.com/watch?v=m0TXz3oR... - their lead singer can sing) and released an ode to needing coffee on Monday mornings 😁 (youtube.com/watch?v=f8NifgGc... )
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Can you save the GSV Badly Sketched By An IT Professional?
Find out here: visualink.mavnn.eu/published...
At the moment the answer is probably yes: each problem can be solved just by saying you want to. But this Tuesday our "Coding Games with a Story" students will be turning each problem into its own little fiendish challenge.
Want to take part informally? I've attached the backgrounds needed for the base story, and the base script is now one of the templates available at VisualInk. Feel free to create an account at visualink.mavnn.eu/ and try your own variation - you'll need to upload the backgrounds with the scene names from the script and start a new script using the "Save the ship" template.
@tastapod Dan.
@[email protected] Well, if you've ever had any reason to want to do anything unpleasant to @[email protected] now's the time - nobody would blame you given the provocation...
Because apparently being gobsmacked by Wing means beatbox bands are now living rent free in my head, have an other killer track (from France this time). Don't let the beatbox moniker fool you, this isn't somebody pretending to be a drum machine, just a band making really good music.
Worth playing on speakers with decent bass...
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And if you're wondering why Wing broke my understanding of human vocal chords, this is the kind of thing he sings on his own in a single take.
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Because apparently being gobsmacked by Wing means beatbox bands are now living rent free in my head, have an other killer track (from France this time). Don't let the beatbox moniker fool you, this isn't somebody pretending to be a drum machine, just a band making really good music.
Worth playing on speakers with decent bass...
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I crushed a hard workout today and two years ago I was struggling to even walk my dog. It's amazing.
No one who hasn't done it can understand what it takes to commit again and again and again and again and never give up on yourself after such severe illness and I wish I could put it on my resume 😂😭
@[email protected] awesome work! Currently unable to walk for more than ten minutes as I come out of post viral fatigue, and really hoping to be posting something similar in a year or two...
"Adversarial poetry" is an amazing sentence on its own, but "Our central hypothesis is that poetic form operates as a general purpose jailbreak operator" is so beautiful.
@[email protected] I once worked with someone won various slam poetry competitions; watching videos of his performances did look remarkably similar to some depictions of wizard duels...
@GossiTheDog it is rare, but you will also find no cookies on krebsonsecurity.com. I don't want your data, so don't give it to me!
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] oh yes, this. What's your privacy policy? "Don't give me your data, I don't want it. I want to know absolutely nothing about you that isn't completely necessary to provide the service I'm offering."
I'm doing enough stuff with enough people via VisualInk that I've decided to split off my posting about it into a separate account that people interested in #interactivefiction and #visualnovels in education can follow without confusing things with the rest of my posts. That said, for the moment I'm probably going to repost most VI stuff via my main account as well - I'm kind of assuming that following me means you want to know about what I'm doing on at least some level, while following @VisualInk is more about you being interested in the project.
The GSV Badly Sketched By An IT Professional is coming together.
Nailed it 👨🍳 💕
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