Tootfinder

Been starting a habit of writing down story/game ideas as I have them even though most of them will never seriously get started, let alone finished. It's been fun since writing things down gives me a chance to think them through a bit more than just pondering them in my head. Anyways, here's a #GameDesign idea:
"Grand" - is a "reverse metroidvania" in which as a grandparent, you slowly lose movement options as the story progresses, requiring more and more convoluted routes through the map to reach the same areas. You do still explore "new" areas in memory mode (and unlock movement options like a bike in your memories) before traversing the areas again in the diegetic present. The story follows your quest to protect a grandchild from the machinations of a Kafkaesque state, first trying to track them down within the system and then trying to get them released. Each "boss" is "fought" through an abstracted conversation system where memories, keepsakes, and various kinds of emotional/logical appeals wear down your opponent's nihilism and/or fear until they're willing to help you. Normal "enemies" are just people on the street who might bump into you and drain some of your stamina as you pass by if you don't issue a properly-timed "excuse me" or the like.

Guess 4 was a funny and offensive word I knew they would never pick. Just couldn't make it go away from my mind. #Wordle
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And also about heating pads and aging...
The interview kinda spun out, but in a fun way. https://flipboard.com/@npr/music-fru3ssldz/-/a-ikPV7EP6SASNRUMrhn_LMQ:a:3195441-/0

Singer Brandi Carlile talks about retreating from the version of herself on stage
Singer Brandi Carlile talks about writing her new album by retreating from the version of herself on stage.

Morrissey fan - BLOCK
Musk fan - BLOCK
Radiohead fan - BLOCK
"But.. but.. THIS billionaire is lovely, really!" - BLOCK
I skip around gaily, throwing out blocks like confetti.
In 2026, please remember, you never have to engage with fuckwits on the internet.
Save your energy, block with abandon.

Fiona Hill ...2019
Thank you @papootx.bsky.social for reminding us !
https://bsky.app/profile/patti3333.bsky.social/post/3mbola7vj322c

After successfully upgrading my Raspberry Pi CM4 SATA root NAS from Debian 11 to Debian 13, I've failed in several attempts to manually migrate from a `bullseye` style /boot partition and kernel to the `bookworm` /boot /boot/firmware kernel setup. I'm starting to wonder if they haven't included support for the Marvell 88SE9215. The kernel boots fine, but the controller never enumerates, and hence the kernel never finds root, and it just sits forever in `rootwait`.
Bac…

this prompted me to see what https://anagramgenius.com might do, but sadly its anagram server is broken
iirc anagram genius originally came out in about 1990 … i never got a copy because it was a bit expensive for a toy and i wouldn’t have been able to learn from its unobtanium source code
anyway TIL the…

Did I mention IC reversing is absolute crack for AuDHD brains?
I should probably put down the EEPROM, at least for a while, and move on to other stuff. But I'm having too much fun.
This is the dangerous part, and the part I have the most trouble with... the problem is so big you'll *never* be done (especially doing it manually without any automation, figuring out what each cell is by hand, etc).
There's always more to discover. Nerd sniping to the 20th power.

“What they call defence spending… this government in London has chosen to prioritise weapons of war whilst people are struggling to pay their food bills & heat their homes.”
"There are any number of criticisms of Sinn Fein on the Irish left which is as it should be: over here we must recognise that a unionist first minister at Stormont would never have criticised British warmongering."
Lessons in anti-imperialism from across the Irish Sea

I never could have been literate in Chinese. Not that I could not read those 2 characters as different, but I’d never be able to write characters with that fine a distinction with any sort of reliability. American cursive was bad enough. https://mastodon.social/@mcc/115651531673910237