Originally posted by Lunaria

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I just want Kirby's Air Ride 2, tbh.

It saddens me that it will never happen.

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My non-stupid hack idea is just additional City Trial maps for Air Ride. I like the standard map but dang it gets old after a while.

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Maybe we should start a book club or something. Maybe. I generally don't like those too much because they just feel like homework tbh.

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port

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phoenix

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Edit: on second thought, I don't wanna get too politically heated here

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serene

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Among Us > Fall Guys.

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moon

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Mastodon is cool and more people should use it. Unfortunately, it seems pretty hard to find a good instance. There's an overwhelming amount of options, imo, which is good but there's not a great onboarding process for that.

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...okay, fine, you got me there. Flame war averted.

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From a software perspective, you know have BearSSL, which is a lightweight SSL library that could feasibly run on some very low-end hardware (talking like 128KB RAM systems). If someone used this to make web browsers for some old platforms like MS-DOS or the Macintosh, they could reasonably be used. Kinda.

Much better also would be to ditch the web entirely for these systems and use a lighter protocol such as Gemini instead. Because the modern internet with it's javascripts and html5 nonsense isn't running on old hardware any time soon. Or heck, we could revive WML again. Either or.

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This is the first time I've seen the Christmas theme and I really like it!

Merry Christmas X!

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Same tbh. I did however watch Jurassic Park for the first time today (it was just on TV), and that was a really good movie. And then I ate Christmas lunch and fell asleep for about 5 or 6 hours. So that's been an interesting day.

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kirbo gonna hammer that post

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I'm noticing that whenever I use web twitter on my phone (because I refuse to use the app and Twidere doesn't load replies properly anymore) that page elements are constantly jumping up and down. I try and click on something and whoops, it jumped up halfway across the screen right before I clicked. And then I'm stuck going back and forth between screens and then whoops, new Tweets, gotta show those!

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The private forums are all but abandoned at this point. Their heyday was about a decade ago.

I'm being a bit blunt, but as much as we would love to help, we're all extremely unqualified to do so. I would highly suggest you seek help from a therapist, if you haven't already.

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Just from an incredibly quick internet search, it seems to be documented here.

Also re: bitplane graphics, this YouTube video by Retro Game Mechanics Explained might be super helpful to you.

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Hot take: computers were always boring.

Call me guilty as charged for have a retrocomputing interest and bingewatching LGR videos and such... but ultimately, the vast majority of computers produced serve business uses. They're tools. They file reports or crunch out invoices or aggregate data or assist with taxes or process words or so on and so forth. The fact that these tools are fun to play with sometimes is entirely incidental to their intended purpose.

I think part of the issue here is that home users, by and large, don't use desktop or laptop computers anymore, nowhere near the numbers they were. They use tablets and smartphones. So you have a weird split where on the one hand, home users want to have a computer that operates like their tablet, but on the other hand, business users need a device to get things done with, and the result seems to be, imo, a confused mess.

There are hobbyist operating systems like React and Haiku and some Linux distros, that let you experiment with new UI paradigms or get under the hood and tinker around with the specifics. And while that isn't my cup of tea, I'm glad it exists for the people who want it. But I feel the boring corporate blandness of the modern web and applications is really just a side effect of them being tools to get things done. But they were more colorful and interesting in the 00s, and there wasn't as much agreement and standardization on what works, and I do miss those wild west times.

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