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by timpark 3mo ago
Although I don't personally use graph paper much, this project looks great. I find many of the example pattern previews very hard to see, though. I'd darken and/or thicken the lines. The descriptions underneath are good, but
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by timpark 5mo ago
For an extra challenge, I try to solve it without looking at the clues, and only using the theme. (some themes are harder than others) Though if a word turns orange, I sort of glance at the clues to see whether it's the wrong direction
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by timpark 1y ago
I was thinking of the board game "Timeline". This one is from 2012, but if you search BGG for Timeline, you'll find lots of different versions for different countries and specializations. https://boardgamegeek.com
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by timpark 1y ago
Exactly, haha! :) Thanks!
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by timpark 1y ago
The blink tag was, of course, much hated back in the day, so as an experiment, I took the binary of whatever browser I was using (Netscape, I guess), searched for "blink", and changed it to "blonk". Tada, no more blinki
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by timpark 1y ago
I remembered and searched for the same article. I found this version (on the same domain) with images and better formatting. https://improbable.com/annals-of-improbable-research-july-au...
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by timpark 1y ago
25%? Wow. That seems high, but when you consider we were backing a game based on the popularity of a now almost-40-year-old franchise, it seems a bit more reasonable.
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by timpark 1y ago
The guys who created Space Quest kickstarted another sci-fi comedy adventure game... 13 years ago. It went (and is still going) poorly, and Kotaku just posted about the ordeal today: https://kotaku.com/spaceventure-space-qu
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by timpark 1y ago
More typeface-related fun: Neutra Face: An Ode On A Typeface (parody of Lady Gaga's "Poker Face") https://youtu.be/xHCu28bfxSI?t=18 Behind the Typeface: Cooper Black https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by timpark 2y ago
There's only a demo out so far, but Scarlet Deer Inn uses embroidery for its character images. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1553260/Scarlet_Deer_Inn/
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by timpark 2y ago
For those who might be interested, a similar site for Canadian charities is Charity Intelligence. https://www.charityintelligence.ca/
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by timpark 2y ago
Back when I was using CodeWarrior to make a game for PlayStation 2, I found a compiler bug, but fortunately, it was one where it gave an error on valid code, rather than generating bad output. I can't remember the details, but I had s
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by timpark 2y ago
Here's a Pico-8 version that Liquidream did in 1024 (compressed) bytes of code for a game jam: https://liquidream.itch.io/lumon8-1k
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by timpark 2y ago
I think some things were a product of their time, and weren't popular/profitable enough to keep marketing or update or modernize. (whether they didn't maintain peoples' attention, or had issues like the Popeye one you me
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by timpark 2y ago
In May 1998, before the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act went into effect, there was an amusing Tom the Dancing Bug comic regarding characters falling out of copyright. https://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/1
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by timpark 2y ago
There was a story about this happening with some Amiga 500 computers, allegedly due to a too-high speed bump in a Commodore parking lot. https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/a-history-of-the-amiga...
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by timpark 2y ago
For fun, I wrote some Javascript that will numeronymize text, but it will also "de-numeronymize" it again by converting the result back into random words that also match. (if a match can't be found, it returns the original wo
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by timpark 2y ago
If anyone wants to try some levels before buying it, the game jam version of the game is on itch.io: https://hempuli.itch.io/baba-is-you That's Windows-only, though. Someone recently released a "demake" with
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by timpark 3y ago
I did notice the link was broken, but didn't want to wait until I had time to fix it before commenting. I've fixed it and a couple of other ones. Thanks.
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by timpark 3y ago
I made a tetratetraflexagon for my wedding program. I ended up making a script to use ImageMagick to convert four images into two images suitable for printing on both sides of an 8.5"x11" sheet of paper. The scripts, example ima
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by timpark 3y ago
Numeronyms like i18n and a11y are things I'd seen from time to time, but not in a sufficiently interesting or relevant context for me to figure out what they meant, until one day I finally looked them up. Then, just for fun, I made th
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by timpark 4y ago
For another short story in a similar vein, check out "The Frame-By-Frame" by qntm. https://qntm.org/frame
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by timpark 4y ago
If you haven't seen it, I recommend checking out The Forgotten City. The time loop/learning more each "run" reminded me of Outer Wilds, and I enjoyed the story/mystery. https://forgottencitygame.com&#x2F
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by timpark 4y ago
Yeah, one opening screen included "#tamilsoundservice". :) (Tamil is one of the languages) I suppose I could try to ignore the video, but it was fun trying to use it for clues. "Oh they look like Bollywood dancers so I&#x27
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by timpark 4y ago
I remember the show Halt and Catch Fire also had an Amiga 1000 in an episode, but they didn't bother to show anything resembling Workbench/AmigaOS. https://i.imgur.com/uaqzrEk.jpeg
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by timpark 4y ago
You might find the book "Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals" by Oliver Burkeman helpful. It's not all about productivity, but also how we relate to time. (we didn't always worry about it so much) Here are
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by timpark 4y ago
The result I got on page load was: Portable, Self-Build, Public, Paper, Manual, Vehicle. I think the paper airplane has already been invented...
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by timpark 5y ago
The Free Speech flag is kind of clunky with the "+C0". (despite the "Crime 0" explanation) You could have put a sixth stripe with the colour C00000, but only in the top 1/3rd (with black in the bottom 2/3rds) t
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by timpark 5y ago
Twitter's done some work in this area. https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...
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by timpark 6y ago
The method I chose was a clock-in/clock-out type of system where you can use the tool to start and stop tasks. Of course, you can type in and edit entries if you want, but the formatting is much more strict than your system. https:&#x

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