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God, Asia is just lovely on that front

Yeah, I think smaller cons are neat and far easier to socialize with than cons that have 10k people

Panel 01: Shen is standing in front of you in a business suit with a yellow tie, with his hands behind his back, saying "I have an idea for a new type of cat cafe, but I need investors. Here is the idea:" Panel 02: A dollhouse-style depiction of the inside of a multi-floored cafe. The first floor features a few tables, a couple of cats (one orange tabby and one tuxedo cat), a cup of coffee on one of the tables, and a staircase leading up. Text below reads "the first floor just has normal cats." Panel 03: Text reads "But as you go up, each subsequent floor has more & more dangerous cats", as it depicts the upper floors of this cafe, featuring, from bottom to top, bobcats, tigers, and lions. Panel 04: Text reads "And at the top is just me in a fursuit with a machete." Shen is in an orange cat fursuit, dramatically holding a machete with his arms splayed out, backlit by god beams from the stained glass behind him, which looks like a series of cat faces. You are reaching the top of the spiral staircase into the room, covered in cat scratches and wielding a broken-handled broom.

A retro computing manual featuring a white, toony anthro rabbit with his hand on an old mainframe console. The text reads: "Introduction to COBOL (Common Bunny-Oriented Language)."

Introduction to COBOL!

Extra context for why this is good:

- Youtube narration has been overwhelmingly overrun by AI voiceover in the last few years
- Obviously it sucks
- This is a good sign that clients/viewers are starting to tire of the AI craze
- I am glad to help bring good voiceover back to youtube

Well black tourism is a thing so who knows, really

Oops, maybe check spam

Yea chat I think my whole idea of "Maybe I could visit US cons to see friends someday" just dropped to 0%

There are far better cons around the world anyways, Asia, Europe, South America.... to my US friends, if you wanna see me, please get your passports, cuz I ain't dealin with this shit lmao

Asian cons are never talked about (at least in English) and it'll be interesting to go to one

Sitting on you regardless

SOOOOOOOOO GOOD

I've always wondered if Australia and New Zealand have a parallel Christmas movie industry where people go to the beach and complain about the heat, instead of going skiing and disliking the snow

@batarong.com gaming

Yus, it's gonna be a fun time when more people join

Lucky you, they fully opened registrations with no waitlist for a few days

A big part of Modern was to make the CSS less cryptic, yeah

(Then again, there is the whole rabbit hole of the old tech lead and the fact that modern was literally made by a skunkworks team of FA developers)

Yeah, like, in the Discord server, a lot of people were complaining about wasted space. I switched to classic, and holy SHIT that is horrible and wasteful

Like descriptions always having a fixed size, even if it's just "Commission" and everything else is whitespace

I think it's been flushed so you should have an email to join now

Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.

text: you have ignited a nuclear war. and no, there's no animated display of a mushroom cloud with parts of bodies flying through the air. we do not reward failure.

balance of power, game over screen, msx (1988) mobygames.com/game/259/bal...

You could :3

The best kind

It's soooooooo good

Good boy

Sometimes I remember that Nintendo made an RPG where you defeat Hitler for the Famicom Disk System

Yeah, you can really see PS2 ports suffer later on, while on the Xbox, you could just throw the hardware at it and not worry (and the GameCube was limited by the mini DVD)

Doesn't help a lot of PS2 games only really started to use the vertex units later, which are the best advantage of that console

OK "the GBA's different screen types" is a rabbit hole I now have an immense need to dive into.
Are there any good resources to get a peek? I have to learn

(I always had a GBA SP 001)