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A play called Souvenir, late last year, put on by a local theater company. (Incidentally, their theater is in the building that used to be the gym when I was in college. It looks really nice inside now, and you would never guess that it was the most divey, stanky gym you had ever seen for like 60 years beforehand. I loved that place.)

Anyway, the play was about a famously bad singer who gained fame for how off-pitch she was. It was funny, heartwarming, and very well done. I didn’t know it while watching the play, but she was a real person, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Foster_Jenkins

If you want something physical to read, Glenn Fleishman (@glennf@zeppelin.flights) wrote a book called How Comics Are Made. https://howcomicsaremade.com/

From the description:

This covers the whole ball of wax of how artists, knowing their newsprint medium, drew their comics and marked drawings up for color reproduction; how printers put that work through the most arcane and impossible-to-believe operations to get them onto paper…

I think it’s mostly focused on comic strips in the newspaper, but I’m guessing the process is mostly the same for comic books.

I noticed it when I was going into the bathroom that morning. There was no dirt, it was an indentation in the rug.

I did. I didn’t notice anything out of place, the front door was locked, and I live on an upper floor, so getting in through a window is not possible.

Large footprint on the bathroom floor mat that didn’t match any of my shoes. I live alone. Still can’t explain it.

That does look like a Bugout, and maybe the mini, too. That looks really nice.

Probably, if the music was released as a track on the game’s soundtrack. Those get included in music databases like MusicBrainz, which is what a lot of those music detection services use.

Some level themes are popular enough to have covers made of them, and if the cover is close enough to the original, it may get recognized. Some are popular enough to be cataloged on their own. For example, Chemical Plant Zone from Sonic the Hedgehog 2: https://musicbrainz.org/recording/cb389ab1-b08e-4042-ab73-8ff63e8a6205

I wouldn’t count on every level from every game being cataloged in a music database, though.

I was hoping that Waterfox would somehow skip this change, but it just updated a few days ago. Now that the new UI is out of beta, I don’t see a way of turning it off.

For me, the most irritating part is the way that it jumps a little bit if you only scroll a small amount. Small enough to make the Private/Tabs/Sync bar show up, but then immediately hide itself again. That happens in both grid and list mode.

Well right now I can see a clock on the wall, the clock on the stove, the clock on my laptop, and a watch on my wrist, and they all have slightly different times. But I’m coping. So that’s four. At least four I can deal with.

Thanks for writing that up! I’m curious: what makes you use Readeck for some things and Linkwarden for others? It seems like they have the same use case, and pretty much the same features.

I’ve been using wallabag for quite a while, before Linkwarden and Readeck were written, and I haven’t felt a reason to switch away from it.

A thing I like doing with wallabag is:

1. Select a bunch of articles that I want to read on my ebook reader
2. Tag them as “exported_on_2026-04-02”
3. Export them as an epub
4. The epub is synced automatically by syncthing to my ebook reader (it’s like an eink Android tablet)
5. Once I’ve read that file on the ebook reader, select all entries tagged with “exported_on_2026-04-02” and mark them as read. Or just mark them as read right away, since I’ll definitely get to them once they’re on the ebook reader.

I haven’t found any other bookmarking applications that can conveniently tag articles in bulk, export, and then mark as read in bulk like wallabag. From the website, it looks like Readeck can, I’ll have to check it out.

I actually like the idea. I see it as social commentary about the soullessness of AI generated environments. Based on the trailers, that might fit in with the overall theme of the game, too.

My theory is that today’s load times are the Xbox 360 era of graphics. Wait let me explain.

When the 360/PS3 came out, graphics were suddenly really good. But the industry didn’t just want really good graphics, they wanted cinematic photorealism right now and the 360/PS3 weren’t good enough for that.

So, we got many games in that generation full of brown filters, blurring, lens flares, and bloom effects in order to hide the fact that games still had visible polygons. They looked worse for it.

Today, load times are pretty small. But the industry wants load times to be non-existent right now, so they’re using all of these scripted sequences to hide it. I suspect that, in hindsight, people will say that a lot of games from this generation had poor level design because of it. I definitely think that a lot of 360 games look bad because of their “cinematic” visual effects.

Yeah, this is me too. Although, to be fair to my younger self, back then a lot of new technologies actually were notable improvements over the previous tech, and older people were missing out by not trying them. I’m talking about going from cassette tapes to CDs, things like that.

Nowadays the new thing really is just worse than the old thing. E.g. going from a desktop environment to “the metaverse.” Those of us who didn’t embrace the metaverse were not just sticking to our old cassette tapes; the metaverse really was stupid as hell.

Damn, this looks good! This is a huge coincidence: just a few days ago, I was hoping that something like this existed when another thread reminded me of Unreal 2’s long-dead multiplayer mode.

I think they mean https://www.collaboraonline.com/. That’s what’s used if you install the office addon for Nextcloud, if I’m not mistaken.

Crazy how Microsoft spent the GDP of a decent sized country on acquiring game developers to bolster Xbox, then gave that strategy about 25 months to actually work before deciding “nevermind, pivot to AI then sell it for parts.”

^ yes, that. It’s just the character animations, I’m not saying the entire game is running at a low framerate. That would not look good.

This is the first I’m hearing of it, looks interesting. Also I love how a lot of developers have suddenly realized that a lower framerate in 2D games makes them look amazing. Especially when it gives some old fashioned animation principles to a very modern looking game.

If there is one, I worry that it won’t possibly be able to keep up. Youtube is actively encouraging AI generated content now.

Unfortunately, I think a whitelist is the only option here. Subscribe to specific accounts that you know are legitimate, and use some kind of desktop app for Youtube instead of browsing the site, so you don’t get AI generated recommendations after the video.

I ended up subscribing to Nebula.tv last week, hoping to avoid youtube altogether. It’s definitely missing a few categories of content (in fact it’s mainly video essays and LegalEagle), but that’ll be my starting place for videos from now on.

Nice! This is also the first I’ve heard about this game. Looks cool. I love the idea of playing games made for Linux on these handhelds, instead of just emulated games.