@briandunaway@mastodon.social Oh hey, I think I was just listening to you on that there Play Retro podcast!
@briandunaway@mastodon.social You may also appreciate my basement lair
I’m always a bit baffled whenever I’m reminded that pro gamers use mice as opposed to trackballs.
Like yeah yeah I haven’t myself been anywhere near being a good gamer for 20 years. And I first met trackballs thanks to Missile Command and Centipede in arcades.
But I always remember being able to do quick 180 turns to shoot behind me with a jump and a finger flick in Quake 2 / 3 & Unreal Tournament. Mice were always so awkward for that
@bhearsum Hmm, all the trackballs I tend to use are larger and involve fingers and wrist.
@takloufer On a trackball, that's like the difference between using elbow, wrist, or finger tips I think
@takloufer oh, elbow as in big wide palm-swipes of the trackball
@takloufer (but that might actually apply more realistically to the actual Centipede machine i have in the basement)
@takloufer also, to be fair, I’m not a particularly good high reflex gamer these days so… yeah
@elithebearded yeah, you gotta have some mass to those things
@gabek Sounds like the booted DNA Lounge, a business, and not so much jwz the person?
@penguin My people!
@gabek I think he says it here? https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/mastodon-is-going-great/#comment-237955
@antijingoist i... i did not know this
It's an absolutely bashed-together mess, but I just successfully managed to POST an ActivityPub message from an awful Rust program to a local dev instance of Mastodon.
https://github.com/lmorchard/rust-activitypub-play/blob/main/src/client/bin/main.rs
But now that I have something that works, I can start tinkering with making it less terrible! :blobwhee:
@thegibson :blobsalute: :blobthanks:
@czottmann Oh this sounds super interesting.
I've currently got a couple obsidian-adjacent shortcuts on my phone, but they "cheat" by just appending text to a file that happens to also be used by obsidian
re: Morning pages feelings
@TQ Congrats on getting the pages rolling!
@thegibson time for the sword fights in the hall