@mia I want to believe you but I read too many "build your personal brand" books in the mid-2000s. I need to go see a deprogrammer 😅

@nomad @GeoffWozniak @tek :1000: :000: :yikes:

@jalefkowit This sounds like if Glados from Portal 2 set up shop in a crystal store

Playing some more Shin Megami Tensei IV and a thing I wish they did better in this series is demon negotiations.

Like, the thing that attracted me to the game is you can stop fighting with the demons and talk them into joining you. But the conversations are kinda lame & repetitive.

What if you had to do like a whole dating sim thing where you needed to dig up research about the demons first before sweet talking them?

@benbrown salvage? like a give-a-widget, take-a-widget box?

@benbrown the street finds its own uses for unlocked utility boxes

At least once a year, I am possessed by a need to acquire a Coleco Telstar Ranger, my very first video game console (before the Atari 2600)

It was not an amazing machine, basically played just a few variations of Pong. Also it broke at some point - not sure if I broke it or if it just got fried in a power surge or something.

But even after that, it featured heavily in my play-pretend sessions as a space ship control console. I think I duct taped it into a cardboard cockpit at some point

@joshua yeah, it was like cowboys and indians in space before I learned about colonialism

@mhoye Really surprised that didn't happen close to 15 years ago, pretty good track record for a forgotten google service all things considered

A new #rc2014 toy has arrived

@randomgeek @structuregeek Somehow we all have nearly this exact thing on our todo lists and no one's perfectly made it yet in the past half-century 😅

That thing where I felt kinda cruddy all week, so it's fully reasonable to do absolutely nothing and relax on a Saturday

So I spend most of the day in a stalemate with guilt over doing absolutely nothing wherein I in fact do absolutely nothing but don't feel relaxed about it.

@mcc Dang I got a hankering to play and make some MODs now

LRT: There was a period in high school and college where fully 1/2 - 2/3 of the music I regularly listened to were Amiga MODs downloaded from BBSes and FTP sites.

It was super neat because it was View Source music: The file you played was the same file you could load up in the music tracker software.

You could rip all the samples out and plonk them into your own music, however awful it turned out. You could see the tracker patterns they used to get that particular neat sound.

Nothing's been like it since, at least not for me

And, like, my experience with that kind of View Source music predates my experience with the web and open source software by many years. So, it was really neat when I encountered those things that worked a lot like Amiga MODs

@Rhube This is a high-quality toot (and trousers)

@c0debabe I've stickered laptops but I've never considered stickering appliances... interesting