Hmm, is it an awful idea to support personal data exports & imports from a web service in sqlite3 form?

Part of me thinks it's dumb enough to be neato. Part of me thinks there's enough code execution in there to make sanitizing a nightmare

@mdhughes well, benefit of a sqlite export is you don’t have to write a processor for it, just load it straight into sqlite3 or something compatible and run some queries.

Huh, #tamagotchi is 17 “years” old today! Still seems like a happy camper?

@darkuncle yeah, frankly that it’s run on two little button batteries for this long and never crashed is kind of amazing compared to modern crud 😅

@maddiefuzz Yeah, I'm not sure how it's happened, but this thing somehow slotted into my brain the past few weeks. I keep waiting for it to unslot and get abandoned 😅

Just realized my flights next week had gotten rescheduled without my input such that I'd be landing halfway through the first day of the event. That's, uh, suboptimal. Scrambling to change the flights again 😅

There is a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos in the house. This is a dangerous situation

Catsby (a #cat) takes a snack while the #tamagotchi refuses one 🤷‍♂️

@i0null that's hot

Frankly, Kitty, I'm starting to doubt my own commitment to Sparkle Motion.

Well, I figured it would be soon for this #tamagotchi but it still kinda surprised me. I had just fed & played with it and set it down.

Then, 5 minutes later it started beeping incessantly, looking surly with a flashing skull. None of the buttons worked. Finally it kind of laid an egg? Then it transitioned into this angel thing.

Farewell little Maskutchi, it was good weird 17 days. I will miss your familiar sensory input patterns.

From what I've read, this thing has a interesting though maybe cruel interaction design toward the end.

As it gets closer to simulated old age, it starts demanding more food and more play with increasing frequency, approaching the demands of the first few hours of hatching.

That demands more attention and makes care mistakes more likely, which in turn makes the end conditions more likely. Also makes it more likely you'll be near or looking at it when it starts the final sequence.

Either way, I think I'm going to let it stay in sparkly angel mode for awhile.

Also: Dead Tamagotchi would be a cool band name.

@jaythurbershow we can't stop here, this is windmill country

@nelson Cue a breathless friend running up to you with an old iPod Photo. "This has the only copies of my wedding pictures in existence, I hear you're the one with the cables. You're my only hope!"

As an epilogue, please accept these photos of cozy non-virtual cats