The biggest ones for me were the Marathon series, and a lot of old shareware RPGs (Realmz, Exile).

The 3rd title in the Marathon series came packaged with all of the tools they used to make the game, with which you could very easily make new maps and wild mods adding or changing weapons, enemies, mechanics, etc… I spent an absolutely unreasonable amount of time fucking around with that.

The maps were very rudimentary 3D (think Doom style), and they weren’t really 3D spaces so much as just corridors and rooms connected to each other. You could have a corridor that turned 90 degrees 3 times with no elevation change, and passed “through” itself, without actually having the two intersecting corridors connect in any way, which let you make some really wild maps with some pretty unique features that would be challenging to pull off in modern games. (There was even a multiplayer map called 5D Space that really showcased this interaction.)

This is the kind of interaction that would haunt me years later when I’m trying to sleep.

Ohio being on the list is pretty funny (assuming this is in the US). Going to make geography and history classes awkward.

What grade is this, that Edging and Goon were common enough terms that they had to be included here?

“Animal noises” is very broad. Furry persecution. :(

The fact that they lose “LiveSchool points”, whatever those are, presumably for saying these words, is almost worse than the fact that they have this list at all. I don’t know what that system is or how it works, but I already hate it.

Get him to lay out exactly what you’ll be doing, in writing, and what qualifies as ‘complete’ for each task. Don’t leave it open-ended, or you’re giving him leave to either keep adding new tasks, or to say “This wasn’t done adequately!” and refuse to pay your share.

Price definitely seems high, but at least it’s a decent meal for kids. Nice variety of things; most places around where I live just have a tiny portion of a single dish as the kids’ options.

This is me any time there’s a friendly kobold in any game. Deekin? Koll the Red? Popper? That’s my jam.

Especially if they’d help carry your bags and whatnot; that could be very helpful for someone who has mobility issues or just has a lot of things they need to bring. Well worth $7.50

I think this sufficiently sums up my take:

The fact that that’s an option at all makes Lemmy considerably better than Reddit.

You might also enjoy The Shoulders of Giants.

👅🐴 … There is not a raisin emoji.

Where is this / what company is it with? This is pretty amazing.

That’s a good point; it becomes less economical if you need multiple of these cells just to counteract the self-discharge. Even so, it’s really just a demo of the technology; they do mention they expect to have a 1 watt model later this year.

Almost nothing… Maybe some very basic scientific equipment, but they do note that they’d be able to use multiple batteries layered to produce higher output, and that they’re expecting to have a 1 watt version later this year; that’d be far more useful in practice.

This is wild; the battery would outlive the electronics it’s powering in almost all cases.

The output is incredibly tiny, but I wonder if it could be used to trickle-charge a higher-output battery for use in electronics that only need to be used infrequently for short durations.

Please don’t judge us all by Florida’s actions. In turn, we won’t judge you by the dumbest 0.1% of your country’s population.

Holy shit, that’s awful. Sorry your dad is awful, but good on you for cutting ties.

If you hang around long enough, you’ll get a DM from someone named Nicole, aka the Fediverse Chick, trying to phish you into clicking some probably sketchy links. I don’t think anyone really knows the story behind it. There’s a whole community dedicated to it at !nicole@feddit.org

Thought this was a Nicole parody at first.

Can we call you the Fediverse Dude?

I believe you’re describing a Tin Litho Climbing Monkey.

Here’s an example.