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What it's like to be a developer in 2024
  • I've been into computers for over 20 years and I couldn't tell you what uses rust. I am aware of it, but I am completely unaware of how narrow or broadly it is used. I keep forgetting people aren't talking about the game.

  • Mystery of ancient Roman dodecahedron baffling experts as it goes on display in UK
  • Dude, I got it! These were the original "tricky" golf balls. Golf probably started as rolling a rock into a hole, but when that got too easy, they started going "bet you can't get that weird shaped one in there," and then that got popular enough that people started making their own.

    Of course, there were always the purists that believed the rocks should remain round and the hole should be the thing that moves.

    That's why we have golf and mini golf.

  • Mystery of ancient Roman dodecahedron baffling experts as it goes on display in UK
  • Seems pretty simple to me. Everybody loved to gamble, so they needed to be sturdy, and also big shiny metal trinkets are cool. They have different sized holes to denote the different values of the sides, and the knobbies make them bounce and roll in unexpected ways and keep them from rolling once they come to a rest.

  • Would anyone be interested in some "karaoke"?

    Back in the not so distant beforetimes, I was a part of a community which occasionally hosted goofy "karaoke" nights. Basically, we'd all just use vocaroo or whatever service and upload ourselves singing whatever, or trying to pronounce words from one another's languages/dialects/accents.

    I recorded a parody of Baby Got Back(yt tracker removed, re-uploaded from an archived capture) based on someone else's parody verse, the Aussies would all come in and say g'day and Mell-bern, we'd all try to speak Swedish, and it was a pretty good time.

    Showing you guys that song may get me kicked out of that community, but I hope not.

    If anyone here is from there by chance, tell TMW I said the anniversary of the retirement of his space helmet is coming up. I wanna say August 19.

    And tell Airport I said sup.

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    Red Lobster eyes bankruptcy option after $11M in losses from endless shrimp
    abcnews.go.com Red Lobster eyes bankruptcy option after $11M in losses from endless shrimp

    Red Lobster has a new CEO and is focused on possible restructuring through Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to Bloomberg.

    Red Lobster eyes bankruptcy option after $11M in losses from endless shrimp

    "Last year, Red Lobster reported $11 million in operating losses following its flubbed 'Ultimate Endless Shrimp' deal, which backfired when it reeled in too many customers after the limited-time promo became a permanent menu fixture last June. The restaurant chain later reported $12.5 million in losses in the fourth quarter of 2023."

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    Hello. I just wanted to share my little project and see what kind of feedback I could get

    So, I decided to start learning how to use Godot and GDScript, and I've been building a little (currently) mobile / browser game to go along with my lessons.

    3 levels are currently complete-ish, and I have been doing a little bit of visual cleanup/mechanics polishing before moving on to my next goal.

    I guess I'm just looking for ideas to finish-out the overall look and feel of the game. For instance, I'm missing any sort of settings page, so all of the volumes are currently premixed - and poorly so. All of the gameplay sound effects are either my mouth or a Pringles can, jsyk.

    Anyways, if nothing else, I hope you try it and find it somewhat amusing. I have big plans for it, including several genre swaps - just depends on when I learn what right now, really.

    I appreciate your time.

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    Luna

    (From about 2 years ago)

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    Hi Cats! This is Sunny and Luna :-)

    People say torties have attitude, and I agree.

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    InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)OL
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