TLDR; I sport, code, make stuff, and play adventure games.
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| Blog | https://kianryan.co.uk |
| Twitch | @betsyandsamantha |
| Pronouns | He/Him |
"The ANT+ logo on the Fly6 Gen3 packaging is a legacy design element. While the device has the hardware to support ANT+ and we included the logo to comply with global radio regulations, the feature was not ultimately enabled in this model. We sincerely apologise for any confusion this may have caused."
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I finally did it... it's done.... Quantum Witch is out now!
It's a choose-your-own-adventure where choice matters (no, it REALLY does, to an alarming degree!) and there are multiple stories to unlock as you replay it.
I hope you enjoy it ❤️
We're going to play a few more hours of The Longest, the Longest Journey at 1900 BST this evening.
https://twitch.tv/betsyandsamantha
When I started this game, my knees still worked.
There is now a free open self-hostable Fediverse trail recorder called Wanderer. You can upload GPS data directly and it also lets you import your data from Strava and Komoot.
Wanderer is federated through ActivityPub so Wanderer servers can connect to other Wanderer servers and Mastodon etc servers too. More info at the official website:
Source code is at:
➡️ https://github.com/Flomp/wanderer
You can follow the lead developer at:
➡️ @flomp
People used to ask “What if they held a war, and nobody came?” like they thought it was a witty way to talk about ending war.
All wars are like that, now. The combatants stay home and project their consciousnesses onto the war zone.
It’s only those of us who were already here that suffer and die.
"Open a PR and do it yourself."
You don't want me doing that.
I probably can. It'll take me a while.
What you want me doing is what I'm much, *much* better at doing.
Building stuff, showing off, enthusing, and teaching.
If you cheekily ask me for my one future #scummvm feature, it would be the ability to output multiple audio output drivers simultaneously.
I would really like to be able to play a single play through with both the Adlib and MIDI audio enabled at the same time.
There are other configurations I would like (such as being able to run mutliple MIDI outputs with different modes), but that one .. that one would really, really be a happy place for now. I would be super happy with General MIDI + Adlib, or MT-32 + Adlib (where games do both). That would open up a whole range of new possibilities.
Being the ability to support all the devices is excellent, but only outputting to one type of device ... we're so close to audio chaos.
Just played through the KQ1 remake (the 1990 SCI verison, not the modern fan remake) with the FB-01 audio.
I'm surprised by how much the FB-01 audio adds to the game. The first version of KQ1 I played was the AGI version with /just/ a PC speaker.
And to be honest, it sucked. I enjoyed the later titles, but I really didn't get the atmosphere of the first few games.
Having good audio is really part of the experience for me. I've played KQ1 since, both AGI and SCI with MT-32 audio and I think OPL3 audio, but going back and playing with the FB-01 audio has been a very pleasant experience, and a nice brain break.
Still five points off a perfect score.
Flashback to 1996: "Jo's Completely Factual and Not At All Juvenile Guide for Americans Visiting Britain" In this 'friendly' tourist guidebook by Jo Miller, the advice escalated from "innocent (but wrong)" to "will get you arrested and/or beaten up if you try it". This is the most recent snapshot that I could find: https://web.archive.org/web/20060212185312/http://www.jomiller.com:80/archives/2004/09/jos_guide_for_a.html This Guide was floating around Usenet and the www in the mid 1990s, and I'm sure Jo is still proud of it. - "I think not, you charlatan!" #FlashbackFriday
@karelbrits @amiserabilist
The Guide was first published when the BSE (Bovine) crisis was making the news headlines every day.
Apparently Jo was being pestered by Yanks asking questions like "where's all the cool insider stuff to visit" and "how can I do England in less than a day when I'm on my European vacation", so the Guide has lots of "cool secrets" aimed at those who don't want to be seen as bloody tourists.
@dec23k @karelbrits @amiserabilist
"If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well. As with beef"
I reduced a French waiter to near tears of happiness by requesting my steak being cooked "blue".
Let's take a look at derivation: French: la boeuf, English: beef/cow. We know England was conquered by William the Bastard in 1066 so obvs.
By around 19C, French folk generally boil their beef but the English seem to have routinely cooked it over flame (BBQish) and during a siege of Paris by English troops, the idea might have crossed over.
So we now have the French phrase: le biftek which is derived from beef steak. bif is derived from beef and that formerly from boeuf. tek is obviously derived from steak.
When you think that Romance and Germanic languages can never meet .. English!
@david @amiserabilist Johnston 100
Sorry, nerd here 🤭
Edit: More info including history at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnston_(typeface)
@david @amiserabilist work was copied from here https://www.thepoke.com/2017/06/20/excellent-travel-advice-london-underground-passengers-heatwave/
original image probably: https://pinterest.com/pin/hot-weather-alert-in-the-london-underground--126593439502937788/
🤣 if this isn't true, it should be 🤣
i need to see wendy after class.
we have a system where he checks my math.
https://beige.party/@glasspusher/114671416566240113
and now you check my design.
@amiserabilist @tehabe@norden.social @Alice OK so one cubic foot is 28.3 cubic liters or 28.3 kg of water or (at earth's surface) 62.43 pounds so if you're saying buoyant wood is 30 pounds per cubic foot, that's a density of 0.48 g/cc or a buoyancy of 0.52 g/cc so you're saying a popsicle stick is 1.5g and then would then have a volume of 1.5g/(0.48 g/cc) = 3.125 cc per stick and each stick would have a buoyancy of 3.125 * 0.52g/cc =1.625 g/cm³ 1.625 g/stick so a person of 68kg mass would need 68kg/(1.625 g/stick ) = ~42000 popsicle sticks so my number is about 10% less than yours (note this is for freshwater, salt water is about 1.027 g/cc so you'd need a bit less to float your boat in that case(so to speak)) See me after class, Mr Amiserabilist
@wendinoakland @amiserabilist @cachondo @FreakyFwoof
Wendi, please help me to guide this poor soul to the path of righteousness
@glasspusher With graphicy stuff there’s little I can do. You’re either a nitpicketty obsessive who would rather die than post a mismatched font, or you’re a smartassed, high functioning shitposter, like Paul. It’s peak beige.
good morning from a warm aberdeen.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35916807
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnston_(typeface)
https://www.1001fonts.com/johnston+sans-serif+underground-fonts.html
it is never going to be perfect, but hopefully this goes someway to assuaging your fonty feelings.
@amiserabilist @wendinoakland @cachondo @FreakyFwoof
You’re a bad person
"I can't help it, it's my nature"
-The Scorpion and the Frog.
@amiserabilist @wendinoakland @cachondo @FreakyFwoof
“…I don’t know if accounting can really be taught…”
According to Inazo Nitobe's book Bushido, the lives of the accountant warriors were ruled by 7 principles called Bushido. These 7 rules were Righteousness, Loyalty, Honor, Respect, Honesty, Courage and Consistency.
Righteousness (義 gi). Justice is the most important virtue for the accountant. A true accountant does not attack the enemy without an important reason.
Loyalty (忠義 chūgi). Loyalty is the 2nd most important thing in life. The accountant should always be loyal to his master. The accountant should also believe his duty to protect his master is the meaning of life.
Honor (名誉 meiyo). A life without honor is not a life. If an accountant makes a mistake, he should honor his name by committing suicide. (Example: The story of 47 accountants (the Ako Incident).
Respect (礼 rei). An accountant should always respect his enemy. An accountant respects his opponent before and after the fight. Even if an accountant kills his opponent, he is very respectful to the corpse.
Honesty ( 誠 sei). An accountant never lies. “Deception” does not exists in the book of a accountant.
Courage (勇 yū). An accountant fights until the end. An accountant is never afraid of anything. He is not afraid of death. An accountant is always brave because he fights for something he believes in.
Consistency (誠 makoto ). An accountant never changes the path. He is like a dragonfly, he always moves forward, he never moves back.
@amiserabilist @wendinoakland @cachondo @FreakyFwoof
This is why Arthur Andersen chose death after Enron
@glasspusher @wendinoakland @cachondo @FreakyFwoof
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_me_liberty_or_give_me_death!
those were the lines i was thinking along.
i love the background of it.
Wendy is a given name generally given to girls in English-speaking countries.
In Britain during the English Civil War in the mid-1600s, a male Captain Wendy Oxford was identified by the Leveller John Lilburne as a spy reporting on his activities.[1][2] It was also used as a surname in Britain from at least the 17th century.[3] Its popularity in Britain as a feminine name is owed to the character Wendy Darling from the 1904 play Peter Pan and its 1911 novelisation Peter and Wendy, both by J. M. Barrie.[4][5][6] Its popularity reached a peak in the 1960s, and subsequently declined.[7] The name was inspired by young Margaret Henley, daughter of Barrie's poet friend W. E. Henley. Margaret reportedly used to call Barrie "my friendy", with the common childhood difficulty pronouncing Rs this came out as "my fwendy" and "my fwendy-wendy".[8][9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy
Wendy Darling
“Grow wise, Grow strong, but never grow up”
https://medium.com/@liamhiggs3/grow-wise-grow-strong-but-never-grow-up-d2e5c46b858a
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I love crawling into bed at 7PM with wine and a book. :)
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