alright i’ve had a burning question in my head for years that feels more relevant now than ever, so i’m gonna ask it even though it feels like the answer is supposed to be obvious:

what was so revolutionary about Ocarina of Time in its time, exactly? it surely wasn’t the 20 FPS graphics. i also struggle to believe that it was the “cinematics”, as games like Final Fantasy VII and Metal Gear Solid were already out by that point. i guess they were for a different console, but what’s that matter?

i’m envisioning a retro console emulator that has custom per‐game scripts one can enable to automatically create save states at logical checkpoints. like, you’re playing Kid Icarus and it’s hard as shit, but you can pull up an interface with screenshots to rewind to any of the previous room transitions, with those states having been made automatically instead of having to do so manually. does an emulator like this exist? if no, why not, and if yes, why haven’t i heard of it

so why have there been 4 local privilege escalation exploits for Linux in the past like 2 weeks. like is there a particular reason. i’m more out of the information security loop than i’d like to be, as a consequence of keeping myself under a rock on purpose, but i do see these patch announcements for my OS

unsolicited writing prompt: a dystopia where the rules of the road are that the more expensive car always has the right of way

merry christmas, here is an excerpt of a recent conversation i had with a friend

games never tell you what their mana potions taste like. why is that

post-cohost until now, i’d been like, “man, i just don’t have time to keep up with all these blogs *and* my Mastodon timeline. something’s gotta give!”

something has indeed given. it is now time for the blog era.

i’ve removed my home timelines from my Mastodon clients indefinitely, effectively making this account write-only until further notice.

i do not post about politics, Canadian or otherwise, without a content warning.

this is the kind of world we could live in if so much capital wasn’t being wastefully poured into manufactured economic bubbles

imagine if we had standardized audio metadata for pause points in a song (e.g. at the start of each measure) so that media players did this automatically for us, either playing until the next pause point before pausing or rewinding to the last resume point when resuming. imagine if videos had these points at the start of each sentence so you never have to worry about manually rewinding a bit after pausing mid‐sentence. why have we been collectively sleeping on such simple innovation for decades

my favourite rhythm game is hitting ⏸pause on my music player right at the start of a new measure so that when i resume playback later it’s not awkwardly picking up mid‐measure

so is there a story of some kind behind crouton.net or does everyone just know about this mysterious URL that serves only a… 5 KiB PNG of a crouton?? hold on how the heck is this PNG file this large. it’s 33×31 pixels.

…oh my god most of crouton.png, literally more than half its filesize, is an embedded ICC profile. and almost the same size as the image data is a text chunk which tells us it was made using “Pixelmator 3.2” on 2014-05-26. i can losslessly optimize this PNG down to 933 bytes. why

https://cohost.org/rebane2001/post/7910613-another-journey-begi how are people still committing the wildest CSS crimes i ever seen on cohost when it’s only gonna be usable for a few more hours. i’ve never seen people put so much effort into posts on any social media website in my life

#HeyCohost, make sure your contact/website links on your profiles are up‐to‐date; the data export users get will include a “find your friends” page that pulls from that. https://cohost.org/jkap/post/7709013-yeah-preview-of-how

@mcc don’t cold @ often but you should see these glitches https://cohost.org/dinosaurgerms/post/4753295-accidentally-randomi

@mcc hi i’m the person you modded in your twitch chat btw lol, you don’t have to keep me modded if u don’t want to. but i’ll be tuning in to all the toki tori 2+ streams at least

oh i also got one of these for 28¢ just to show it to people and make them upset. because like it’s truly awful in so many ways. and sketchy enough that i don’t know if i want to risk putting these inside my body. i mean if there was ever going to be actually poisoned hallowe’en candy it would be this kind of shit

i just spent 57¢ on 1.875 kg of candy corn because i’m an adult who’s allowed to run his life however he wants and nobody can stop me

hold on i have instead found a wild Wikipedia article related to both animals and money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_animals

• Olivia Benson ($97M)
“Taylor Swift's cat has an estimated worth of at least $97 million.”

• Tinker ($1.2M)
“A stray cat that was bequeathed an $800,000 home and a $226,000 trust fund.”

• Trouble ($2M)
“A dog that was owned by Leona Helmsley, to which she bequeathed $12 million in a will that disinherited her two grandchildren. A judge later amended the amount down to $2M.”

does any country have wolves on their money. i need to know this