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You have fewer male ancestors than females ones. Think about it for a moment… there it is. Yes. Now you know.

Christmas is twelve days.

Today One (aka Tarn Adams) who is making Dwarf Fortress and formerly worked on Liberal Crime Squad is way up there.

Redigit (of Super Mario Brothers X and Terraria) is another from the current era.

But if we can go oldschool, Sid Meier is a legend. Civilization and Pirates! are two absolute favorites, especially the remake of Pirates and Civs 2 & 4.

But the real OG, the man who showed me I wanted to make videogames, is Tim Sweeney. Sure, now he’s rich and famous, but back in the day, even before UnReal, he ran Epic Megagames out of his parents’ basement and sold floppies by mail. His first game, ZZT, came with the tools included to not just edit levels, but to make a whole new game of your own using the ZZT engine. By the time I discovered it there were already hundreds of user-made games being traded on BBS.

I fell in love. I joined the IRC channels and bulletin boards, I made the games I wanted, I shared them with my friends and over the Internet. It sparked a love in me that still burns today. Sweeney moved on, I moved on, but I will always owe him my regard for releasing ZZT into the world. It changed my life.

It’s a pain with markdown.

Americans also don’t use the Imperial System. We use US Customary. The fluid ounces aren’t the same size, for example. But the units have 5ye same names as Imperial units, which is a significant source of confusion.

I’m a waitress. As long as you’re not making a mess, and you’re keeping company with people who are patronizing the establishment, you’re fine. You said you’re filling your own water bottle? Sounds like you’re making no additional work for the service staff, so don’t worry about it.

Well, and specifically, it’s related to the concept of an Indian giver: The warm weather is “taken back” and impermanent.

Why the hell’d they make it look so much like a Switch?

We could really use a Pete Seeger or a Woody Guthrie in times like these.

It’s ubiquitous.

Perfectly put.

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I only browse subscribed, but I also sub the muni discovery munis.

Sturgeon’s Law: 90% of anything is crap. Better to skim from the top than wade up a from the bottom, I say.

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Your question is not clear, post-edit. Can you rephrase?

I also love this calendar. It’s important to remember that “what day of the week is it” is an important question for at least two world religions, though, so months won’t always start on the same day of the week from year to year — but every month in a given year will.

The song “Letter from an Occupant” by the New Pornographers seems to be intentionally hard to parse, to the point that late in the song they sing “That tune you’ll be humming forever / all the words are replaced and wrong”. But yeah, anyway, I could’ve sworn the refrain starts with “For the love of a Congressman…” and that’s how I always sing along with it.

I was subbed to some of the post-reddit ones, but I’m over that now. I think just “Ask Kbin” is left.

You have fewer male ancestors than female ones.

Linking between instances is kinda weird right now, apparently. There’s no good way to link to a specific post in a way that’s accessible for users across instances.