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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Since the first release of #MSDOS, no American president has had a first or last name longer than eight characters. Just sayin’.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

“Look, if we don’t interfere and divert the asteroid, all those dinosaurs are going to be wiped out!” “OK, OK, let me just finish my… Oh no! I’ve spilled my mumpkin spice latte all over the control panel!” “Dinosaurs! Asteroid! There’s no time! Our prediction models show it’s going to be really […]

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Star Trek: The Strange New Gimmicks Am I complaining? I guess I am complaining. But not *complaining* complaining. Just grumbling.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Teenage Mutant Negasonic Warheads

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

I said that I want my machine to be boring. And then almost immediately realized that the word "boring" is, dare I say it, tainted by a couple of assholes: Elon and Linus. Assholes on a very different level, but still. So I’ve been thinking about what to say instead. Bland? Drab? Monotonous? […]

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

I learned that wbg is pretty bad at #SVG #wallpapers, but #swaybg is perfect. Now I want to make more, with inspiration from simpledesktops.com #DesktopFriday

Widescreen desktop with a dark gray bar showing only the clock in the middle and the day in the top right corner. The wallpaper is the same dark gray color, with a slightly darker hue on the right indicating that it is actually a large circle that doesn’t fit. On top of that circle are eight smaller circles in the order and relative size of the planets in our solar system. They are all solid colors from the terminal palette: black Mercury, green Venus, blue Earth, red Mars, cyan Jupiter, yellow Saturn, purple Uranus and white Neptune. In the lower left corner is a small terminal window showing the SVG code of the wallpaper.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

As I said, I want to keep my new machine relatively free of games. The hard line is Steam and Wine, I suppose. But funnily enough, I already have #DungeonKeeper and #Fallout (both DOS), #Quake2 (#yquake2) and #OcarinaOfTime (#ShipOfHarkinian). You know, these ones […]

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Video? #mpv. Audio? mpv. Images? mpv. Wait, what? mpv. No, go back one. Images? Yes, mpv. Huh. mpv. PDFs in mpv, too? Don’t be silly! #firefox, of course.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

What am I doing? I’m playing #quake2 with a #DualShock4 gyro for science. What? You don’t? That’s strange. #yquake2

This is the scene at the end of the first episode. A broken bridge sits between two castle-like, yet industrial, structures. Water flows beneath the bridge into a large drainpipe. The rubble of the bridge contains the corpse of a human soldier. Everything is gray and brown with a yellowish tint from the acidic sky.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Look at those chunky pixels! For some reason, the GOG version wouldn’t work in #DOSBoxPure. However, there is an obscure website – the name begins with an “a” and ends with “rchive-dot-org” – with an old DOS version of the game. Also, some time ago, I […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A screenshot of a game in 320×200-pixel resolution. It shows the beginning of the first level. There is a Dungeon Heart, a huge gem on a raised platform between four columns. Tunnels lead away from it in the four cardinal directions. On the left is the main UI panel, with a minimap and an almost empty grid of actions. Near the Dungeon Heart hovers a cursor in the shape of a hand holding a pile of gold.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Wait, #DualShock4 works out-of-the-box on #Linux with the touchpad as a mouse and some gestures? Neat.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

`###onetrust-consent-sdk` I won’t explain it, but you could consider this a rant.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Someone can easily say, that #TheOrville is better than the current #StarTrek. The Mirror Universe it is.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

There are people who inherently know whether it’s “leng-h-t” or “leng-t-h”, and I don’t like them.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

I am planning to write a second edition of Das Kapital, switching it to a classless, skills-based system.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

I often see cars with rubber 🦆 ducks on dashboards. What are people trying to explain to them? *While* driving?! #RubberDuckDebugging

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

> When using ALSA sound output under Linux, the "sound.device" setting "default" is Mednafen's default, IE "hw:0", not ALSA's "default". If you want to use ALSA's "default", use "sexyal-literal-default". sexyal-literal-default 🤨

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

Argh, #waybar is so frustrating! On the one hand, you can do some really cool things with it; on the other hand, a third of the options don’t work for no apparent reason. {bandwidthUpBytesCompact} doesn’t work. {bandwidthUpBytes:U} doesn’t work. {%-H} doesn’t work. "format-en" doesn’t work. … […]

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

Here’s a quick #nushell tip for apps that don’t have auto-reload on configuration changes: let $app = the-program-in-question watch $"( $nu.home-dir )/.config/( $app )" { ps | where name == $app | first | kill -s 12 $in.pid } Launch it however you like. The command “kill -s 12” sends a reload […]

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

I need to be careful here because this isn’t my lane but it’s fascinating to think about how many monsters in sci-fi movies were played by actors of color. Bolaji Badejo in #Alien. Kevin Peter Hall in #Predator. Ahmed Best in #StarWars.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

Speaking of car games, if you tolerate #EpicGames, the extremely good #CaravanSandWich will be free next week: store.epicgames.com/p/caravan-sandw…. I played it on the Switch, and it struggled a bit, so I’m kind of tempted. #EpicGamesStore #FreeGame #FreeGames

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

I trimmed my game wishlist. Lately, it was for “oh, right, that game exists,” rather than “day one purchase!” or anything like that. Sorry, devs, but I already have too much. The fun part is that out of the 14 games left, 10 of them are about cars or something car-like. Huh. I guess, in every […]

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

Why is everyone so concerned with inclines nowadays? … (It’s a “slope” joke, and if you don’t understand it, that’s actually not bad.)

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

[Russo-Ukrainian war, conspiracy theory (hopefully a fun one)] People don’t know why the Armed Forces of Ukraine are attacking Wildberries and not the other Russian Amazon-like companies, Ozon and Yandex. I think it’s simple. Unsurprisingly, Wildberries doesn’t have good, or just consistent […]

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

“If the peasants had no bread, then let them eat the rich.” #MarieAntoinette

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

Valve is steadily releasing updates to #gamescope, making the DIY #SteamMachine more and more viable. In fact, I’d say they’re almost on par right now: there are some benefits to going with an official machine/distro, and there are some benefits to building one yourself/choosing a distro you […]

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

Do you ever think, #MudRunner and #OverTheHill are cool, but what if you could transport a giant, severed hand of a dead god?¹ Why am I even asking, of course you do! store.steampowered.com/app/4067370/… It’s a playtest, so it’s a bit rough, but the driving […]

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

I don’t have any passkeys. I don’t have anything against them, but no one has ever explained why I need them or how they are better. I just tried to add one. The website said your system can handle them. I pressed the button in the browser, but nothing happened. Cool. Call me back in 10 years.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

[very general pol, positive] It seems to me that progress is when people improve their lives a little, giving them the resources to improve their lives even more. So what if billionaires finally convince politicians to tax them? Some of that money will go toward a universal basic income […]

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

`ls | each { update name ( open $in.name ) }` That alone gets you (OK, me) about 75 percent of the way to a working notes system. A scratchpad, if you will. #nushell is neat.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

We need a franchise like #TheExpendables, but with women. #HalleBerry will gather everyone, as Stallone. #MichelleYeoh would play Lundgren as a no-nonsense veteran. #AngelinaJolie would play Willis, but with longer hair. #NicoleKidman would play Statham: white, but with an accent. #JenniferLopez […]

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

I don’t plan on playing games on this machine. I was just testing my script for downloading AppImages. I swear! dusklight.org #DuskLight #TheLegendOfZelda #TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess #TwilightPrincess

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

Dr. Quinzel, Medicine Woman would be a very different show. Same amount of hammers tho.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

Shopping at a store. vs. Storing at a shop.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

Another third-person action game, another combat that I didn’t care about. To be fair, I rarely fully engage with game mechanics. Build? What build? I don’t do character builds or build orders. But even I understand that it’s no fun if most of your enemies have splash attacks and often attack […]

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

Wait, it called “Alien: Isolation 2”, not “Aliens: Isolation”? You had one job!

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

I’m an teaqual opportunity coffeender. Okay, that’s horrible, I agree. But it’s also true. Like a lot of things in life: horrible but true.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Don’t sleep on sleep is what I always say.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

#CompulsionGames and #DoubleFine are free. Great! #NinjaTheory and #ArkaneStudios maybe too. Cautious optimism. Of course, people losing jobs is bad, but I don’t care if a couple of those companies disintegrate completely. You can look up the rest of the bad things yourself. P.S. Is that what […]

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

In an ideal world, the focus of remakes and restorations would be on games that are difficult to find and play today. Perhaps they were only released on one platform. Maybe the controls are unusual. Or they’re just rare. Etc. In our world, however, both companies and fans just keep re-releasing […]

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

`ps | where name like bartertown | select ppid` (Pause for puzzled looks.) That’s “Who run Bartertown?” in #nushell

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