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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Better yet: what if they made 52 of them… in one cart

Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Monkey patching" is honestly the best name for that thing you do in Javascript. It is just ape-like coding practice. I actually think the whole language would be truer to life if it was fully monkey-themed. Firefox's engine being called SpiderMonkey is already a good start.

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

All videogames have the implicit premise "what if the world worked like a videogame" and there's nothing they can do about it. But then, even paintings have the premise "what if the world worked like a painting (everyone reacts simultaneously to a nearby event while naked)".

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have only a few strong opinions on the Metroid series but I cannot condone recommending Zero Mission first because you will encounter all the music and setpieces it copied from Super Metroid and thus think it's more creative than it actually is.

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Also on another subject, it's only with chapter 5 that I realise in retrospect that the pixel game world in chapter 3 is meant to be 3's "big mechanic", paralleling climbing in 4 and jumping in 5, which makes me feel like it fits into the whole game a lot better.

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For me 4 is a clear winner on all fronts - I guess I just love the little story of Susie and Gerson, and the novelty and ominousness of "Susie's dark world". But I think 5 and 2 are both close behind (5's dark world would be tied with 2's except for 2's other route).

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is a React site, which compiles its CSS on each build, so if you key the block against any of these generated CSS classes, they won't work after a rebuild because they'll probably be reassigned to different elements.

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Super Mario Odyssey is 10 years old next year

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Watching this stream's descent into utter despotism has been the hardest I've laughed in at least a few weeks.

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

modarchive.org/index.php?request=vi… - Favourite parts of The Ur-Quan Masters (fka Star Control II) are when you're majestically exploring a galaxy at war, getting messaged by a new undiscovered faction, and finding out that their theme music sounds like this

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If you want a fairly short and not exactly high-APM puzzle game 1cc pick, I recommend Star Sweep (starswepj in MAME)

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today in CSS: We all know you can change the highlight colour of selected text, but it's impossible to animate that colour. Unless… the colour was just a variable inherited from the parent element, using @property to make it animatable… Hahahahaha…

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Don't ask me how I know. You should ask me *who* I know." –the talking boulder from Void Stranger on LinkedIn

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Did you know that browsers in 2026 still have strict XHTML parsers and error messages for application/xhtml+xml content? (I went and confirmed this with iframes and Blob URLs without needing to make an actual local HTTP server.)

XHTML error messages in Firefox and Chrome

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Recently I've been brushing up on web technology, and not just the new stuff like position-anchor, but old stuff that could have been the future but wasn't. Just now I taught myself XPath and document.evaluate() for basically no reason.

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

To me Ocarina Of Time 2026 feels less like a remake and more like merch of the original game, but in videogame form

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

They call me the Shadow-Shrouded Prince of Not Posting

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Well I mean, Umineko is just clicking, so it honestly flies by compared to orthodox adventure games. Especially since it abso-posi-lutely adds no additional gimmicks at the last possible moment

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This post's energy is what I aspire for

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This looks so much like a Konami MSX gig

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Epic new idea for protecting your blog posts from LLM training: write them entirely in really-small-font-size ASCII art

ASCII art that reads: I generally prefer to play games in windowed mode, and for pixel art games, I like the pixels to be at a good midpoint of legibility - not so large that dithering and other shading effects become unreadable, but not as small as 1x. Now, old RPG Maker games (earlier than 2020) offer no obvious means of zooming their windows, requiring external tweaking tools be used. Based on my experiences, I've found that

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

When you accidentally connect the wrong dev on sector 1

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I don't need the introduction. I see all 3 under each of my posts………

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Don't trace a line along their noses

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I'm the one who's mad because you can't make Determination be the Red attribute because DT is canonically a substance inherent to all seven

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Little Known Song Continuity Crossover: The song "Danny Boy" is about a boy who went down to the woods on the day of the Teddy Bears' Picnic

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I respect the bravery of this post

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Interestingly, because you have easy access to both currencies in equal measure, the seemingly-similar 2-colour system actually serves the opposite purpose as it does in MTG.

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Most roguelikes already have a built-in specialising system in the form of limited item and weapon drops. 868-BACK and its predecessors accompany this (in this case, limited prog drops) with a diversifying system of 2 currencies that you must balance.

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Basically, each of these work to restrict your deck choices from different directions - to force decks out of a narrow category (card names) but to stay within a broad category (card colours) - to pen them into a middle ground of overall diversity.

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The big example is Magic The Gathering - its specialising system is the 5 colour system that restricts your access to card currency, and its diversifying system is the 4-of-a-kind rule that forces you to have a diversity of card names.

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I've been thinking about how card games and card-game-adjacent roguelikes tend to have two kinds of counterintuitively opposing systems - "diversifying systems" that force the player to diversity their moves, and "specialising systems" that force the player to restrict them.

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I think it's funny that when a citizen is forced to do something by the government, it's called an order, but when a constitutional monarch is forced to do something by the government, it's called "advice".

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I recognise this reference

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Watching Mario Maker troll levels

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I'm thinking you might put "longplay" in the title, which I believe has a bit more search cachet

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Saying "anti brother romance failsafe" to the Ninja Turtles theme

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Heat death is famously the time when every Robert's Rules motion that was "postponed indefinitely" is allowed to be returned to debate

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

New Deltarune characters are certainly not going to be coming back in later chapters, so while I'm happy they had their time in the sun, I'm sad that an incredible Aqua-Lancer pesterlog will never happen.

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