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@Indigo @Tadano Honestly, I didn't think anything of the two screens. I was more blown away by the polygonal 3D graphics running on a handheld. Honestly, it was the only system that blew me away in terms of power. I wasn't even born yet when the leap to 3D happened on home consoles.

I was also shocked that Nintendo released a new handheld that wasn't a GameBoy. I thought that every console they will release will have the GameBoy brand.

The concept of two screen wasn't anything new. Some Game&Watch models had two screens and it's where the design of the DS came from. You also had the Dreamcast with the VMU and the GameCube with the GBA-Link Cable. A few arcade games also utilized two screens. Granted, I didn't own or played any of those, but for whatever reason, the whole two screens concept didn't wow me. I guess I was used to seeing fictional game consoles on TV where the controllers had screens.

@Tadano Reminder that the Nintendo DS turns 20 years old next year.

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@xianc78 Of course, if the gov has a monopoly on this tech, then literally God help us all...
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@xianc78 This reminds me of an interesting leak-type thing about ufo tech I found a while ago. In a nutshell, it claimed that the reason the us gov is hiding the tech is because it would basically make anarcho-frontierism a reality - but at the expense of encryption, which would be rendered useless. The average schmoe could just weld together their own ufo and become Han Solo, never paying taxes again. (There was also something about immensely-powerful WMDs being made possible....)

@KryptoBlok @ArdainianRight It's a sequel to Ender's Game and Speaker for The Dead. Make sure to read those first.

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Bram Moolenaar, the open-source developer and the original author, maintainer, release manager for Vim, a programmer's text editor, passed away. #RIP
groups.google.com/g/vim_announ #linux #unix #macos #vim

@galena @ceo_of_monoeye_dating It would be easier to name a Youtuber that hasn't been address doxed at this point. Though mostly, it's from people recognizing local landmarks from their videos.

@ceo_of_monoeye_dating A lot of e-celebs have them and do unboxing of stuff people sent them.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/us/lone-star-tick-bite-meat-allergy.html

:billgoops: Previously: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53856776 :billg:








...I am only half-joking. I have no reason to suspect that Bill Gates has anything to do with the Lone Star tick besides his habit of introducing bugs to new places and trying to get other people to stop eating meat.
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Added HP (which you can't see) and sprite flicker when you get hit. I normally put stats like HP in the title bar before adding a HUD, but that didn't show up in my recording.

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