JPShepardDamn it, Microsoft added something worthwhile to Office.Favorite DOS game soundtracks?The Balatro DiscourseFaith is a Fine Invention, by Emily Dickinsonhttps://www.poemhunter.com/poem/faith-is-a-fine-invention/Artist Alley.Scrolling down a web page and seeing a bunch of cool stuff.Seeing a list and wondering "how did this list happen"?Steam Farming Fest.Trying to figure out what you want to do when you grow up.Eating eggs and rice when you have tummy troubles.The file you all edit to make the deposit slip.Taking data from multiple columns and putting them all in a single list.Becoming the spreadsheet wizard.Installation wizards.Why nobody calls a software feature a "wizard" any moreA window into the dialectic of wizards.The LLM hype tornado.Renting video software from Blockbuster.Back when any media was a "tape"Enumerating the kinds of MS-DOS audio hardware.Emitting a blast of data.Enjoying a video game in 4, 16 or 256 colors.How Doom sounded on the internal PC speaker.Playing multiplayer Doom on a four computer LAN where two of the computers don't have sound cards.The Doom source port family tree.Whether Linux supported the internal PC speaker.Playing each MIDI note with the off-the-track square wave.Holding on to a joke for several minutes.Doing sound effects via the Roland MT-32.FM synth guitars sounding more evil than real guitars.Synthesizers that are fancier than other synthesizers and are therefore better.The ambient music on the Doom soundtrack.The Lost Vikings soundtrack.Games with tracker soundtracks.The tracker music era.A roguelike deck builder kind of a thing.A huge hit within your social horizon.Beginners hoping to project intelligence and competence.The kind of mixing of data and code that Lua makes easy to do.How to deploy a Love2D game to consoles.A cool game idea that's just a bunch of cards doing stuff.Sean Barrett's STB libraries.The ability to change your mind without having to throw away a bunch of work.Ambient complexity vs. intrinsic complexity.Hot takes escaping containment.The Celeste character controller.Software security practices that do not apply to a single player indie game.Looking at code and seeing all the things that it used to be.Looking at code solving a problem in a domain you are unfamiliar with.An Emily Dickinson poem that reads like a response to an argument she had at dinner.Situations where you can directly observe what's happening.All the filters preventing you from bursting out into song.Esprit de escalier.Who was Emily Dickinson owning?A contempt for faith and a sense that microscopes are good.Knowing that nobody reads your blog, but taking satisfaction in the knowledge that someone hypothetically could.Excavating spiritual truth from apocryphal ramblings.The app that holds all the texts you don't send for ransom.Digging through people's trash but with fewer steps.
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