Dave / is on Nostr

A middle-aged nerd in a world of 'em. This particular one enjoys:

- Retrogaming
- Videogames
- NFL/Miami Dolphins
- Movies
- Game dev

Last Notes

2024-06-21 18:25:37

I will forever associate the Manics with wishing I'd worn a long sleeved shirt.
#totp

2024-05-08 11:03:45

Just opened a 20 pack of Walkers crisps only to find the Salt and Vinegar packets (5) MISSING.
My dismay is somewhat tempered by the fact that the missing packets were actually just missing, and not replaced by extra Prawn Cocktails.
#Crisps #UKStuff

2024-04-05 10:59:29

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@npub1nhw…g2sy Do we need to sit down and go through the "Wish" system again?
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2024-04-05 10:42:01

The new banners in #GenshinImpact were my first purposeful targeted rolls. I saved up for months for #Neuvillette, maintained my pity, went into it knowing the chances... and I got him!
A couple of days of leveling later and I was pretty amazed by how easy he made everything seem. Finish domains in seconds, 9 star an Abyss floor I'd been stuck on... It was getting to the point where I thought he might ruin the game...
Then I ran into a quest that needed me to kill three waves of hydro mimics!

2024-03-22 20:26:51

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@npub1nhw…g2sy I'm just saying it changes the situation if he's a ghost is all.
#totp

2024-03-22 19:31:35

Was Lee Evans famous for anything else other than sweating profusely?
#totp

2024-03-08 19:18:57

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@npub1nhw…g2sy Why do you hate Jarvis?

2024-03-02 11:39:49

I've been craving an #IdleThumbs like #gaming #podcast recently... so rather than find anything new, I've been dipping into the Thumbs' archive and picking random episodes.
Turns out their conversation about off-popular games is just as entertaining now as it was in 2012 or 2016. Also throws up lots of recommendations of games to try out on #Steam.
Does anyone have any recommendations for Thumbs-like podcasts? Mature, entertaining conversation about niche games is what I want.

2024-02-19 18:34:28

My first reaction to #Sora, the #OpenAI text-to-video #AI tech, was a familiar internal volte-face. From "That's cool" to "No! Stop! Burn the disks and the print outs!" in about 50 nanoseconds.
We're not ready for this stuff. AI demands socialism or UBI as a prerequisite and we're still electing conservatives...
I increasingly think we need to park all this for a decade or two. Think about what it all means, and let everyone decide if we want it, not just tech bros.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/15/openai-sora-ai-model-video

2024-02-13 13:36:26

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@npub1psd…9sr7 But it was a rad kind of beige, right? The kind of beige that would roll up the sleeves of its sports jacket and peer at you slyly over the top of its sunglasses?

2024-02-13 13:30:22

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@npub1psd…9sr7 Maybe for you, but I'm pretty sure I haven't been influenced overly by the media I consume. My childhood in the 80s was exactly as rad as I remember it.
Until that time we had to move in with Gramps and my brother started acting weird about bright lights and garlic and I hooked up with some comic book nerds and we rid the town of vampires.

2024-01-26 09:34:56

I love the Mastdon advanced interface, but I always thought the left panel is mostly wasted space. It would be far nicer if you could collapse that and fit in one more column for extra bunnies.
Now you can! I've knocked together some ham-fisted Javascript to collapse /expand the left panel with a click in the grey area below the post box:
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/485702-hide-mastodon-left-panel
Install with Tampermonkey or equivalent. You might need to add your own instance into the Match declarations at the top.
#Mastodon
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2024-01-01 07:55:29

I vote we just continue the whole #Christmas thing for another few days... who's with me?

2023-12-30 19:30:11

This year was an odd one...
On one hand, lots of good stuff happened. @npub1nhw…g2sy and I got wed and had a lovely, low-key day that was perfectly "us". We went to see Eurovision. We had our first cruise. The Miami Dolphins have been doing suspiciously well...
On the flip side, health issues were a stress, and work was... well, let's not mention work. Combined with the wider world being a nonstop fuck-a-palooza...
So I wanted to send it off by picking out some of the cool stuff I've enjoyed...