man I’ve been feeling so dorseless lately 😖

aw yeah, motherfucking Cheerwine! though Blenheim’s is a little more my speed.

No boot sequences

(being annoyingly pedantic) technically there is a boot sequence: the Gameboy logo. on the DMG there’s a little blob of code from 0x0000 to 0x00ff that clears some memory, sets up the screen, reads the logo from cartridge memory and scrolls it. the loader only jumps to the game if the logo is byte-identical (the idea being that unlicensed games could be sued for trademark infringement.)

on the GBC the loader is a little beefier but mostly the same.

t. made a horribly broken FPGA core for the DMG that got just far enough to load the Tetris intro

everything is still a problem, it’s just a self-inflicted problem! 😁

“Sir” is in her first name, and her last name is also a boy name.

she actually did that for the “trans” character in the Hogwarts game.

Sirona Ryan. I shit you not.

Tina Cracker.

fuck Putin, slava Ukraini!

I definitely didn’t know how heated people were towards .ml when I joined. istg I’m not a tankie.

ngl kinda glad Trump banned trans people from the military. I can’t get drafted! 🥲

save it up and you can spin it into yarn. great for making mittens, hats, scarfs and baby sweaters.

the amount of consumer goodwill that statement bought easily pays for any losses from the hotdogs. companies seem hellbent on torching their brand reputation for short-term gains these days. little gestures go a long way.

I have no clue what to do. I’m American. I’m trans. I voted for Harris. I live in a blue state. I’ve gone to protests. I’ve talked to state senators about legislation. I’ve canvassed. I’ve talked to Trump supporters and tried to get them to change their minds.

it all feels totally useless. nothing I’ve done has had any effect. my own mom voted for Trump three times. it’s like being chained to an anvil and thrown overboard. I’m swimming but I’m still drowning.

I’ll just have a cup of rain, thanks.

I actually don’t. :) it’s the first thing I disable on my phone. I only capitalize “I” specifically, and proper nouns.

again though, my issue is one with producing the Unicode character of the specific em-dash glyph. maybe some phones automatically convert dashes to em-dashes based on context but I personally wouldn’t know how it’s done.

no no, you misunderstand. I’m not talking about the verbal flourish of dashes for interjection - I use those all the time, in this very sentence - I’m specifically talking about producing the specific Unicode character (—) instead of just using the normal ASCII dash (-). the only way I can make the actual em-dash character is by long-pressing. if I do – or —, it’s just a sequence of normal dash glyphs for me.

I buy all my groceries from Omega Mart, like a normal person.

I use dashes all the time, but em-dashes? I don’t even know how to type those. I guess I could long-press the dash on my phone and select it, but… why?

love is DLC.

it could be a real cat sitting inside a miniature model Italian alley. that was where my thoughts went.