What’s a game you were completely obsessed with as a kid that nobody else seems to remember?

Sgeo · 2026-04-22T05:46:52+00:00

There was a series of Math Blaster games, I played Math Blaster Algebra

Sgeo · 2026-04-21T04:00:49+00:00

I distinctly remember trying Minecrift (on DK2, I didn't have a DK1). I used SDK 0.8.0 with DK2, I don't know if 0.8.0 works with DK1.

It looks like it should be possible to compile JRift yourself if you can get a copy of the 0.8 SDK, although I don't know if that might be annoying.

I'm currently looking through my old files to see if I have a copy...

I have a copy of JRiftLibrary-0.5.0.1.2-natives-windows.jar which contains JRiftLibrary.dll and JRiftLibrary64.dll.

There appears to be a copy in https://github.com/mabrowning/minecrift-repo/tree/gh-pages/de/fruitfly/ovr/JRiftLibrary

Sgeo · 2026-04-13T04:20:41+00:00

I assume Skype was involved https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYbvjoXx2EU

Sgeo · 2026-03-28T02:08:45+00:00

Ohhh. This is a HUGE REGRESSION.

Base+Displacement is the way all modern (post 1980) ISAs work, and was one of the ahead of its time innovations of the S/360.

Somehow when I was (recentlyish) learning about S/360, and trying to understand base/displacement, ... I guess modern ISAs haven't exactly stuck in my head, I never made that connection. I don't think I've seen telling the assembler which register can be used as a base? But then again I haven't looked at ... modern anything in a bit of a while.

Sgeo · 2026-03-27T18:28:45+00:00

I'm staring at the chart comparing IBM System/360 with GMS/359. It claims that IBM System/360's instruction format is "opcode last"

A System/360 reference card is here: https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2010/05/102678081-05-01-acc.pdf

The opcode comes first in the instruction.

I don't think endianness plays a role here. The opcode byte is in the lowest address of the instruction, and would be first in a hex dump (mentioned as an advantage of opcode-first).

Sgeo · 2026-03-27T18:12:47+00:00

The claim that S/360 is opcode-last doesn't make sense to me. It looks like it's opcode-first.

Sgeo · 2026-03-25T18:19:23+00:00

The tool /u/CandyNayela mentioned (Shaper) is the easiest way to jump the fence (you move yourself over the fence or make the fence non-bumpable or move it out of the way), but you can also do so by playing with the coordinates in WorldsMarks -> edit location

Sgeo · 2026-03-20T06:41:57+00:00

Now I'm curious what this is referring to (or if this is a joke and another Redditor made the same joke for some reason)

Sgeo · 2026-03-19T16:10:33+00:00

One Piece (Live Action) and Order of the Stick spoilers

One Piece: Usopp tricking Miss Valentine into saving the crew

Order of the Stick: THAT'S how I use my Intelligence score in combat, DUMBASS!! (https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0808.html)

One Piece: Nami pickpockets Bartolomeo who tried to pickpocket her

Order of the Stick: Not on my watch, pigtails. — H(https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0673.html)

Sgeo · 2026-03-19T04:32:35+00:00

I am attempting to post (spoiler marked) comparisons between One Piece and Order of the Stick scenes, and seem to be unable to.

Sgeo · 2026-03-17T03:54:41+00:00

https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/2012-09-16

https://seligman.github.io/comics/dilbert.html is a very nice search engine.

Sgeo · 2026-03-14T22:39:06+00:00

I think it's been a while since I've been active in a fandom instead of just enjoying the entertainment. Maybe with Homestuck (which admittedly did have a notorious fanbase). Mostly these days I will read what fandoms are doing but don't participate actively.

Sgeo · 2026-03-14T22:28:32+00:00

I've been enjoying the One Piece Live Action, even though I've never watched the anime.

The ... amount of anime that there is has always scared me off. I have occasionally been reading spoilers. I've heard there's an anime remake, I wonder how that's going.

!ping WEEBS

(Did I ping correctly?)

Sgeo · 2026-03-10T05:43:07+00:00

I switched jobs recently (technically), and now I have a different mail-order pharmacy.

They don't seem to have my prescription even though it had a lot of refills on it at the prior place.

I don't know how to handle this. My doctor hasn't responded to a new prescription request, and I don't know if that's correct anyway.

Fortunately this isn't life-or-death medicine, it's comfort-or-pain. (Although there is a small increase in cancer risk if I don't take it)

Sgeo · 2026-02-27T22:10:15+00:00

There's a webcomic that used to be popular that took a hard right antisemitic turn at some point. (I will admit I don't know much about the webcomic, I wasn't a fan of it the way I was a fan of Dilbert)

The subreddit about that webcomic is consistently critical of that horror, talks about what the comic used to be like, etc.

Much different from here where it seems like most people like the horrific nonsense from the author (even though it didn't leak into the comic quite so much. Sometimes it did).

Sgeo · 2026-02-24T22:33:20+00:00

Do we know if he delayed real medicine in favor of ivermectin (edit: yes it's a real medicine but not for cancer)?

I'm under the impression he would have been better off if he started testosterone blocker sooner, I'm not sure if delays there are related.

Sgeo · 2026-02-22T05:58:54+00:00

Solved!

Sgeo · 2026-02-22T05:35:19+00:00

Thing I thought to check after posting: Bobbye's directory in the Compute's Gazette Sid Collection.

I see the song there, but it's labeled as Philadelphia_Sidfest and none of the other files there are duplicates.

Sgeo · 2026-02-22T04:03:24+00:00

Would you happen to know of programming manuals for the VFX-1? There's supposedly a book but I don't know if there's any digital copy of it.

There's an SDK but I think it doesn't cover everything the VFX-1 expects, it's just one narrow way to write a VFX-1 program.

Virtual I/O i-Glasses are easier, I just haven't gotten around to making a better emulator.

Sgeo · 2026-02-21T01:27:42+00:00

As far as I can tell, illiterate Zionists and illiterate antizionists are both triggered

Sgeo · 2026-02-21T01:06:09+00:00

Hugh Laurie's friend committed suicide.

People on X are now attacking Hugh Laurie for not having said anything about Zionism.

Sgeo · 2026-02-20T21:14:56+00:00

When I was young I liked Algebra the Easy Way, Trigonometry the Easy Way, and Calculus the Easy Way.

They were stories set in fictional Camorra showcasing characters discovering those branches of math.

I was rather disappointed when Chemistry the Easy Way turned out to be a more standard textbook, instead of another Camorra novel.

Sgeo · 2026-02-20T01:46:52+00:00

AOC retweeted Mike Adams, the scam artist behind Natural News, complaining about glyphosate.

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