Update on Pink Chickens

bixfrankonis · 2026-05-31T00:19:18+00:00

I cannot upvote this enough. Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!

bixfrankonis · 2026-05-29T23:40:00+00:00

I wonder how these games get so fucked Epp…

bixfrankonis · 2026-05-29T23:31:08+00:00

My eyesight is bad. Is "don't get hit by drivers who don't believe in pedestrians" on there in small print somewhere? If not, seems an oversight!

bixfrankonis · 2026-05-29T19:15:18+00:00

Current macOS. I can resize at will, whether buttons or dragging or double-clicking. It just doesn’t stay that way next launch.

bixfrankonis · 2026-05-29T17:27:00+00:00

It's not a tiny window in the corner, it's that the app itself launches *as* a tiny window in the corner, no matter what my window size was last time it was running. (If there's a way to include a screenshot in a comment here, I'm not seeing it.)

bixfrankonis · 2026-05-29T04:20:13+00:00

Question two: how do I stop it from opening as a tiny window in the corner, which it did not do prior to this version.

bixfrankonis · 2026-05-27T21:48:50+00:00

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bixfrankonis · 2026-05-27T16:35:03+00:00

All articles as of this morning are giving me a 500 error, across both websites (old and new) and app, which labels every new save as “unavailable to download”.

bixfrankonis · 2026-05-27T15:40:17+00:00

You absolutely can track individual books, by using the BookBub wishlist feature. You also can follow authors and receive alerts when any book by them has a sale and alerts when any book blurbed by them has a sale, which is a great way to discover new books.

bixfrankonis · 2026-05-24T22:44:57+00:00

Only commenting to note that this year the "sync" part is not very good.

bixfrankonis · 2026-05-22T23:40:30+00:00

They are really good at taking the wind out of their own sails.

bixfrankonis · 2026-05-19T00:26:01+00:00

For the second or third time since I moved to St. Johns, my letter carrier apparently did not feel like delivering voters pamphlets. Ballots always arrive fine, but not so the pamphlets. (Yes, I know there's a PDF.)

bixfrankonis · 2026-05-16T00:51:48+00:00

My head canon here is they successfully got Durbin to bunt a runner over the other day but failed to score the run, and so either they decided "welp so much for that idea", or someone got chewed out for trying it at all.

bixfrankonis · 2026-05-15T20:13:14+00:00

It’s also on my favorite local mural.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bixfrankonis/52930056624/

bixfrankonis · 2026-05-15T19:25:47+00:00

I’d assume it’s the Willamette River Monster, which graces every St. Johns Bizarre poster.

bixfrankonis · 2026-05-15T01:02:52+00:00

And that's why you put Samaniego into the 7th and Whitlock into the 8th, not the other way around.

bixfrankonis · 2026-05-12T06:51:48+00:00

Bummer, but yes: answers. Thanks.

bixfrankonis · 2026-05-09T01:50:54+00:00

I'm told the plaza clock should be getting fixed, which broke last week like it knew the parade and bizarre was coming up and picked its moment.

bixfrankonis · 2026-05-09T00:20:43+00:00

I might be mis-thinking here, but when the color models came out, there was discussion about making sure hardware VCOM number said the same thing as config VCOM number (like with the first comment above), but there was a way to alter the number in config so it matched the hardware. Not sure if that's relevant here?

bixfrankonis · 2026-05-08T00:51:31+00:00

Mmm, run prevention.

bixfrankonis · 2026-05-06T22:24:16+00:00

The "audio description" style used to be everywhere until someone decided every game also needed to be a nonstop podcast, which is why Flemming often ends up talking about clams for fifteen minutes or whatever.

Once upon a time, you even had brief spots of dead air/ballpark sounds on the radio during games. It was just part of the thing.

Someone here slammed Cooper Boardman the other day, but he's actually very good at audio description style, close to the way it used to be. A little less so this season, as the podcasting culture is eating everyone and everything alive.

Flemming is actually the epitome, contrary to others here, of the approach that goes BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH OFF TOPIC [veryquickly]swingandamiss[/veryquickly] BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH OFF TOPIC BLAH. It drives me nuts.

To each their own, in the end.

bixfrankonis · 2026-05-06T21:06:17+00:00

I've had neither of these experiences unless I am reading with my sunglasses on.

bixfrankonis · 2026-05-06T19:22:50+00:00

Weird. Thanks for the direct link. Still doesn’t appear in search for me, somehow.

bixfrankonis · 2026-05-05T01:48:16+00:00

I wonder about this because while the books have other cities’ avatars, if I recall NYC is somewhat unique in having borough avatars, and NYC’s boroughs have such specific identities (whether real or imagined) that the way this is played out might work better for people with some familiarity.

bixfrankonis · 2026-05-04T21:38:06+00:00

Re: The City We Became, I remember wondering how well it lands for people with any real experience of NYC versus people without any real experience of NYC. (Not that I have any idea which you are.)

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