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by klondike_klive 2y ago
On a related note - I used to practise typing by downloading a Gutenberg public domain classic into Amphetype. Was a good way of reading slowly and keeping my attention. Also of appreciating books in a different way.
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by klondike_klive 2y ago
Not an exact analogy but it reminds me of getting new notebooks and pens for Christmas, and writing "This is my new pen" in the book because I couldn't think of anything else. Inevitably the book stayed blank apart from that
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by klondike_klive 2y ago
Stumbled across a great animation substack with stories about Richard Williams that I would never have found otherwise. Thanks! FWIW I love the aesthetic of the site - it reminds me of the weird early web.
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by klondike_klive 2y ago
A few times I tried eating only steamed white potatoes for a few days, it appealed to my all-or-nothing mentality (and desire to reduce mental overhead in choosing what to eat). Inspired by this https://potatohack.com It was ab
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by klondike_klive 2y ago
What a strange interjection from the secretary! Funny and poignant, with an undercurrent of exasperation?
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by klondike_klive 2y ago
Sorry buddy, you might be SOL
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by klondike_klive 2y ago
Thanks for these suggestions!
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by klondike_klive 2y ago
I've been doing something like this since my son was born (mixed with writing in a book since 2021 to record for myself little milestones and funny things he's said and done). I email them to myself with his name as the subject li
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by klondike_klive 2y ago
I still harbor resentment about being brought up in a small village without decent public transport. I can't imagine the intergenerational conflict when people raised in a sulfuric hellscape learn that there is a green earth. What kin
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by klondike_klive 2y ago
Not to mention the Amazing Adrenalini Brothers
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by klondike_klive 2y ago
I'd love to know who animated that intro. Strongly reminds me of the intro to Bananaman, or Cosgrove Hall's work on eg Jamie and the Magic Torch.
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by klondike_klive 2y ago
In the 80s it was common for parents to invoke the starving Ethiopians to make their kids eat up. A generation before that it was the starving Biafrans.
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by klondike_klive 2y ago
If I want a boiled egg, chances are I want it soft-boiled (runny yolk but cooked white) which is the custom here in the UK. (As children we are given a softboiled egg in an egg-cup along with rectangles of toast called "soldiers"
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by klondike_klive 2y ago
Also how do you throw your body onto the cogs and gears in the machine when they are this abstracted?
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by klondike_klive 2y ago
This appeared on HN a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40456834
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by klondike_klive 2y ago
Not to mention all the focus-stealing from apps that I can't work without.
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by klondike_klive 2y ago
It occurred to me for the first time the other day that the word "sloth" is to "slow" what "warmth" is to "warm".
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by klondike_klive 2y ago
It's a shame - other countries' ads often strike me as quaint, hilariously awful, at best amusingly weird, and I'm willing to tolerate them to a point. But when an ad breaks in that's obviously targeted based on my locat
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by klondike_klive 2y ago
I sometimes feel like the corpus of videogames is approaching a parody of my entire career.
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by klondike_klive 2y ago
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a lucky 7 stamping on a human face forever
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by klondike_klive 2y ago
I like this. It also allows me to change my mind, something I do with dismaying regularity!
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by klondike_klive 2y ago
It's a Galaxy S10+ - pretty old now, does everything I need. Intentionally bought refurbished as a cheap phone that was nevertheless pretty fast and had a decent battery life. The Bixby key aside, everything else has been fine.
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by klondike_klive 2y ago
I heard my little son say "go away Bixby" the other day, having heard me say it so many times after accidentally pressing the dedicated (and un-deactivate-able) button on my Samsung phone
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by klondike_klive 2y ago
Haven't done it yet but I'm making a booknook for my gf of the verandah in a particular Guatemalan hostel on the river where we stayed on our Central American holiday a few years ago. When a button is pressed it plays a looping mp
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by klondike_klive 2y ago
This is a very sweet and beautiful thing.
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by klondike_klive 2y ago
Thanks for such a detailed response:)
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by klondike_klive 2y ago
I'm afraid I did too- the overblown purple prose of the intro sequence made me roll my eyes, and also had too many errors for my liking (the vo says "conscious" instead of "conscience" or something like that, which
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by klondike_klive 2y ago
Interesting! Do you enjoy the lorry driving? I've thought about it but one of my concerns is having to manoeuvre around tiny village high streets (lived in a village where houses were regularly hit!) Is there much of that? Are you unde
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by klondike_klive 3y ago
Up yours! (Sorry)
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by klondike_klive 3y ago
Thanks for reminding me of it, I used to play it all the time but haven't even installed it for several years. I bought it after a recommendation from Roguelike Radio, the podcast hosted by Darren Grey, one of the ADOM and TOME devs (I

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