It’ll be great if he wins, but I’m not getting my hopes up.
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Feels weird to hear about Count Binface outside of a Stand Up Maths video.
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I survived a day with approximately 37 degrees Celsius. Phew!
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Got my new earphones last night. Different style(still ear clips, but the old ones had speakers that rest over the ear canal while these are more like earbuds(but not earplug earbuds, thank Edison, earplug earbuds are painful and tend to lead to me getting ear infections). Very comfortable for normal wear, but wearing them with my earmuffs pushes the earbud against the dimple in the ear next to the ear canal in a way that’s painful after a coouple of hours and muffles the sound, but fortunately, the earclip is large enoough I caninsert the clip between the rubber seal of the earmuffs and the sponge in the earmuff cup in a way that holds the earbud away from my ear, but still positioned so I can hear well and when I take the earmuffs off, the earphoones stay in place in the earmuffs instead of falling out without the clip holding them on my ear. A bit more hassle going between listening with just the earphones to listening with the earmuffs to block loud background noise, but it’s working out and if nothing goes wrong in the next week-and-a-half, I’ll be ordering a spare pair or two when I get paid.
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Nothing positive or neutral is happening. The title of this thread has always put me off contributing because I can never think of anything fitting that description.
I really wanted to enter Ink Jam this year, but a) it is only nine days long, b) it happens to fall during my first week back at work after the summer break and c) I can’t think straight because I am so depressed about climate change.
I live right next to Epping Forest in London and the trees are dying. There is no birdsong anymore other than the ubiquitous ring-necked parakeets. The water in Eagle Pond is really low and the swans seem listless.
It has not rained in London since June 23rd. This summer we have had 16 consecutive days over 30°C. On July 22nd it hit 40°C, that’s 104°F. Nowhere in London has air conditioning, because the average summer temperature in London when I was young was 15°C, or 59°F. We’ve just never needed it until recently.
This is it, the beginning of the end, folks. I think it will really hit home when the harvests fail and the food shortages begin. Except riots, looting, martial law, and the rest.
And still they are drilling for oil and building AI data centres nobody needs or wants.
So, yeah, I’m struggling to think of funny interactive stories at the moment. Sorry.
Edit: Ugh. That was a horribly whiny post, sorry! Other people got it a lot worse. I’m watching Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny for the first time and it’s cheering me up a bit.
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Not precisely a positive thing: the main HD here seems (in opinion of its BIOS diagnostic…) next to broke; I’m skeptical (FUD, planned obsolescence and all that…) but what matters is backed up, so no issue, save that a good chunk of my computing time is invested in analysing the issue.
This to say also that if I’m silent during late august/early september, no worries, because the computer shop is closed for the summer (In Italy many shops closes for vacation (“ferie estive”) for at least a forthnight during August)
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
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An update for yt-dlp hit Debian Unstable today, fixing the 403 forbidden errors I’ve been getting for the last few days.
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I compiled a custom version of Chocolate Doom so I can play my favorite community maps on my handheld! 
Turns out, they’re vanilla-compatible, except for the sheer quantity of walls, so raising the array sizes in the source code is all that’s needed to get it working!
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I haven’t played DOOM in forever. I still have the custom maps I made around here somewhere…
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With all the available ports, now is the time to dive back in! :3
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