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@koko@hellsite.site As someone who lives near the nobody knows wtf they're doing in Wisconsin, same.

@apLundell@octodon.social Data probably kept them all. His residence is overflowing with cats in the future of All Good Things.

@fribbledom
Hitogata Happa - the core mechanic is weird (most people give up without finishing the tutorial level because they fail to grasp it), but the variety of play styles the different doll types in this vertical scrolling shooter enable gives this a ton of replay value once you get the hang of it.
Gravity Rush (series) - Control your own personal gravitational force with your freaky cat.
Tetris Effect - VR Tetris with dolphins!

Honorable mention - entirely too many sequels to stuff

I am willing to spend a few minutes telling someone that my television gets video games and makes a nice computer monitor and my radio is tuned to my local NPR station for the 5 minute commute to and from work in exchange for an additional small cash gift.

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I got $1 in the mail from Nielsen (the ratings company) with a letter threatening to call me with a phone survey. I'd be surprised if they had a valid phone number to do that and kind of wished they'd just stick the survey online as even if they do have my number the call probably won't get through.

Can you imagine what it was like discovering salt?

"hey why's that deer licking that rock? Silly animals."

'I'm gonna try it to.'

"what."

'im gonna go over there and lick that rock with the deer.'

@gnomon Fun fact: the colors on the labels match the colors in the final graph.

@JordiGH It doesn't help that for a lot of people their only exposure to even the concept of significant figures would have been a long forgotten high school chemistry class.

2nd email on the roasting book email list is going out now with a preview of the ebook I've temporarily pivoted to. The first (and previous) message went out near the end of October so I'm keeping my promise of this being a very low volume mailing list.

It's more positive than some of my past emails to people in that organization. I half suspect that I'm on some list of people to contact if you want the answer, "this is a terrible idea and here are the many reasons why you don't want to go that route."

Personally, I'd be happy to see the machine in a class, but the manufacturer would need to supply an instructor who is willing to bend their automation system in ways that run counter to why anybody would buy one of their machines to begin with so I guess I'll find out within the next couple months if anything happens with that.

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Today I got an email from someone working on organizing the next event I'm teaching at asking if a specific machine would be a good fit for the classes. My lengthy reply basically boiled down to saying the machine can theoretically be used to meet the objectives of the classes I'm involved with but none of the station instructors will be both willing and competent to use it in that capacity.

@cwebber@octodon.social Other options: powerups at set points in each stage (spawn them just like enemies or drop from specific enemies), purchase power ups between levels (I like how Hitogata Happa handled this). Random too often just feels unfair at a certain skill level.

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