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  1. Comment on Long time no sea: finding the seahorse emoji in ~tech

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    Not at all, you'd was a happy accident. I found it randomly on my continued search for the oldest emoji. I bought the manual to see the set and didn't expect to find this missing link. The full...

    Not at all, you'd was a happy accident. I found it randomly on my continued search for the oldest emoji. I bought the manual to see the set and didn't expect to find this missing link.

    The full set from the Rupo is visible in the scans linked at the bottom and/or the linked emoji missing years blog post.

    3 votes

  2. Comment on Long time no sea: finding the seahorse emoji in ~tech

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    So it wasn't a dream! I'm really happy to have found this, and Happy World Emoji Day. 🎉

    So it wasn't a dream!

    I'm really happy to have found this, and Happy World Emoji Day. 🎉

    7 votes

  4. Comment on 8BitDo FlipPad in ~games

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    I think controllers have done things like that on iOS and macOS for a while, you can even do screen recording with a button.

    I think controllers have done things like that on iOS and macOS for a while, you can even do screen recording with a button.

  5. Comment on 8BitDo FlipPad in ~games

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    iOS 26.2 required...but why?

    iOS 26.2 required...but why?

    2 votes

  7. Comment on Are there any video games that are/were popular in your country, that the rest of the world hardly knows about? in ~games

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    I'm from UK but... For Italy, games based on the character Diabolik, who is kind of like James Bond crossed with Batman. The Diabolik game I played was on Wii. There are lots of consoles games...

    I'm from UK but... For Italy, games based on the character Diabolik, who is kind of like James Bond crossed with Batman. The Diabolik game I played was on Wii. There are lots of consoles games localised to single European countries, on Dreamcast there are several France-only games. Looking at PC I assume the number will be much, much higher, from 8-bit days onwards. Obviously lots from Japan, versions of traditional games like Hanafuda, Shogi, Pachinko, Mahjong plus Visual Novels and Doujin/indie games. Games on bootleg consoles only released in China or India. etc.

    2 votes

  10. Comment on Are there any games that had their development abandoned that you followed where you wish that continued/completed development? in ~games

  12. Comment on What are your gaming idiosyncracies? in ~games

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    Go through the options menu before I start the game for the first time. Give up playing if it feels anything like a chore, or if it fails to throw enough new ideas around. Ain't got time for the...

    Go through the options menu before I start the game for the first time.

    Give up playing if it feels anything like a chore, or if it fails to throw enough new ideas around. Ain't got time for the same old things.

    33 votes

  13. Comment on Mighty Cuphead Adventure | Teaser trailer in ~games

  14. Comment on N Plus Infinity Times Two announced in ~games

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    Love that this game is still going

    Love that this game is still going

    2 votes

  15. Comment on Sokoban idea in ~games

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    Sure! I'll need an email to add you to the TestFlight. You can get in touch with me privately through my website or socials which have a bunch of posts about my game Snap Shot Golf. Links in my...

    Sure! I'll need an email to add you to the TestFlight. You can get in touch with me privately through my website or socials which have a bunch of posts about my game Snap Shot Golf. Links in my bio.

    For your solver I imagine there are numbers of attempts, failures, time taken, which could maybe translate into difficulty.

  16. Comment on Controller suggestion? Hand is locking up. in ~games

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    I second this, in my case it was also shoulder causing hand pain. I got some exercises from a physio (free where I live) which were so ridiculous i didn't think they were worth anything, but I did...

    I second this, in my case it was also shoulder causing hand pain. I got some exercises from a physio (free where I live) which were so ridiculous i didn't think they were worth anything, but I did them and they worked like magic. I also swapped from mouse to trackpad mostly to remove the need for me to repeatedly push a thing around.

    3 votes

  17. Comment on Sokoban idea in ~games

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    I'm on mobile so I can't try it right now. But have you looked into writing a solver? Make the game play itself so you can begin to judge the difficulty of each puzzle. I am just wrapping up a...

    I'm on mobile so I can't try it right now. But have you looked into writing a solver? Make the game play itself so you can begin to judge the difficulty of each puzzle.

    I am just wrapping up a golf game for iOS and I have a solver that I use to figure out the par for each hole, and to carry out automated testing.

    1 vote

  18. Comment on RibShark/OmniDrive - Aftermarket disk drive firmware that can read a number of console disk formats in ~games

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    Finally I can retire my old Plextor

    Finally I can retire my old Plextor

    1 vote

  19. Comment on How I made a shooter game in 64 KB in ~games

  20. Comment on GameStop preparing offer for eBay in ~games

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    Living outside the USA, this all blows my mind.

    Living outside the USA, this all blows my mind.

    4 votes