You can't play penguin football without breaking a few eggs.

This is "Into The Comet" by Arthur C. Clarke. They use abacuses to help with calculating orbits.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_th...

There's something a bit poignant about a Bluetooth device failing to connect to another device right next to it when they're the only Bluetooth devices for hundreds of thousands of kilometres around.

Happy Easter! Christ is risen!

Oh, yeah, it's fixed now. Just a panicked moment until I remembered what the problem was.

- Write puzzles for LAN
- Get to LAN
- Puzzle system has stopped working 😭
- Remember that I told nginx to block all access except from my home IP 🤦

A photo of an empty LAN hall, with rows of desks. In the foreground, an extra table with an aluminium sign that reads "Exorecon Lab - Authorized Shifters Only". A small box that will turn out to be very useful later sits next to it.

Arrived at Enclave. Tomorrow there will be PUZZLES.

On the one hand, the British system of not directly choosing leaders gave us Liz Truss.

On the other hand, it also meant that we didn't have to put up with her for four years.

A metal sign, still in its bubble wrap. Two adjacent strips of hazard stripes give the impression it's part of an industrial door. At the top left, the text reads "EXORECON LAB", and at the bottom left, "AUTHORIZED SHIFTERS ONLY". The Enclave logo is at the bottom right. There's a t-shirt at the top-right of the picture.

A small box with the text "Exorecon Lab Password Reset" on it, with a small digital display reading "Lab Access Reset, Present ID". To the right of the display is a credit-card shaped box with the words "Present ID" in the middle. On the left is the Enclave logo.

A screenshot of a virtual terminal. At the top the word "Exorecon" in ASCII art. Below this reads: Authorized shifters only. All activity may be monitored and reported. ShiftOS 16.3.10 "Penthesilea" There's then a command prompt, into which the command "ls" has been typed, with the terminal responding with three directories, "log", "mail", and "transcripts".

Enclave 2 (@enclavelan.bsky.social) starts tomorrow, and I'll be bringing another batch of puzzles with me!

Come and join the Exoreconnaisance Corps and investigate strange events beyond the safety of the Enclave's walls.

With the right setup this is trivial. I pretty much got this for free when making my puzzle game.

Both builds store their data in the same place, and share the load/save code, and the demo is just the first 14 levels, so it happened automatically. It would have been more effort NOT to share data.

Huh, this has made me realize that the Convergence of Dominion obelisks aren't as big as I thought they were.

In a scene from the Star Trek episode "The Naked Time," Lt. Sulu is standing shirtless in one of the Enterprise corridors with his epee drawn and pointed at another figure down the way. That figure is Kermit the Frog (as Captain Abraham Smollet from Muppet Treasure Island) who is standing with a sword of his own drawn.

Day 156 of inserting a Muppet into a Star Trek screenshot

#StarTrek #StarTrekTOS
#TheMuppets #MuppetTreasureIsland

I'm now giggling at Captain Phillips being described as A Terrible Day At Work.

Love the blade transitions on these :)

OK, but "see how far they get, repeat a few more times" really sounds like you're just leaving them to die 😅

If you see this, post a robot!

New favourite pub quiz round: Drug or Pokémon?"

A damaged necron warrior with sparks coming out of its head

It’s Friday! Hurrah!

This week the theme is…broken.

So let’s see damage.

As usual I’ll repost the lot and if you like something, share it!

#Nerdlings #FindFolkFriday

Warhammer 40k gaming terrain, made from tiny bricks and with sand on the floor. This is a set of ruins, with two ruined walls coming together at a corner. The remains of two wooden upper floors allow models to gain a height advantage, although the higher of the two floors has only enough floor remaining for three or four models. On the first floor, windows allow models to see out, on the ground floor there are archways at intervals. A dead Skitarius is on the ground floor right in the corner. In front of him is the remains of a collapsed pillar.

Hopefully if you take cover in these ruins, it'll go better than it did for the poor dead Skitarius in the corner.

Parody of an image showing the Strait of Hormuz, Iran, the UAE, and Oman, and claiming that the Strait of Hormuz crisis can be solved by unloading oil from ships on the west of the strait, moving it east by land with tracks, and putting it back on ships on the other side. In this version, the "Drop-off Point" has been relabelled as "Beach Emergence Point", the trucks have been replaced by walking Cybran Destroyers from the game Supreme Commander (which are able to emerge from the sea and walk very slowly across land), and the "Pickup Point" has been relabelled as "Re-entry Point"

Can this be a solution?

They just need those walking Cybran boats from Supreme Commander.

This was the first film that made me cry.

The Chinese Room, but some of the rules are "roll 3d6 and consult this chart".

I was going to make a joke about this, but inevitably someone got there first: wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Evil_Su...

ENFLAVONATE

Not a game, but this is pretty much the entirety of Titus Groan (the first Gormenghast book).

You start out only seeing characters externally, but you gradually get to see inside their heads, and your opinion of almost every major character flips.

Screenshot of some C# code to set up integration tests, which includes using reflection to access a private variable. A comment is highlighted, which reads "Oh, playerList is private? Parry this you filthy casual"

Does anyone else feel like this whenever they use reflection?
#gamedev

Fidgeter
Lizard
Celeriac
Rouge

The Steam Next Fest promo image.

📢 INDIE DEVS WHO ARE IN NEXT FEST!

If you're participating and would like your demo/store page reposted to 37K+ Bluesky followers then drop it in the replies below*

*No games that use Gen-AI please and thank you.

But with the added disadvantage that while the real monkeys might randomly create something new, the fake robot monkeys will only rehash things that have already been written.