Posts by misty@digipres.club
(DIR) Post #B1ePdar3ghvuX4Y35k by misty@digipres.club
2025-12-25T02:47:53Z
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New blog post! I wrote about Father Christmas, the weirdly barebones Japan-exclusive CD-ROM game based on the British storybook. It's... not very good, so I didn't have much to say, but I *did* find some interesting stuff in here anyway.https://cdrom.ca/games/2025/12/24/father-christmas.html
(DIR) Post #B1ePdfXkFwSH4cYCBM by misty@digipres.club
2025-12-25T02:51:05Z
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Biggest surprise: I found a complete set of text and image resources in English! Seems the British team wrote the game in English and the publisher translated.Tried running the game with them, but the final game isn't set up for English - forced double-wide text and no proper linebreaks. Also crashes periodically. If the game were better I might care to try fixing that, but since it's not fun it's not really worth the effort.
(DIR) Post #B1ePdjx3rl5AkIQTCK by misty@digipres.club
2025-12-25T02:52:17Z
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The Saturn version seems to use the same script format, but I didn't bother trying to insert the script. I know the Saturn version also has double-width English characters without hacking so I don't imagine it would work any better.
(DIR) Post #B1ePdoQzCROceGSQOe by misty@digipres.club
2025-12-25T02:54:28Z
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This also answers the other thing I'd always wondered about. The Saturn version looks absolutely awful, with weirdly stretched-out sprites, but the English internet claimed it was only a Saturn game. Finding the PC version explains it; the art was drawn for high-res PC and not all converted properly.
(DIR) Post #B1gWyNmeZKEA4OGetE by misty@digipres.club
2025-12-27T20:29:54Z
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That’s right, I broke the bank at the Boxing Day sales (spent $1 on a DS stylus) My Nintendogs DS Lite didn’t come with the matching stylus and it turns out the metallic pink ones are hard to find? So I’m glad I happened to stumble into one.
(DIR) Post #B1qxeU5c3SSKB7THhg by misty@digipres.club
2025-12-31T18:52:19Z
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Aww. I thought we'd already had the last Olivia Jaimes Nancy; nice that she gets to leave off with a goodbye and a note to the new artist. https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2025/12/31
(DIR) Post #B1qxeVSKySEAPt6wlM by misty@digipres.club
2025-12-31T18:54:37Z
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Carolyn Cash era starts tomorrow btw
(DIR) Post #B1qxeWceda4g2AwhU0 by misty@digipres.club
2026-01-01T20:52:07Z
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It begins! https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2026/01/01
(DIR) Post #B1r31HxZomOCzSPDtY by misty@digipres.club
2025-12-05T03:22:45Z
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From Lake County Public Library last year: https://lakecountylibrary.tumblr.com/post/769064384357089280/library-wrapped
(DIR) Post #B1uyw42AXohpAReAE4 by misty@digipres.club
2026-01-03T19:42:19Z
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Misinformation thrives in stressful times. I know we all want to share news right now but when you feel the urge to share something on your feed consider asking:* Who posted this? Are they a reporter, or do they have what looks like a reliable source?* Have you heard of this news site before?* Where is this photo from? Did they take it? Could it be something other than what the poster claims? Is there a way you can tell if it is what it says it is?
(DIR) Post #B22C5xxFL6wllvQpIu by misty@digipres.club
2026-01-06T05:14:48Z
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Highly recommend reading this story about a reporter casually finding out his wife is a world Tetris champion: https://archive.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/08/19/bizarro_world/
(DIR) Post #B2Hj3qkBOBnsghJp1U by misty@digipres.club
2026-01-14T19:12:11Z
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@phette23 Oh geeze, I’m sorry.
(DIR) Post #B2M8xgk9274zNGraVs by misty@digipres.club
2026-01-16T22:10:36Z
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You know, even as a retrocomputing fan, I'd have never called expensive proprietary "compilers" making a comeback. The nostalgia cycle is so unpredictable.
(DIR) Post #B2OLAH2jU6VzCIFGO8 by misty@digipres.club
2026-01-17T22:50:07Z
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Seeing someone refer to a web forum as a “BBS" is another one of those fascinating little reminders that a lot of people are pretty fuzzy about the distinctions between the different overlapping early networked services
(DIR) Post #B2OLALwBHtFGNQDbN2 by misty@digipres.club
2026-01-17T22:51:20Z
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It totally makes sense, the "bulletin board" part shows up in the names of a number of early web forum systems. So the difference between a "bulletin board" and a "BBS" isn't really super clear if you didn't personally use the latter
(DIR) Post #B2awvMLZKivlC6RN1U by misty@digipres.club
2026-01-22T23:29:12Z
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Should have occurred to me that Autonymus is inspired specifically by The Fool's Errand: https://mclalan.tumblr.com/post/806355102474584064#comics #webcomics
(DIR) Post #B2awvMzcvmyPCLBMSe by misty@digipres.club
2026-01-23T02:21:10Z
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BTW if you're not reading Autonymus, I highly recommend giving it a go. Absolutely incredible way with scenery. https://mclalan.tumblr.com/tagged/autonymus#comics #webcomics
(DIR) Post #B2awvNiIFihbQs525A by misty@digipres.club
2026-01-23T02:32:33Z
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Also, in case anyone else has ever had the same problem as me - webcomic only on tumblr, but want to follow it via RSS? You can get an RSS feed for just a specific tag on a person's account by adding /rss to the end of the tag browsing URL. For example, https://mclalan.tumblr.com/tagged/autonymus/rss
(DIR) Post #B2jXlNwRW6lY881Jse by misty@digipres.club
2026-01-27T20:13:31Z
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Absolutely brutal headline: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/867874/stripe-visa-mastercard-amex-csam-grok
(DIR) Post #B2r5dVpJ4ef6oeorhI by misty@digipres.club
2026-01-31T20:19:28Z
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I feel like every person who insisted that no, moot is secretly a nice guy who regretted what he made owes me a huge apology right now