Leon ._.

Was reading a really old forum post about the Wayback Machine, and one of the pages linked from it was this worryingly contemporary-feeling "you can just make a website" page from 1997 web.archive.org/web/1997011016…

Thinking about how fortunate it is that when Phil Katz invented the most ubiquitous compression format in history, he called it "Deflate". Easy to remember and apt. Meanwhile, every compression format created after it is some substring of LZWSSMA78265.

@oxizn その技の当たり判定がちょっとやばいか

🍫Super Chocolate Hold

So you've run into that age-old problem: every time you mispronounce semicolon as "se-mico-lon" over and over, people quickly make you stop. But did you know that if you sneak into the wilderness during new moon, you can say that word incredibly wrong as many times as you want?

@pigadev メトロイド: 毛皮みたいな(?)異星の石

子供のころにシビれたファミコンのグラフィック３選👀 １、スーパーマリオの地下ではキャラが暗い色になった！ ２、スターフォースで破壊すると建物の影も消えた！ ３、ドラクエ２ではキャラを4ピクセル上にズラして配置することで立体的になった！

These oven gloves I've got are shedding a lot of their internal lining, thus upgrading them to "exciting gloves that make removing things from the oven an exciting experience".

@mopinxxx You have to click the following tab and uncheck "Sort by popular"

You know hard drive prices are actually, seriously in trouble when a tweet about WizTree, the disk usage graphing freeware, gets 11K retweets

Alexander the Great trying increasingly harebrained schemes to trick his weary troops into letting him invade India, including Opposite Day, ventriloquism during a vote call, and publicly raising a signpost reading "←Macedon" then spinning it around in the dead of night

BRB renaming the links section of my site to "awesome list" and rehosting it on GitHub so people actually take it seriously

Just noticed that this packet of dental floss I've got here will allegedly expire in 2023. Is… that possible

I just learned this word and I already despise it. This word only exists to titillate linguistics majors and make innocent people lose at trivia

This game is like La Mulana except you only get the tablet scanner 4 hours in, and the ancient history revealed by the tablets looks like this

It's bringing some new and revolutionary obstacle ideas to the Indiana Jones-style deathtrap ruins platformer

store.steampowered.com/app/3382070/Qu… – Playing "Queen of Treasure Isle". I wasn't sure what precisely the reviewers meant by "amazing pixel art", but it turns out it means it's stuffed full of pictorial descriptions like these:

Everyone's moved onto enclose.horse when I'm still not done with endless.horse yet : (

You are now manually excreting bile acid into your duodendum in response to a digestive intake of fats : )

It's killing me that right now both of Earth's famously inhabitable hemispheres are 45 degrees, but it's Fahrenheit in the north and Celsius in the south