@androidarts ha, this etymology website says it's circa 1500, in context it means exactly the same thing as "controller", and calls it a "bad spelling".

https://www.etymonline.com/word/comptroller

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The kiosks at customs where I need to both take my glasses off for facial recognition and interact with a touch screen to get past are user hostile. I can't see shit.

@TheChriggu poetry

@skyboygames fun I love that

I'm working on making sure that field items in my indie NES JRPG, Even Goblins Fall In Love, also have some use in battle.

For example, the keys used to unlock enchanted doors can also instantly defeat Mimics by locking them shut.

#indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro

taking the subway (game I'm making: https://cityofnone.com)

(metro map still wip / doesn't have art yet)

@Blackthorn @VileLasagna I bounced off it too. It was a beautiful sight, but it felt old mechanically after just a couple of hours and I remember the dialogue as cringe inducing. Nothing that seemed heinous, but I wouldn't have made it far enough to see that.

@androidarts That isn't pizza, it's heretic pie! /s

@hanakogames 3% of the time it works 100% of the time

@hanakogames -.-- ..- .-. ..

@yora Lawn maintenance is the plight of suburban life. It's a sysiphean task taken on semi-willingly - part desire, part duty, part peer-pressure - and a constant reminder that the struggle against nature is unwinnable.

@yora do you think the Catholic Church would tell us if he came back with an insatiable hunger for human flesh?

I wonder if the Pope is gonna come back to life in three days.

@hanakogames a Yuri story about anglerfish has potential though.

@DrDoctor1992 you like Mario Kart Directs right? HAVE MORE MARIO KART DIRECTS!

@gynura guy on left looking suspicious 👀

@grapefrukt I have more luck just going to the hardware store. It's annoying, and they might be out of what you're looking for, but there's no algorithm getting in your way there.

@whoisryosuke I love how they're all arranged in a way that is so recognizably theirs, but still wildly different.