Cheesire, if you will

What are you moving away to? I’m assuming you’re still keeping your VPNs and DNS ad-blockers etc?

Stars are perhaps even more common in written text for highlights and annotations than typed text, at least around here. I can draw a star much faster than three asterisks. But it wouldn’t be very easily distinguishable as the Fediverse star. And that’s the same between the regular sharp and pointy star and the rounded outline one.

Now, if we could get the Unicode Consortium to add the graphical logo, I’d be sold. But if we must pick an existing character, I for one prefer the outlined star (⚝) much more than either the asterism (⁂) or the pentagram (⛧).

Unlike the pentagram, it aligns a lot better with inline text and looks nice and smooth. It’s also far less commonly used or overloaded with existing readings.

The asterism would be easier to unambiguously read or write by hand though! That’s its one pro.

I’ve had this list of print-and-play games from Randomskill (containing games that are not of Randomskill as well) bookmarked for a while, and haven’t actually tried any of them…because I don’t have a printer. I have played a few of these games in their commercial versions though, but not the free ones.

https://randomskill.games/a-comprehensive-list-of-free-print-and-play-games/

Maybe you would like to give it a try?

Phtn.app, on the web

For a while I was seeing people use the asterism symbol (⁂) around my Mastodon feed. Wonder what happened to that movement.

I came here to post Faraway as well!

Those rumours about moonlit orgies can’t all be wrong. They are the f-druids after all…

The ability to post a video to multiple co-authors’ channels.

Instantly brought back memories of zoning out to Knytt on my then new PC 😊

Systemic, I tell you

I really wish there were more of them.

Link to the quoted article: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/01/a-nasa-astronaut-may-have-just-taken-the-best-photo-from-space-ever/

My biggest complaint is that their complimentary ROM collection doesn’t have any of the Patapon games. I put mine in and now it’s perfect :D

By outright piracy ofc. They include a shoddy SD card full of ROMs, but you can and should use your own card (for longevity) with your own ROMs (for legal reasons…)

The R36S is a “dirt cheap” Linux retrohandheld you can get pretty much everywhere. No built-in WiFi though, which limits usability quite a lot.

If both of the Decks connect to the same WiFi, you’d be able to play local multiplayer games just fine. Not every game will support local multiplayer though, and vice versa.

As for games: How about Divinity Original Sin 2? Plenty of tactics, but also a lot of reading. Has local co-op support, but the fights are turn based anyway so I’m sure what latency issues you had over L4D2 wouldn’t be a concern.

I quite enjoyed this write-up, OP 😊

While drawing this I realized Sinnoh/Hisui’s whole precursor civilization deal is very ancient Greece as well, so it might just work!

…Although more like huge temples and marble statues rather than black and red bowls 🙃