[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Based mainly on "Nanas", any chance it's a version of this? I know you said Mac, but just in case.

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/3358/ZX-Spectrum/Naanas

EDIT - also, here's a list someone posted a link to on Reddit, with 400 or so "binary colour" games, which presumably includes black and white: https://www.uvlist.net/gamesearch/?fplat=48&fplatname=Macintosh%20OS%20Classic&ftag=binarycolor&sort=name

Couldn't see anything under banana or monkey, but might be hiding in there somewhere.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

A pattern they repeated with Google Wave and Google+, neither of which took off, partly because there weren't enough people using them.

I genuinely thought G+ could have been a FB killer, if they hadn't made it hard to join.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Hope so, I'd be sad to see him leave the Niners.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Seeing the same issue this morning, sure it was working quite recently though.

EDIT - yep, posted a gif 4 days ago and an image a week ago, so something has changed since then.

EDIT 2 - trying that same image again:

And that seems to work. Filesize maybe? Or extension (my first attempt today was a jpg, that one is a png)?

EDIT 3 - jpg, 1.5Mb:

Success. That's a smaller version of an image that failed to post. Bigger version was 2.9Mb, so maybe there's a limit?

In case it helps...

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[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Inside Out 2 - and yes, I thought it was great, although not quite as good as the first one.

Last grown up film I saw was Emily the Criminal, which I really enjoyed. Aubrey Plaza is excellent in it.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Ha, so the lesson there is decant your beer into a tea can and you might get away with it...

(Not really, please people don't drink and drive)

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

Oh, how gauche, everyone knows it's white wine for a right turn.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I've always wondered what would happen if you drove along drinking a 0% alcohol beer, and got stopped. Feels like the police would arrest you just for being a PITA.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I'm a big fan of the books who didn't really like the movie. But that's partly because I'm also a huge fan of the BBC TV show so, to me, that's what HHGG should look and sound like. Particularly Peter Jones as the voice of the Book (nothing against Stephen Fry in general).

The movie had some good moments, but having Zaphod's second head beneath his first instead of beside it was a horrible idea. And the joke at the end about going in the wrong direction to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe seemed to suggest the makers thought that 'End' refers to a physical location in the universe as opposed to its chronological end point. Which annoyed me quite a bit.

It's fine though, I'm not one of these "They completely ruined it" people - there are so many different versions of HHGG what with the radio show, the books, the audio books, the TV show, and the text adventure game, that there really isn't a single definitive version. I happen to not like the film, but the rest still exist, so it's all hoopy.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

According to Google Lens it's a Great Diving Beetle larva. Cannot verify.

EDIT - tried again, and this time it says it's a Rove Beetle. So I wouldn't put toouch faith in either result tbh.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

lefties are much more likely to commit suicide than righties.

That's interesting (and tragic, obviously).

The idea that it could be an environmental thing (pressure to conform in a right-handed world, the schools and church stuff you mentioned) is quite compelling.

On the other hand, the increased prevalence of genius, and alcoholism, suggests maybe something genetic (or whatever) - like left handedness might go along with certain inherent psychological traits, which might also tend more towards self harming behaviour.

I know nothing about any of this stuff beyond a general interest, so I've no doubt it's a lot more complicated than that (and/or that this is just correlation rather than causation in one direction or another) but it's interesting regardless.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago

One English example is to "hoover" - people say it all the time when they mean using the vacuum cleaner, whether or not it's made by Hoover.

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Not much for a mention for TP though, but in case Josie fans are interested :-)

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RIP Martin Mull (www.theguardian.com)

More sad news, as Gene Parmesan/Colonel Mustard himself passes away. RIP Martin 😞

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Sorry Norway. Our jammy win in Oslo robbed you of a chance to experience a major tournament. Instead, your place went to a badly organised rabble, with no urgency, no ambition and not even basic ball control.

You should have been in this tournament, and that disgraceful excuse for a Scotland team should have been languishing in 3rd or 4th. How in god's name did we beat Spain?

Sorry Norway, you deserved better.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by sanguinepar@lemmy.world to c/football@lemmy.world

Of limited interest, I'm sure, but I spent a bit of time working all this out, and wanted to post it before Scotland go 2 down after 5 minutes tomorrow and render it all moot...

So.

If Scotland lose to Hungary, we're out. No ifs, buts, or maybes.

If we draw then we need at least 2 out of 3 scenarios to happen in order to sneak through:

  • Spain beat Albania AND Italy beat Croatia
  • Turkey beat Czechia AND Portugal beat Georgia
  • Denmark beat Georgia AND England beat Slovenia by 5 or more (I think)

If Scotland win against Hungary then any 2 (or more) of these scenarios gets us through

  • Spain avoid defeat to Albania (Scotland would finish better than Albania and also better than one of Croatia or Italy, regardless of their result)

  • Netherlands beat Austria (Scotland would be ahead of both Austria and Poland)

  • England avoid defeat to Slovenia (Scotland would be ahead of Slovenia and also at least one of Denmark or Serbia).

  • There's also the possibility that Slovenia hammer England (Scotland could finish better than England on goal difference and also would be ahead of at least one of Denmark or Serbia)

  • Portugal avoid defeat to Georgia (Scotland would be ahead of Georgia and also ahead of one of Turkey or Czechia)

  • Even if Georgia did win, we could beat them on GD, but we'd have to thrash Hungary, so not likely.

  • No draws on match day 3 in group E. Doesn't matter who wins, as long as two teams do.

  • Or, if there are 1 or 2 draws in group E then it comes down to goal difference, so we would have to hammer Hungary, see above.

And yes, I made a spreadsheet to work all this out... :-)

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submitted 2 months ago by sanguinepar@lemmy.world to c/pics@lemmy.world
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Great timing. Unless they're thinking they might get a new manager bounce without actually appointing a new manager?

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Oh please, oh please, oh please, oh please... 🤞🤞🤞

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by sanguinepar@lemmy.world to c/mst3k@lemmy.world

RIP Roger, thanks for Gunslinger, The Undead, Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell and so many more.

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FFS, not this bullshit again... Hopefully fan pressure can fight it off just like last time.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by sanguinepar@lemmy.world to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

Example post: https://lemmy.world/post/14058825

I've no idea if this is technically possible at all, but on posts like the one above, where multiple images have been added, it would be really handy to be able to swipe between them as if they were in a gallery. At present it's a case of open one, close it, open the next, etc...

Same for comments, not sure if that would be different than posts.

Thanks :-)

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How fucking great was that??

If you're going tomorrow night, you're in for a treat, what a set!

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Great news! So glad to see the Filmhouse reopening :-)

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