@grumpygamer 🤩

@grumpygamer oh hell yes!

@grumpygamer Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

@grumpygamer Oh, *bleeeeeeeeeep*

@grumpygamer Yes!!!

@grumpygamer 🤩

@grumpygamer Congratulations!

@grumpygamer Ooooooo

@grumpygamer b-b-but after that ending how I'm gonna okay with playing this one? 🥲🥲🥲

@grumpygamer

Jiiooooiiieeph
Still lost with Dolores in the library 🥺
BUT Yes OMG

@grumpygamer ohh nice, cool timing, I just started replaying Return to Monkey Island the other day!

@grumpygamer this made my day! I've been itching to play another point and click from you!

@grumpygamer the signals are very strong tonight! 🎉

@grumpygamer This means a lot to me. The original game was the first thing I ever backed on Kickstarter. And then I got to talk to/interview you for the release on GOG (which had me nervous for two weeks leading up to it). So needless to say the first game has a very special place in my heart. <3

@grumpygamer woohoo!

@grumpygamer Checks date. Not April 1st. Fick ja!

@grumpygamer I hope this will run on Mac. Or I will cry

@grumpygamer thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!

@grumpygamer nice

@grumpygamer whoa, nice!

@grumpygamer Yay!!!

@grumpygamer aww yiss.

Twinbleweed Pearks 2

@grumpygamer
Yes please!

@grumpygamer Looking forward to it!

@grumpygamer Great news, my number hasn‘t changed in the past ten years, still 7324!

@grumpygamer sweet!

@grumpygamer Congratulations!

@grumpygamer Awesome

@grumpygamer best news ever! 😁

@grumpygamer this is so AWESOME!

@grumpygamer that’s great news for the whole team, really happy for you all… also, Kickstarter?

@grumpygamer nice to hear! Steam says Windows, in this thread you mentioned Mac. Will it also support #Linux again?

@grumpygamer Wuppiiii! Hopefully, nobody needs to die in this one.

@grumpygamer I don't suppose you're looking for engineers?

@grumpygamer I hope we finally learn about the TRUE Signal of Thimbleweed Park.

@grumpygamer I mean ... the .gif says it all! Please and thank you.

@grumpygamer You know where your audience is when everyone here is excited for a sequel to a point and click adventure game.

@grumpygamer something good to look forward to!

@grumpygamer just picked up a couple of games on gog. got a notification from steam that the first one is on sale for $5. hopefully gog gets in on the sale action too so I can grab a copy.

@grumpygamer Did not have that on my radar at all. 2028 does give me time to replay the first one (and rebuy it).

@grumpygamer

@grumpygamer Actually, they heard it here first!
https://youtube.com/shorts/I-r2Uy3VZzc?si=5tviRffm9BooqcMR exactly three years ago!

@grumpygamer Fantastic-a-Reno news!

@grumpygamer Really enjoyed the first one — looking forward to this!

@grumpygamer wow so exciting!!

@grumpygamer Awesome! I hope you guys plan to share updates like you did during the development of the first game. I really enjoyed the blog posts and podcasts you guys produced.

@grumpygamer Excellent to hear the news on TWP2! The world needs more adventure games.

I know it’s a looong shot, but i sent you a quick form email in my attempt to apply and make myself known! Please give it a glance!

@grumpygamer yeahhhhhhhhhh!

@grumpygamer That's great, Ron.

@grumpygamer I even did not finish the first game. Ok 2 years left

@grumpygamer thank you so, so, so much <333

@grumpygamer yeehaw

@grumpygamer

The mind boggles on how you plan to continue the story after the ending we got!

Looking forward to how you do that!

@grumpygamer
Very cool! Now I'm very glad the 'yes or no' poll turned out the way it did!

@grumpygamer 😱 important note to self: DON'T PANIC!

@grumpygamer Oh my God 🙈 I still have to finish part 1.
But that's great news 💓

@grumpygamer Oh YEAH!

@grumpygamer
THIIMBLEWEED PARK? or maybe THIMBLE2WEED PARK? (pronounced thimbletweed)

@grumpygamer love that bad news

@grumpygamer So happy. I'll be there! Another dev podcast or you regretted making the first one? 😅

@grumpygamer @miekg I played that! Whohoo!

@grumpygamer Woah! Now that's some really welcome surprise!

@grumpygamer "There is no bad news, it’s all good news.". Thank you for this. I needed it.

@grumpygamer «there might be some resemblence round the eyes, but…»

Can’t wait!

@grumpygamer Yeah ;) I like this news ;)

@grumpygamer

@grumpygamer That's fantastic news!

@grumpygamer Huzzah!

@grumpygamer 2028? I hope I'll live that long 😂

@grumpygamer
Yeah!

@grumpygamer Best news so far this year! Thanks.

@grumpygamer Any chance of the podcast making a comeback as well?

@grumpygamer wouhouuuuu 🙌🙌🙌

@grumpygamer
Waahhnsinn!
👍👍👍

@grumpygamer “The bad news”, humph. 😆

@grumpygamer 👏 😍

@grumpygamer @marzlberger Sh*t up and take my money - just as you did years ago with v1. Great news! 🎉🖤

@grumpygamer

@grumpygamer yay! that's so cool!

@grumpygamer Will you be doing a something like last time with a podcast log of the process ? Are you going kickstarter again ?

@grumpygamer much rejoicing!
🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊

@grumpygamer I will purchase your video game software product.

@grumpygamer Oh shit! 🤩

@grumpygamer a wonderful new!!! ❤️

@grumpygamer I needed a good news today. Thanks, man :)

@grumpygamer O_O

@grumpygamer Awesome! Also having the same team (love what Mark Ferrari did with the 8bitish look 😍) on board is great 👍 Absolutely looking forward to it 🥳

@grumpygamer So excited! ❤️

@grumpygamer what a pleasant surprise, extremely looking forward!

@grumpygamer Definitely *beeping* YES! Haven’t found that *beeping* Kickstarter page yet, but I swear I’ll keep *beeping* searching to make sure my *beeping* number stays in that phone book, *beep*!🤡

@grumpygamer Best of news! ❤️

@grumpygamer Whaaaa! yaaaay.

@grumpygamer yessss. Steam only in the beginning or will it be released on iOS?

@grumpygamer 👀 @ingo

@grumpygamer I really appreciate the #Linux port.

@jcrabapple
A really interesting study! Love it that they looked at the "who benefits from the doubt?" question & followed the paper trail to provide answers that will surprise no one here… 🤔🙏🏻

@jcrabapple Thanks for the update! Here at my faculty we have this conversation like A LOT. Would make sure to save this ref# for a future about the batteries. Would say still it's better if more people ride bicycles (zero emission vs something), but seems like EV is still making a dent!

@jcrabapple electric buses and electrified railways should come first but private EVs are better in every way than private ice vs. I call mine my Biden mobile. They were basically the cheapest new cars available for a few years during the Biden ev credit years. I believe it cost about half what the average new car costs.

@jcrabapple 👍

@jcrabapple
I'm still anti ev but that's because I'm anti vehicle unless you really need it, don't buy an ev if you have a working petrol car you only occasionally use.

@jcrabapple I wonder if US cities will start charging extra for old cars like London has. Do you know of any US cities that have proposed such changes? I have only seen items on London and UK suburbs.

https://apnews.com/article/london-car-pollution-tax-older-politics-labour-conservatives-climate-8d8b97be250d8c18b7a0220f2dd3477b

My car is at 170k after 20 years ;p

@jcrabapple

Nothing replaces the test of the garage .

Put an ev in a closed garage , stay inside and start it .
Wait 10 mins
Put an ice car in a closed garage , stay inside and start it .
Wait 10 mins . Huh forget the next test.

#ev

@jcrabapple

I wonder how much better EVs would come out if you also took into account all the emissions along the whole fuel pipeline to get it to the gas station.

@timbray

@stfn 🤔 raspi w cenie lapka poleasingowego ...

@stfn jeszcze chwilę poczekam i sprzedam moje RPi i kupię sobie za to mieszkanie 🤣

@stfn

Alt...

Nosacz jawaski z rozdziawioną paszczą i podpisem: „ILE KURŁA?!”

@Szescstopni to brzmi jakby potrzebna była weryfikacja znajomych 🙄

@ludicity ah - welcome to the league of public speakers. this happens to everyone as soon as their audience gets big enough. the moment you call out the embarassing truths (we have both shouted about them before) all the folks who are insecure with those facts are the ones to complain first. like every sweaty weirdo nerd defending apple on social media from anyone who dare speak ill of them. same flavor of demographic

@ludicity

Is this in re: AI Mania...?

@ludicity I have been blown away by the number of posts on my feed lately claiming that you or @pluralistic are pro LLM and/or just talking trash in general. I don't understand how people whose prior posts I generally agreed with can purposefully misread and/or deliberately misrepresent your writing and positions so brazenly.

I thought I had curated my mastadon follows relatively well but it's gotten quite toxic in the last few weeks.

@ludicity
I took a look at HN (I don't normally visit) and honestly most comments were largely in agreement. Mostly adding nuance to your argument. You may have a more receptive audience than you think.

@ludicity if you don't read HN comments why was the broken link fixed after someone posted about it on HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48965060

@Nickiquote it's a good doggo, Nick

@Nickiquote How many giraffes in the picture?

There are three giraffes in the picture.

Apparently the type of anteater is a tamandua, and the two in Toronto Zoo are called Yzma and Pacha.

@Nickiquote Actually that is a Quantitive Surveying Dog, they all look like that.

@Nickiquote
It's actually programming you to believe AI, rather than your pesky eyes

@Nickiquote In this image, a woman is holding a large, golden-brown cat with black spots on a leash while it's eating. The leopard appears to be enjoying the woman's face. A few other people can be seen in the background, likely observing the interaction between the woman's face and her leopard.

This is from @ZooTweetMirrorBot and the AI is having a hard time with the anteaters. Elsewhere it identifies them as badgers and kangaroos. It also identifies baby otters as wild boars.

@Nickiquote it can be good as a starting point since some (including me) struggle with writing alt text, but you should always edit it to remove unnecessary details and correct things.

@Nickiquote
I was disappointed that that cup in her left hand wasn't a jelly donut. Mostly because that makes me wonder if I'm AI.
@TheBreadmonkey

@Nickiquote Maybe it's her "dog" mate! 😊

@Nickiquote
I'm mostly concerned for the two people on the right with red x's on them. Has AI scheduled them for termination?

@Nickiquote

Stranger still, is someone could not write a basic three sentence description themselves.

@Nickiquote I had a text message read to me through my headphones, and a photo of a cooler on wheels was described as a blue and white toilet on a patio.

@Nickiquote Pff. It even missed the boy who crazy glued his hand to his head.

@Nickiquote

@Nickiquote I want a dog like that.

@Nickiquote I wonder what kind of drugs the AI was on at the time. 😏

@Nickiquote
🤣🤣🤣🤣 That's not a pastry!!

@Nickiquote

"We rate dogs" says
"Yes, at last, a very fine picture of a dog. Thin, athletic. In the prime of its life, really."

😆

@Nickiquote

That’s a trick shot!!1!

@EUCommission one plug type for all of Europe!

@EUCommission are you taking into account the number of households that will install air conditioning because of the heat waves?

@EUCommission
Good luck with that and the German government.

@EUCommission

Reducing the price gap between electricity and fossil energy? What?

@EUCommission

Reducing the price gap between electricity and fossil energy

There is no price gap if you consider all the cost. Stop trying to privatize the yield and socialize the cost. This is not the EU spirit

@EUCommission too late, too little

@EUCommission 46 % electrification by 2040? How unambitious.

@EUCommission
Did Talk about with Germany?🤔🤨
We have just 1% smart Meter
We (Reiche😒) slow down the renewables
We don't stop the fossil politics

@EUCommission how very timid.

@EUCommission gap is between illusion and reality, between oil&gas destructive policies and fight against, between people dying and bureaucrats sitting in air-conditioned offices

@EUCommission why do you want to reduce the price gap though. Renewables are already the cheaper way and if everyone stops throwing subsidies at fossil fuels they become so expensive nobody wants to use them anymore. Or am I misunderstanding that goal?

And also *points towards Germany* Do something about these criminals.

@EUCommission
Seems the Iranian-American-Israel ongoing incident was good in speeding something.

But now, if we want to electrify, (which we really should), what would be done in order to produce more energy as the demand would increase.
(Please, let it be geothermal powerplants, PLEASE I BEG YA.)

Second, will the technologies, (smart meters and infrastructure components), be home or under control produced?

It would be shame if our infrastructure was at risk again.
https://www.dw.com/en/why-the-eu-sees-chinese-solar-tech-as-a-major-security-risk/a-77066865

@EUCommission

PLUG, BABY, PLUG!!! 🔌👋👶

@EUCommission
Good work - so just a short question: how many dead Europeans will that bring? I assume mostly kids and the elderly? Correct??

@EUCommission No. Increase the price gap. Its easy - abolish any subsidies to fossile fuels. Tax it fully. Out of existence.

@EUCommission 2040 is not as early as it seems. The 1.5°C target set by the Paris Agreement (compared to pre-industrial temperatures) will very likely be crossed by then, and on its way to get to 2°C.

@EUCommission If you let an independent Scotland join it will help your statistic get there, just saying 😉 #SaorAlba #UnitedInDiversity 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺

@EUCommission
Are you serious? More CO2 certificates, a hollow green deal. All the while asking for compliments??

As others pointed out: too late, too little. Our children will have to pay.

@EUCommission AT LAST, IT ONLY TOOK ONE UKRAIN WAR AND ONE ORMUZ CLOSURE TO MAKE YOU ACT

@EUCommission

Not even half in almost 15 years?
That doesn't sound really impressive tbh

@EUCommission

How?
By increasing the consumption tax on a fossil energy?

Sounds like Marx and Charles Fourier creating another version of communism.

@EUCommission 2030 and then far more than 48, otherwise we will have food and water shortages on the near horizon.

@EUCommission Yrs, nice talk!
However, your actions with at about everything are totally contrary!

@EUCommission you had better, or you risk going extinct

@EUCommission our household has been 100% electric (and 100% renewable at that (quaranteed wind electrons. I know how it works, so no reply guys, thanks.)) since 2020 when we replaced our second car that was PHEV with a BEV. Where the fuck is our trophy!!? 😅️

- Heating: air source heat pump with radiator backup.
- Water boiler: electric (well, this is a no-brainer in Finland)
- Stove: induction
- Cars: electric. Nissan e-NV200 and VW ID.3
- All power tools and garden machinery: battery or plugin.

@EUCommission Great ambition. But here in the UK electricity remains the most expensive energy, and has no consumer subsidies. where gas still does!! And then they wonder why the public is negative about net zero.
Now look as Aus - free renewable energy for up to 3 hours a day!

@EUCommission Very ambitious. How about 2035? 2030? Don’t move in glacial speed, we can be faster - have a look how China does it. Start moving, not only talking!

@EUCommission

That picture is so racist and sexist.

It does not represent the wholeness of European plugs, just the supremacist continental one.

And the male plug is depictured more present and powerful than the female.

Just joking. 🤣

#satire #humor #fun #joke

@EUCommission "We won't do nearly enough, but we'll act really smugly like we are".

tbh I don't even believe it, one phonecall from washington and the EU bureaucrats will bend over again and invest another ungodly amount in the fossil fuel industry.

@EUCommission

In the meantime, is it possible to standardize plugs and outlets?

@EUCommission 🤬Nope, it's "Burn, baby, burn".

Another smoke curtain by the EC's spin doctors!! https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-climate-change-fight-carbon-market-emissions-trading-system/

Even that figure of 46% is pure wishful thinking/communication strategy. Fossil industry lobbies win 🤮

@EUCommission just fuck off

@EUCommission meanwhile in the Netherlands both supply and demand for renewable electricity are blocked because of necessary grid upgrades. 😞

@EUCommission so your plan is to buy more Chinese cars? That seems like a plan without thought of consequences.

Good job.

@EUCommission why not by 2030. The tech is there. Invest in battery storage, wind, solar, geothermal. Force industries to switch to existing alternatives. Stop subsidizing fossil fuels and their usage and punish governments who do.
This is timid chickening out.

@EUCommission

Are you sure?
Have you ever heard oft Katherina Reiche, the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy in Germany? And what she is doing?

@EUCommission
Starter-level ambition, but a start.

@EUCommission Electricity is already cheaper than fossil energy. Reducing the gap sounds counter productive. 🤔

@EUCommission 46% in 16 years? 2024 we were at 24%....
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/interactive-publications/energy-2026

some would call this... not very ambigious, especially since the easy parts could be done quickly at the beginning?

@EUCommission

"Deploying smart meters faster "
Please explain what a smart meter has to do with fuel import?

Glad you were talking about the continent. Means we are safe, since it requires a good/steady internet connection. Which we, at a mountainous island, do not have. Lol.