Your mentioning using stuff from tlieset packs (which I presume you made) actually made me wonder about something – I’m definitely not a skilled visual artist myself, but I do have various very well-made asset packs that I’ve picked up over the years (mainly due to the giant bundles on itch.io), so maybe I could actually try stitching a scene together from them sometime. Could be a fun way to spend an hour or two when bored, and I could do something with these purchases while also being able to show off the work of a variety of pixel artists to friends.

well yeah, there’s no 14th month

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A local park ranger I know likes to remark that our state tree is a grass. (I’m in Florida.)

But I’d say that’s also inaccurate. IMO, grasses are in the family Poaceae, and palms are in the family Arecaceae. I guess one could remark that our state tree is a commelinid…but I don’t think tourists would get as much of a kick out of that.

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I think it’s arguable that “tree” is just a term for a growth habit rather than anything really taxonomically meaningful.

How many social credit points do I lose if I refer to bamboo products as “wood” outside of botany nerd circles?

Isn’t that just “hosed”?

Talk about invasive species!

“Frickin’ beautiful.”

Time to post one of my favorite songs:

https://youtu.be/PKQPey6L42M

(“Da Coconut Nut”, by Ryan Cayabyab. This version is probably the one performed by his group, Smokey Mountain.)

This song reminds us that the coconut is not a nut; it is the fruit of the cocopalm.

It seems to forget the history beyond a certain date. Like a year or so.

Thanks for the encouragement to just jump in and do stuff, gaming and otherwise.

I’ve found myself having a hard time finding dedicated time to play games (i.e. without worrying about something else “over my shoulder”) and I’ve also found myself seemingly unable to “learn” new genres of games despite my wanting to get into them (so I often end up playing genres I’m already familiar with). I suspect these are related, and I also suspect that just jumping in and doing stuff more spontaneously will probably help improve things.

Math majors: “Duh.”

Non-math majors: “And then a miracle occurs…”

This is horrible and obnoxious tree trimming. Bad for the trees, bad for urban tree canopy, bad for urban heat management, bad for carbon sequestration, and done as an insult to labor.

Maybe humans should invest in some ecosystems to handle the poop, rather than trying to keep birds off and getting pwned.

I’m usually playing older games of some sort. There’s retro games, like those from the 32-bit era and before, but I also play…old-ish games, ones that were released within the last decade or two. Just last year I began playing Tokyo Xanadu eX+, which was released in 2017 (albeit as the definitive version of a 2015 game).

I think a number of the indie games I play are generally newer. Though, given my tastes, many of them tend to be games designed to evoke some sort of similarity to those older styles of games. So I guess it’s an interesting question whether they count as “retro” or not.

That said, given that I pretty much only use store-bought laptops (and not of the “gaming” variety), my hardware means that I’m much better off playing older games anyway. “Newer old” games can probably still run, depending on the game, but some may be choppy and I can probably wait on those.

Just curious, have you sorted through the biodiversity of your yard, say with the help of a tool like iNaturalist or something? I’m curious how many species are native vs. exotic, and how many are common vs. uncommon, compared to both developed spaces and natural spaces nearby.