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Cake day: June 23rd, 2024

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  • 4chan is actually an exception. While > on each newline is a standard for quote blocks in ASCII (and adopted by Markdown), 4chan’s “greentext” is rarely used to quote someone else. Ironic given that the frontend highlighting it is due to the quotation convention.

    Also, there are some inconsistencies in the implementation. For example, Reddit will turn

    > para1
    
    > para2
    

    into

    para1

    para2

    but Lemmy requires the blank lines to start with > too or the paragraphs go in separate quote blocks. Also, Lemmy requires a space after the > symbol while 4chan doesn’t.




  • The calculator can handle it because there is no 3D, the fruits are animated 1-bit bitmaps of around 24×16 resolution. (Unlike in the Mario game, sprites don’t even have transparency, they just draw on top of each other.) Fruits can be sliced through in any of the 8 directions but the graphics always just stop animating and split horizontally in half. I’m not complaining, it’s a genius demake. The concept, gameplay, fonts, contrast fadeout with the bomb… all perfect. The watermelon in the menu is a little tutorial, and they even spare a few bytes for “⠟⠇⠯⠇⠯⠂⠿⠅ ⠀ ⠹⠁⠯⠇ ⠀ ⠛⠇⠧⠇⠽⠅⠹⠁ ⠀ ⠻⠇⠞⠆⠟⠇⠿⠅”, a friendly message because CPU-native TI-83/84 Plus games don’t have a standard for that (I’ve seen them use MODE, ALPHA, CLEAR, 2nd+MODE (QUIT), F6, a menu item, or ones that only get exited automatically on game over!)

    With some practice, you can get over 95% of fruits while playing stealthily (pressing 1 key at a time with a finger on each of the 3 center columns such as SIN-COS-TAN).