Something I’ve discovered about myself: while I can write code on a phone, and have several applications for doing so, I can’t _think_ about code on a phone. Loading a file up to ponder a redesign is useless. Only if I have a specific change in mind can I do anything with it.

io9 has some questions about Alita. Having just watched it, I can answer some of them:

Q: "we don’t know why everyone was fighting. What was the point?"
A: Because Earth fucking sucks, and we hate you.

Q: "Why was Mars so much more advanced than Earth?"
A: Because we're fucking Mars, we're awesome.

Hope that cleared some things up.

I swear, the ticket kiosks at AMC get crappier every time they update them. From now on, I need to remember to buy ahead or use a human.

The old white men complaining about AOC at the next table are ruining my breakfast.

Is there a convenient way to entirely disable ANSI escape code support under macos terminal? like, I don't want `\e[6n` to get a reply, specifically. Need to test the negative case of ansi detection.

Right, okay. So, I see that I do need to create message boards, and the first message board I create needs to be “what doors should I add?”...

Huh. I just realized... that game I was talking about, the one I was writing back when 1024x768 was considered seriously high resolution for a PC? more or less directly on a conceptual line between Tradewars and Eve Online. Pity I never finished it.

A little over a quarter century ago, I was building a graphical video game that, conceptually, was like a souped-up version of Tradewars. In qbasic, no less. I could probably write my own clone, but that’s getting super-extra-ridiculous.

So, the next logical question is: what features should I build into this new bbs software? Doors makes sense, but /what/ doors would I run? Is there a decent Tradewars clone that runs on Linux?

ok, I think that's probably quite enough verticality for one day. gonna go lie down for a while.

Making progress.

Now trying to pick an ORM

resolved the echo problem. realized I was thinking about the problem backwards.

Oof. I'm taking an even bigger beating on my Sonos shares than I am on Snap.

https://www.instructables.com/id/Lord-Vetinari-Clock/

Status: dynamically rendered ANSI menus. Woo.

395.71 light-petameters. Coming up on 396 in a few days.

further experimentation reveals the SGA bit is all that's needed. yay.

on the other hand, in character mode, hitting enter displays '^M', so that's kinda annoying. Ah well.