woberto Report This Comment
Date: September 09, 2025 08:54AM

I got to 10 and considered that a massive victory.

pulse Report This Comment
Date: September 09, 2025 08:56AM

I could've been fixing things, but I thought the goat count was more important

I will say it's a lot easier on desktop; on my phone it was twice as fast.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: September 09, 2025 09:02AM

As a kid, I spent about 100 hours manually entering machine language from a printed book into my Commodore64.
Why you ask? Well it was to firstly enable sprite creation but mostly to create the side scrolling game with collision detection.
ROTJ had just come out so I made a speeder bike with Luke on it (sprite) and created a course with green vines hanging down that you had to dodge.
There was no animation if collision was detected and no score of any kind.
So pulse's goat jump, that probably took 10 minutes, is already far superior to my childhood efforts.
same but different...

pulse Report This Comment
Date: September 09, 2025 09:06AM

You'll all be pleased to know that the goat will be back! Any time there's a site outage the goat should now be back within 60 seconds; and will disappear within 60 seconds of return to service. So that's neat - AUTO GOAT.

I finally got bored enough and did the work I was putting off 1-2 weeks ago; took way longer than I wanted it to, and I think I've lost one of the back end NAS, which is irritating. Things don't like being power cycled apparently. I also fucked up the VLAN configs of the core switch and successfully locked myself out. Had to factory reset it, which was very annoying but all VLANs needed to change for the new firewalls to avoid conflict but NEW FIREWALL STACK is live! Woot.

We may/may not have a brief outage tomorrow while I finish things (I failed to count all the shelves I was going to require for the racks to move things so some intermittent hassle while different bits are rebooted) but ultimately not too bad.

quasi Report This Comment
Date: September 09, 2025 09:07AM

Using tech that would've seemed like magic just a couple of generations ago to play games. Have we really progressed?

pulse Report This Comment
Date: September 09, 2025 09:13AM

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woberto
So pulse's goat jump, that probably took 10 minutes, is already far superior to my childhood efforts.

It took me longer to get nginx to work with the game than to do the game Because at the ingress points where it's running it's a caching reverse proxy (upstream of plus613net) not a web server, it needs a conditional 'if' statement to redirect in case of failure; but it's not good enough to just return a 503 and deal with it, because then Cloudflare detects it and takes over. And because I'm on the free plan, I can't have custom error pages. And I don't like paying for free things.

I used to like inputting code from magazines etc. Was a fun challenge to reverse engineer and see what you could mess with. Also occasionally cracking a game or creating a trainer.

Recently I created a QR code in ASCII block characters (think ANSI), having to copy block-by-block from a source so I could display it somewhere to annoy somebody. I'll do these things for shits and giggles.

pulse Report This Comment
Date: September 09, 2025 09:16AM

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quasi
Using tech that would've seemed like magic just a couple of generations ago to play games. Have we really progressed?

Better than most of the shit out there these days

woberto Report This Comment
Date: September 09, 2025 10:01AM

q-man I am still wondering why band-aids no longer have the red cotton you pull to open one.
"Life moved pretty fast, if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you might miss it" (or something like that) - Ferris Bueller.

Anon - not logged in Report This Comment
Date: September 09, 2025 11:17AM

why band-aids no longer have the red cotton

Cost cutting. Call it stream lining.