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timpark — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:12:24 +0000

For an extra challenge, I try to solve it without looking at the clues, and only using the theme. (some themes are harder than others) Though if a word turns orange, I sort of glance at the clues to see whether it's the wrong direction or built incorrectly. Maybe they could be different colours, like red/orange? Thanks for making it!

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timpark — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 14:02:37 +0000

I was thinking of the board game "Timeline". This one is from 2012, but if you search BGG for Timeline, you'll find lots of different versions for different countries and specializations.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/128664/timeline

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timpark — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 17:30:31 +0000

Exactly, haha! :) Thanks!

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timpark — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 06:59:09 +0000

The blink tag was, of course, much hated back in the day, so as an experiment, I took the binary of whatever browser I was using (Netscape, I guess), searched for "blink", and changed it to "blonk". Tada, no more blinking!

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timpark — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 07:42:38 +0000

I remembered and searched for the same article. I found this version (on the same domain) with images and better formatting.
https://improbable.com/annals-of-improbable-research-july-au...

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timpark — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 01:28:16 +0000

25%? Wow. That seems high, but when you consider we were backing a game based on the popularity of a now almost-40-year-old franchise, it seems a bit more reasonable.

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timpark — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 23:48:18 +0000

The guys who created Space Quest kickstarted another sci-fi comedy adventure game... 13 years ago. It went (and is still going) poorly, and Kotaku just posted about the ordeal today:
https://kotaku.com/spaceventure-space-quest-kickstarter-stea...
I backed the project, but at one of the lowest levels, so I'm not really mad. It's just kind of sad.

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timpark — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 14:00:32 +0000

More typeface-related fun:
Neutra Face: An Ode On A Typeface (parody of Lady Gaga's "Poker Face")
https://youtu.be/xHCu28bfxSI?t=18
Behind the Typeface: Cooper Black
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZmdf8A9Ex8

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timpark — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 13:56:24 +0000

There's only a demo out so far, but Scarlet Deer Inn uses embroidery for its character images.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1553260/Scarlet_Deer_Inn/

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timpark — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 06:08:38 +0000

For those who might be interested, a similar site for Canadian charities is Charity Intelligence.
https://www.charityintelligence.ca/

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timpark — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 02:39:01 +0000

Back when I was using CodeWarrior to make a game for PlayStation 2, I found a compiler bug, but fortunately, it was one where it gave an error on valid code, rather than generating bad output. I can't remember the details, but I had some sort of equation that my co-workers agreed should have compiled with no problems. I was able to rewrite it a little to get the result I wanted without triggering any compiler errors.

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timpark — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 22:45:07 +0000

Here's a Pico-8 version that Liquidream did in 1024 (compressed) bytes of code for a game jam: https://liquidream.itch.io/lumon8-1k

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timpark — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 04:09:03 +0000

I think some things were a product of their time, and weren't popular/profitable enough to keep marketing or update or modernize. (whether they didn't maintain peoples' attention, or had issues like the Popeye one you mentioned) Another not-as-popular character that's entering the public domain in 2026, for example, is Betty Boop.
On the other hand, Superman and Batman enter the public domain in 2034 and 2035 respectively, so that should be interesting. Though like Mickey Mouse/Steamboat Willie, I expect that it's only the original version/costume that goes public domain.

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timpark — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 22:39:39 +0000

In May 1998, before the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act went into effect, there was an amusing Tom the Dancing Bug comic regarding characters falling out of copyright. https://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/1998/05/17
In that vein, similar to the Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh horror movies that have been released in recent years, Popeye will be entering the public domain next year and people are working on a horror movie based on that.

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timpark — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 05:22:28 +0000

There was a story about this happening with some Amiga 500 computers, allegedly due to a too-high speed bump in a Commodore parking lot.
https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/a-history-of-the-amiga...

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timpark — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 15:32:59 +0000

For fun, I wrote some Javascript that will numeronymize text, but it will also "de-numeronymize" it again by converting the result back into random words that also match. (if a match can't be found, it returns the original word, and unlike the article, it doesn't handle non-English characters) https://www.timpark.org/n10e-s2e-t2t/
Ex: "accessibility localization internationalization multilingualization globalization" becomes "a11y l10n i18n m17n g11n" becomes "applicability locomutation intercrystallization metaphenylenediamin gastrocnemian"

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timpark — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 16:57:37 +0000

If anyone wants to try some levels before buying it, the game jam version of the game is on itch.io: https://hempuli.itch.io/baba-is-you
That's Windows-only, though. Someone recently released a "demake" with fewer levels for Pico-8 that you can play in a browser: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=142638

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timpark — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 04:41:04 +0000

I did notice the link was broken, but didn't want to wait until I had time to fix it before commenting. I've fixed it and a couple of other ones. Thanks.

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timpark — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 14:57:50 +0000

I made a tetratetraflexagon for my wedding program. I ended up making a script to use ImageMagick to convert four images into two images suitable for printing on both sides of an 8.5"x11" sheet of paper. The scripts, example images, and instructions are here:
https://www.timpark.org/making-a-tetratetraflexagon/

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timpark — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 16:56:05 +0000

Numeronyms like i18n and a11y are things I'd seen from time to time, but not in a sufficiently interesting or relevant context for me to figure out what they meant, until one day I finally looked them up. Then, just for fun, I made this page: https://www.timpark.org/n10e-s2e-t2t/ (numeronymize some text)

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