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Dink Smallwood is just as ridiculous in HD (more, because of its pixel jaggies!) and I have just finished playing a user-created module (The Quest for Cheese) that has an exploding ducks spell. I'm underselling it but the spell is quite satisfying to use.

I ran into a little trouble, though. I played the mod umpteen years ago, so it was basically brand new to me now, and I got stuck at one point. I was confident that I had come across walkthroughs for D-Mods before, so I plugged the main game and mod titles, along with "walkthrough", into DuckDuckGo and hoped for the best.

What I found was this. You see that bit at the top, where it credits the walkthrough to a site resurrected by someone called Jaina? That's me! I'm Jaina!

It's been a day and I'm still processing how I feel about it. The site wasn't mine originally and I deleted it years ago, thinking nobody would miss it. (Also I think my free hosting was going paid-only, costing more than I cared to pay. I had hosted mirrors of the mods themselves along with the reviews, and I didn't think the reviews without the mods themselves had much appeal, and I didn't care to pay to host it all when I thought nobody else cared. So I deleted it altogether.) I don't think I even have the website files anymore.

But the content is not gone, because I was not the only one who cared.

I'm not sorry I stopped hosting the site; it was the right call for my circumstances at the time. But I'm happy that it meant enough to someone else that I came across a shoutout and information from it, still preserved, in the year 2023. And playable Dink in this year! On a portable device!

From a certain vantage, living in the future can be so awesome.

Hello I am barreling through here while I have a moment to spare and some happinesses to record!

Rural internet was patchy yesterday but much better today. My lifeline, restored! (I am like 30% kidding. At most.) I was able to get back into my Facebook account (first time since last year) and snag some in-game item gift codes for the pin-pulling game my kid likes. I even, heh, took a guess at what the next gift code would be and I got that sucker on my first freaking try, w00t! ...I should try Wordle later, see if today's my day. Dreamwidth first though.

I have given up on Twitter and moved shop to Vivaldi Social, a Mastodon instance, at @pokitty@vivaldi.net . I don't love my username there but I do love Vivaldi. They've hosted a forum and user blogs since Vivaldi started, and their predecessor Opera did, too, so I trust their experience with moderation. They also speak a number of languages besides English, so I trust their moderation of non-English posts more than I do a random American (sorry, 'Mericans, but we tend to monolinguistically suck).

I still have some misgivings about Mastodon, moderation, and non-monetization; I more than half expect 2023 to see instances asking for (or requiring) money, and users leaving rather than pay. But the vibe there is solid and sound. I like logging into the Vivaldi Social much more than Twitter. People keep linking to Mastodon accounts for people freshly banned from Twitter, and they make a pretty dandy reading list!

I tried Tumblr as well, but crappy internet does not love their media-heavy (and completely non-ALT-texted!) communication. I unfollowed everybody I didn't pout to think of losing. Now I am only bothering to even try to check there on a good internet day. (I almost always just queue stuff up for the system to post later, so it might look like I'm there more regularly than I am, but I am not.)

I tried looking for a self-hosted to do list server, but found no consensus as to the best one. I'd love to have a lightweight local server that let me go to IP_ADDRESS:PORT and toggle ticky boxes next to tasks. Dunno if that exists. I suppose most people manage this on their phone and/or with Google Calendar, but my phone is frequently charging, in a kid's hands, or otherwise separate from me, and I'd rather not invest myself further into Google's "ecosystem" anyway. A thing that could be edited (or at least viewed) on a Kindle would be ideal. Sometimes that's the only screen available to me in the moment, but I very nearly always have *something*.

Lunchtime! Hope yours is tasty as mine.