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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.

I do love those moments when you're trying to do A Thing, and your searching turns up a forum post along the lines of "I was trying to do A Thing and it turns out it's much easier than I thought! All I had to do was insert Tab A into Slot Z." Here I was, writing code to handle things manually, and it turns out that all I have to do is populate PmWiki's $AuthList array and it's done. I mean, I'm still me, so I fiddled with a bunch of other stuff and got my error_log quite long, but I seem to have cleared up all the errors and learned some new stuff. Whee! Also, in the name of programming, I indulged in an extra Djew and I am quite sure that it shows. No regrets! Only caffeination!

I do have some non-internet things that I want to get done today, and I think I have just enough time left to get them done.

Have a good day, everyone!