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- Comment on Also literally known as the Horror Frog 1 day ago:
The hairy frog is also notable in possessing retractable “claws”, which it may project through the skin, apparently by intentionally breaking the bones of the toe.[5] These are not true claws, as they are made of bone, not keratin. In addition, there is a small bony nodule nestled in the tissue just beyond the frog’s fingertip. When sheathed, each claw is anchored to the nodule with tough strands of collagen. When the frog is grabbed or attacked, it breaks the nodule connection and forces the sharpened bones through the skin.[6][7] Although a retraction mechanism is not known, it has been hypothesized that the claws later retract passively, while the damaged tissue is regenerated.
This type of natural weaponry appears to be unique in the animal kingdom, although the Otton frog possesses a similar “spike” in its thumb.[8] An alternative hypothesis is that the broken bones could provide a better grip on rocks.[9]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_frog
Yep, pretty horrifying, accurate name.
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 6 days ago:
I think “Robot Cache” was a company that claimed to do this sort of thing. The only reason I had even heard of them is because they gave away a game for free, and ironically now they’ve gone out of business and I can’t even access the game anymore!
- Comment on Sony Signals It’s Not Prepared To Sell PlayStation 6 ‘At Significant Losses’ 1 week ago:
Maybe hardware limitations will force developers to actually start optimising their code a bit. Ever increasing power leads to laziness because everyone’s got more than enough CPU/RAM/storage. That feels less of an issue in gaming though, where the majority of my pc library will run on a decade-old laptop but a web page demands enough power to run crysis.
- Comment on Is Britain's Plug-In Solar Revolution Really Just Months Away? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve not ever heard the name “Josiah” here before
- Comment on Wowee!! 4 weeks ago:
We can rebuild him, we have the technology. But I don’t want to spend a lot of money.
- Comment on On cats 4 weeks ago:
Their office is in the physics department but their actual job is managing the unix lab
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I don’t like it when they remove what are essentially accessibility features in the name of their artistic vision. A classic is something like limiting when you can pause the game.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I guess it’s a design decision so people don’t save-scum, but losing your whole game highlights a pretty massive issue with that design
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
That makes sense. OP mentioning save slots made me think they were habitually duplicating their entire save file after each save or something!
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
How would multiple save slots have helped a random bug which lost all your progress?
- Comment on no chances for life around red dwarfs 5 weeks ago:
Red Dwarfs (Dwarves?)
Dwarfs if they’re in the sky, dwarves if they’re under the mountain
- Comment on Built a free British social chat site — would love 1 month ago:
Bold move to stick the Irish flag on there
- Comment on GameSir Tako: A vertical phone controller for retro games. At $21 in China, is it worth it? 1 month ago:
Software: Their app is clunky. Screen scaling is manual to avoid blocking content.
Do you need their software? Is it not just a controller which can be recognised by games?
- Comment on Old Nokia, lost mobile games 1 month ago:
I had a Symbian Nokia as my first smart-ish phone, having a web browser that could run real websites (even if you had to move the cursor around with a dpad) was absolute sci-fi. It could also run flash games, I remember getting a flash version of pacman from a games website, copying it to my phone, and being able to run it right from the file browser.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Good to know, thanks
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Thanks, I’ll treat that like an instruction manual
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I bought this game at least a decade ago but I still haven’t given it more than half an hour of play, and it clearly deserves a proper go. Is this a game I can just pick up and play or is it one of those where you really need to have a wiki open to vaguely understand what’s going on? I generally don’t like looking stuff up until I’ve completed (or otherwise got most of the way through) a game but if some prior reading is actually required then I want to know in advance.
- Comment on The Rise of the Bullshittery 1 month ago:
I guess some of those people you knew at school who just couldn’t help spouting any nonsense that would make them seem cool never grew out of it
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Support for other versions of the game is planned in the future.
You might still be in luck
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Oh nice, how? Wilbrand?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Ripping a GameCube disc is pretty simple if you’ve got a hacked Wii, which is not too hard to do if you own specific games
- Comment on Introducing Google Cloud Fraud Defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA | Google Cloud Blog 1 month ago:
We invite you to join us at Next ‘26 to talk about new capabilities
This post is just the announcement for a conference talk
- Comment on Why Reddit blocked my daily visit to its mobile website 2 months ago:
I have RDX installed purely so that when I’m searching for something and the answer is in a Reddit thread I can view it on my phone
- Comment on “You are the most hated demographic at game events.” A major Japanese indie game showcase is waging war on “unsolicited advice dudes” 2 months ago:
Highlights it perfectly!
- Comment on “You are the most hated demographic at game events.” A major Japanese indie game showcase is waging war on “unsolicited advice dudes” 2 months ago:
What’s the old adage? Users are very good at telling you what doesn’t work and very bad at telling you how it should be improved.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m only aware of GameNative because the post above this talks about it, but apparently yes
- Comment on Takes one to know one 2 months ago:
Hooray, it’s real, that’s going straight to !nominativedeterminism@feddit.uk
- Comment on AI job scams are booming – and I was fooled by one. Here is how to avoid them 2 months ago:
I don’t think this is something new, there has always been “spear phishing”, i.e. targeted scams. The scattergun approach to spam still exists separately, it’s just that the targeted scams are now easier to set up.
