Posted by DarkWitchClaire

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is Dexter not that picky of an eater in general?

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Eh, he's fairly picky; for awhile he wouldn't eat salmon though now he will-- not really different than normal cat pickiness afaict

I caught a giant Nyonya plushie!

Emuz when can we get these IRL

Posted by Danika

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Dexter ever beg you for people food?

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CONSTANTLY

he basically lives on my table while I'm cooking

I don't think you actually want this spicy food, Dexter

Posted by ゼンガー・ゾンボルト

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Yeah, no ghost chili pepper for Dexter, right?

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My ex used to love to eat cheddar with peppers embedded around him-- he loves cheese, but got so offended when he realized someone had made this cheese spicy

Posted by Danika

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Is spicy bad for cats?

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I don't know if it's bad for cats-- but an almost-exclusively meat-eating animal has no reason to develop a taste for spicy food, so cats generally will react in the admittedly fairly reasonable "this causes me pain and I don't want it"

Posted by DarkWitchClaire

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is it possible to condition a cat to not eat a certain food?

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Conditioning works on pretty much anything with a brain as far as I know... maybe it needs to be a vertebrate brain or even a mammal brain, but cats are mammals so that's not a big concern

Posted by Danika

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What was the last people food your cat ate?

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Milk; he was going after my cereal so I gave him some of his own (minus the cereal)

Posted by AtomicAstro

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Silly cat, doesn't he know eating human food is illegal?

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Posted by DarkWitchClaire

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would cats care that something is illegal even if they had a concept of law?

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I learned on Twitter that cats haven't recognized the legitimacy of any human government since the fall of Cleopatra VII.

Posted by Danika

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Can a cat perform complex mathematical equations?

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And super-fast, too-- that's how they always land on their feet, because they can do the three-dimensional force calculation on how exactly best to adjust their body.

Now, some scientists probably think that's "instinct" and not "deliberate calculation", but scientists say lots of things

Posted by AtomicAstro

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Do you think you'd like cats more or less if they were capable of human speech?

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I feel like Dexter would constantly be saying "give me food, bitch" which would probably make him a little less endearing

Posted by DarkWitchClaire

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strangest thing Dexter does often?

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He likes to follow people into the bathroom and just sit down and stare at them while they do their business.

But try to do the same to him when he's on the litterbox, he hates it

Posted by DarkWitchClaire

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would cats be able to fly spaceships?

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Now that we've gotten rid of the Space Shuttle, spaceships mostly fly themselves. So I guess you might as well have a cat instead of a human play the role of "spam in the can".

Posted by Danika

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Would you rather have a Commodore PET or a Canon Cat?

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I'll go with the Canon Cat, it's more an oddity...

And I'm definitely going with the Cat if it's the one from my blog post

Posted by ゼンガー・ゾンボルト

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What of a Cat Cannon?

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That's not canon!

Posted by DarkWitchClaire

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can a cat be non-canon?

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The canonicity of cats is itself non-non-canon.

Posted by Danika

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Can a Commodore PET make a digitized meow sound?

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The PET 2001 had no speaker, so no But people modded them with one... but if you count mods you can do whatever, someone could wire a Raspberry Pi to the PET's serial port, doesn't mean you can run lynx on a PET

Posted by DarkWitchClaire

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what's the oldest machine with a microprocessor that can run irc?

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Hm; I figured there was no reason you couldn't run an IRC client on an Apple ][, but what I found are using a "serial to modern computer" hack, so doesn't count... If we allow that, then the winner is probably some Intel 8008-based terminal, which really doesn't feel fair. (I doubt the Intel 4004 was used in anything capable of even serial bridging to IRC)

So, ugh, the 1981 IBM PC might be it. Sadly it predates the 68k machines. Why am I so disappointed? The PC is bor-ring!

Now, of course, that's talking about microcomputers. Dunno any reason why early UNIX computers ("boxen") couldn't run IRC clients, but the PDP-11 and its ilk didn't have single microprocessors like the tiny machines did, they all had "central processing units" that were composed of multiple chips as far as I know.

EDIT: Okay the General Instrument CP1600 from 1975 was a single-chip implementation of most of the PDP-11, so if the PDP-11 can run IRC, then the CP1600 probably can and would have good odds of being the oldest-- but I can't find any evidence the CP1600 was used in any computers, just Honeywell controllers and, somewhat oddly, the Intellivision

Just played through Ranma 1/2: Toraware no Hanayome; this game is a digital comic for the PC Engine CD, and it's the first in the genre I've played. Was good language practice; I've been trying to dust off my Japanese and get better at it.

I have mixed feelings about it. For one thing, it was really fun to go through! I'm a big fan of the Ranma 1/2 franchise, the story was silly and fun, the art was great (the fact that the standard CD-ROM² sucks at FMV actually gave it a unique feel, since they couldn't just fall back on the anime).

But the thing is, it never really felt like... a game? Like the closest it got to a game was basically "choose the options in the right order, or we'll wait until you do". Even the visual novels I've played generally have more game elements, at least multiple endings or a losing condition.

Is ゼンガー・ゾンボルト a kitten? And no one told me?!

Posted by Danika

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SGI or Amiga or beBox?

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Amiga; as a home enthusiast I don't know what I'd do with an SGI or beBox, very cool though they may be.

Posted by DarkWitchClaire

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do you like games where you have to take a lot of notes?

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I used to when I was a kid, but adult Nicole is sooooooo lazy

Posted by Rambly

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shouldn't this thread be stickied and the other one unstickied and display case'd

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yeah maybe if the admins weren't lazy fucks

Posted by Rambly

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be nice to the admins pls, theyre trying their best

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you're right

admins who aren't nicole, I apologize

nicole deserved it though

Caught Tracer and Ana in quick succession.

SOON I WILL CONTROL OVERWATCH

Posted by Danika

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Would you prescribe fluffy cats to people instead of medication?

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WARNING: Nicole is not a doctor, don't take medical advice from her

Posted by DarkWitchClaire

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do you think cats would make good doctors?

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Nah, for the same reason vampires wouldn't-- they'd cut open a person and then get really hungry and start eating

Posted by Danika

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Does your cat ever refuse to take medication?

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I don't give him any medication! He has been a healthy cat and please I hope stays that way *fingers crossed*

Posted by Danika

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Is Doja Cat cute?

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Never heard of her before... But yeah, she's cute!

Posted by AtomicAstro

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Favorite game that has not recieved an official translation/Western release?

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That's a hard one, with all the games that have gotten a western release lately! Even Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire has one now...

I'll say Knight Move on the Famicom Disk System; it's not a text-heavy game, but it's a fun puzzle by the creator of Tetris and yet I think it's never made it off that console add-on! Amazing, I've definitely sunk a lot of time into it.

Posted by DarkWitchClaire

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favorite wonderswan game?

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Rockman and Forte: Mirai kara no Chousensha.

Though to be fair it's the only Wonderswan game I've played.

Posted by ゼンガー・ゾンボルト

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Where's my axe then?

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Don't you see? The axe... the axe was in your heart the whole time.

And you really need to see a doctor about that

Posted by Danika

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Least favorite of the original 151 Pokémon?

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Golbat. It's like Zubat, but drooling! Lovely.