TrisHawthorne

Alice

@TrisHawthorne

(Aka Trissie)

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37yo Adult Fictioneer, specializing in kink writing. Genderfluid, Transfemme. Girl but not binary Female.

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a modest proposal

cohost lets people write css, and that's great

and lets people upload music, too, and i love that

what if people could upload gameboy roms

tef
@tef

look, i know i'm being tongue in cheek, but i'm also being quite honest, too. it really would be nice to have some sort of programming sandbox to play in. i'm getting a little jealous of all the css and svg shitposts.

i'm almost being serious about a gameboy, too.

the fun part about using a console or handheld is that the spec is defined, the emulator is already written, and there's occasionally 60-90% of a tool that does some useful things for you. this almost makes up for the downsides of "people will use it exclusively for roms and keeping things homebrew is a new moderation task"

i'd also just accept being able to cohostpost a LOGO program with a little eggbug instead of a turtle.

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mcc
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You know, you can embed entire games in an SVG file, right? Because JavaScript. The code won't run when it's displayed in the Cohost post view, but you can create an SVG that says something like "Click here to run!" and post it in a post where it links to itself on staging.cohostcdn.org, and when viewed as a standalone file the embedded JavaScript will run and that can clear the "click to run!" message away and start the action. I have seen this actually used for small games, but I myself have not taken advantage because I have been too busy trying to figure out if it is a vector for XSS attacks

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