daily knowledge: it has recently come out that google chrome exists "only exists to serve search."

and if you consider how radically stripped down chrome's UI was compared to internet explorer and firefox at the time, this checks out.

it's essentially just a search bar with tabs. and compared to the other two, one thing that jumped out to me is chrome's lack of any RSS buttons by default. it's weird to think that there was a time when this wasn't just what every browser looked like, but when you consider how Shit the average browsing experience must have been for any tech illiterate person in 2007 (toolbars toolbars toolbars, baby!) it's incredibly easy to see how chrome gained such a huge userbase so quickly, since having just one bar that does exactly what the average person wanted it to and nothing more was revolutionary at the time it came out.

to anyone else here using inprnt - how long has it usually taken for support to reply? i emailed them two weeks ago about something important and still haven't gotten a response back. this combined with having to wait a month or longer for any money i've earned has me hesitant about using them

... to you

ZeroRanger dev team System Erasure's sophomore outing Void Stranger is - to me - one of the best games i can think of to come outta this year, and it's frustratingly difficult to talk about this funny tile puzzle game without giving its secrets away on some end. this post is my excuse to get some of that out without burying it behind increasingly esoteric spoiler tiers.

i feel like this game is best gone into not fully knowing the cards it holds, but at least having enough expectations to know what you're getting into. it has so, so much to love buried within if you're willing to stick it through.

to this end, here's some things to go in knowing for various types of people you might be! some structural spoilers if you really do want to go in totally blind, but i keep away from actually directly talking plot and mechanics.