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Profile pic and banner credits: sharkaeopteryx art by @superkiak! eggbug by eggbug! Mash-up by me!
[Alt-text for pfp: a cute sharkaeopteryx sat on the ground with legs out, wings down, jaw ajar, and hed empty, looking at eggbug and eggbug's enigmatic smile.]
[Alt-text for banner: a Spirit Halloween banner with eggbug and the sharkaeopteryx that Superkiak drew for me looking at it with inscrutable expressions]


I'm a Vietnamese cis woman born and currently living in the U.S. You may know me from Sandwich, from Twitter or Mastodon (same username), or on Twitch as Sharkaeopteryx. I do not have a Discord or Bluesky account.

Ask me about language learning/teaching, cooking/eating food, late diagnosis ADHD, and volunteer small business mentoring. Or don't, I'm not the boss of you.


I think people deserve to be young, make mistakes, and grow without being held to standards they don't know about yet and are still learning. So, if you are under 22, please don't try to strike up a friendship or get involved in discussions on my posts.


Please don't automatically assume I follow/know/co-sign someone just because I reposted something from them—sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Also, if you think being removed as a follower when we're not mutuals is a cardinal sin, please do not follow me.


🐘Mastodon
search for @sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net and hit follow if you want
Hang out with me on the Auldnoir forum! (you can DM there!)
discourse.auldnoir.org/
Follow me on Twitch
twitch.tv/sharkaeopteryx
Add my RSS feed (not working yet but I'll get to it!)
sharkaeopteryx.neocities.org/rss.xml

sharksonaplane
@sharksonaplane

How YOU dune? Let's get Sandy bc I'm feelin' crabby!
(I'm not really feeling too crabby, I just said it for the puns because I'm playing Sandy's Great Escape, pls forgive)
https://twitch.tv/sharkaeopteryx


sharksonaplane
@sharksonaplane

for many reasons but one of them is because sometimes you're streaming a sokoban puzzle game and you are stuck and starting to get bored and then the dev comes into stream and gives you a second wind and also hints/encouragement for the 2 levels where you get too inside your own head, so that you can finish the whole first stage 😂 We also learned some fun facts about the development process. First time I had a dev (who I don't know) come in during one of my streams, that was really cool and they were super nice! Arzulo from Mocha Moose Games.

(This was a stream where I realized 30mins in I was sleepy, probably too sleepy for a puzzle game, but ended up going 3.5hours because I ended up in a cycle of having fun-sleemby-having fun-so tired-so back-how brain-so back again-so sleemby-etc etc, I would probably enjoy the game a lot better if I were more awake)

The game itself, Sandy's Great Escape, is a cute pixel crab with unlockable skins who has time rewind powers and uses death as quicktravel and his own corpse to achieve his goals (pushing boxes so he can go to the beach). I don't play enough sokoban games to know how much of that is standard to the genre though 😉



cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

"join our discord" is the new "pinterest result on google." anti-information. your pursuit ends here. facts will not be found today. it's like if you asked someone on the street what time it was and they said "come into my church and take communion and I'll tell you"



cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

discord is an organized, focused, hell-bent project to ensure that no! information ever! gets accidentally preserved. the purpose of a system is what it does, so discord's purpose is to lose things. "everything anyone has ever said on a topic" is the goal but they take what they can get


cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

it used to be terrifying when the support / faq / help link on a website went to a forum. then they started going to wikis, and we all turned around and screamed at springy the spring sprite to take it back, we didn't mean it. we love zinc.

then they turned into discord links, and when we looked back at springy, we saw only satan


cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

it's just an incredible one-two-three punch of "did you just tell me to go fuck myself?"

because you get part A: "almost everything we've ever said about our software project is in, basically, a 10 gigabyte text file spanning 8 years of conversations, many off-topic. here's a fulltext search. it replaces near-homonyms, so your search for the exact keyword 'CLOUT' will be silently altered to 'CLOUD'."

and part B: "you can't even look at it without loading it up in a separate program, possibly getting punted into a Welcome To Our Server process, having everyone on the server see your name (hope you weren't investigating something made by people who hate you!) and then having four people @ you the millisecond you join with generic welcomes (hope you don't have social anxiety!)"

and then part C: "if you gather up the courage to actually ask us for help after the fulltext search fails, we will insult you until you cry, even if you don't have social anxiety."