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i'm using tilt controls! software dev/musician. mostly post nonsense here. recurse center w1 2025

Thank you to the Recurse Center @recurse.com for inviting me to install Between at their 15th birthday party! I did a batch last fall and it inspired me to get back into programming while meeting so many smart, generous people. I loved being able to do something fun for the community!

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How do you feel about Donald Trump's actions as president so far? [adjacent to an artful and flattering black-and-white sketch of me] Jon, 43, white "I no longer call it the Sun. I call it the Hot Moon. You cannot catch and eat the Hot Moon because it moves too fast because it is late for school."

In the spirit of April Fools' Day but without sacrificing the Supper Mario Broth veracity policy, here is a fact that seems so outlandish as to be a joke, but is actually true: in 1993, a Sega ad campaign briefly planned to use profanity to slander Mario.

Preliminal design for a 1993 Sega ad, recovered from the archives of the Brio toy company, which handled Sega's marketing in Sweden
[a picture of Sonic asking "WHO THE F*CK IS MARIO?"]
Final design of the ad, which replaced the attack on Mario with the slogan "Happiness can be bought for money"
[a picture of Sonic saying "LYCKA KAN KΓ–PAS FΓ–R PENGAR"]
Source: Martin Lindell, martinlindell.com/2019/11/24/sonic-springer-snabbt-in-i-sverige, via @FeoUltima, x.com/feoultima/status/1964670301712908579