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  • In UFO 50, the characters Amy and Alpha are the same person.

    Amy traps her little sister in the back room so she can throw a party (Party House + Mini & Max). Mini helps the Mol Duk civilization of mold-people, and hears their prophecy that they’ll become a technologically advanced people (Mini & Max). An unnamed friend of Amy gets kidnapped by a man who has become an infested mold zombie after drinking Mol Duk tea (Night Manor) given to him by a therapist (probably one of the counselors from Party House). Amy and friends fight a zombie apocalypse, get abducted by aliens, beat up the aliens, and continue their journey, presumably keeping the flying saucer (Fist Hell). The Mol Duk people become Woogie’s species (Onion Delivery; yes it was Earth all along). Amy escapes the planet using the space ship, then goes on a series of adventures under a new assumed name, Alpha (Velgress, Overbold, Pingolf, Quibble Race). Further evidence for this is that both Amy and Alpha have wildly inconsistent hair color from game to game.





  • My problem isn’t with javascript as a UI framework, it’s what I use too. Everything else is five independent platforms each with 3+ half implemented ways to do things, all of which have been left to wither on the vine as all the tech companies give up and use the web instead. The DOM is the best application tool remaining.

    My problem is that javascript is both the tool to make basic enhancements to documents, like collapsible menus or form submissions, and the tool to create whole applications. The former needs it to run by default on every page, but the latter means that that it has the potential to harvest a zillion kinds of data, perform far more computation than is needed to display a webpage, and make cheap computers and poor connections unusable.

    And it doesn’t matter that these problems are avoidable if companies get their shit together, because I’m not writing the code for every page I visit.


  • The web’s usability peaked in like 2005, where there was enough javascript to run gmail, but anything more complicated lived in a little flash player box, and I had click-to-activate enabled so ads and tracking scripts couldn’t do anything.

    I hope they keep adding things like the <details> element until websites can do all the website things without javascript, and we somehow get back to a flash/applet style box for complex stuff (with a more reasonable security model, hell it’s fine if javascript is what lives in the box).