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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023
  • drcouzelis@lemmy.ziptoRetroGaming@lemmy.world•Recommendations on casual GB/GBA games?English
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    8 days ago

    Hi! I’m a Game Boy collector / enthusiast / reviewer. And this question has an easy answer in my opinion…

    Catrap

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfV4MnGfiA4&t=284

    • It’s relaxing. It’s a turn based, pure puzzle game. Like, there’s literally no action. The enemies don’t even move!
    • It’s big. 100 puzzles that slowly increase in difficulty. I was able to beat them all, over time.
    • It’s non-punishing. No time limits. No lives.
    • No stress. Catrap was the first(?) game to feature an undo button. Try something out. Didn’t work? Just hold B to undo. You can undo all the way back to the start of the stage, as many time as you want.
    • It’s simple. Up, down, left, and right to move. B to undo. I think A is introduced later to swap between characters?
    • IT’S FUN. It looks good, plays good, and just feels good to jump around the stage. And completing a stage is so satisfying.

    I hope you like it! 🙂

  • drcouzelis@lemmy.ziptoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How does DNA decide the shape of the body?English
    81·
    5 months ago

    Richard Dawkins has an entire chapter on this exact topic in his book “The Greatest Show on Earth”. I highly recommend reading it, even just that one chapter! It doesn’t feel like a text book, and his writing is very easy to follow in my opinion.

    It’s chapter 8, “You did it yourself in 9 months”. To summarize, many people mistakenly think of genes as a “blueprint”, but he suggests it’s better to think of genes as instructions for origami paper folding. Genes don’t know the whole creature, they just know what to fold next, what to duplicate, what to bend, and so on, kind of like that. It’s been a while since I read it. 😅

    But I do remember, humans are so complex, we may never fully understand the complete embryo-to-adult growth process, BUT the author points out that there IS a creature, a very small worm, that we are able to understand everything.

    That may not seem like a big deal at first, but think about it. Scientists understand the complete growth process of a living creature, from a single cell, every gene, every cell, everything, up to when it’s fully formed. So cool.

  • drcouzelis@lemmy.ziptoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Who owns the servers for Lemmy?English
    31·
    6 months ago

    Is each instance like another person with a server?

    I just wanted to add, any computer with an internet connection can host a web page! A desktop, a laptop, anything. That’s how the internet all started, as a collection on interconnected computers sharing data. I think many people nowadays forget this or even never knew about it (including me), since we live in a world where people spend all their time at like only a dozen websites. (Google, Instagram, Wikipedia…)

    I have a public “webserver” in my basement. It’s just some random computer hosting some photos for family members. And it’s all completely free, I don’t pay anything to do it. I could easily pop an instance of Lemmy on it too.

    The biggest hurdles in setting up a server from home are needing some technical knowledge, and a free domain name / URL usually looks a little silly (unless you pay for one), and getting hacked is a very real threat unless you pay close attention to security.