lingo.lol is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A place for linguists, philologists, and other lovers of languages.

Server stats:

55
active users

#unexpected

0 posts0 participants0 posts today

Okay, using #signal and a weird thing just happened (not bad, just weird?): I pressed CTRL+V (on desktop Signal) and it seemed like I sent (through chat) a square of solid color. I pressed CTRL+V again and a different color. And like that.

Any ideas what's going on?

Notes:
- I did CTRL+V in a LibreOffice Write document and nothing happened
- Linux Mint XFCE
- Sadly, the screenshot (below) seems to have replaced whatever was in my clipboard, so I can't currently replicate this.

Some games have fun little software hacks to deal with frequent cases of ball going where it's not intended to. Here we see Sharkey's shootout's right outlane post. The post is player controllable and it's supposed to prevent the ball going down the right outlane. If timed right, the ball however jumps and goes over the divider into the plunger lane. The game has a software feature to detect this and show a little animation when this happens. #pinball #arcade #mildlyinteresting #unexpected