2026-11-02T00:35:52Z https://nostr.now queerlilhayseed https://nostr.now/npub180626xg0g9hz2zlnt0sa3n4rvdq82pmzq25fnmg5u72mxzkr62fqs9jn92 https://piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone/users/k2/0i/k20irG1qNrf8Zfi.png https://piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone/users/k2/0i/k20irG1qNrf8Zfi.png https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswuj3s7hk3fpatewz56tpzx6ywn9gagzt4jejdl33h0vxnjym7emszyqalftgepaqkufgt7dd7rkxw5d35qag8vgp23x0dznnetvc2c0ffyeew3lc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqvfgajlr7sgftuew3xf9lmd0leqn2p9xjdg0qpa3nad9ug82vlacxf6cxx'>nevent1q…6cxx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>In no particular order: <br/> <br/>Dr. Becky (astronomy) <br/> <br/>Josh Johnson (comedy) <br/> <br/>New Venture Games (old man boardgaming) <br/> <br/>Cornell Lab of Ornithology (ornithology) <br/> <br/>Ant Lab (entomology) <br/> <br/>Practical Engineering (engineering, mostly civil) <br/> <br/>Numberphile (maths, as they say across the pond) <br/> <br/>The Octopus Lady (marine biology) <br/> <br/>Juniper Dev (young gun making games) <br/> <br/>suckerpinch (software stuff) <br/> <br/>Jenny Nicholson (media critic) <br/> <br/>engineerguy (engineering) <br/> <br/>Steve Mould (physics) <br/> <br/>Dang, I gotta clean up my subscriptions. I tend to add people when I find one good video, then ignore them when I find they aren&#39;t to my taste 2026-08-09T00:19:51Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfemfve0wh0sc4aru0ny843c7rgv7veh4nvghux8j2rglc57q9uuszyqalftgepaqkufgt7dd7rkxw5d35qag8vgp23x0dznnetvc2c0ffyh08ed6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv0zg9yr3arhccmnfj734deed99ak4yykunqqutk0vvzumrzys7nqvua4fm'>nevent1q…a4fm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It was extremely popular. For a while after it got pulled there was a small market for phones in airplane mode that still had a working version of the app. Some of the auctions went into the high five figures. 2026-03-18T01:24:05Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2fmea6yu3r5ed8v3dkl69qzte756f28tdh4d9w05dxm5463whzkszyqalftgepaqkufgt7dd7rkxw5d35qag8vgp23x0dznnetvc2c0ffy370d6g Apropos of nothing Flappy Bird floated across my mind today. It struck me odd how little people seem to refer to it now, given how popular it got. I was reading its [Wikipedia page](<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flappy_Bird">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flappy_Bird</a>); the game was pulling in $50k USD a _day_ and the dev pulled it because he thought it was too addictive. Or possibly because he didn&#39;t feel like he could defend against the claims that he&#39;d ripped off other games and got in over his head. It&#39;s a fascinating story. <br/> <br/>But the game itself I never got into. I tried it once on a friend&#39;s phone and quickly had no more interest in playing it. I&#39;m curious to know from people who played it a lot at the time, was it a good game? Does it hold up? Or was it a relatively generic knock-off that got famous because catapulting random ideas into the global consciousness is just a thing the internet does sometimes? 2026-03-18T01:14:13Z