Do you want the secret code to see “Night Panel”? Do you want to know what “Night Panel” is? Support this website by becoming a member so we can do more cool stuff like “Night Panel.” I said “Night Panel” too many times, sorry.
Do you want the secret code to see “Night Panel”? Do you want to know what “Night Panel” is? Support this website by becoming a member so we can do more cool stuff like “Night Panel.” I said “Night Panel” too many times, sorry.
On the topic of the Cool Pope, can we talk about how they used a Ram pickup truck for the hearse? I know he was the people’s Pope and whatever, but…really? A Ram?
I hadn’t heard about that, but he presented himself as the pastoral Pope which loosely means Shepherd or herder of sheep, and a ram is a male sheep, so it makes perfect sense.
That’s an angle I didn’t consider, and got a sensible chuckle out of. I don’t remember how they transported previous Popes. Shouldn’t the Cardinals have to heft the casket on a shoulder? Granted they are all old men, but maybe that’s part of the Papal replacement selection process?
There was a group of men whose job was to carry around the pope in a sedan chair, but after the Vatican figured out wheels for the pope, and popemobiles, they were only called out as pallbearers
I only know because there is a great article in the New York Times
“ Even lost traditions leave traces. These pallbearers are a remnant of the papal sediari, who once carried the pope on a throne at public appearances. That ended under Pope John Paul II.”
Not everyone has the same eyesight. You guys have a good setting for me. I suggest trying to change your phone settings instead of trying to perfect the proper settings for the site when everyone perceives it different.
This is super exciting.
I recently changed damn near everything i can to dark mode, I have a lot of floaters in my eyes and bright screens make them way more noticeable.
Night panel being the name for it is just the cherry on top.
That is a sign too much screen time mention it to your doctor next visit
Actually, too many floaters are because you are bleeding into the fluid of your eyeball, which can be the first signs of a possibly detached retina.
And you really don’t want a detached retina. The optimal outcome is that they slice your eyeball open, stick a bunch of needles into your eye to spread the retina back out, zapped, a few places with lasers to spot welded to the back of your eyeball, then suture your eyeball closed, but it doesn’t have fluid in it. Oh, I forgot to mention they do this while you’re awake because they want to be able to talk to you under only mild anesthesia because they want you to be able to tell them what it feels like. Then you have to spend about a month lying face down and void going more than 800 feet above sea level because your eye might explode.
So too many floaters? Get them looked into.
Also, if your eyesight abruptly deteriorates, don’t wait to go to the doctor. Go to the emergency room and tell them you think you’re having a stroke. “I think I’m having a stroke“ are the magic words that get you immediate attention, which you need anyway if you want to have the best outcome for an eye emergency.
I do have an eye doctor appointment in a few weeks so that’s good.
Love that the Konami fighter has a cig’ in has mouth.
This is really cool. The teal headers are awfully neon-like though. Maybe if there was something a bit softer in The Autopian’s set of approved colors it would be less jolting.
Oh hell yes. Night panel was awesome, pretty much the best part about owing my old 9-5 wagon. Everything else went to shit, but night panel kept kicking.
Promote this to prod, stat!
For non-gamers, use lower case b a not upper case.
Also I agree with the mockup that was done in Discord that dialed back the brightness of the green. Even though I dislike dark mode settings.
Everyone can set their own lighting specifics.
Yeah, the human visual system does a shitty job of focusing blue light, and an almost as shitty job of focusing yellow light since yellow is actually negative blue. Green is the most visible light and the human eye is the most sensitive to green light. Red is easy to focus but problematic and that your eyes are not very sensitive to red light.
Oh, and magenta is a social construct, not a color of light. I mean things can be magenta, but that’s just a way of saying they aren’t green.
I, uh, what?
That last paragraph sounds like the beginning of an awesome argument the likes of which I would listen to on the top stair as all Dad’s students & grad student buddies would gather at our house to drink beer & other 70s student activities. I may have had contact high at times is what I’m sayin; like, I can’t parse that.
But, sayin shit was a social construct meant I better go get my pillow—cause this was gonna go extra innings
Type: is magenta real
into google and witness a huge food fight. I swear, you will be That Guy at parties.
If you still have an appetite for that sort of thing, try
when was the color blue discovered
That should finish you off.
Sounds like a fun lunchtime thing.
Coincidentally, after I made that comment , happened to watch a YouTube gamer playing a Happy Wheels board called Optical Illusions which demonstrated the green thing with rapidly disappearing magenta dots.
Don’t know if it was quite TIL, but certainly chuckled at the inherent synchronicity
🙂
How do I actually enter this code from the test site? Not a gamer, have no clue.
Use the arrow keys on your keyboard and use lower case for the two letters.
It took me a couple of tries lol
Aha! Thanks.
Well, that link provided a web page that looked exactly like the regular web page. Oh well. I like the bright mode anyway.
You have to do the code Matt showed for it to go to night mode.
Well, thanks, it worked, but I had to get out of my literal head to make it work. B does not equal b and A does not equal a. As you can guess, not a gamer.
You can set your phone and computer to night mode. It isn’t site specific.
Love the idea! And the name.
Full disclosure, I understood the night panel reference but not the Konami code reference. Mind you I’m not a gamer at all, but as a predominantly mobile reader, anyway, I’ll just hang tight for a button/touchscreen toggle thingy.
Thanks!
Reading the headline, my mind did immediately go to Saab, but I imagined Night Panel being another Torch fever dream and expected to read a work of short fiction rather than a discussion of a site feature.
Coming back to earth, it’d be nice to have an option where the dark/light appearance of the website followed your OS’s setting (in addition to manual dark/light options for those who prefer them). Perhaps even make the dark/light/auto setting persist for members only; some other sites to which I subscribe do something like that. (CSS color-scheme / prefers-color-scheme is specifically what I mean.)
YESSS! Thank you! I love the 50s Autorama styling but the brightness level here is messing up circadian rhythms of everything within 50 ft of my screen.
Edit: also the Konami code is up up up down down left right left right ab ab start, so…please fix.
Night Panel is good, Twilight Sentinel is better?
Twilight Sentinel was Cadillac’s branding for GM’s early system of automatic headlamps.
We’ve been lights on for far too long.
While you’re having fun with site formatting, please have 8-bit mode where all the images are badly pixelated and the text is in a cool old DOS font
Please bring it to production now!
I hate bright white backgrounds. I use an extension to convert most sites to dark mode, but the downside is that it slows them down. This would be a lovely addition.
Fabulous. The only thing that would make it better is if there was a little dial somewhere that allows one to crank the green font brightness up/down.
Damn man, breaking out the big guns to get people to become members!
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Timely, I’m replaying Doom 2016 (aka DOOM) right now.
I saw GOG had that on sale recently 🙂
You forgot idchoppers
I love the
dark modenight panel version of the site!we need it now. Stop with the staging – promote to production you cowards!
As a rule I dislike dark mode outside of my Terminal and VSCode windows but using the Konami code makes this cool as hell.
OMG I’m not the only one? I code in dark mode but I find it very unsatisfying on the web for some reason. But this version actually “worked” for me.
I think it’s just what I’m used to. Growing up the command line and coding was all on a black screen with green or amber text so I’m comfortable with my terminal and code windows being dark but from the beginning websites were almost always bright and white so that’s how I want them.
YES!!!! Thank you so much for this!
the Konami code gives you 30 lives, Matt
I didn’t even have an NES and I knew that code. Is this how Jason Bourne felt?
It was on other games and systems, too. There was a GameBoy TMNT game that let you refill your health once per game if you pause and enter the code.
It worked in most of the Konami games I tried it on it one way or aonther. I remeber doing it on Lifeforce and blowing my older brother’s mind.
This is the day I’ve been waiting for!
This is the night I’ve been waiting for.
You merely adopted it. I was born in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JM9NNV-ClQ
Hahahahaha!