Gbdev inside jokes
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The gbdev Discord server has built up a number of inside jokes.
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:accurate1:,:accurate2:,
:inaccurate1:,:inaccurate2: - Used in pairs, they represent the title screen of Pinball Deluxe, a Game Boy game that has built up a reputation of being notoriously hard to emulate, drawn in both normal and corrupt ways.
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:bricks: - Relates in some way to user evie. Alludes to Internet memes speculating the use of a brick as an evolution stone to turn the Pokémon Eevee into a ghost-type.
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:Kappa: - Usually represents sarcasm. This may appear as the face of Twitch.tv web developer Josh DeSeno or as a male kappa (anthropomorphic sea turtle) from the game Scribblenauts.
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:impostor_kappa: - Similar to
:Kappa:but with 100% more DMG LCD shade of green.
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:duck: - Similar in some ways to
:kappa:. Took on a double meaning once the Mega Duck system on chip was discovered to be a Game Boy with no boot ROM and a rearranged register ($FF00-$FF7F) map, with most of the same quirks. As of mid-2021, the server icon depicts a mallard duck on the screen of an atomic purple Game Boy Color system.
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:maxd: - Emoji representing a user having "ninja'd" someone else. Resembles
:gun:🔫️
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:morphon: - Variant of
:smirk:😏️
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:ohboy:and
:noboy: - Variant of
:accurate1:family taken from the Game Boy Color demo Demotronic by 1MB. It begins by testing wave RAM read blocking behavior, showing:ohboy:and "OH BOY!" on success or:noboy:and "NO BOY! NO DEMO!" on failure.
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:punapple: - A
:pineapple:🍍️ over user PinoBatch's avatar, used as a symbol of wordplay. Pino is a staff member on that server known for his love of puns. Some people find his puns a bit weird; sometimes attributed to the fact that he is openly autistic. He's always willing to explain a joke that a user doesn't get.
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:SMOrc: - "ironic anger/disappointment" according to one member
- Super Mario 83
- Nickname introduced by Videogamer555 for the Sharp CPU core in the Game Boy system on chip, which is thought to be identical to the SM83 CPU core in a Sharp air conditioner microcontroller. Built up a bunch of lore about there being undocumented functionality to accelerate games.
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:thinkgb: - Variant of
:thinking:🤔️ with the face replaced with a Game Boy.
