The vault was well protected.
It required one riddle to be solved, three magic amulets, five statues rearranged and a fierce guardian beast to be slain.
The riddle was easy, by this point it was almost commonly known. The amulets were precisely duplicated from molds. The statues required muscle, wit and patience.
The guardian's blood was needed to unlock the final door.
But as an animal lover, I was thankful C4 worked just as well.
Computing history or queer Mastodon supervillain AI?
https://hackaday.io/project/174507-restoring-the-transbiniac-computer
I think it goes to show how immature our field is, when software engineers can work for decades without learning how to make their apps usable by blind or otherwise disabled people. Imagine if architects designed buildings without wheelchair ramps, or if civil engineers designed crosswalks without grooves or curb cuts.
They used to! And it was super dangerous! But now there are regulations forcing the engineers to figure this stuff out. I imagine accessibility will be the same in the future.
shadowrun
look all i want is to make a shadowrun character with an extremely rad set of wheels like c'mon
David Graeber "On the Invention of Money", anthropology
"Anthropologists gradually fanned out into the world and began directly observing how economies where money was not used (or anyway, not used for everyday transactions) actually worked.
What they discovered was an at first bewildering variety of arrangements, ranging from competitive gift-giving to communal stockpiling to places where economic relations centered on neighbors trying to guess each other’s dreams. What they never found was any place, anywhere, where economic relations between members of community took the form economists predicted: “I’ll give you twenty chickens for that cow.”
Hence in the definitive anthropological work on the subject, Cambridge anthropology professor Caroline Humphrey concludes, “No example of a barter economy, pure and simple, has ever been described, let alone the emergence from it of money; all available ethnography suggests that there never has been such a thing”"
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-on-the-invention-of-money
shadowrun
probably it was the best And the worst decision i've made in at least like months, let's be real
a bug, not a feature.
Genderless* cyberfae & co. at your service
assigned adult by the inexorable passage of time
don't use he/him or she/her pronouns for any of us without express permission
note that if we ever make you uncomfortable in any way please tell us so we know to stop. we're not always good at figuring these things out on our own