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people thought dilbert was funny because they thought scott adams was dilbert. scott adams thought dilbert was funny because he thought he was dogbert. the real truth is that scott adams was ratbert, spreading the plague

Lots of people say they don't want people to be sad after they die, but few take such active steps to ensure it as Scott Adams did

i think for the past 10 years i shifted from being close to people and shut myself into being close only with our polycule while communal spaces either abused me or banned me outright. i turned into a really socially anxious creature but the need for connection is still there

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i love getting messages from people. if you're a mutual and i haven't talked to you in ever and you want to please message me. this is a problem on my end

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it's funny, on one paw i miss chatting one on one with people on MSN, on another i feel discouraged to do so in any modern fashion today

and i can't put my digit on what exactly changed. is the difference in UI/UX paradigm all there is to it? did i change? did my circles change?

while i do think that there was a lot of fucked up stuff that shouldn't have been as easy as it was for 10 year old me to find, i also think today's internet is far too sterile

"A BBS is technically social media also" -Jeff Gerstmann, 2026

i wish fxtwitter would link to nitter or nitter would render embed cards so you don't have to link to the same post twice on both URLs

at some point between the xerox alto and the xerox star, this stuff got figured out. by the lisa it was like 80% done, by the mac it was 90% done, and by windows 95 it was 100% done. i feel like the shit i'm seeing on a daily basis is going back to circa 1977 GUI standards at best

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use more gradients. use more 3d buttons. make your ui elements shine. for goodness sake

Decided to "redesign" the Weasel Center Shelter for Old and Abandoned Computers today. Well, "redesign" is saying a lot there as a word, when what I actually did was swap three background images, reduce the contrast of one of them, and change the font color. But still!

netizen.club/~wildweasel/shelt

This did also slightly bury the lede of me adding a section to said website to explain (and embed) the Quake Benchmarks spreadsheet.

netizen.club/~wildweasel/shelt

This is Quake running on CGA. Normally Quake requires VGA (320x200 256 colours), but WinQuake can actually run fine on any card supported by Windows 95.

Now, CGA doesn't support Windows 95. But turns out with a little manual hex editing, it can start with a CGA driver from Windows 3.0 (I believe no one succeeded in doing this before). And with Windows 95 kind of sort of running on CGA, @gloriouscow recommended to try if Quake would run. It does, and it is almost playable. Definitely more playable than Doom8088 on MDA.

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