FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
Joined May 2019
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Adding "lol" to the end of your sentence is an ancient ritual to ward off existential dread lol
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So I saw some lament about the QuickTime Player icon in my feed last week and got inspired to have a go at it.
And here we have it – four new interpretations of the best QuickTime icon in the Big Sur roundrect: Retro, Aqua, Aurora and Noir.
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Still thinking about this Tim Schaffer credit in Star Wars Racer thing.
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Please repeat to get eyes on this:
Back in April 15th of 1998, a fan site known as "VX Half-Life" (later known as HalfLife Dot Org) released a video of their trip to Valve Software during Half-Life's development.
This video is LOST! Only bits and pieces of the video have survived throughout the years.
So I'm asking YOU data hoarders and folk who had the hindsight to make backups of your data, do you possibly have this video? Does anyone know anyone who may have kept this video? Does anyone know the people involved in the creation of this video? Does anyone know people who may have worked at GameStats who would of kept a server backup with the file present?
Attached is the only surviving minute of the video and some screen caps of the video from the archived site.
Known Filenames:
HalfLife.rm
valve2.avi
valvevisit.avi (46625 kb)
valve2.zip (7085 kb)
mvc-006f.jpg (screen cap of the video from preview.html)
Written Preview:
https://web.archive.org/web/19990221011950/http://half-life.gamestats.com:80/preview.html
preview2.html through preview5.html were not archived.
Back in April 15th of 1998, a fan site known as "VX Half-Life" (later known as HalfLife Dot Org) released a video of their trip to Valve Software during Half-Life's development.
This video is LOST! Only bits and pieces of the video have survived throughout the years.
So I'm asking YOU data hoarders and folk who had the hindsight to make backups of your data, do you possibly have this video? Does anyone know anyone who may have kept this video? Does anyone know the people involved in the creation of this video? Does anyone know people who may have worked at GameStats who would of kept a server backup with the file present?
Attached is the only surviving minute of the video and some screen caps of the video from the archived site.
Known Filenames:
HalfLife.rm
valve2.avi
valvevisit.avi (46625 kb)
valve2.zip (7085 kb)
mvc-006f.jpg (screen cap of the video from preview.html)
Written Preview:
https://web.archive.org/web/19990221011950/http://half-life.gamestats.com:80/preview.html
preview2.html through preview5.html were not archived.
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It's soon 2 in the morning, I should probably go to sleep, huh? Would probably help to clear all these status effects...
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After decades of working overtime 🥵 and saving every penny 🤑, I was finally able to afford my own real estate 🥰 can't wait to move in! 🤩
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alienation
idk man. i don’t know what causes someone like elon musk or peter thiel to exist, but they aren’t self-made. something wove their ilk from a tapestry of millennia of malice. i take solace in this: that even death-gods like theirs can be killed. no fleshless giant is beyond oblivion’s reach; fern and flower alike spring serene from the rapist’s rotting corpse.
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Untended, bureaucracy expands to fill available processing power?
Current effect: Horror and Disgust at the online clothes store for not letting me change my address on my account by disabling the input fields, but when I enable the fields using developer tools and edit my address and submit the change appears to have taken effect 😱
Current effect: Befuddlement that the online clothes store doesn't let me change my registered phone number, because one of the fields that are disabled and thus can't be filled in is not filled in 😕❓
Current effect: Baffled at a online clothes store that doesn't allow you to change address 😕
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Jordan Mechner @jmechner has been making extremely lovely art inspired by his vast career in video games. One of them was a Prince of Persia inspired work, and since @brewsterkahle plays Prince of Persia to demonstrate emulation on his tour each week, there is now a lovely print with explanation next to the machine he demonstrates on!
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The Revolution HAS to be accessible. Your theory should be accessible. Your events should be accessible.
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Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
Joined May 2019
