Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

Appliance manufacturers please investigate the switches that mechanical keyboard nerds obsess over, they're a very standardized form factor, like a buck apiece and will last Absolutely Forever. Take the switch that I use to type the letter "A" a couple thousand times a day and put that switch where you put the flaky membrane crap that tells my dishwasher "go" and I'll pay you an extra fifty bucks just for that.

I don’t know whether it’s me getting older or the Internet getting older— but things feel significantly less silly now. Everything is very produced, yet sterile. Everything only exists if it can make money. If it can’t, it either doesn’t get made or dies off.

There was a magical time where it seemed everyone thought this was all experimental. Things were made because they were fun to make. That experimental nature gave us all permission to be weird. Now, it seems, everyone strives for “normal.”

I like this.
#StarTrek #MentalHealth

PSD Animals--Crab

Teak - Scott Hunter

AOL70.wsz

https://skins.webamp.org/skin/db15de520081fda18b07d7689cd0b6ec

it took me 4 years to find this video again, and add it to my #ultima history archive. 😓

buried deep in the unsearchable bowels of youtube, is former Origin lead designer (of Crusader: No Remorse fame) Mark Vittek's hour-long video of the last day of Origin Systems as we knew it.

the first half hour is a drunken and disorderly house party at starr long's...

... it is proceeded (@36m00s) by an exceedingly rare look at the OSI offices, the day its new in-development projects like UO2 were all cancelled by EA.

while the studio would exist as a servicing body for #UltimaOnline expansion until 2004, Richard Garriott and the entire creative staff would go elsewhere after the cancellations

#RetroGaming #history

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duD6-h6LLbI

I feel like every person born before 1980 has a baby photo of them being bathed in a kitchen sink and I have a theory that most of it stopped when people got dishwashers and realized it was a much more convenient way to clean their children.

After Dark accounts be like

*describing a piano* well see; it's a mechanical keyboard that uses non-clicky, linear switches, but it's got this really unique row-staggered key arrangement where the upper row omits a bunch of keys

the layout takes a lot of getting used to; VERY different from Qwerty, but at the same time also different from Colemak; technically it's a distinct kind of chording system, probably most similar to a steno?

anyway I'm going to try running it as my daily driver for a day or two next week to put it thru the paces since it sounds like a lot of people really like it; will let you know how that goes!

Ultimate DOOM, in grayscale, on a Macintosh SE/30? Shenanigans!

https://youtu.be/63WcU7LBKFg

loading screens from PS1 demo discs

Palm!!! - Hirohisa Suzuki