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I had always wondered if this image, of the space man sitting at a drafting table, was based on any existing paintings or drawings, perhaps from a cover of a science fiction novel, so I happened to look in the rather exhaustively detailed, 25+ page manual that comes with it. It did not answer that question, but it does answer what the deal is with that caption - complete with biblical citations.

This goes on for about 5 pages in itself.

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One of the most fascinating rabbit holes I've ever witnessed in PC Shareware: for several versions (until 5.x), the MS-DOS screensaver program, DAZZLE, would display this image - and its somewhat cryptic caption - upon exiting the program. Where'd it come from? What does it mean?

i mean of course your character could just LEARN TO COOK but also your only source of recipes is random moms' scrapbooks that contain print outs of recipes from Facebook, the kind that have like 8 paragraphs of preamble

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idea: survival simulator game where the only food available in world is the leftovers in people's fridges; you have to manage not just your hunger gauge, but manage to prepare said leftovers in ways that don't also sharply raise your "yuck" gauge or lower your "variety" gauge.

sure, leftover Mac and cheese is fine, but you really gotta eat it 5 times in a row?

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I first experimented with "ROM hacking" video-games around 1998. After finding a document describing how level data was stored in the ROM for The Legend of Zelda, I built myself an overworld viewer/editor using HyperCard. It used a custom bitmap font to enable a dynamic tiles display, which otherwise would've been complex to achieve in HyperCard.

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I guess "I ran the official Apple-supported tool for running non-Apple-supported OSes" isn't exactly a rebellion against the system, but it's not like Apple got my money for this computer from 2014 anyway

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suck it, Apple, I can make my modern Mac run 16- and 32-bit apps and you can't stop me

(because I'm running Windows on it instead)

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sometimes you gotta be grateful to your computers. less thinkpad more thankpad

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us tax season important reminder! 

Don't pay anyone anything to file your taxes online if you made less than $73,000 last year! The IRS Free File program will let you use a participating online tax service completely free.

**Make sure you go through the IRS website!**

Almost all advertised "free file" options, even from participating companies, are tricks designed to rope you into paying. Go through the IRS to find a truly free option:
irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-yo

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Since Discovery owns Food Network, there should be a crossover between Food Network and Investigation Discovery called Guy Fieri's Cold Queso Files, where they investigate terrible restaurants.

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friend of mine recently released a doom mod.
where you play as a bee.
with guns.
and rockets.
and the ability to turn the forces of hell into a fine red paste.
is good.

#doom #gzdoom #doommodding

baratus93.itch.io/the-beeholde

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CTRL - SALT - DELETE. One of the new names for one of our city snow plows #hamont

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Listen y'all, my dear trans friends. When you see someone's selfie, tell them something nice. Don't make it up. Take a moment, and find something to compliment them on that you feel genuine about.

Why? Because who knows better than us how good it feels when someone says something nice about your picture? Why *wouldn't* you want to spread that joy?

Dysphoria is a big old liar. We need to fight it with one another's help as much as by ourselves.

#trans #TransJoy #selfie #RandomActOfKindness

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Since there are no ads on Mastodon, I am offering to advertise for any companies on here. My only requirements are:

1. I get to write the ad.

2. The ad will in no way accurately portray your company and might state that you were responsible for the Cuban Missile Crisis.

3. For each post you must pay me $10,000 and write me a handwritten note that says I am your best friend.

4. You must put out an official statement stating that you take full responsibility for the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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