one quote that haunts me every day.
"i was so shocked to learn in the research that the opposite of belonging is fitting in.
because fitting in is assessing a group of people and thinking 'who do i need to be? what do i need to say? what do i need to wear? how do i need to act?' and changing who you are.
and true belonging never asks us to change who we are.
it demands that we be who we are.
because if we fit in because of how we changed ourselves that's not belonging."
brene brown
Can we all just sit here and gaze upon this mastery by Rick Parks in 16 colors? No scanning, done by hand in Deluxe Paint on an Amiga. It's almost photographic in its perfection.
Rick worked at Westwood Studios and worked on Eye of the Beholder I & 2, Dune 2, Kyrandia and other classics.
Rick died in 1996. His incredible creativity lives on.
Some cool images I found today
These were made on Amiga computers back in the day by various artists.
It's great to know that Tech Noir survived not only all the trials of the 20th century economy, but even the Judgement Day itself.
#DOSGaming
"Piracy can't be stealing if paying for it isn't owning"
This is increasingly how it feels, when streaming shows disappear for tax reasons and things you "own" digitally become inaccessible.
Thank you @Illuminatus for this quote.
Internet Archive now has a menstruation information and history library, since we now live in a world with Florida bill 1069, which bans the mention of periods before sixth grade in Florida public schools.
Library is universally available:
One interesting tidbit about this game: it uses a 16-color high resolution CGA(!)/ASCII mixed graphics mode, using a squished ASCII character set for additional graphics. Reportedly not all IBM compatibles were compatible enough to display this!
Also shout outs to the manual which went into great detail about the myth of Osiris and ancient Egypt itself, and how their beliefs (or what we know about them) affected parts of the gameplay: https://mocagh.org/sir-tech/7spiritsra-manual.pdf
Game 111: Seven Spirits of Ra (1987), by Sir-Tech.
Pharaoh Osiris isn't having a great day. Not only is he slain by his brother Set, his corpse is cut up and different animals ate the pieces. Now his body is like the many variations of this myth: all over the place.
In this version Osiris uses his 7 remaining spirits to hunt the beasts that ate him so he can restore his body plus gain the ability to transform into them, allowing you to fly or crawl through narrow passages.
He/him. Puzzle-Adventure Hybrid with RPG Elements. Supports 3D Acceleration. He Is Essentially What He Believes. Just in case, π, LGBTQ+ π, DOS π, ππ©π.
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