Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

The cat’s in the cradle and the silver spoon/
Little boy blue and the man in the moon/ I put too much weird stuff in this cradle/ Where’s my baby

If you remember the Usborne books as fondly as I do, you'll be glad to know that they are available for free on their site at:
https://usborne.com/gb/books/computer-and-coding-books

The one I'm typing from is "Write your own adventure programs for your microcomputer".

“Sam Taking A Selfie with Her Robot Called Tom”

by Facet / Bonzai ^ Genesis Project ^ Lemon

- RELEASED 24 JUNE 2023
- 1ST IN THE DECRUNCH 2023 AMIGA PIXEL GFX COMPETITION

Amiga OCS/ECS

Unreal…

Bubsy 3D is many things, but is it... aesthetic? Great video from Joyless, who I don't think is on Mastodon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BYo_OKvmDo

I should clarify that either way, I'm absolutely someone with odd musical tastes.

Nelward is one of my favorites, I've spent entire days just listening to this on repeat. It's a space you can just exist in. The space is stinky and smells like cheese, but like, fancy cheese. https://open.spotify.com/track/4abRyDsuAIyrxjdpeuWrpP?si=Qr0qcnxRTVabaStrA7J9jA

If you are horrified by the Web Environment Integrity proposal by Google (#DRM for ads), stop using Chrome and switch to Firefox and block ads everywhere.

The only eyeballs left for Google to show ads are the ones protected by ad blockers. That’s the highest growth opportunity they have, and we cannot let them have it.

Such a banger by Heaven 17. The bass player is having way too much fun on this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33W3kMS2vp0

Just so you know... Descent also got the Ray Tracing treatment thanks to the students from
the Breda University
/ Para que lo sepais... #Descent también ha recibido #RayTracing gracias a los alumnos de la Universidad de Breda. #rtx #rtxon #retrogaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eQJKFFEc7E

Game 126: Oil's Well (1984), by John Rinck & Thomas Mitchell.

The world hungers for oil but getting the white globules it's contained in is dangerous work, Earth's subterranean creatures protect them fiercely.

The petroleum industry's solution? Put Pac Man on a big pipe and push him down the mines where he can freely eat both oil and creature, and retract the pipe when enemies come close to touching to it.

But don't forget that time is money so you need to work fast.

#retrogaming #msdos

I got the Women of NASA Lego set and recreated my favorite photo of all time. #lego #NASA #MargaretHamilton

A man discovers through a DNA test he is actually the son of a famous #DOOM mapper known as Dr. Sleep who had sadly already passed away by the time he found out. What follows is his discovery of Doom and the vibrant mapping scene that has continued to this day so he builds his first Doom map to better understand the father he never knew:

https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/137638-octate-my-first-map-dedicated-to-my-father-john-w-anderson-aka-dr-sleep/

Red Five, I’m going in! A Star Wars arcade classic #NerdStitch from my collection. This is all back stitches, instead of cross stitch. It worked great to recreate the vector graphics. I did an Asteroids one in a similar style I’ll post at some point.

Head Crash - Cranium Error (HEX/Philips, CD-i, 1995)

Humans are limited when compared to gods.

Humans are also infinite, since gods are—for the most part—bound to their domains. Oromo can no more consume the coffee they stop to smell than Polly Chrome can shave her head and embrace her natural hair color, whatever that might be.

Continue reading: https://leemoyer.wordpress.com/2020/08/05/big-daddy-moai-the-small-god-of-hidden-depths/

Game Dad Thread:

Highlighting an itch.io gem called Yurivania: Uhaul of the Night, by MxAshlynn
https://mxashlynn.itch.io/yurivania-1

I said to my mate "Yurivania" and they gave me this Face, the Face you're probably making right now at that name, but I followed up with the subtitle which clarified that this game is made by an actual lesbian and not a horny cis guy; anyway, there is no lewdity in this game and it is not a dating simulator. The dating happened before the game started, now you're doing Cosy Relationship Maintenance in the ComfortCore Platformer genre.

You play a Medusa who's asking her plant-based girlfriend to move in with her, so you'll need to gather a bunch of stuff to outfit your place with plant-based life support. You live in a massive lesbian monster castle and the game is largely about navigating this under-constant-construction space while chatting with its inhabitants, all of whom are well-written fleshed-out skeletons/demons/mythical creatures. The game didn't fall into the trap of writing in a total jerk for extra challenge or conflict or whatever; there's presumably a jerk somewhere in the castle but the jerkery happens offscreen, the conflict is player vs environment and all the people you talk to are delightful wholesome respectful nurturing... human-eating monsters.

You can play it on a #gameDad, a Game Boy Colour with a flash cart, a GBC emulator on your computer or phone, and if you don't have any of those things then you can straight-up just click a button and play it right in your browser. Free or pay what you want.

There's a sequel and a prequel too but I haven't played them yet but plan to soon.