Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

Be kind to your American friends this week. Being an American the week before a presidential election is a bit like being a dog during a fireworks show

Zordon
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Clippy

me: *presses play on an app*

app: Great! Your journey is about to begin! Just some questions first. Where were you born? How would you describe your income bracket?

me: *dismiss*

app: Got it! We'll ask you next time before asking you questions.

me: *presses shuffle button*

app: Got it! Shuffle enabled until tomorrow.

notification: Somebody enabled shuffle playback on your account. Click here to verify

notification: 🏆ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: Power user

app: Do you want to rate this app?

Went outside to smoke, shut the door, turned around and found myself face to face with a coyote.

He skidded in his tracks into a sit, did a 180 on his haunches, claws skittering on the cement, and LAUNCHED himself down the street, clipping his rump against my partner's car and setting off its alarm which set off MY car's alarm, and then the garage floodlight turned on, which turned on the NEIGHBOR'S lights.

All in a span of less than five seconds.

I witnessed a moment of pure, unadulterated chaos, leaving me with a deeper understanding of the animations of Scooby Doo and Wil E Coyote.

https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/golfswings.html - Going live with a slightly more analytical article for Golfshrine, as I think about how being good at a golf video game is nowhere near the same thing as being good at actual golf.

alien invasion, editing tools, acorn 32-bit (1990) https://www.mobygames.com/game/64213/alien-invasion/screenshots/

IT'S HERE!

My in-depth history of "Instant Graphics and Sound" — the little-known text protocol for bringing vector art and music to BBSes — has reached the sad (almost) final chapter: "Legacy".

It begins with a look at two psychedelic pieces from fall 1991 that I consider the artistic pinnacle for IGS.

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2024/10/24/instant-graphics-and-sound-part-6-legacy/

BOOSTS APPRECIATED!

#longreads #atari #atarist #dev #gamedev #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #computers #textmode #textart #history #bbs #bbsing #igs #pixelart

they should reboot the ernest movies starring john cena

star wars, cartridge, famicom (1987) https://www.mobygames.com/game/28550/star-wars/cover/group-48367/cover-130145/

snes_sim_city_by_hankola.zip

https://skins.webamp.org/skin/08a8b260fa4d47dc9a83af8487d6669f

Directing a horror gaming documentary is weird. Sometimes I'm trawling through archival records, other times I'm puzzling out how to craft a compelling story from ~50 interviews. And then there are moments where I'm a digitised Keanu Reaves getting beaten up by flying books. (And I wouldn't have it any other way.)

Supposedly Be was working on a redesign for BeOS towards the end. Christopher Sanders has some of their designs documented here: http://www.pixelknave.com/portfolio/beos.html

It’s interesting to reflect on the note “…the UI was designed by engineers, for engineers…” and yet it was and somewhat is still revered by designers too.

These designs feel far less timeless than BeOS’s original UI imho. I wonder how far they got implementing this.

admitting now that i made WHERE IN THE WORD IS FARMING SANDY EGGO?, a short pseudo-edutainment game about thievery and the deterioration of language for the sake of profit. Play on the DOMINO CLUB itch today:

https://dominoclub.itch.io/where-in-the-word-is-farming-sandy-eggo

WordPress sites are being hacked to install malicious plugins that display fake software updates and errors to push information-stealing malware.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-6-000-wordpress-hacked-to-install-plugins-pushing-infostealers/