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HOFSTADTER PUBLIC LICENSE, VERSION 1.0

Copyright <YEAR> <COPYRIGHT HOLDER>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the โ€œSoftwareโ€), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, subject to the following conditions:

You agree to not follow the terms of this license.

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Roland are discontinuing โ€œSound Canvas VAโ€ on September 1 ๐Ÿ˜ข

https://rolandcloud.com/news/Sound-Canvas-VA-is-being-discontinued

you should buy a lifetime license for this VST while you still can, I guess. it's $69.

the announcement implies they might eventually replace it with something else, I hope that's true

It's such an unusual experience to get to play in a famous painting. But that's exactly what this game is about: Loyal H. "Bud" Chapman's Infamous 18, a PC golf sim from 2006 that aims to replicate the dream courses painted by Bud Chapman in the early 1980s. Just added to the Golfshrine inventory yesterday, and the main subject of today's acquisitions update!

netizen.club/~wildweasel/updat

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Raccoons are trying to break into Cybertrucks, and there's some speculation that this is happening because the raccoons are literally confusing them with dumpsters

At present am rendering roughly 1 hour of video of a golf sim that I had not known existed until last week, based on a series of airbrush paintings from 1980, by a famous golfer who passed away in 2020. it is just about the most high-concept golf sim I've ever seen and one hell of a tribute.

It'll go live with the next Golfshrine update.

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Roughly 4 months ago, my primary Vehicle - a recumbent e-trike - was stolen from my home. Because I have no income, I can't save up to replace it, and it sucks to not have reliable transportation without begging. Help? Maybe? gofund.me/f1442f7c

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Remember: here's the breaking news handbook. All of these are good rules to stand by at the moment.

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Archive of ~3800 .plan file updates from 1998-2004 

https://d8d.org/plan-archive/

Me and @sponge have been working together for the last few days to collect 3835 .plan file updates from a handful of online archives and the Wayback Machine. These .plan file updates come from the likes of id Software, 3D Realms, Raven Software, GodGames, Ritual Entertainment, and dozens of other game development companies in that "scene".

These text files constitute an entire oral history of the games industry from about 1997 to 2004, told through the proto-blogging platform known as the Finger protocol.

For context, the Finger protocol was invented in 1971 as an extremely simple way to query information and updates about a user on a particular remote server. I have no idea how popular it was in its time, but during the late mid-late 90s and early 2000s, the crusty old thing was used by these developers as a way to trickle out small rants, posts, and development updates from their company computers.

If you have any old .plan files sitting around, feel free to submit them to me or sponge via email!
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havenโ€™t used it in a year so it just reads as unbelievably passive aggressive

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So this, from Firefox, is fucking toxic: mstdn.social/@Lokjo/1127724969

You might be aware Chromeโ€” a browser made by an ad companyโ€” has been trying to claw back the limitations recently placed on ad networks by the death of third-party cookies, and added new features that gather and report data directly to ad networks. You'd know this because Chrome displayed a popup.

If you're a Firefox user, what you probably don't know is Firefox added this feature and *has already turned it on without asking you*

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Marathon 2 has been free for a while but itโ€™s nice seeing it available somewhere else too, and it has the XBLA graphics as a bonus free DLC
mastodon.rip/@steamreleasebot/

Roughly 4 months ago, my primary Vehicle - a recumbent e-trike - was stolen from my home. Because I have no income, I can't save up to replace it, and it sucks to not have reliable transportation without begging. Help? Maybe? gofund.me/f1442f7c

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I recently discovered an odd first-person maze game called โ€œLair of Squidโ€ built into my HP 200LX palmtop PC, released in 1994

Then I found the author. Hereโ€™s the story of how this quirky Doom-inspired title came to be: arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/07

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