Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

Many long years ago I held a two day Battle Chess tournament with my friend Joe at a VCF East. We had different micro computers play CPU vs. CPU chess via null modem cable without human intervention. A Windows PC won day one. An Apple IIGS won day two. Tonight I am having a bit of nostalgia by having an #Amiga battle an #AtariST.

Have you heard of a mineral called Ulexite?
The block itself has quite an interesting structure and looks translucent when polished but if you lay it down on a surface you suddenly can see a clear picture from what is underneath!

If anyone would like a diversion, here is a camera trap picture of a groundhog at my parents' house a few years ago. #BackyardWildlife #Groundhog #Woodchuck #WildlifeCamera

one of the perverse incentives of the ad-supported web is that for every product or service that may solve your problem, there is at least one idea, skill, recipe, approach, tradition, workaround, or hack which almost every commercial source of information is incentivized to not only ignore, but actively suppress

Pioneer_Special_Edition2.wsz

https://skins.webamp.org/skin/3fd8b3eb75e0fcdd3a5a6e7573938c39

In Osaka Station on Friday I saw a diaper vending machine. Frick!! That makes so much sense!! Why is this the first time in my entire life I have ever seen such a thing!!

With Snoop Dogg now being in Fortnite, I've now updated my article of Snoop in video games to mention this alongside him reappearing in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III this year.

Likes, shares, and comments appreciated, as always.

https://asecretarea.com/2013/05/14/snoop-dogg-in-video-games/

Dotonburi River, Osaka at night. This image has not been postprocessed

reminder: the Luddites were not anti-*technology*. They were anti-*factory owners firing weavers and replacing them with lower-paid loom workers*. They could have retrained the weavers and kept their pay high, but bosses gonna boss. We are all Luddites today.

The name later became a slur because the bosses won, and used propaganda to hide the history, and because smashing looms is a dramatic symbol, and humans like retelling dramatic stories, not depressing facts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

UFP Voter Registrar,

I am a Federation citizen who happens to be a Klingon. I have still not received my subspace ballot. Respond.

Worf

Dreamweb is full of these ten second bespoke animations that breathe so much life into the world.

#dosgaming #adventuregames #retrogaming

"I don't need to remind you that this investigation is strictly unofficial!"

We are excited to announce that Rise of the Dragon is now ready for public testing.

This is the first of a small number of games built using the DGDS (Dynamix Game Development System) engine.

Rise of the Dragon is set in Los Angeles in a dark version of the future, circa 2053. It combines classic point-and-click adventure style with platforming arcade sequences, giving a unique gameplay.

#retrogaming #adventuregame

Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/steam-games-will-now-need-to-fully-disclose-kernel-level-anti-cheat-on-store-pages/

#Steam #AntiCheat #PCGaming

If you tell the story of the burnt ballot boxes in Portland and Vancouver this week (an important story that warrants attention), also tell how good fire-suppressant design saved all but three ballots in the Portland box, and the efforts of the election workers who contacted those three voters and arranged for replacement ballots.

Things are scary and bad, and often literally on fire. But there are good people and good systems too. Making us forget that is always a win for the worst ones.

Heh. Toast.

#vintagemacintosh #afterdark

"WEBFISHING" IS 11/10 GOTY