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So in 1979, young Digital Mark is shown a computer, a TRS-80 Model I, by 4th-grade teacher. Other kids play Snake, I hit break and type LIST, seeing BASIC code, because I've been reading the instruction card. "I can read and learn this!" Nothing else now matters to Mark. That summer, I take an adult … Continue reading "Some of My History of Hypertext"Read More »

Watched this in the Nintendo Today app, which is a lot better than yustub. Apparently I did need a videogame company-specific news/calendar app. Mario Kart World: Open world! Just drive for fun all day. Nobody throwing shells at you! That's a good launch title. Sharing C button & voice chat, external webcam: Seems pretty close … Continue reading "Switch 2"Read More »

And another in a week (04-02) about Switch 2. Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D: Nice but unneeded. Raidou: Remake of a nothing game, eh. Shadow Labyrinth: Pac-Mac mecha Metroidvania. Patapon: Low-effort remake. Yet Another Farm Sim: Farm, date, & fuck every townsfolk! Again! Yet Another Metroid Prime: Has Samus not suffered enough? Quake ripoff, … Continue reading "Nintendo Direct 2025-03-27"Read More »

There's centuries of research in organizing a physical library, and some reasonable if contentious schemes. Organizing your ebooks, whether epub, pdf, text, reaction gifs, whatever, can be much more ad-hoc, and is poorly researched at all. For reading, on Mac I use Murasaki for reading epub, it's scroll-based instead of page-based, but it's very nice; … Continue reading "Library of E-Babble"Read More »

The scariest monsters in our world are corporations. So I've picked out a series of horror movies about evil corporations, and rebellion or survival against them. No TV shows. No sequels (even if those explain more, like Cube). All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, 'I'm a … Continue reading "Corporate Horror Movies"Read More »

Let me explain. No, there is too much, let me sum up. Back in 1975, Tunnels & Trolls was the second RPG ever written. Space Gamer #2 has this: T&T has a bunch of virtues, it's VERY simple, only uses 6-sided craps dice, it's very cheap, and it's less contradictory than D&D. By not trying … Continue reading "Monsters! Monsters!"Read More »

Grab a bowl full of sugary cereal, and sit down to veg your brain out to heroic cartoons of the '60s to early '90s! Atom Ant (1965) Herculoids (1967) Mighty Mightor (1967) Shazzan (1967) Young Samson & Goliath (1967) Sealab 2020 (1972) Great Grape Ape Show (1975) Thundarr the Barbarian (1980) Space Stars (1981) Dungeons … Continue reading "Saturday Morning Cartoons"Read More »

Part I Part II: 1973 Draft of Dungeons & Dragons In which letters show Dave Arneson running Blackmoor for the Lake Geneva mob, and they set up their campign, with more areas taken from the Great Kingdom map. Interestingly the Grand Duchy of Urnst, south of Nyr Div lake, is full of dinosaurs and prehistoric … Continue reading "Book Report: Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons, Part II"Read More »

This is an expensive, enormous, gigantic, medieval scribe sized tome, absurdly heavy and dense, thick, glossy paper, color print. Almost 5cm thick, does about d6+2 damage in mêlée, with 4 colored ribbon placeholders. Each section has a colored bottom border. Blank spaces are often filled with hex or grid patterns, bits of text, pictures of … Continue reading "Book Report: Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons"Read More »

Finally out on Netflix (along with most Godzilla films). G-1 follows the style of GMK and Shin Godzilla by only admitting to the events of Gojira (1954), in this case by being set in 1945-1947. Failed kamikaze pilot Shikishima watches an island base (a hut and a few engineers) be destroyed by T-Rex-like baby Godzilla. … Continue reading "What I'm Watching: Godzilla Minus One"Read More »