matt 🏴 @matt@cybre.space

This makes me so sad :/

Gotta say though, this one is on point. Nice job, Intel

I was reading an issue of Computer Gaming World from 1999 and it felt like it was at least 50% ads, so I counted, and I was right. The issue is 208 pages, and 110 of them are full-page ads. That's not even counting the smaller ads sprinkled throughout.

This thing cost $5 ($7.63 in 2018 dollars) and it's just a catalog with a few articles. It even has a helpful "advertiser index".

But gee, it was such a big shock when print magazines died 🙄

The fucking worst

Whoa, when I was at the thrift store the other day I saw a little thermal printer with some kinda wonky USB-ish cable hardwired, and I just realized that whatever it is, the thinkpad totally has one! I wonder if anyone's bought it yet...

Of course I can't find my install disk when I actually need it, so using my rarely-used lappy to make a boot stick for my poor sick compy

"Tonight's the night for Multimedia Cats, a 1995 reference CD-ROM by InRoads Interactive about... cats"

https://twitter.com/ItsTheShadsy/status/1086841138064097280

People enjoying each other's company and having a good time? On an aeroplane?? UNACCEPTABLE

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All the cards are there, surprisingly, including the most horrific jokers I've ever seen

Thrift store haul: A set of dice with pictographs of various verbs, a deck of Windows 95 Solitaire cards, and a tactical aluminum flashlight that does 1d6 bludgeoning damage. $4.00

Here, have a free bag of garbage. It's on the house.

I love my pet lovesquid

For the record, I will play ANY game where you're collecting giant multicolored keys. I might not play them to completion, in fact I usually won't, but I'll at least give them a shot. I'm a hummingbird and this is my brightly-colored flower.

Haha dang, I never saw the "concept art" for You Have To Burn The Rope, this is adorable. I wish it was higher res.

"this is so good!"
"not too hard"
"people will LOVE this, so smart!!!"

:D

Other than and (which we have thankfully liberated) the only emoticon I miss from SA is this one: sigh. Something about it conveys a certain weariness. It says: yeah, I'm sad, but I'm too tired to care.

Check out this 0.25 euro piece from France commemorating Benjamin Franklin

Would we ever release a special coin to honor some French guy?

"It also seemed that there was a management concern that
an operator might fall asleep if he were allowed to sit in a chair at a desk. (Interestingly enough, there were high chairs in the control room. After the operators got used to the
automated control and understood how little they would have to do manually, the clever ones would put
one of these high chairs in front of the panel and use pointer sticks to reach the buttons on the panel without
getting out of their chairs.)"

Holy cow, Animate Dead is a card from the very first Magic set that conceptually is pretty simple, but because of how the language of the game has changed over the years, they've had to turn it into a real word salad of rules legalese to make it still work https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/arcana/what-animate-dead-says-2011-11-08

There's this low-poly, flat shaded racing game called Horizon Chase Turbo and it looks amazing. My friend got the switch version and recommended it. Stylistically it feels like the modern successor to Virtua Racing or Daytona. Good reviews, so hopefully it controls well. It actually has a demo! I'm gonna download the heck out of it when I have some time on Sunday. https://store.steampowered.com/app/389140/Horizon_Chase_Turbo/

I am both gamingly creeped out and in epic stitches, for the win