As I'm now considered a veteran IT professional, I'm more than happy to be included on the "AI Haters" list.

Indeed, a badge of honour.

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Yes to your first question, although in my experience the entire tech sector seems to be far behind others in realising this.

In some countries a statutory redundancy payment is guaranteed through employment law so it doesn't need to be in a contract - but that would be a good starting point.

Not even the monthly free games could ever tempt me to use Epic, because it's run by this person.

Tweet from @dandouglas – “i'm the CEO of an AAA games studio, and as you might guess, we're pretty psyched about making games! but we never let making games get in the way of our true passion: laying off loads of staff fucking constantly”

If it’s Amazon, it’s because they don’t pay them enough to wait.

The only AI you need worry about in DOS games.

“It’s inevitable” “you can’t roll it back” “you just have to accept it”

Completely agree with everything you've said there. Moving to Linux has brought back a joy in computing I've not felt for decades.

switching to Linux has been one of the best decisions I’ve ever made in my digital life. It’s not been completely smooth sailing and without issues, but every problem I’ve come across has been an opportunity to learn about operating systems and networks. There is much joy in the journey 🤟🏼

Death Wish for Blood mod The festival of blood continues as Tchernobog lives again! Death Wish is a full, multi-episode campaign for Blood (1997). It is DOS-Compatible, and works on any port that can accurately run the origi...

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Works in DOS, NBlood, BuildGDX, Raze, FS & RS. 4 Episodes, totaling 48 maps. New music, new cutscenes, and more.

The festival of Blood continues!
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The DLS5 is everything wrong with tech these days

Dogshit abysmal slop product requiring technology both prohibitively expensive and generally unavailable showed off to a violently negative public to build hype from mentally deficient investors in the derranged pursuit of line go up

I think the humour in Sierra games was very American, whereas LucasArts catered for a more international audience, which may be why they were favoured in some countries.

Finally, someone posts the greatest line in film history.

I've just had an amazing idea

Adventure games, like many other games, should not be constrained by arbitrary completion times. That puzzle you get stuck on, take a break, think about it, come back to it.

Enjoy the journey, rushing through it is a sad reflection of our throw-away culture as we're hurried onto the next thing.

My 9 games, a picture of 9 computer game covers Top row (left to right): Bubble Bobble, Gunship and Sid Meier's Pirates, all on the Commodore 64 Middle Row (left to right): It Came From the Desert, on the Commodore Amiga, Eye of the Beholder 2, Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, both on MS-DOS PC Bottom Row (left to right): Ultima VII: The Black Gate, System Shock, Crusader No Remorse, all on MS-DOS PC

My 9 games (up to, and including, the MS-DOS era)

I didn’t get any 3D video working, I ended using the VBE Miniport Standard PCI Graphics Adapter 140214, which was enough for what I wanted to use it for.

I put FreeDOS and Windows 98SE on one of these, all running off a 64GB Micro SD card. It was a fun little project.

"Microslop" is also becoming commonly used among their Enterprise customers.

Anecdotally, from my professional role, I know institutions have gone from working in partnership with MS on cutting edge infrastructure projects, to actively moving away, due to the drop in quality across the board.

DREAMM DREAMM is a bespoke emulator for LucasArts, Lucasfilm, and Lucas Learning games.

Happy to announce that DREAMM 4.0 is now available for Windows, macOS, and Linux!

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Now with support for all Lucas-family games released prior to 2000 on DOS, Windows, and FM-Towns, including all 8 Lucas Learning games. Network play is also now supported (experimentally).

Still, it's the best OS Microsoft ever made...

Basically, this guy, his wife, and their musician friend* had an idea to make the most "early-1990s" game ever and just went with it, and kept on going.

It's perfection.

*Joe Sparks, Maura Sparks & Kent Carmical.

One of things I have noticed in the last 6 months or so of using Linux is that it's recaptured some of that joy of learning and experimenting with computers that I've not felt since the late 90s / early 2000s.

An interesting thread on the recent Dark Eye (Poe's Interactive Horror - 1995) re-release.

My thoughts, whenever I see a publisher with no previous presence releasing a previously considered abandonware title, I'd advise caution.

When I saw a publisher with no presence it felt a bit off to me.

I’ve had this one on my to-do list for a while, but testing still brought up a few issues I could never figure out, so I never uploaded it.

Ironically it appears within 3 reviews someone encountered one of them…

The volunteers at ScummVM do all the hard work to get this working, making it commercially viable, and like magic it stops being being abandonware…

Getting off US tech: a guide I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.

For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

So much vibe coding going on now, was it too hard for you to copypaste the code you don't understand from stackoverflow, so you had to outsource it to the environment-destroying fakemachine?