A drawing of a Muppet-y Cloud Strife riding on a Big-Bird-like chocobo.
From this day in 2021: My nephews were curious about Final Fantasy after seeing a Moogle I drew and I described Chocobos as looking "kind of like Big Bird" so then I had to draw it.
portland commute
Many love "PaRappa the Rapper", but not many know of Rodney Greenblat's earlier works. Like the 1994 CD-ROM "Dazzeloids"? You might not be ready:
Even Cats Can Understand Network Programming (2003) www.kumei.ne.jp/c_lang/nwpyo...
The cartoon image of a woman in a white top talking on the phone, holding a powder blue handset to her ear. With her cherry red lipstick, dark seductive eyes, and soft curves of cleavage showing, one wonders what was going through the head of Phil at Totem Graphics when he designed this clipart. Is this woman a flame from his past? An unrequited fantasy? Whom he was talking to late last night when he dialed a 1-900 number, blowing through $79 on his AmEx in the space of an hour? The same AmEx card that investigators find several years later on the floor of his kitchen, along with his driver’s license and passport? No, it is not. It’s Phil’s mother.
PHONE195.BMF
*first day on arrakis, haven't got the hang of walking without rhythm*
*hear a low rumbling*
worm (muffled but becoming less so): THEY CALL ME DR. WORM
GOOD MORNING HOW ARE YOU I'M DOCTOR WORM
I LIKE TO PLAY THE DRUMS
*as i am swallowed by worm* I THINK I'M GETTING GOOD BUT I CAN HANDLE CRITICISM
J2327
Man
who asks
for good weather given a box full
of hornets.
Remember the seasonal pleasures of Christmas on the computer, when you were a kid and the Internet was still fun?
This is a thread for YOUR nostalgic memories about holiday-themed internet sites, applications, and video games.
Here's some of my own favorites, from SimTower to Mac Addict CDs:
Happy anniversary to the Phantasy Star series! ⭐
I just wanted to redraw that title screen.
As part of our project to preserve the history of Sega Channel, we have recovered OVER 100 new Sega Channel ROMs, including the legendary lost game Garfield: Caught in the Act - The Lost Levels.
Read more: gamehistory.org/segachannel/
My favorite ludicrous New Yorker style is that they print initialisms in full caps but acronyms (initialisms pronounced as words) in small caps, so in the days of CD-ROMs, they'd write the word like this:
pixelized tentacled shooting creature with five green eyes at the bottom of the screen. the word 'pronoun' is overlaid across its orange dress(?). lines of words above to possibly shoot at: here, she from, had, has think, give, hat, him girl, sun, quietly number of hits is shown on the left bottom of the screen, number of misses is shown on the right bottom of the screen.
word invasion, screenshot, apple II (1983) www.mobygames.com/game/157965/...
the blue thing is an axolotl!
New Game Series – Art & System: Games for Expanded Play
Cmich Press announces the launch of a new series, Art and System: Games for Expanded Play, debuting on October 1st. Led by Tim Hutchings, this series aims to preserve impactful indie games and showcase innovative works. Featured titles…
A Mac System 7.5 dialog box from ResEdit with a small pig icon, the text "Start pig-mode?" and Cancel and OK buttons. It apparently constantly tries to free up resources, aiding developers. To see it, hold command-option-shift and choose About ResEdit from the Apple Menu.
🐖 Start pig-mode?
ScummVM announced support for World Builder games.
www.scummvm.org/news/20250822/
advance roofing space shuttle statue, side view, route 1, mims, florida, 1990
advance roofing space shuttle statue, side view, route 1, mims, florida, 1990
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
Photo of Tom Lehrer
My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
if you haven't learned a fun fact today you can borrow the one i learned: seymour cray, designer of cray supercomputers, attributed his success and groundbreaking ideas to "the elves (who) will often come to me with solutions to my problem" while digging in the tunnel he made under his house
A snap of Voyager Expanded Books release of Jurassic Park's original novel with a silhouette of a T-Rex skeleton and the book name. "This book belongs to Sasha T. Rex."
A snap of the book presentation with a kindle-like feel. We were searching for when someone says '"Welcome... to Jurassic Park."
Author's Preface, where MC discusses his philosophy for the digital releases.
We've just been having a look through a sweetly presented digital version of the Jurassic Park novel for the Apple Mac released in 1991.
In the preface, Michael Crichton talks about how enthusiastic he is for the format and how it allows him to add sound effects and animations.
Worms is part of a genre of “artillery” computer games that we thought went back to the 70s, until we discovered it actually went back to the 60s. In this thread, Kevin Bunch reveals he’s unearthed long forgotten footage of the lost game that started it all.
Frame #59750 from S06 -E04 - Broccoli-629288
developing an AI with PhD-level emotional intelligence
that plato's cave shit wouldn't work on me. I'd notice I was in a cave for sure
people are often surprised by how low-tech the global sin monitoring system looks, but that’s because like a critical infrastructure system it prioritizes reliability with durable proven technologies above all else.
