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I've always admired his large outdoor work "Wake" at the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle. I have very fond memories of my kids peeking around the massive, wave-like walls of steel.

I'm confused. I posted to the exact same article (same URL) a day ago. The one on the homepage is from 9 hours ago and somehow points to the same thing. I didn't think HN would allow dupe URLs. I wonder why mine was ignored and the new post accepted?

The cover artwork of the D&D manual Deities & Demigods is a core memory of my early teens. I poured over the writings and studied the black and white line art found within countless times.

I came to Pool of Radiance later and was completely enchanted.

RIP James M. Ward. Your work had an impact on me and hundreds of thousands if not millions of others.

This has probably been mentioned before on previous posts to Mr. Graham's site, but I find the 1998-ness of the underlying HMTL and simple (if fuzzy) front end (with image map!) that even my PowerBook Pismo can render and appreciate a total blast of fresh air. A mild shame it is running HTTPS so more vintage hardware can't access it, but I understand why.

Anyhoo, props to 1998 era web design. Sincerely.

>Good journalism isn't free, and nobody is willing to pay.

NYT costs costs $4/mo for the first year, then jacks up to a staggering (by subscription standards for 'digital media') $25/mo. They have almost 10M subscribers.

Wallstreet Journal costs $6/mo for the first year then it goes to $12.50. They and have ~4M subscribers.

For both publications the subscriber counts are mostly online-only while print numbers continue to fall.

My point is there seems to be a healthy market for quality national reporting that use pay-walls especially when the organizations have the revenue to afford international bureaus (NPR being an exception that doesn't have a pay-wall). People will pay for a product they feel hits a certain quality/trust threshold.

However, most major US cities have only 1 single newspaper remaining and those print versions get thinner and thinner due to lack of ads. Where I live, the newsrooms have indeed been gutted and/or eliminated entirely. This has been going on since around 2005 or so. Back then, the first wave was due to the dominance of Craigslist and the evaporation of the Classifieds section, which generated a lot of revenue for papers.

A significant percentage of the stories in the Seattle Times (my local paper) have stories reprinted from NY Times, Washington Post and others. Cheaper for them to pay licensing fees than hire professional journalists to write articles.

I have an Amiga 1000 with an expansion package called A-Max. This allows my Amiga to use a real external Macintosh floppy drive. But it also allows me to use a separate partition on the A1K's internal hard drive where I've installed System 6. A-Max allows me to have what would essentially be a Macintosh Plus with crazy stats for the times, including a mild accelerator. The little thing flies. Two computers in one!

Since most software except certain Mac games (cough!) ever hit the Mac custom chips, virtually everything I throw at it works flawlessly.

MS Word, Mac Draw, Hypercard, Quarterstaff... It's pretty cool.

I wish this included an artist's illustration of what they think the wall looked like.

Except in Texas.

For a state that often bemoans the federal government and its out of control spending, Texas takes an impressive amount of funds and puts it into a very high-quality and modern interstate system.

Texas will receive over $27 billion (with a B) over the next ~5 years in federal funding for highways and bridges alone. $10 billion was allocated across 2022-2023. Many of their roads are quite nice and only going to improve. Thanks, Uncle Sam!

The Bard name gave me a warm fuzzy feeling immediately transporting me back to my youth playing (or at least trying to play) Bard's Tale. The name evoked adventure, excitement and a good dose of dread. And, the idea of it being "role playing" struck me as a master meta stroke.

Gemini, from the mythological standpoint, seemed to make more sense to me from an overall business/marketing standpoint. "This AI thing right here is your twin, see? It'll finish your sentences and stuff."

200 points in 4 hours, yet someone has flagged it so it isn't on the homepage where more can join the conversation? The anti-Apple reflex by some can be so petty, and so annoying.

Halfway down, I can't anymore.

It appears to be Commodore 8-bits focused. For example lot of folks even call the C64 "The Commodore".

That was one of the most interesting and captivating rabbit holes I've read in a long time.

Post-covid, it's hard for me to imagine replaying today how, as a kid, I used to press my face into that periscope viewfinder. I remember it sometimes still smelled of cigarette smoke from the previous adult player before I popped in a quarter. Was that salt on my lips?

Awesome 3D game, amazing cabinet design. Holy smoke super gross, too.

Read up on the John Sculley/Michael Spindler days of Apple, and Jobs' return.

I think that's what may be in the minds of several people eagerly watching this eventually-to-be-made David Fincher movie.

Yep, good ol' C64. Sigh... (lord, I'm getting old!)

I love the 486dx-ness of the site data presented.

Reminds me of the classic Sporcle quiz: "Drug or Pokemon?" https://www.sporcle.com/games/LinkinMarc/drug_or_pokemon

(and just as baffling)

URL literally made me lol

"Lemmings do not commit mass suicide. It's a myth, but it's remarkable how many people believe it."

The sensational Amiga puzzle video game called "Lemmings" helped perpetuate the idea, too. :)

100%. I've been buying music on Bandcamp regularly for a decade. It's where I discovered and became addicted to the synthwave scene. Frankly, there was no other place I could easily discover this kind of niche music over the years and support it the way I could on Bandcamp. I'm also an Album Guy (dinosaur, I know).

But I never cared about or wanted anything other than 1) my music I bought and 2) their not great but good enough search. That's it!

I've worked for publishers most of my career, so I know what half those employees are going through is painful. It has happened to me before, too. But as a customer of the site, I was completely and blissfully oblivious to any editorial staff.

My process: Load bandcamp.com Immediately click on the Heart icon, where all my purchases live. Listen.

This was true on the app, too. I found their homepage utterly useless. None of the artists I'm into ever appeared there. Not cool enough, I'm sure.

Long live bandcamp.

For me this is like when someone famous yet really old dies and the first thought is, "Wow, they were still alive?"

I'm honestly surprised there was a viable DVD business that lasted this long.

I do actually miss some of the moments of strolling through my neighborhood video store with my brother and discovering staff-pick movies an algorithm would never put in front of me today. Heck, there were some days where the browsing of movies on shelves was more satisfying than watching the actual pick at home later.

Neflix DVDs became a total lifesaver for me when I originally binged BSG. I became a solid fan at the time.

24/7 365 "Breaking News" TV - AKA spin factories - complete with scrolling tickers and a combative talking head format (with programs that may or may not have actual trained journalists, but so-called experts at expressing their biased opinions) is the other huge driver.

Probably. A friend of mine who is a big user of atariage.com told me they'd been “cleaning” a number of things up for months which all makes sense now ahead of the acquisition.

Fact is if anyone wants Atari ROMs they are massively easy to find online, though. Heck, you can even find them on archive.org at this point.

This type of article, from NASA no less, leaves me with a mixture of negative emotions.

Fear, anxiety, desperation, helplessness. Guilt.

And ultimately it all boils down to a quiet numbness. Not comfortably numb, to coin a song. But vapidly numb. Unable to process any constructive fix for our kids that doesn't sound utterly silly.

Milk drinker here. Can't explain why when I read about and look at this I'm utterly repulsed.

I'd recommend some of the 2-player games, like Combat.

I would describe them as blister-inducing and creaky. But relatively dependable (to a point).

The default feed is "For You" which absolutely includes people/posts you never followed. Users have to explicitly choose the "Following" feed to only see those posts. And, the setting resets itself constantly. If you aren't diligent, you get the firehose whether you wanted it or not.

Good to know, thanks!