Can we get our our bayonets now?

Critical support of the flock.

Are deers our derpy animal comrades? I thought it was cats. Is this why pigs like to snipe deer on the weekends?

Unless it’s donation-ware, I am not convinced that much software can be much of a business while also preventing the decay of that software.

So, mark the day in the history of Floorp – chances are this is the beginning of the end of the things that make the product unique in the market and important to users.

I did see a nice YouTube post from an artist recently about how a lot of artists in America also seem to have perhaps bought into the myth that they must work, develop, and improve themselves alone. The poster insisted that this concept of the lone artist rising from nowhere to success was a myth spread by those wishing to isolate artists on purpose, and that artists should do the exact opposite to as extreme an extent as their capacity for being around others would permit.

It’s hard, tho, I get it. As a technologically oriented creative, I am also extremely introverted. But I know for a fact that avoiding collaboration has stunted my artistic growth.

As a software developer who loves lovable games, I am an enormous admirer of Mr. Barone and wish him the best of continued fortune.

I also wish that it was easier for independent developers to have time to build their artistic vision like this.

Does all the best art require suffering, though? Idk. I feel like that is maybe a myth invented by the exploiters.

Fuck yeah. Abolish that stupid fucking shit. Just fuckin do it already.

USA will rage quit. Oh well. Fuck us. We can go fuck ourselves.

Fuck yeah.

The enemy programming in these games seemed kinda revolutionary at the time, and the lineage was clear in Halo.

A Telegram bot to follow would be swell.

This article is from 2016, and the video poster’s YouTube account is gone.

I am gonna disrupt Alabama and make a “gummy” door dash app.

Metaphorical buses get the guillotine.

Real buses get nicer seats, better driver pay, and more stops and buses doing the same route.

Security is not a wall. It is a maze.

Speaking of The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, does anyone happen to know where the music in this clip is from?

https://tankie.tube/w/jQwHX7nRqcidp6KSNPHybC

The music is obviously not from the original movie. It was added by someone else. I don’t think I’ll ever know its source.

Great work! That is not easy!

These look rad, and I will be trying to find copies now, so thank you. I used to play a lot of interactive fiction games, text only and images including, so I know I am gonna enjoy these from a medium and style perspective. There was this game called DeJaVu that was surprisingly immersive. Pretty good noir art.

Whether those books you mentioned are good cyberpunk, IDK. Let us know what you think after you read them?

Right?? Like, mooches are bad!

But if you buy into or inherit moochdom, that’s somehow socially accepted!

Back in 2003 when I was waiting tables during university studies, my Physics II professor gave us the equation to determine wattage from solar irradiance based on photovoltaic conversion rates. At the time, it was something like 30% efficiency. I did some napkin math, and figured out that it would take around $1.2 trillion to buy enough PV cells from a retail supplier to build a 90 mile by 90 mile square PV farm deployed somewhere like New Mexico which could generate enough electricity to power every economic sector in the US – residential, commercial, industrial. Then, in 2008 during the mortgage and credit default swap financial crisis, Obama gave $800 billion of taxpayer funds directly to the banks to make them solvent, and directed the Fed to begin the disastrous QE policy, dumping $24+ trillion into the economy over the next decade and a half.

When Obama did that, that is when I realized that this country (America) and maybe even human beings at large are simply too stupid, too short-sighted, too selfish and primitive to do what is necessary to make our civilization a sustainable one.

Everybody afraid of being mooched off of.

We Americans are trained from birth to hate a mooch, and to be especially hyper vigilant against getting taken advantage of by those “lower” than us.

But we will let those we see as our “betters” take advantage of us all day long. Subservience to power and sycophants to the wealthy.

Is this why fascists and nationalists will almost never convert or join the prole revolution? Because they have been trained to reject the mindset of the victim and will refuse to admit they have in fact also been victimized by the system that they imagine protects them and which they imagine offers them their very identity? So instead they can only scapegoat the other.