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Day 5. 30 minutes.

We're gaming, baby!

Greetings! New on the block… I am an explorer and a creator. I created the Ultima series, the modern use of “avatar”, MMO’s and lots of games. As an explorer, I am the first and still only person to explore from Pole to Pole and Orbital Space to the deepest ocean depths of the Mariana Trench!

@richardgarriott.bsky.social Hi Mr. Garriott! It's great to see you on this platform as well! :-)

Just a few weeks left until @confooca.bsky.social Currently updating my talk to include all of the latest and greatest stuff that @platform.uno has released since the last time I gave this talk Come check it out if you're attending #confoo, I have free stickers! confoo.ca/en/2025/sess...

Hold onto your butts, because Henry has been up to mischief. My Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 review video is dropping later and if you're an RPG fan you're not gonna wanna miss it. 🎮 Make sure you're subscribed right here: WhatsGood-Reviews buff.ly/4114hZX #kingdomcomedeliverance2 #KCD2 #review

@trplsvn.bsky.social Yo. :-)

DarkViperAU $6000 Giveaway To Celebrate PC Upgrade (2x$3000) gleam.io/ofAN3/darkvi... To celebrate upgrading my system so I can record and upload content in 4k, I am sharing the love with a giveaway. Same way to enter as the last 30 odd giveaways, best of luck everyone!

Pro-tip - when reading stories about "AI" always change it to "AI share price". Then they make a lot more more sense. If not in a happy way.

@buildzoid.bsky.social Hi from Twitter and YouTube! :-)

The movie Sextette is where Mae West says the line "is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me" - although she is quoting herself. The production of that film sounds like an absolute cluster fuck from start to finish. I almost want to see it now. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextette

🎮 2024 was a great year for WhatsGood-Reviews. Some of our top videos for the year: Helldivers 2 https://buff.ly/4atTn1Z SW Outlaws https://buff.ly/4g7J4Sb Stalker 2 https://buff.ly/4jo0hK5 Space Marines 2 https://buff.ly/4hjDMol CP2077 Phantom Liberty https://buff.ly/40pmdvO

before tiktok, before bluesky, before twitter, before meta, before it all, there were sewers. after all, there will be sewers.

redrew some action 52 sprites

Nuclear explosion up at #SemiAccurate - Intel is (IMHO) likely to be acquired soon. Emails, multiple sourced, etc. Wow, this is NOT a joke, nor is it a rehash of the clickbait site rumors. I believe it fully but don't know how it will play out. www.semiaccurate.com/2025/01/17/s...

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Microsoft triples down on AI. A trio of announcements this week set the stage for how Microsoft is looking at new ways to try and get consumers and businesses hooked on AI. I dig into the news in this week's Notepad 📒 - live now for subscribers 👇 www.theverge.com/2025/1/17/24...

for a bright spot in this dark timeline, it is incredibly wholesome that 25 years after filming Lord of the Ring Merry and Pippin are not only still besties but they're making a travelogue that's just about eating (sorry to link to insta, the trailer is not on YT) www.instagram.com/p/DEKxurmI1eB

A painful correction to have to make, but my call for Pixar to release the source code to their now-unused REYES renderer was accompanied by an image that was NOT in fact rendered using REYES. I've deleted the original post because I love deleting posts. My original point stands, though.

==Training Lesson== INVESTIGATION NARRATIVE: SSH Kill la Killed 🧵 My job is to solve the Weird Problems as the Final escalation tier. I do this with generalist knowledge and practical experience. New InfoSec/IT entrants often ask what this looks like in practice. Follow below.

Redoing my office meant cleaning my office. In doing so, I found the original printout of the eulogy I wrote for my father's funeral some 13 years ago. At @remapradio.bsky.social, some thoughts on what it means to revisit and rethink the spaces in your life: remapradio.com/articles/ret...

GUYS WTF I just found out that it’s basically canon that Mr Bean is an alien

This is very awesome. archive.is/2025.01.10-1...

These DOS games are turning 30 years old this year: ---- Full Throttle Hexen Abuse Worms Terminal Velocity Dark Forces Command & Conquer BioForge Need for Speed Hi-Octane Destruction Derby Witchaven Descent Stonekeep Crusader Heroes of Might & Magic Warcraft 2 Phantasmagoria Discworld MechWarrior 2

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I know that there's a lot of tech industry folks on this here website, and I would just like to remind all of you that the world actually functioned before the computer.

Hanging with my fellow Dark Vipers

When I worked in the hotel industry, the big chains were using ancient-ass property management software (Hilton's OnQ was from 2004 and Marriott's FOSSE is literally MS-DOS based with no mouse input) and I've been thinking about this more and more lately. Because it worked fine.

Reactions to this post are fascinating. A lot of people are imagining there are vulnerabilities which as far as I can tell just don't exist Folks in tech can't seem to imagine the sort of thing where, say, a credit card reader gets bolted onto an old pinball machine. Which is a thing that happens