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@TheZeldaZone There's always 3D printing.
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@timeextension.com Pffft I didn't buy all these games to PLAY them!
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Games give you monsters to fight for a reason. Monsters are automatically dehumanized and ready to be murdered en masse.
All you have to do is keep your players from asking awkward questions like "Why are these monsters attacking us?" and "Who gets to decide what counts as a monster?"
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@jsstaedtler "Y'all" is great for direct address, but when talking about a third party group you have to lean on folks.
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@kenwhite.bsky.social Come on, man. You're better than this.
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Okay so the moral is, sometimes you have to go on a long journey into a weird infopilled entrepreneur's history to realize what you were looking for was right there where it was supposed to be.
Or at least I have to. I dunno what you have to do.
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Disregard all that, Johnathan Hull does still have the heaven and hell place name maps in his portfolio
https://www.behance.net/gallery/25054733/Heaven-and-Hell-Placename-Maps
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So normally this is where I explain the moral of the story, which is usually "Don't rely on other platforms to host your work" because you never know when those platforms are going to get bought by Spotify and abruptly vanish.
Except, in this case, our old friend Johnathan Hull is still around […]
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So. It turns out that the reason why we don't still have an interactive map of every evil place in America is because of Spotify. Unsurprising.
Adam Bly, who for some reason has two Linkedin profiles, left Spotify two years later to found, you guessed it, an AI startup. It's not clear what […]
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Seed Scientific was Visualizing's professional end. Visualizing let any old asshole host data visualizations, but Seed Scientific housed the professional designers and consultants that could make your company's data look pretty.
Seed Scientific also abruptly disappeared in the summer of 2015 […]
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Seed Media Group was founded by Adam Bly. It started as Seed Magazine in 2001, which continued publishing print magazines until 2009 and then carried on publishing articles on its website until finally stopping in 2012.
Seed Magazine stopped because around that time Adam was getting […]
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Nowhere on the site is any indication of an impending shutdown, but active updates like "Visualizing Highlights" and the challenges stopped early in 2015.
It's hard to judge how active the site was before its demise from what archive.org captured. I couldn't find any talk about the site's […]
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Visualizing.org's twitter account is still active. Their last tweet was March 2015, announcing the winner of their latest contest.
Archive.org's last successful crawl was July 9, 2015. By July 15, there is only a "Visualizing is currently down for site maintenance" message. It never comes back.
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So now let's talk about Visualizing.org. It was founded in 2010 as a venture between GE and Seed Media Group. It provided tools for users to upload datasets and produce interesting web-based visualizations of that data. There was much talk about open data, and bringing dataviz to Generation Remix.
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But despite early indications, Johnathan Hull did not vanish. He still has active accounts on Instgram and Linkedin, and a portfolio on Behance.
His portfolio goes back to July 2015. It's definitely the same guy, but as far as I can tell none of his current socials mention the devil map.
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Johnathan Hull had a site, Johnathan-Hull.com, which also no longer exists. He also had a Tumblr, Twitter, and Flickr accounts. All these no longer exist as well. They all vanished sometime around the first half of 2015.
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For whatever reason, this map got picked up by news wires just in time for Halloween. The site it was hosted on was visualizing.org which no longer exists. We'll get back to that in a minute.
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"I post all my art on Instagram!"
Cool, I can look at about six thumbnails before it demands I sign in.
"Check for updates on X, the Everything App!"
I probably won't even be able to look at your profile page, and if I can, YOUR LATEST TWEETS WON'T BE AT THE TOP
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@stuartgipp.bsky.social Somehow, She returned.