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Rediscovering the Handcart Asterion by Kindturtle : Long ago, on an island at the intersection of the Mediterranean Ocean and the Aegean Sea, lived a royal family. Your father, King Minos, and mother, Queen Pasiphae, lived in luxury in their royal palace. However, King Minos angered the gods, resulting in a curse being put on you in the womb. Born an awesome combination of man and beast, with the…
themes of the week , a 16-notes music scrambler. A game that rocks: A Rock's Tale by FlamingPickle You wake in a dense forest. Foliage surrounds you on all sides. As you survey your new surroundings, leaves of various colors occasionally flit through the air. In front of you is a dirt path that stretches in each direction, but aside from this “landmark” you have no idea where you are, who you are…
A few months ago I wanted to write about an experiment regarding dice and dice fairness (and whether precision dice are worth the price). Drafting the article and rolling the dice took way longer! Here it is: Are my dice fair? a statistical analysis . More links: I touched grass recently Wander Console - Discover the Small Web . Scarlatti Harpsichord Sonata k.420 (C64/SID) .
Brian Evenson, No Matter Which Way We Turned . No matter which way we turned the girl, she didn’t have a face. There was hair in front and hair in the back—only saying which was the front and which was the back was impossible. I got Jim Slip to look on one side and I looked from the other and the other members of the lodge just tried to hold her gently or not so gently in place, but no matter how…
Class of Originality There is a problem in the ‘infosphere’. In a nutshell: we now have high quality text that has low, zero or even negative value for the reader. Authorship is no longer something you can trust implicitly, even science is not immune to this and the problems seems to be set to become significantly larger in the near future. You could solve this by mandating authors label their…
Hike before Winter: The Utah Teapot : The Utah Teapot is a very famous early 3D model created in 1975 by Martin Newell at the University of Utah. Scripts I wrote that I use all the time ( via ). Three Game boy Homebrews . art: Фотки с прогулки, в которой я утопил фонарь в реке ◇ ♩ Ave generosa .
Tip for a better Google experience: add -ai to your searches, it will disable “AI Overview”. Emojis are shit : They’re bland for the exact same reasons that clipart is bland - by design. They’re cornflakes - designed to elicit no feelings whatsoever. They’re as devoid of imagination and humanity as the corporate culture that shat them wetly onto our screens. They make Vettriano look like…
The McPhee method : In brief, McPhee’s idea is to never face a blank page. Instead, in stage one he accumulates notes; in stage two he selects them; in stage three he structures them; and in stage four he writes. By the time he is crafting sentences the structure of the piece as a whole, and of each section, even paragraph, and the logic connecting them all, is already determined, thanks to the…
Philip K. Dick, The Alien Mind : As he made his way unsteadily to the control module, he saw that Norman, who had been sent with him to amuse him, was also awake. The cat floated slowly in circles, batting at a pen that somehow had gotten loose. Strange, Bedford thought. Let’s Make a Game , a comic about gamedev blues. Eevee, The rise of Whatever : It’s all the same thing. Everyday Tabletop Gaming…
venzone and its fantastic level Bjørnstigen (made by TPW ) were mentioned in ChoiceBeat , the Visual Novel and Interactive Fiction zine. Links: art: Book creation using almost entirely open source tools ◇ Robert Roest . Essays: Rolling the ladder up behind us . Remember the Apollo program that let us travel to the moon? It was mostly powered by the Rocketdyne F1 engine. We have all of the…
I finally did a via ferrata and a multi-day tent hike too (in both cases, spurred by friends, thanks to them!) [more pics for email subscribers] Links: Kim venture , an adventure of a minimalistic machine. ♩: B. Marcello, Sonata 3b, Allegro, for alto recorder and bc . pics: Marcia paints her self-portrait ◇ Florence ◇ Detox Doodles . Lily and Frog .
analognowhere: G.P.T. ◇ openssh . Type help, a text-based mystery/deduction game by William Rous: Type Help by William Rous . A Laugh in the Backyard . Progressive Numerical Puzzle . Some Japanese cities have manholes with an arrow pointing north. Useful for visitors and generally when getting off public transportation, I hope many cities follow suit.
La rotta della Manfredina, ca. XIV century, Italy: Your browser does not support the audio element. Links: Peter Stinger, Scorpion Ethicist, learns about himself and others by ComputerJames. Help Professor Peter Stinger (scorpion ethicist) make it to the Ethics Conference in time for his BIG SPEECH! Rabbia di Flavia Catena: I cani sono riapparsi stanotte e ci hanno svegliati con il più acuto dei…
Went hiking in the snow. Personal Item Travel – Medical Kits . Dragonsweeper, a fantasy themed minesweeper. Dragonsweeper by Daniel Benmergui Cloud World , a short science fiction story. – Lina, don’t you remember your mother? – smooth electronic voice of home assistant was calming but absolutely inappropriate under circumstances. – That’s not my mother! – Lina, you are wrong. I’ve booked an…
The lovely folks at Thunder Perfect Witchcraft released an awesome, story for Venzone! (click on the image to go to the game page). The gameplay is challenging, story beautifully written with lovely ASCII scenery and description of a hike. A game that conveys something, play their other productions too! Miscellany: [1] ◇ [2] ◇ [3] ◇ [4] ◇ [5] .
Dek unua monato de la jaro, laŭ la Gregoria kalendaro: la unuan de novembro, ĉe la tago de ĉiuj sanktuloj, freŝe rostitaj kaŝtanoj odoras ĝis la aleo de mortintoj. (Spomenka Štimec) Short bourrée by J.S. Bach: Your browser does not support the audio element. And a flurry of links: [1] ◇ [2] ◇ [3] ◇ [4] ◇ [5] .
Went hiking again, here are some shots with a poor quality camera. Links: Pakupaku , a minimalist Pac-Man. Hygieia fountain . Tercios marchando . Dungeons & Dragons taught me how to write alt text .
essay: food cupboard : Today I installed a food-sharing-cupboard in my neighbourhood! (Thanks to @hydroponictrash@kolektiva.social for the inspiration). I found the old cupboard in the street, took some food from our storage (mostly stuff we don’t use up) and printed the paper - that’s it! For the moment, it’s more of an experiment for me, gauging how my neighbours will react to this sort of…
I went hiking again, this time in the plains of Lombardy . It was quite a challenging distance to cover in one day. I am in high spirits, I need to prepare better next time. art: Fooling Around with Radishes ◇ you want to be a hacker, kid? ◇ ♩ Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco — Concerto a più instrumenti . Grazers , a single-mechanic game for the ZX-spectrum with predators, preys, and plants.
Hiking for a couple of days in the Rhaetian Alps ( in an oversized shirt ). The Purpose of a System is What it Does . When trying to understand systems, one really eye-opening and fundamental insight is to realize that the machine is never broken. What I mean by this is, when observing the outcomes of a particular system or institution, it’s very useful to start from the assumption that the…