A magenta wonderland featuring all sorts of fun and informative content on everything from autism from the perspective of an autistic adult, to Ancient Egyptian religion, to astrophysics, to Dragon Ball, to 90s computer/Web culture.
I am proud to announce the release of Part 1 of my ZZT came, The Carnival Of Nyarlathotep, a gargantuan open-world blend of 90s nostalgia, cosmic horror, romance, folklore, and just about everything else. It's a monster, split across three files due to ZZT's file size limits, and probably magnum opus at this point. If you're a fan of this site in general, I feel confident that it would be right up…
I know this is turning into a meme, but I had to make one final, minor delay of The Carnival of Nyarlathotep to the 28th December. I realise this is getting annoying, so I'm providing a link to a countdown at TimeandDate.com for the specific time of day (1400/2 PM GMT) I will update the website with the finished game. I've been working on this game tirelessly and even wound up having to split it…
I released two more promotional screenshots of the Carnival of Nyarlathotep, which shall release tomorrow; one of the title screen and one of four separate boards side-by-side to showcase part of the introduction and Nyarly's reality-warping abilities. That, and I added some clarification to the Things to Know page about the difference between the terms 'cosmos', 'multiverse', and 'universe', and…
Double update this time. Firstly, I put up a new Babel article, The Unspoken Reason the Old Web Was Better, on something that's been on my mind for a while after realising how relevant it is to the fall of the Old Web, and some hopefully helpful advice on how to personally deal with it. I also updated the Carnival of Nyarlathotep page with a third promotional screenshot, finally giving a glimpse…
My apologies for ringing the bell, for all the people who couldn't care less. Just wanted to release, in ZZT toolkit form, the results of some new ZZT research of mine, which has allowed for coaxing white-on-grey text/ANSI tiles, and blinking equivalents of those and white-on-black ANSI tiles out of the engine. This is the first extension of STK in 20 years, as far as I can remember. For anyone…
I've been really meaning to make another old fashioned dark comedy Library of Babel rant, but was waiting for the inspiration to strike. Now finally, I decided to write a scathing takedown of reddit, after coming to the conclusions that it is perhaps the worst of all of the social media sites. Enjoy!
Well, it took years, and one heck of a busy Easter weekend of last minute work, but ZZTcast is finally done. This is a ZZT zine mimicking the esteemed ZZTV games from decades past. There wound up being only one contributor (my friend Angel Kitty), but I'd say what's there is pretty good. Or, I hope it is anyway, given how long this took... My channel also features my Reminiscence article on ZZT,…
The recent outage of the IRC network, which had to do with a server misconfiguration that suddenly decided to finally act up, has been resolved. Please let me know if you encounter further issues. I sincerely apologise for any and all inconvenience. ):
It took far longer than it should have, but I finally got around to adding a brand new section to the Kingdom - the Kinoteatr (Russian for movie theatre) - dedicated to reviews (and hopefully, eventually more things) for episodes of various 90s television shows I have started watching! As of this writing, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the only one, largely because I insist on making a unique design…
I updated the Words/Phrases I Hate Article with some new entries, and better organised the Dock by adding three new categories (Build Engine Games/Resources, Jedi Knight/Dark Forces, and Modern Games.)
My sincerest apologies for the prolonged delay in updating. I have added 27 new links to the Dock and made a few minor updates to other pages, as fully detailed in the linked Scratching Post entry. As usual, all newly added links are at the top of their subsections and feature animated "New!" images next to them.
Added a grand total of 21 new links to the Dock, as outlined on the Scratching Post. There should hopefully be a little something for everyone. The Miscellaneous subsection has gotten ludicrously overgrown once again, and I plan to add a number of additional subsections, alphabetise all of the links, and see if there's any other things I can do to make it easier to navigate. For now, all of the…
Well that was a long hiatus. It seems like it is taking me longer and longer to get anything done website-wise. But I did finally break the cycle of staring an article, hitting writer's block, and refusing to move on to anything else for months by writing a new reminiscence article on the revolutionary but now largely forgotten 1997 FPS game Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II. This is a game I…