Looks like Spirit (the Mars rover) was launched a couple days after I graduated.

Learn how to code. It’s pretty rewarding.

I already got out in March when github decided to close my account because I didn’t want to involve my phone with my github account.

Codeberg has been a much more pleasant experience.

That’s fine. The actual internet will still be here.

Also forgot to mention the latest version has tiles support that looks like this:

So you don’t have to play with ASCII graphics. ;)

Sil (specifically Sil-Q, the most modern fork) is a great Tolkien-esque roguelike in the vein of Angband where pacifism is a first-class citizen. You get a lot of XP just by observing hostiles from the shadows. I highly recommend it!

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There are way more people today and we compete with the entire world so it’s harder to stand out.

And progress is a lot more complicated today. It requires bigger teams working with more complicated equipment and more data than ever before. That means more people involved and, again, less opportunity for any one person to stand out.

This is all exacerbated by scientific journals and media companies that are more interested in making money than in making sure the best stuff rises to the top.

And people aren’t on the same page like they used to be. When there are a billion books, movies, songs, etc. to choose from, pop culture becomes less and less of a thing. People end up in their own increasingly atomized camps and can spend whole lifetimes there, not really caring about stars from the other camps.

Descent II has maybe the most unique soundtrack I have ever heard in a game.

I think very few of them would have been famous, even posthumously, if they had lived today.

Oligarchy is nothing compared what’s in store due to global warming. These are the good times…

It depends on how old I was at the time. I can’t imagine reacting well as a teenager, nor should that be expected, frankly.

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Yes! I was hoping to see this one mentioned.

I’m all for it, actually. I’ve just seen things go awry way too many times if you’re not able to condense your message into an airtight sound bite.

Indeed. (Reloaded does have its moments, but yeah.)

Seems like a terrible name for it. It sounds kind of juvenile and the other side will latch onto that immediately.

For me it’s The Matrix.

I never like to retread old ground, but this one’s an exception. It’s hard to overstate how much it blew our minds 26 years ago. I might have a soft spot for it too because I was raised sheltered and it was the first rated R movie I saw.

PC load letter? What the fuck does that mean?

95.5% accuracy is abysmal for any use case these people want to use it for