There is a decent metaphor buried in there, yeah. Basically trying to get at the difference between broadcast (how TV and radio worked, which everyone was already familiar with) and how the internet works which is a “unicast” kind of thing
Ah sweet, my left-pad is coming today!
Well, only fair. The Martians brought Red Weed with them back in the day
Hytale… that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time. Ah, started development in 2015, that’s probably why
It’s a vibe seeing solar panels cover those iconic Southern China valleys
Ah but at least those garish lights are all LEDs these days with energy usage a fraction of what it would’ve been in times gone by
Mimicry in nature is never intentional on the conscious part of the mimic though (ok exception is maybe octopi). It evolves like that because it works. Perhaps cats are evolving to become more cute.
It’s not like they’re capable of understanding good and evil. Many creatures murder things for “fun” - it clearly serves an evolutionary purpose even if they don’t eat the kill
It’s gone
Looking for more of a technical manual
Depends how far you want to keep going back ….Wessex dudes talking about Russia and Ukraine like we don’t still occupy all of Mercia.
Dell Dimension 2400. My family had the entry level model, and it still absolutely destroyed every prior computer we’d had performance-wise
Yep that’s him
Yank tanks are multiplying on this side of the Pacific now too. I’m 6’3” and feel like a little toddler next to one. Just as easy to run over, no doubt.
It’s the five body problem of celestial meowchanics!
Yep, the only thing that could use a bit of Americanisation is the video settings and performance side of things
That shit still makes me angry and it’s fiction
You made me feel old, calling Machinae Supremacy “a band at the time”… I thought nah that can’t be right, that era wasn’t that long ago, surely? So I looked up when Overworld came out and it was 17 years ago. Oh.
I sorely miss that optimistic, anarchistic (and anarchic) old internet. But the older and more cynical I get, the more I have a deep-seated suspicion that the powers that be actively encouraged this early adopter hype-optimism, knowing they’d be able to lock us in to more exploitative forms later.
It’s a bit later in the timeline, but I also see that in the world of design language and HCI: the abrupt shift from skeuomorphic “Fruitger Aero” to soulless, flat “Material Design” encapsulates this feeling of being ensnared, of having the jail bars slam down shut behind you, in a more visual way.