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was cityofheroes.com
A superhero game.
It wasn’t very original and had awkward controls.
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2024-01-04 – A private server reportedly got an NCSoft license to keep going.
dead
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Entertainment > Games >
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https://www.swtor.com/
Yet another MMO, but this one is set in the Star Wars universe. Because light sabres, yo.
Conclusion: Amateur night.
This would have been great in the late nineties. Right now, the voiceovers are fantastic but the quest interactive cutscenes are ugly. The choices are sometimes vague and unforgiving. There is spectacular effort with all the rendered videos, but that just took away from resources for the game itself.
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Entertainment > Games (PlayStation 1) >
A fine tactics game.
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aka Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen
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Entertainment > Reading >
https://www.alibris.com/Philosophy-in-the-Flesh-George-Lakoff/book/10659440
To read
This book is mind blowing. I think the best description I can give of what it’s topic and goals are is to present the first chapter, in full. From here I think anyone interested in the subject will understand fully where this book is going and the intentions of the authors.
- Properly titled Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought
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By George Lakoff and Mark Johnson.
- TODO – The various Wikipedia topics would need references to cognitive philosophy as a contraindication to the various topics, and in those topics to specifically cite passages in the introduction in this book.
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TODO – Finish the linking.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199208/
A documentary-style mini-series that touches on bunches of the history of western science, but then gets absolutely horrifyingly abysmally wrong. So wrong as to be a bunch of lies.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0813715/
https://www.nbc.com/heroes
Everyday idiots get superpowers and become idiots with superpowers.
I watched through season one and just gave up. It’s a bullshit non-show with no direction.
TODO – these should just be tagged /tag/commandline-software
See also Oldschool music
TODO – something to play from CGSC: .mus, .str, .wds
This is a category of music both covering “obsolete” formats and styles demanded by technological limitations and the more recent hipster minimalist music.
My primary interests are DOS modules, and Commodore 64 SIDs.
See also:
 This was a working logo
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Oldschool Linux was to have been usable as a general-purpose light Linux distribution, with a focus on oldschool platform and operating system emulation/virtualization, demos, games, art and music.
Its target era was to be pre-Windows: DOS, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari, etc. Software will be Linux-native where possible, but two-stage software will be examined .. such as emulating DOS to run a DOS program.
- Platform Emulation (DOS: DOSBox and DOSEMU, other platforms like Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari)
- Console Platform Emulation (Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Genesis, Arcade, etc)
- Virtualization
- Oldschool demos (intros, demos, megademos, democomp-related stuff)
- Art (ASCII, ANSI, pixel, etc)
- Oldschool music (MODs etc, Commodore SIDs, and more)
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Games (Free, not abandonware – either platform-specific, console or arcade games)
- This is a secondary interest.
It was to be a consumer distribution, and not a producer distribution. To be distributed with media viewers/players as well as actual content. It was to be a branch off of the Unity Linux base. It never made it past the planning stages.
Oldschool-Windows and producer editions were far-future ideas.
