I think lasers are pretty wack when you think about them through this lens. A small, wand-like object in your hand can make light appear from seemingly nowhere. If it’s powerful enough it can set things on fire or blind people. Not to mention larger ones like laser cutters or the LLD, used to destroy missiles midflight. Thats...
It’s even cooler than lightbulbs, though (assuming we’re talking about incandescents) - you send electricity back and forth into a wire that’s just the right length, and (RF) light leaks out without it getting hot!
For me it’s an easy choice. I lost a fully compliant weaponless monk on the Astral. I was headed for the last and certainly aligned altar. In my haste I had forgotten to swap out my ring of slow digestion with free action after my run. With the altar in sight I’m suddenly hit with a long and continuous fusillade of potions...
Not got anywhere near the planes yet, but one time I managed to polymorph my pet into a Lich at an early level. Oh, what luck! Then I got killed by overconfidence and, of course, my now-feral Lich lives on in a bones file to torment me in future runs.
Ah yes! Not so much themes, but I got a demo copy of a Windows 3.1 shell called Wayfarer from a magazine cover disk, and spent many happy hours setting that up. Also creating mashups of the standard wallpapers in Paintbrush, and fiddling with ChromaZone.
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# Day 4: Scratchcards...
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Day 2: Cube Conundrum...
What is the most terryifying siren noise?
There’s an emergency at the Facility down the road, and everyone in a six-mile radius is very likely fucked....
Find yourself (lemmy.ml)
Arthur C. Clark once said "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". What technologies do we have today that would look like magic to people from the past?
I think lasers are pretty wack when you think about them through this lens. A small, wand-like object in your hand can make light appear from seemingly nowhere. If it’s powerful enough it can set things on fire or blind people. Not to mention larger ones like laser cutters or the LLD, used to destroy missiles midflight. Thats...
Your worst and most preventable DYWYPI? (lemmy.sdf.org)
For me it’s an easy choice. I lost a fully compliant weaponless monk on the Astral. I was headed for the last and certainly aligned altar. In my haste I had forgotten to swap out my ring of slow digestion with free action after my run. With the altar in sight I’m suddenly hit with a long and continuous fusillade of potions...
A Tribute to the Windows 3.1 "Hot Dog Stand" Color Scheme (blog.codinghorror.com)
I unironically used this theme when I was a kid!...
Literally 1970 (feddit.it)
The Secret Origin of Windows [2010] (www.technologizer.com)