Basically its some PHP that generates very simple/awful web pages with a CSV file as a data source (yeah it should be an SQLite DB or just statically generated data - I know) to act as random bingo cards to play along with the election, cross them off as they lose their seats :)
Based on the famous XKCD "Ten Thousand" (https://xkcd.com/1053/) I am now proposing the inverse idea - every day there are also an unlucky 10,000 - those people who find out about something absolutely fucking cursed that day and their brains are made immeasurably worse by having the knowledge they now possess.
@anthracite thank you, I figure my brain will stop thinking about "what is the cursed knowledge?" in a few days which feels like a merciful blessing in comparison.
Fedizens! Now in this darkest time of the year it is the time I urge you to give any keyboards, mice, and other input devices you have laying around a bit of a clean if you feel they need it. We use them every day to communicate with the wider world and we deserve to have the nicest user experience we can give ourselves and that includes nice clean boards and mice :)
John Romero (the man, the myth, the legend) is once more returning to Doom level creation.
His first large return was Sigil I, released 2018 for Dooms 25th anniversary, and now freely available https://romero.com/sigil - and now he's following it up with Sigil II for Doom's 30th.
It's getting released on 2023-12-10, a little after midnight, and costs €6.66 for the digital edition, including soundtracks by THORR and James Paddock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVlBmdvIC6s DamiLee who does architecture and design stuff doing a video on "SolarPunk Cities: Our Last Hope?" which is a nice overview/summary including the interesting point that cyberpunk has a well known core brutalist aesthetic which, along with our negativity bias makes it easy to latch onto as a future, but Solarpunk is more individualised making it harder to spread as an easy idea to imagine in the future - kind of an interesting point maybe?
@anthracite yup when in doubt big building slabs and a few holograms or bill boards and it seems to work okay as a short hand. (my brain went to kinda Evangelion transforming cities routine as a kinda of instant cyberpunk, just add chonky buildings thing)
I feel a lot of the more punk aspects are being missed in a lot of the more modern versions that invoke it but ah well.
@anthracite its very adorable but sadly I have no pics.
She knows she can request it be steered by intently looking at the place she wants me to take her, but gets frustrated when I won't fly her to forbidden high places she's not allowed to go to.
I have been informed that apparently I am far too soft on the kittens for this kind of behaviour, but also if I had a giant person who looked after me and offered to fly me places in a box I'd totally do it.
Just been playing "Haunting Hollow" this morning, a cool gothic doom2 level set. So far its very fair and balanced, really nice little reveals, clever layouts, and I just played level 4 (Sinking Tower of Jdjrklgufitwhtyugofplmuilginsynopdkzdnhtmksld♥ugngdmdjsdrbfnunrkdyvmfdck) and honestly it was amazing, just beautiful level design around a simple concept.
Got reminded of Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0) (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2324) and how I actually have some servers that return "418 I'M A TEAPOT" when not serving data the way you've contacted them.
Then I thought about Charlie Stross's (@cstross) Laundry novels and the implication of having servers all shout I'M A TEAPOT into the void in unison whenever they deny you something.
Looks like someone leaked the source for wipEout at some point in 2022, this apparently lead to a small team rewriting it for more modern systems and creating a version that can run on Linux, Mac, Windows, or in a browser thanks to WASM