Elissa

Coffee.

Coffee?

Coffee.

☕️

I don't have words for this. Horrific. Heinous. Disgusting.

Actually, I do have two words for it: war crime.

Hot cinema take: I love focus-breathing on anamorphic lenses.

I thought you meant LMM appears, being jump scared and that sounds kinda cool for an album cameo. “What’s that random guy yelping about?”

Ansi by : Rote Kuh 1 Dusel 1995 ' Welcome to: RGB House of Blame 111E! Spw: U 000 0 - 00 IBM AT 300megs ITTTTTTTIIIII 300megs The House of Blame : 6 Nodes Rappeldown ! DePPCHef: Schalgmeister Wie? CoDePP: Rote Kuh

002.ANS, 1995-07-20 from Groovy Bytes: Behind the Moon (CD-ROM)

An Imperial Trader ship docked at Old Blackelk Spaceport, on the planet of Hope in the Gateway system (-1,4). This is the DOS version of Frontier First Encounters (FFE), released by Gametek in 1995.

An Imperial Trader ship docked at Old Blackelk Spaceport, on the planet of Hope in the Gateway system (-1,4). This is the FFFED3D-AJ version of Frontier First Encounters (FFE), modified by Andy Jones (AndyJ).

Approaching Jupiter in the Sol system (0,0). This is the DOS version of Frontier First Encounters (FFE), released by Gametek in 1995.

Approaching Jupiter in the Sol system (0,0). This is the FFFED3D-AJ version of Frontier First Encounters (FFE), modified by Andy Jones (AndyJ).

When Frontier First Encounters launched in 1995, it was a DOS-only game in 320x200 resolution. Some 30 years later, we can all enjoy the same brilliant game in much greater detail, thanks to some enterprising and talented coders. Details of FFED3D are at tinyurl.com/FFED3D-AJ

I'm 2 seasons into Lost and at this point the plot twists are so stupid I expect by season 4 it'll be like "it turns out Jack is just a figment of everyone's imagination created by Hurley's acid reflux, which was caused by a secret gang of ninjas on the island."

What amazes me about your film-watching isn't the number of films, but the fact that somehow like 90% of them end being things I've never heard of and suddenly go on my to-watch list.

A pixel art palm forest, with a pop-up over torn paper which reads "A hard stone, you could knap a smaller stone against this to sharpen it."

Sneak preview of Sekrit Project. #GameDev #IndieDev #PixelArt

Unreal Tournament (1999)

Oh wow. So, I NEVER watched it back in the day, despite being about your age from the sounds, but recently began watching it. I'm... 1.5 seasons in?

It's wild how compelling it is despite, frankly, the plot rapidly going from kinda cool to "wait, we're doing WHAT now?"

The Mana Bar, in Brisbane, if I remember rightly.

Anyone else remember the excitement of getting to play on a Nidhogg arcade machine, before it came out for general release on console/computer?

It just occurs to me that strange aberration is the only time this CENTURY I've excitedly rushed to play an arcade game, as I couldn't play it at home.

I still from Only Lovers Left Alive. The three vampires are at a bar, Adam looking put upon and Eve looking tolerant, Ava looking stoned somehow, and Ian the "Zombie" having no idea what the fuck he's walked into.

Night out with the gang.

A while back a friend commented (jokingly) on it being 'unfair' that I (a woman) could have pictures of attractive women on my walls while he could not.

That stuck with me. I guess it's a double-edged sword. Some days I wake up and the women on my apartment walls make me insecure about my body. 🫠

Just heard a clip from a podcast where the hosts said Return to Oz (1985) was bad. That's it. Shut down the internet. We had a good run but things are getting out of hand.

Spider-Man story pitch: turns out Spidey's webs leak long term toxins into the people they touch, and it's only found out a decade later. There's a class action lawsuit against him due to the long term harm he's done to everyone from hired goons to people he saved from falling to their death.

You do seem concerningly optimistic, relative to the subject matter you regularly research and present.

Re-watching The Terminator because a world where AI becomes sentient and destroys us not just during its time but across multiple times is less depressing than reality: we destroy our own society & environment by staggeringly inefficient autocomplete programs.

Wee little eInk display, product shot.

Zine idea: I bulk buy a bunch of Arduino Nanos and tiny eInk displays, 3d print some cases for them, and sell the zones at basically cost with the zine only readable on the tiny eInk display. And when you're done - you get to wipe it and make your own thing with it.

Went to a zine fair and it was one of the most surprisingly excellent, wholesome things I've done in a while.

Got me itching to make a zine which is... precisely now what I need right now (another creative project).

Tfw you still have some edge cases to fix in your procedural locomotion system #gamedev

Bad news, Sergeant Hardflank - they’ve kidnapped Doctor MacGuffin.

saw a reddit comment on the lenghth of modern dev cycles earlier that stuck with me:

"The PS2 had three Grand Theft Autos, GTA5 had three Playstations"

The question of our time is how do you artistically rebel — and win — against a totally flat cultural landscape? And before my readers, who I assume are all approximately 36 years old and very tired, say, “so what, who cares?” This does matter. I mean, just look around right now lol. You know things are bad when even OpenAI President Greg Brockman is posting stuff, like “Taste is a new core skill.” If people had taste, your company wouldn’t exist, Greg. But if everything is just attention now, and attention is completely commodified by algorithmic tech platforms, how can you push back against that? Well, I am slowly coming around to a theory on the new cool: You have to essentially pre-deplatform yourself. Culture right now is determined not by human teams of editors and producers picking and choosing what youth culture gets the spotlight, but, instead, by the unthinking algorithms that power YouTube and TikTok. Which means the only things that have the level of scarcity and danger required to be seen as cool by young people will, slowly, but surely, be whatever is unacceptable on those platforms.

A post so smart I'm almost afraid to share it.

www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-t...

ViridianGames - Ultima VII in first person! Watch ViridianGames's clip titled

In case you didn't tune into the stream last night...here's Ultima VII in first person! Programmed by DLBSP83!

www.twitch.tv/viridiangame...

Wtf.

I “relaxed” by watching a Safdie brothers film last night (Good Time, 2017). This is why I normally just work through evenings.

YESSSS and, yes, probably, respectively.

Steel yourself for a wild time.

(The second-longest TTRPG campaign I've played in, closing in on first. A credit to our DM and the other players that an off the shelf campaign could be so fun.)