Just like all the other entries in his wonderful Ultima Retrospective, Majuular’s video on Ultima VII is super great. It also shows why, despite its flaws, Ultima VII is my favourite Ultima, and one of my top 10 video games of all time.
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
Another gig night! Two sets down, one to go.
The Castle Map: a map of the world’s “great castles and fortresses”. Feel free to use the “Surprise Me” button a few times!
Here’s the nice story of ID’s “Quake Shareware” CD-ROM, which contained encrypted versions of all of ID’s games, easily unlockable with a phone call and a credit card number. Of course, a crack was available about a month later to unlock everything…
THE ORB TREE WAXES AND WANES ACROSS SEASONS
More on this “uni-context”: it’s interesting that Callard notes its rise not in recent time, but in the early 1900s. Still, I can’t help feeling that the “silo’ed” Internet of 25 years ago (forums, mailing lists, webrings, etc.) was better because it gave context. And why kids prefer Discord now.
“A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird”: Agnes Callard takes the concept of “context collapse” further and gets the “uni-context”. More and more I think maybe the Internet is a net negative for the human race (yes, me saying this here is ironic)
Slugs and snails cross trails as part of the Sacred Ordeal of the Great Dry. Making it to the other side is a mark of heroism. Being picked by the Terror Giants and carried across is a mark of divine destiny.
Good morning, from the fluffy good boy.
