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OMG CAT AND OLD COMPUTER!

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A Bit of a Rant About Computer History

It's utterly strange how quickly the sands of time pass you by as technology evolves. It seems fairly recent that diskette drives, while not common, remained common knowledge. Yet now they gradually fade into obscurity.

In general computer history is ignored with little effort being taken to preserve it. As such it's surprising how little common knowledge of many of the greats of the past—the BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Amiga, PC-98, or IBM PC 5150 or PS/2—live in the general public; much less the human history, as fragmented and incomplete as it is. This isn't even considering regions such as China whose history, while documented, is relegated to the academic sphere.

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Poland mentioned

im always saying this

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Reblog if you've ever cried over the death of a fictional character

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every year a thousand new space games get released and every year not a single one of them features a spaceship that looks like the ocean sunfish skeleton

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One thing I find weird is how the story of Barenziah is perceived as this funny story about a slutty Dunmer princess by the community. It's not. It's the story of a girl stolen away from her homeland and parents by a colonial government, indoctrinated into that culture's customs, and was routinely sexually abused by men with power over her then blamed for it. It's not funny, it's depressing from start to finish. The only good thing that ever happened to Barenziah is that late in life she remarried a man who actually respected her, but even that went to shit because after his death she was chased out of the country with her son. She likely lived long enough to see her only daughter and grandchildren murdered then her homeland destroyed by a massive volcano.

It always just comes down to "haha, cat penis has spikes". Like bruh, did you pay attention to ANYTHING else? Or any of the context around that?

I'm not sure why the lore community doesn't see that. Elves age slowly. And she was a teenager by human standards. None of that shit was ok or her fault. It's explicitly about colonialism leading to the abuse of a puppet ruler of a nation taken over by a foreign entity.

And lore wise, Dunmer women are stereotyped as slutty because of Barenziah's story being told through an Imperial lense of "oh that silly, slutty Dunmer girl" which is pretty fucked up. Like it's a good lore bit, but damn. I wish people would think more critically about this story.

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Happy potential birthday TES!

Today might be the true 30th anniversary of The Elder Scrolls franchise. The early games in the franchise didn't get well recorded release dates, we have found contradictory evidence for a few of them. Searching Usenet, we found evidence people were playing Arena in February.

It may have been in distribution as early as February 03, 1994 to be specific. We even found someone stating that the first patch was in distribution for the game that month! While the official anniversary is March 25th, it's worth paying respects to the cult hit status of the early series.

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the only reason ive opened skyrim in the last two months was to check i was right

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Many years ago, we introduced the world of Twofold to you with the release of First Snow. Now, it's time to bring you something much bigger.

Twofold's demo is live on Steam & itch.io!

AND, after 10+ years of development...

...Twofold will release at the end of this month!

Olive’s situation is dire. They're on the verge of being thrown out of college unless they can salvage their GPA, and their only chance rests on classes they know next to nothing about. Their lifeline: two club leaders who are more than willing to help them succeed. However, no solution is that easy. Olive soon finds themself in the middle of a conflict between these two friends that threatens to undo their long-standing love for each other. Twofold is a story about love, family, and connection. It celebrates family of all kinds, and explores the strength (and fragility) of bonds between people. Taking place roughly a year after First Snow, Olive’s position as an outsider to these established friend circles will be vital to fully understanding the situation threatening to undo this close-knit group.

Twofold features a nonbinary player character, Olive, and 2 core routes to go down for the 2 women Olive can end up dating- Caprice, the art club leader, or Millie, the writing club leader.

Physical copies of Twofold are also up for pre-order. These copies will come with a digital key, so you can play as soon as it launches later this month.

We hope you'll enjoy this down-to-earth story about college, art and connections with others.

Be sure to wishlist Twofold on Steam, too!

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Scheduling's pretty neat

Hello! #multifantober/#tesinktober will traditionally take place this year! Please join us and don't forget to like and repost so more people can see it! 🔥

Thanks to @coyote-ralyn !

(Sorry, I reupload it because of bug)

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the gimmick blogs are like tumblr’s rogue gallery. yes we’ve got some heroes, yes we’ve got some villains, but more importantly if you look over here you will see some freak who devotes all their time to counting the number of “t’s” in a post

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WHY CUM! I THOUGHT IT'D JUST BE A NEAT REAL WORLD EXAMPLE OF BINARY NUMBERS WITH A RELEVANT DECIMAL EQUIVELENT! (ಥ﹏ಥ)

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I love when a post of mine about like an obscure manga breaks containment and people in the tags are all "where can I watch this" girl you don't watch this, you read it on God's own website, Dynasty Scans