#xviii.

[cockworkangels]

watching the last episode of black sails season 2 makes you think that you're watching one of the most insane episodes of tv that's been aired and then you remember that you're watching black sails and this is just the beginning. a taster of what's to come

[birdisle]

xviii.

conversations with the silence pleasure and pain live together sunlight is not defined by the absence of the storm

[tragediambulante]

Morpheus, Jean Antoine Houdon, 1777

[commodorez]

Crusty, the Macintosh SE

Crusty was found in a scrapper's yard, having sat out in the rain for quite some time. It was rescued from that yard, and was pretty damaged internally, rusted and not great. It was neither worth repairing, nor had anything to salvage to repair other machines, minus a stick of RAM. Hard drive was seized up, motherboard wasn't great, etc.

Surprisingly, it didn't take much to get it to run 2 years ago at VCF East in 2021. Seeing as there was nothing to lose, the owner then buried in the dirt for a year, excavating it just before VCF East in 2022. It was brought to the show, cleaned off enough to see what was going on, and miraculously, it ran again! Following the event, it was then unceremoniously kicked into a lake where it sat for 8 months, before being extracted prior to the first freeze that could have destroyed the picture tube. It sat in a barn until VCF East this year.

What you see here is how it arrived at the show, followed by the crowd of folks who gathered to watch this chaotic repair attempt by a friend of the owner. It was cleaned slightly, then signed by a number of youtubers, before an attempted diagnostic and repair was attempted. Sadly, the power supply was beyond saving. A donor supply was attached, but it too was broken.

Crusty will return at VCF Midwest later this year, to be repaired at the show with the right replacement parts.

[brotherdusk]

they're still the same man and unfortunately that man is deeply stupid

[certifiedcoffeeaddict]

there are other ways this sentence could have been written but this is by far the funniest version

[jaypentaghast]

mmm i spot a bad coping mechanism

[garashir]

really normal charles vane reaction to throw away his plan to steal flints ship to rescue him instead

[soundsofmyuniverse]

Dresses in Francisco Goya’s paintings

[cockworkangels]

WHEN EVERYTHING HAS BEEN FUNDAMENTALLY AND IRREVOCABLY CHANGED AND THERE'S NO GOING BACK

[tiny-librarian]

I commend to God my wife and my children, my sister, my aunts, my brothers, and all those who are attached to me by ties of blood, or by any other manner whatsoever. I pray God especially to cast the eyes of his mercy on my wife, my children, and my sister, who have suffered so long with me; to support them by his grace if they lose me, and for as long as they remain in this perishable world.

[tragediambulante]

Leda and the swan, François Boucher, 1740

[commodorez]

Centurion Rebranded Terminal - Usagi Electric’s Old Stuff – David Lovett - VCF East XVIII

[brotherdusk]

foundation season 2 as popular posts: empire edition

season 1: empire / terminus season 2: empire / terminus & ignis

[silkscreaming]

maybe not king of the pirates but god of the sea perhaps

[jackalopearts]

The Parable of the Warden