The author was also the DM of this actual-play RPG podcast. [more]
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Having it signed by actual author Andrew Hussie costs five dollars. Having it signed by fictional author Dave Strider, who has time powers and has an alternate universe counterpart who killed Guy Fieri and the Insane Clown Posse, costs fifty follars. [more]
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Young Kullervo: You'll probably like this article. [more]
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To those who were shut out by the captchas: you say captcha, they say extremely short ARG. [more]
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Those sixteen years were not kind to him.
Or perhaps... it was he who unkind for sixteen years. [more]
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Second link after the fold was to a tweet instead of the actual video, but that Twitter account is a gateway to the wonderful world of Japanese mascots. [more]
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With a title like RIP and Cyriak not having released anything in a while, how the hell could I waste the opportunity? [more]
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And so, an ordinary man learned that you can never trust your senses, no ifs, ands or buts... in the Twilight Zone. [more]
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YouTube pays its creators based on viewtime, not viewcount. This is great for the company in the short term but not so great for the squishy little meatlings who provide it with money-making content in the any term. [more]
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What could ever replace the durability of magnetic tape?
Duct tape maybe. [more]
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TECHNICAL INFORMATION ABOUT NES ROMS:
The reason we know Nintendo downloaded pirated NES ROMs is because the pirates standardized the NES ROM format. Why would it need to be standardized? Because not all the information needed to any given NES… [more]
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2N2222: Oh look. Woah, and a documentary. [more]
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With all those pairs of dueling movies, if wonder if there have been any attempts at foiling corporate espionage with fake leaks. [more]
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It's a DOS game. Time to install one of the most important programs in the world, DOSBox.
A port that's playable in your browser can be played here, although it may still be in beta. [more]
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The Story of the Eman Boys, in What Is Known as the Mansion of E
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X representing a non-binary catch-all reminds me of a Fabulous Child's Story. And wow, this year is its fortieth anniversary. [more]
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Let's see them in action in the hands of Castle Frightenstein's resident too-sane-to-be-mad too-mad-to-be-sane scientist, Julius Sumner Miller. [more]
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The Internet Archive's Jason Scott is seriously considering getting Archive Team to undertake the Herculean task of backing up every single Creative Commons image on Flickr - a significant percentage of everything in the Commons. [more]
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First the hilarious and mindbending fake game cavalcade that is @SegaCDGames, now this. What's the attraction? I have a theory.
Before the CD-ROM drive became a major Thing, floppy disks and game cartridges kept games firmly in the realms of… [more]
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Ohoho. I''ve just constructed an ad hoc theory about why, despite the strip now being modernly webcomicky, Nancy and Sluggy are still drawn simply (and admit it, that pictorial thought bubble gag is downright Bushmillerian).
According to my theory,… [more]
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Evaporate: Cartoon-Shaped Sequences of Images and Sounds
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Actually, you know what? Unlike with Gilchrist's tenure, you might even be able to get away with using at least some of her panels in a Five Card Nancy deck, given that she gets Bushmiller's style and philosophy more than Gilchrist ever did. [more]
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leotrotsky: 4:22 : The Game.
If you didn't mean Mark 4:22, this is an insane coincidence: "For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open." [more]
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The exact nature of this collapse is not well known — it is presumed to be a virus carried on the ship’s cat
Aw smeg. [more]
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"You know what, it's not even that black. It's more of a very dark gray, which is still bad, but... actually, I wouldn't go so far as to call it VERY dark. And come to think of it, it's more of a medium gray. Well, it depends on what you mean by… [more]
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Hagar creator Dik Browne was actually the inspiration for Beetle Bailey's philosophical platoon-mate Plato. [more]
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Someone tell @SegaCDgames, aka OEVNASVERAMV (ROT13'd for those who don't want the magic ruined), about the nonexistent Sega CD game Nifty Driller, about a handyman who stumbles upon secret government files and must investigate a conspiracy while… [more]
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Now all we need is How to Set a Watchman. [more]
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Took the list straight here, ran it through Order 4, and lo and behold, almost right off the bat:
Lord Help Me to Become Racial Discrimination
And from Order 3:
I Will Become Skills
Improve Your Stairs
Become More People
I Will Become… [more]
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ZenMasterThis: Tell them not to get their hopes up. When she retires, applicants will come in... torrents. [more]
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