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Build Me a Train to Everywhere (History of Transportation)
I figure it’s been a while since my notifications blew up due to some logistical enlightenment, and since you can only have so many pinned posts, I figure my blog is the best way to preserve it for posterity (and probably blow it up less; people barely read this thing). I’ve gotten a reminder that…
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Smaller games with worse graphics
Since everyone else is commenting on this NYT article, I thought I’d throw in my 2¢. The answer as I’ve said before is that graphics are a shorthand for system power and have been for so long, we’ve collectively forgotten that. To quote my past self from my writing on FF Wiki where I can’t…
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The Definitive Digimon Game
It’s not often I respond directly to someone else’s thing, but this video makes a very convincing argument that I kind of wanted to address. Go ahead and give it a watch. I’ll wait. Back? Okay. What is "definitive?" It’s no secret that I have my own soft spot for Digimon as a franchise. I…
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Why I am team “Permanent DST” (also VOTE!)
To preface this, I am not a sleep expert, nor am I a human behavioral expert, but I am VERY much an expert on not sleeping and living with standard time in the winter. Because of my old job, I am hyper-aware of the changing of seasons and the fading light. It is a superpower…
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A snapshot in a shopping list
It’s not often I single out a specific post to talk about, but, with permission from Natasha to embed, she’s presented a lovely find! For those who can’t see it, or if for whatever reason the post is deleted, the item in question is a brass grocery list either cast or engraved in two columns…
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Analog Computing: The Next Tech Bubble?
This came up on my YouTube rec’s and there’s a text article to go with it, and of course from there, I got other stuff on the topic, because the algorithm is a merciless thing. To set this straight, there are reasons this looks like the beginnings of the next bubble: The idea a company…
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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth fall/winter infodump analysis
To take my mind off everything else, a bit of me doing fan analysis here. Okay, to get some gushing out before the rest: OMG, RED, I CAN’T WAIT! CAIT SITH AND HIS CUTE LITTLE TEEFS! KUJATAAAAA! *DEEP BREATH* Okay, let’s get into this. What we know The release date is in February, so basically…
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Computers: work smarter, not smaller
If you haven’t heard the news, computers are facing the end of Moore’s law, which was a prediction of how computers would get more powerful over time that held up nicely until now. The reason for this is because it’s now impossible to make them any smaller. There’s a reason for that. Our friend, Silicon…
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Chuck E. Cheese’s: saving the band
If you haven’t heard, Chuck E. Cheese’s is phasing out the robotic band in favor of a puppet show and other novelties that cost less money. However, there was a huge fan campaign to save the show and it worked, sort of. The band will remain in what is effectively a test location and will…
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