❄️ ’Tis the season to celebrate with Sierra On-Line’s 1986 "A Computer Christmas." ❄️ Thanks to #softwarepreservation, this retro holiday classic is now a perennial gift for new generations of holiday revelers. 🦌🎄

See all the animated sequences ⤵️
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#TechHistory #retrogaming

@8bitjoystick.bsky.social do you have a Modretro affiliate link? I’m going to place an order based on your videos and want you to get any kind of credit they would send your way.

beginning to feel like constant context switching was not the productivity hack we were led to believe

At this juncture I’d like to point out:
* we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing
* there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world
* a united approach could stop the climate crisis
But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.

“The Doge of Venice acted as both the head of state and head of the Venetian oligarchy. Doges were elected for life through a complex voting process.”

I am begging people to understand that the "solution" here - increasingly fragile tech stacks - introduces massive resiliency challenges.

We should be discussing single points of failure more than we do. And this stuff will get worse unless we start rejecting these ideas.

The price of VR headsets is now one of the factors used by the UK government to measure inflation, a reflection of VR entering the mainstream:

The most insane thing happening in America is if, or when, the restructuring of the government has negative effects, those effects will still be blamed on those who don’t have power.

Pay attention and remember.

I’ve achieved Blu-ray to Airplay, forcing me to use Steam Link for virtual desktop instead of Mac Virtual Display.

The opening scene of Star Trek: Generations with the Picard crew on the holodeck is such an incredible depiction of VR.

“Computer, remove plank.”

i know this was making the rounds yesterday but it's unreal how terrible youtube's ai "inspiration" tab is. four videos i've already made but with different titles and one that is straight up incorrect.

considering how slow that team is to roll out creator features, it's annoying that THIS shipped.

Can you imagine that Twitter was once a place where millions of famous artists and musicians and athletes (and unfortunately journalists and politicians) and so on would just log onto for free and post every day all day off the dome the thoughts and details of their every day lives?

I don't think I want a new year this time around, I want a gently used year like a 2015 or maybe a 1998 if it's in good shape idk

I recommend no fewer than 4 copies of any beloved book. A paperback for traveling and lending to friends, an eBook for reading with greasy snack fingers, an audio book so you know how the characters' names are actually pronounced, and a pristine hardcover to be buried with you like a pharaoh

Just a reminder that there’s an app available for your TV called PBS RETRO where you can watch all sorts of wonderful old pbs shows like Mr. Rogers and Reading Rainbow, you know, in case you might need that sort of energy right now