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I was so happy when MBV came out of hibernation. I got to fulfill one of my bucket list shows and see them live.
November 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I was so happy when MBV came out of hibernation. I got to fulfill one of my bucket list shows and see them live.
Thank you for your myriad contributions seen and unseen to the wonderful hobby of video games and to the world we all inhabit. It will be poorer without you.
November 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Thank you for your myriad contributions seen and unseen to the wonderful hobby of video games and to the world we all inhabit. It will be poorer without you.
New Yorker's after Mamdani's day-one "all crime is now legal" decree.
November 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
New Yorker's after Mamdani's day-one "all crime is now legal" decree.
I do think there is something here. I might be slightly off the mark, but homing onto something. Or it could all be old man yells at cloud.
November 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I do think there is something here. I might be slightly off the mark, but homing onto something. Or it could all be old man yells at cloud.
This is probably my inner Luddite coming through, but this unshackling from "meatspace" has left us adrift. Drifting in the morass of cyberspace with no anchor. We are physical beings and we live in physical space, I think the more we try to escape it the more it eats at us.
November 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
This is probably my inner Luddite coming through, but this unshackling from "meatspace" has left us adrift. Drifting in the morass of cyberspace with no anchor. We are physical beings and we live in physical space, I think the more we try to escape it the more it eats at us.
As we became familiar with the device we eschewed our tether to the physical world and started designing without cues to the analog world. Why be tired down? It just slowed the process.
November 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
As we became familiar with the device we eschewed our tether to the physical world and started designing without cues to the analog world. Why be tired down? It just slowed the process.
This is what happen when I do a bunch of skeets instead of a blog post. My central point about the desktop metaphor. At the start we had programs that were facsimiles of real world tools. So a notes app looked like a pad of paper. A recorder has a chunky record button. The term is skeuomorphism.
November 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
This is what happen when I do a bunch of skeets instead of a blog post. My central point about the desktop metaphor. At the start we had programs that were facsimiles of real world tools. So a notes app looked like a pad of paper. A recorder has a chunky record button. The term is skeuomorphism.
And now with the hard push to AI the interface becomes a char window. No control, just more passivity. I think there is myriad reasons why you are seeing nostalgia for older machines, but there is a kernel of loss there. Of control, power, and imagination.
November 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
And now with the hard push to AI the interface becomes a char window. No control, just more passivity. I think there is myriad reasons why you are seeing nostalgia for older machines, but there is a kernel of loss there. Of control, power, and imagination.
We know how to use apps on our phones but we don't know how to use the device itself. I think this has been a detriment. It is less intuitive and by proxy less powerful for each of us. The tool is consumption not creation. I'm simplifying and this isn't all thought through, there is something amiss.
November 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
We know how to use apps on our phones but we don't know how to use the device itself. I think this has been a detriment. It is less intuitive and by proxy less powerful for each of us. The tool is consumption not creation. I'm simplifying and this isn't all thought through, there is something amiss.
When "Web 2.0" suddenly you could build elaborate and bloated web "applications" not just pages. And every app had a different interface. Then came smartphones and with it even more bifurcation. Computing in an of itself is fractured and far far less accessible than it used to be in my opinion.
November 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
When "Web 2.0" suddenly you could build elaborate and bloated web "applications" not just pages. And every app had a different interface. Then came smartphones and with it even more bifurcation. Computing in an of itself is fractured and far far less accessible than it used to be in my opinion.
When, latter, when you changed a theme or color every other app changed with it. It cohered. With the introduction of the web the tools changed. The gui of the internet was whatever you could get to work. The browser was still confined but the pages were all different. This was cool, for a while.
November 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
When, latter, when you changed a theme or color every other app changed with it. It cohered. With the introduction of the web the tools changed. The gui of the internet was whatever you could get to work. The browser was still confined but the pages were all different. This was cool, for a while.