The stories behind Ultima, Deus Ex and Epic Mickey. The post Warren Spector: The Stories Behind Deus Ex and Ultima – The Retro Hour EP550 appeared first on Retro Hour Podcast.

Lumi is back at sewing class this week. Pretty amazing what she is able to create.

I’ve given up trying to figure this movie out, but I heard about your website on Fun For All Ages Podcast and searched and still came up short, so I thought I’d write. I believe this movie was seen by me around 1983-1984. I don't know when it was filmed, but it was in color. Here is all I can remember. There is some kind of big rock in the middle of a town or area that if you touch it you will catch fire for some reason, I remember someone getting pushed into it and they burst into flame, I…

I had plans to tell you that I’m having a second wind. Or third wind, depending on how old I feel on a given day. I was wondering how I could still be interesting while bragging about all my successes. People don’t want to hear me kvelling about me. There needs to be tension. It’s hard to write a post with an edge when I’m wallowing in my greatness. Fortunately, that is not a problem anymore because I’m dying of hubris. It happened so fast. Like if the Odyssey were two chapters instead of two…

Live from Retromessa in Norway The post Yuzo Koshiro: From ActRaiser to Smash Bros.– The Retro Hour EP549 appeared first on Retro Hour Podcast.

Table of Contents Table of Contents Why Not Just Use Poudriere? The Build Jail A Ports Tree on the Right Branch Which Ports, Which Options? Building the Packages The Mistake: Where Did My Packages Go? A Local Repository Upgrading the Target Jails Surprise Guests in the Second Jail Switching Back to Official Packages Pitfalls: The Checklist Conclusion References On 2026-10-21 the PHP project released fixes for two critical vulnerabilities nicknamed php2shell (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619,…

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Recently, a player asked if there's a way to "upgrade" their equipment or buy better weapons. My eyes went black. "Upgrade?" I shouted. "Better equipment?" I jumped from my seat and knocked over a bowl of chips. The group went quiet. I pointed my finger in the players face and then slammed it on the table, where a copy of Moldvay Basic happens to be open to page B27. "You see where it says 'sword?'" He nodded. "That's every sword. This isn't some video game where you ditch your iron weapon once…

When I was a kid, there was a movie where a woman was on a staircase, one of those with a window about halfway up. She looked out the window, and saw a creepy man's face looking in. She screamed, ran downstairs and outside to see if there was really a man, or if she imagined it. The only person outside was a kid, about 10 years old, who was very blase and nonchalant about her freakout, and said he hadn't seen anybody. I have no idea what this movie was, but I couldn't walk past open windows for…

tl;dr: Run bunx describetime 2026-10-16T15:41:41-04:00 to see a date described in different ways. Example output: The purpose of this tool is to help you understand a date-time you might come across. For example, how does 2026-10-22T01:28:43.000Z compare to October 21, 2026 at 9:28:43 PM EDT? (Hint: they're the same moment in time.) Another advantage of this tool is its ability to describe a date-time in words relative to right now. As you can see in the picture, it says 4 days ago, but it…

Holy Crap… I just discovered these NetNewsWire Themes. Lots of fun and tasteful choices.

[This is a guest post by Caroline Turnage-Butterbaugh. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Evidence in favor of the Riemann Hypothesis comes in many flavors. OpenAI’s proof of the quasi-Riemann Hypothesis is definitely one such flavor; however, in this post I will focus my comments on a different kind of evidence: lower bounds on the proportion of nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta-function on the critical line. Great strides have…

This week's random revisit isn't all that random; it's something I picked up from the shelf deliberately for a listen and then decided to turn it into this week's album to get back to (it is an album I'm going back to, it counts). Last Saturday I saw The Mountain Goats live for the first time and had an incredible night: Darnielle was a joy to witness live in all his incredible showmanship, the band were tight, the setlist full of surprises in the way that TMG setlists are and I really enjoy…

If you have an aversion to gook and gore, you'd do well to skip Clayface, the latest big-screen addition to the DC Comics universe. It may help to think of the movie as a specialty item, an under-hyped comic book offering that mixes body horror and low-grade sci-fi as it streams bloody set pieces through a revenge-oriented tale. Tom Rhys Harries plays Matt Hagen, a handsome actor whose career is about to take a forward leap after he receives an Oscar nomination. Humbled by recognition but also…

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Read the full post at - Cimarron by Edna Ferber I picked up Cimarron by Edna Ferber from Standard Ebooks, mostly because it’s free and I wanted something to speed read. It’s a western published in 1929, and it covers the settlement of Oklahoma – which was one of the very last pieces of the old frontier to be opened up. The book starts with the Land Run of 1889, when the federal government opened Indian Territory to white settlement after having pushed the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek,…

archivedeathdrive:Ethan Kaplan, Kota Ezawa, Mondrian Meets the Beatles, Gate G100 International Terminal, San Francisco International Airport, 2017 This is still part of the SFO Museum’s public art collection, but the gate has been renumbered G9.

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Whilst I do not understand the technical aspects of this PHP vulnerability stuff, I can see that AI is giving ordinary people extraordinary abilities to exploit online technologies. That includes accessing online ‘secure’ data and taking control of public and private sector infrastructure. Perhaps after all this time the safest way to store personal information (and passwords) is with a notebook and a pen? Read: AI Is Changing Everything About Hacking. No One Knows What Happens Next. It remains…

And then it was done, The most challenging trout season on the chalk streams I have ever experienced. Child A 2.0 continues to thrive and I grimly predict that if matters progress as they have done during the past two summers, this river will be unfishable and possibly run dry periodically during his lifetime. Possibly mine if I maintain the sustained and determined consumption of red wine, tomatoes and dark chocolate that guarantee to extend life. It has started raining, We have had a lot in…

Cat + Gamerby Wataru NadataniGenres: Manga Pages: 160 Series: Cat + Gamer #8 Rating: Synopsis: Office worker Riko Kozakura lives to play video games, but her life changes forever when she adopts a kitten! Soon, she has two playful cats and takes lessons from video games to help raise them. Riko Kozakura has been level grinding as a pet owner for a while now, and has learned many new skills. Life continues in the Kozakura household with two cats and one videogaming-obsessed human in this finale…

Told in 17-Year Cycles and through three generations of women, this Remote cabin ghost story plumbs the ways we harbor our ghosts and how they might just harbor us.read a free e-version HEREhttps://heyzine.com/flip-book/4e7514d411.html

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I wondered what the first plane internationally was. I ended up hosting a flight data visualisation site.It started with a question. In June, I wrote about loading the official statistics for international flights to and from the US into an instance of Datasette, partly to answer a question: who did I fly with, from Heathrow to New York, in 2001?I got an answer, and some rudimentary visualisations; pushed the code, and a dev website; then did nothing for months.I was reminded of it earlier last…

On why owning your own AI is quietly becoming the new corporate literacy - and why the companies that treat it as a subscription will one day find the subscription treating them. The Misconception"AI is a utility. You plug in, you prompt, you prosper." This is the comfortable story. The model lives somewhere in the cloud, like electricity or tap water, and your job is simply to consume it. Nobody builds their own power plant, so why would anyone run their own model? Pay the monthly fee, paste…

I built AudioRouter so I could route Windows audio by drawing a graph instead of maintaining a pile of hidden mixer settings. The next useful step was making that graph available to an AI assistant through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). MCP is the part that lets an AI discover tools and call them…

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Link: The Three-Layer Cake: Public-Interest Information in an AI-Intermediated Age, by Gina Chua and Adiel Kaplan at the Tow-Knight Center for Journalism FuturesGina Chua and Adiel Kaplan at the Tow-Knight Center for Journalism Futures have put together a report summarizing a year of convenings and conversations about how journalism might react to its intermediation by AI. I was privileged to take part and to read a draft version of this report.I love the framing here: the three-layer cake is…

There’s a very important paper on arXiv by P.K.G. Williams (of the Harvard-Smithsoninan Center for Astrophysics) with title AI and the Enclosure of the Scientific Commons and abstract: The scientific literature can be viewed as an “information commons”: an intangible resource that “no one owns and is shared by everyone.” There are well-established economic and political frameworks for understanding such commons, emerging from the history of agricultural common lands found in places like…

I was perusing the always lovely website of one mr. V.H. Belvadi and stumbled my way onto a post titled “Webmentions, copyright and privacy” and from there quickly landed on Kev’s post titled “Privacy and Webmentions”. I find the topic very interesting because it sits at the intersection of two things I care much about: web based technology and human interactions. And so I’m gonna spend a moment thinking in public about this. The first issue I personally see in this overall discussion is the…