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I bought a standup bass back in June! I set up a Facebook Marketplace alert for them, and it actually worked; a good option came up. It feels like Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace are the only options for local sales online, and it’s been that way for a long time. And Craigslist sucks? It used to be this site super fancy people would point to and say see, design doesn’t actually matter that much. Sure, ok, fine. Well, Craigslist still looks like shit, and it’s riddled with scams. I can’t…

Fog rolls in at sunset, at Avenue I in South Redondo Beach. サウス・レドンド 日没時、サウス・レドンド・ビーチのアベニューIに霧が流れ込む。

Hi all. This one of those rare housekeeping posts in which I talk about the goings-on of running this site. Apologies, but I will be quick!First up — and most importantly — I’ve created two ways where readers like you can support Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games: Patreon and Kofi. If you’re familiar with those websites, that may be all you really need to know, but I’ll explain them below.The new Patreon is for me, Drew Mackie, in general, and all creative efforts I will be embarking upon…

Previously: Boardgames tag Our friend from the US was back again for a few weeks recently, which means our normally remote gaming group got together a few times in person to play some boardgames, these are the ones we played. The Lord of the Rings Trick-Taking Game (Fellowship and Two Towers) The full title for these is super clunky. BGG: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Trick-Taking Game, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Trick-Taking Game This was interesting, it's'…

Forgotten Island, DreamWorks latest animated feature, operates at peak creative levels, offering a parade of vividly colored, fantastical creatures that pop off the screen, often with boosts of comic energy. Beginning in the Philippines in the 1990s, the story -- written and directed by Joel Crawford and Januel P. Mercado (Puss in Boots: The Last Wish) -- introduces two schoolgirls: rebellious Jo (H.E.R.) and studious Raissa (Liza Soberano). Mischief-prone best friends, Jo and Raissa constantly…

[This is a guest post by Tapio Schneider. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] [This will be cross-posted on the CliMA blog.] The apparent proof of finite-time blow-up of the forced Navier-Stokes equation, announced by OpenAI on September 8, has brought into focus a debate about the role of AI in mathematics. The proof was produced with a system of some 10,000 AI agents that explored many approaches in parallel; it was then formalized and…

Alex, by M.J. Galt, pencil on paper. I don’t know the size. Link is to image file page on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Library of Congress. There is a character to this drawing, perhaps a feeling of confidence and definitive structure, that make me confident that it is an exacting portrait, an undeniable likeness. I found the descriptions and accreditation confusing enough that I’m unsure; but I think the subject is the artist’s brother. The face is both subtly modeled in the areas in…

Upland & Prairie is troublesome. Designed by the peerless Peer Sylvester, gorgeously illustrated and produced, and conceptually adjacent to certain Knizian disc- and tile-laying games, it has the makings of something wonderful. The problem is that it doesn’t work. With some squinting, I believe I can see what Sylvester was going for. But it’s like looking directly at the sun: uncomfortable, fumbling, all its majesty blinded by sheer directness. I have worked to appreciate what is here. But the…

Teachers use AI to assign homework. Students use AI to do it. Then teachers use AI to check if students used AI. That’s the concern a ex-coworker shared on a WhatsApp group. He was worried his children becoming so lazy to think by themselves. But the weapon to fight brain root is well known since Ancient Times. Books. The best invention of man. Read widely. It trains your focus. It frees your imagination. It teaches you critical thinking. It regulates your nervous system. In Greece, free men…

I've dragged out my copy of Wings of War, that I've played maybe twice since I bought it who knows how many years ago, with the aim of making it usable with my little 3d printed aeroplanes.It's a very simple dogfight game, though its rulebook could do with a bit of editing for clarity. There are a bunch of additional rules in various supplements too, which could do with all being gathered together in one set of instructions. The main thing about using models instead of cards representing the…

It is a tradition for fans of Roger Zelazny to read his novel A Night in the Lonesome October every spooky season. The book has one chapter for each day of October, making it a fun casual activity to lead up to Halloween! I thought I would remind folks about it in case they wanted to try it and give them time to get the book. My original blog post about the novel is linked below. A Night in the Lonesome October, by Roger Zelazny

That sultry summer sweat was in full effect over at the Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque Discord server because I put on a little "Summer of Southern Gothic" film series for my pals and fellow travelers. Every Wednesday, we convened and watched a movie that fit under the broad theme of "the Southern Gothic." Recording what we watched for posterity:The Devil's RejectsWinter's BoneThe Reflecting SkinWild at HeartThe BeguiledDeliveranceBlack Snake MoanThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre

This is samoyed-and-teddy-bear.jpg. It is a 896x592 .jpg file, 111KB in size. Uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons by user Teddybear nut at 06:05 UTC on December 26th in 2005. The dog is named Kokinee. Alongside the photo a comment is stored, which reads I'm the author. You can reach me at fuzzywzhe@yahoo.com. This is a picture of my samoyed with a teddy bear. I release all rights to it, it would just be nice if her image could survive forever. I'm not sure if I'd be able to understand someone…

Agents are great at producing code. The valuable work left for you is deciding what should exist, how it should behave, and what you're willing to trade for it.

You know what the biggest functional difference is between running FreeBSD and Linux on the desktop? Out of memory errors. On FreeBSD, I rarely get them. On Linux, I regularly do. Despite running KDE on both, and despite largely using the same applications. KDE on Linux will pop up to advise me the system is low on memory, then it’ll pop up again to advise that it’s killed a random program (without my input) to free it up. ARC on FreeBSD and macOS doesn’t get enough praise. No, not ZFS ARC,…

by Cláudio Alves Ever since its third edition, the Toronto International Film Festival has allowed its audiences to vote for their personal favorites. Back in 1978, Claudia Weill’s Girlfriends took the prize, and, to this day, remains in the minority of titles to win the TIFF public’s favor without scoring any Oscar nomination. Populist appeal reigns supreme in this honor’s storied history, as does Hollywood's overshadowing of world cinema in the mainstream mindset. Before this year, we need to…

Last (for the time being) in my series of not-technically-a-rewatch posts.Alien AliensAlien 3Alien: ResurrectionPrometheusCovenant Alien: Covenant(2017, dir. Ridley Scott)Fake-out credits opening, solid black before shifting to David’s eye.**Weyland believing in God solely because he can’t comprehend not being a Super Special Boy is the best piece of character building in both these movies, but Scott doesn’t seem to be aware of how deeply pathetic it is in either. The horror is that this idiot…

No.006 “u1ch.ing2m.ao4y.en4ch.ao3z” The only thing I know about No.006 is that it’s apparently a Chinese woman named Huang Hanqiu, but I’m not even certain about that. Weird electronic producers will lie about anything – or conceal anything – to seem interesting. But that sort of effort wouldn’t be necessary for a glitch track like this, which is somehow both totally incoherent and one of the year’s best earworm-y pop songs. Imagine Charli XCX at maximum Brat hookiness, but scrambled and warped…

Another month away from the virtual world. Preserving my sanity :)

First day of second vacation. First night is some of the best pizza I’ve ever had. I’m at: Pizza Il Focolaio, Montréal, Québec Location map: https://misterchrisjones.ca/location/chris/7374/ Note tags: checkin, food, montral, qubec, pizzarestaurant

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 21st February 2025 With all the excitement about the new Wayfarer record coming out, I searched my inbox to see if I was lucky enough to get a promo (I wasn’t, dear reader) but I did find ‘Wayfarer’ the album by Texan one man post/black/doom project Culak out last year, an album that I enjoyed on previous listens but had erroneously never written about. Well, I’m going to do that now, because this is a record more people should be listening to. It is out now…

I am a longtime-ish fan of Simon Hanselmann, having enjoyed his works since, Hell, when I first discovered him via some pieces for the VICE website back in 2016 or so? He's put out everything from small press mini-comics to big award-winning collections. He just started an official Patreon this week! It will not have physical stuff for sale, as Hanselmann has relegated the distribution of that to Secret Headquarters (for the single comics) and Fantagraphics (for the meaty collections). There…

There’s more of Iain and Hacker’s Summer Challenge nonsense at the start of today’s recording. Then it’s the final episode of Dinosapien – The Thunderbird. Aikens has Eno in a trailer. Eno pretends to be asleep to fool Aikens and escape, but he’s not quite fast enough and stays trapped in the trailer. Danny and Nelson watch all this from outside. They vow to save Eno. Back at the camp, Dr Slayton has discovered that Danny and Nelson are missing. Aikens has watched Lauren’s father’s DVD and used…

Light Conductor are a duo, sometimes, often, trio of Montreal-based musicians who are members of the extended Godspeed You Black Emperor family. Their latest long-player, “Sequence Three”, is the final instalment in a trilogy that began in 2019. Citing Wolfgang Voigt, Spiritualized, Cluster and William Basinski as influences, and recording entirely with vintage analogue gear, the music they make is drone-driven. Their massed machines raising refracted, diffracted waves, washes of buzzing,…

I sent out a newsletter today and wanted to share it here too. Forgive the sales-y post, but we're at the finish line of the courses we've been pouring our entire selves into for the last two years. We're really proud of this work, and we're really excited to help people. With that out of the way, here we go. cue infomercial voice. There's only one week left to get our AI & Design Systems course for $995 before it flips to the final price of $1495 on September 30th. Get AI & Design Systems for…

I want to blog more about the good stuff, so let's talk about the streaming service Dropout. (This isn't a sponsored post or anything, I'm just a big fan.) Dropout is fairly unique in both the type of content they produce and in how the business itself is run. They treat everyone they work with quite well (they pay residuals to writers, actors, and crew members, do profit sharing, pay people to audition, and more). The positive energy this brings about—both in front of and behind the camera—is…

121 consoles, computers, handhelds and arcade boards — the photo, what you’d play on it, and what it takes to run.

In the lobby of this apartment building I’ve moved into. The internet technician is coming to install my internet. The deal I got was $117/month. I got 1.5 Gbps down and up. The deal was if I sign up for cable I can cancel that within 30 days and the price reduces to $90/month. I think there’s an additional $10 off if I sign up for auto billing. Is that a good deal for downtown Calgary? I don’t know. If you are reading this and you know, please let me know. The company is Telus. I didn’t want…

Irrelevant is a word that haunts social media, the internet, elite circles of celebrities, and general popularity as well. Social media as we know it is around 20+ years old with juggernauts from the beginning now barely remembered or wading in the loose sand of the hourglass of being a topic in the ocean of commentary channels. Usually because of a clumsy comeback, as a mockery, or due to a felony charge. It means who you are and your brand you cultivated for years no longer matters to anyone.…