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Christ, you scared me there. Stallman is not dead.

<not the original commenter> It's a bit more advanced and complex then gamemaker - when I used it a few years ago a more direct comparison would have been a 2d specialist Unity (although it does 3d as well, and this may have significantly advanced since I last used it)

Some background on the Adidas/Puma rivalry, which is quite a fascinating story:

https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/mgz97b/the-nazi-siblin...

Yes I am! Thanks!

To be fair, the 256 byte stack can essentially be used in assembly as 256 registers, which is also one of the features (along with indirect addressing) that make assembly on it awesome.

My relatively poorly researched impression of it is that it's half-way to portable C, with a proto-stack and pointers, essentially.

Interesting - what would the evidence that current paywalls are/have restored quality journalism be?

As in, do you believe this uptick in quality journalism has already happened/is happening? And what associates it with paywalls? Presumably you'd have to be seeing quality journalism behind paywalls for this to be case?

I wanted to follow along - your blog looks excellent, I'll check there and micro.blog. Thank you.

Incidentally (and rhetorically), how I have not heard of micro.blog? It looks amazing! This whole thread has become a goldmine of interesting things.

How do I get updates on the groups project?

Wiby seems amazing - the first three surprise me links were a human powered ornithopter, lego maniacs and a guide to knife throwing. Thank you for sharing!

Bread and circuses

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

I can't comment nationally, but I've been having fish and chips a couple of times at our local and near my parents, both in London, and they're all using vinegar.

Death note is almost a reverse bird box.

Bird box has an excellent premise, which turns out to just be a hook on which to hang some character development (I did quite enjoy it though).

Death note has a really derivative premise, and then goes nuts drilling down in to the exact mechanics of how such a thing would work - there's no deus ex machina (apart from the literal god of the plot), instead it plays within it's own rules very exactly and never cheats the audience, instead introducing very clever "hacks" to its own system.

I think it's mostly a psychological barrier in most respects. There's also no necessity to comment - lurking, despite the quite awful name we've given the behaviour, is a perfectly normal thing to do. Plenty of people read books who don't write them, etc.

I'd also presume (and it is a presumption!) that people who are commenting on one platform will likely also to be commenting on another. As in, I would presume they would establish a conversation as the preferred method of internet discourse they digest, as opposed to a one way consumption of data.

This also gives me an opportunity to use one of my favourite Cronenberg quotes: "The monologue is his preferred method of discourse" - Videodrome

To be fair, it was the PUBG developers themselves who called Fortnite a clone:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2017/09/22/pubg-deve...

And also Epic themselves stated Fortnite was their "own version" of "Battle Royale games like PUBG"

https://blog.us.playstation.com/2017/09/12/fortnite-battle-r...

There was a great list on BoingBoing recently of works entering the public domain this year:

https://boingboing.net/2018/12/31/thanks-justin.html

Also a rather sadder list following it of works that won't be (yet) because of the copyright extension.

This seems to be a classic example of an argument in which the ends don't justify the means (the means being allowing the lawsuits, the ends being publishers switch to "absolute paywalls")

It may mean that without a harsh letigious method, publishers do not offer "soft paywalls". It's more likely they will continue to do so to not be shut out of the market, AND we won't have waves of frivolous harsh lawsuits bankrupting independent developers.

The alternative you're proposing is to in effect be held to ransom by content providers - your argument could equally be made for any form of drm or appeasement (without root how do we know you are not recording this, wothout your location how do we know you are within our licensing area, without direct retinal scans how do we know who is really watching, etc)

That's kind of awesome. How good with names would you say you are now?

Also, is that the whole technique? Seems like you'd have to say it for quite a while to get it in to long term memory - if you're doing it straight after it doesn't seem like it would qualify for spaced repetition. Do you do it again later?

Ah, that's awesome! thanks!

Great article. Wish he named some of those "obscure Eastern European computers". I know there are good communities around the Japanese microcomputers, the Sharp X1, the 8801, the 9801, MSX, MSX2, etc. http://fullmotionvideo.free.fr/phpBB3/index.php?sid=88c8ee18...

There's some excellent games buried away on them. This series of books in particular is amazing:

https://www.amazon.com/Untold-History-Japanese-Game-Develope...

Anyone know what the author is referring to?

Do you have an online reference for that?

I tried this IBM one but it has a terrible clickthrough to attempt to avoid GDPR:

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-ppc/index.html

And, as seems to pretty much always be the case, the wikibooks looks promising but then appears to be empty:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/PowerPC_Assembly/Instructions

This one seemed pretty good:

https://www.cs.uaf.edu/2011/fall/cs301/lecture/11_21_PowerPC...

Whether an individual building performs its function well or not, its still a central tenet of Brutalism to embed the function in the form.

I appreciate that if everything was Brutalist it would be an overwhelming sight, but I definitely think it has its place.

I'm also not keen on the Hayward personally, but places like Brunel University, the Barbican and the airport in the article have a really nice reduced functionalist style with interesting angles and use of glass.

Edit: Also in terms of popularity of Brutalism, the Barbican is constantly getting praise, and I think has or had architecture tours happening.