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21 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
So my pal (anonymous so his family doesn't find out) decided to play Call of Duty Warzone with me and his two sons and our 4-player team got to the last rounds, 3 of us were killed, and the 8 YEAR OLD WON THE GAME FOR US.

I am humbled
It probably helped that the two kids (8 and 11) kept calling me "The Pro", as in "The Pro will protect us".

brb adopting two children 8 and 11
Somewhere, the guy who was #2 in this warzone round will go to bed annoyed he wasn't able to win the game, but by the mercy of an otherwise cold universe he does so unaware he was smoked by Gorgu
There is no way on earth the 8 year old doesn't blurt this out at the breakfast table

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23 Dec
Playing Call of Duty Cold War.

Well, not really playing.

Playing custom mode, The Pines. Image
Why? It is a 2020 game imitating a 1980s mall. Let's see how they do. Image
Pretty mall-y! Image
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23 Dec
Quick story. It's not heartwarming but it's certainly warm.
Friend of mine really liked Dragonriders of Pern, which is the science fiction series where people train and ride dragons. She was also an artist. People would roleplay Pern online, naming themselves, describing and naming dragons, you know, nerd stuff.
My friend (a real person, I assure you) started drawing friends riding on their dragons, and drawing them based on requests. Got pretty good at it. Did commissions. Drawing people on dragons.
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23 Dec
OK, so. Nobody, almost nobody, has time for the wonky tracking of all the laws that screw with their lives and keeping tracks of the up and downs of things like copyright maximalist bombage and the day to day energy of that. So, I'm giving you a very quick "What can I do" list.
So, first, really, sign up for, donate, and become a member of the EFF, Electronic Freedom Foundation. They've been around a long time and they're all up in everything. You'll be hard pressed to find someone who does the high-profile internet bazoola who HASN'T worked with them. Image
And yes, that includes me, a half dozen times since 2000. 20 years of me working with these folks on stuff you didn't have to hear about because they helped me or organizations I was working with first. They're at EFF.ORG and the year-end challenge is afoot.
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20 Dec
A little thread on the GDC tapes, and dealing with turning something into digital from analog.

I just put up another tape from GDC 1999. Paul Steed, "Optimizing 3-D Art: Less is Best".

archive.org/details/gdc-19…
If this was a small set, like a half-dozen or so, it'd be short work to get them though the digitization process and shove them up. But this is about 130 tapes, so you run into a problem - it's a very boring process. This means, unless you're compensated, you might fall off.
So instead, I try to come up with a process that is 1. Simple, 2. Not destructive to the original material, 3. Easily done in the time gaps of my life.

Combining these attributes means it can "just happen" over time, and the choices I make are not final.
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17 Dec
Side note: Are YOU prepared for the for-cost Google future? You better be!
Within 10 years, beset upon in every way by governments, agencies and laws, companies like Google, who have wormed their way into every crevice of public and private service by literally dropping the perceived cost of world-changing tech to zero money, will be forced to stop.
There's a rich, deep undercurrent on all of these companies making a very good illusion that you just "get" search or file storage or information retrieval and it just happens. They do this because they sell everything about you to others. One day they will not easily be able.
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17 Dec
People are informing me of e-mails coming from MEDIAFIRE today about how they're going to start classifying accounts as "abandoned" if they don't meet certain criteria, and the offered content of those accounts will be deleted, starting January.
For decades on the Internet, we've had this situation where a company "helpfully" offers to be the image/sound/file-sharing platform, "generously" allowing users to host important and not so important stuff. In doing so, they become, essentially, libraries, storehouses, archives.
And then you know what happens? It turns out the "free" service functioning "helpfully" and which has driven out any competition or a fair price-oriented business that could compete, itself closes down or switches to jacking up its prices in a death of competition.
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