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Jason Scott

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25 Jan

I can seriously get behind a timeline where Biden goes as crazy on the nation around trains as Trump did with his wall.

Everyone works on the trains, like right now everyone has people in their family who went to war. Just, everybody working some train time - part of the crew that built this pass, or who helped with the beautification of their local station, or collected beautiful Train Bonds

And people screaming "Why the trains when ____________" or "Trains? Who needs more Trains! We need more _________"

Just a thing. Joe did his job OK, but ohhh man, the Biden Train Renaissance touches everyone's lives as a memory in 2040

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Jason Scott

@textfiles

24 Jan

@RochBalrog

@RochBalrog Because people die, John. Because the locations of playing files and the instructions on how to play them and get them working often get lost.

@RochBalrog

@RochBalrog Because you're using Google Drive links to provide your files. The links are obscure, Google keeps changing the services and it's almost guaranteed these links won't work in the future. (Mega, Photobucket, and many more have shifted functionality or cut it off completely.)

@RochBalrog

@RochBalrog Because not everybody is a strong enthusiast who knows how to find lists of games, and then go to each site, and then find in those sites their particular approach to offering what they have, and which version. Your site is a blog-format with google drive links threaded in.

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Jason Scott

@textfiles

22 Jan

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Jason Scott

@textfiles

20 Jan

This uploader at Youtube is putting up a lot of one of a kind video. When (not if) Youtube's content-id mangler starts yanking it down, I'll be waiting to help mirror it at Internet Archive.

youtube.com/channel/UCVTQ7…

See you soon

I get why people use youtube to save archival video. I also totally understand if they're hosting a video channel they derive income from, and want to have the tools to do so. They definitely have those tools.

But if you don't mirror it with us at some point;

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Jason Scott

@textfiles

20 Jan

In 1985, Mary Ann Buckles released her dissertation, "Interactive Fiction: The Computer Storygame Adventure", receiving her Ph.D. from UCSD. She fought for it the whole way, saying it was really important, that these games would change our relationship to computers.

Her dissertation board had members dead set against this frivolous subject. The experience left her exhausted, and she wrote one more article about adventure games before becoming a massage therapist. Many, many game dissertations now quote her work, a major pioneering effort.

Her dissertation is at the Internet Archive, readable, at archive.org/details/maryan…

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Jason Scott

@textfiles

19 Jan

@internetarchive

Some people have heard I had this program called SCREEN SHOTGUN, which automatically plays games/programs at @internetarchive and makes screenshots, and then uploads those so you get previews. In the vast majority of items at the Archive, this is how the screenshots got there.

The mechanism to make this work was exactly the sort of thing you'd expect when a non-programmer with a top-hat cargo cults a smashing together of a headless X server against a browser and random full-screen screenshots and random custom crops. Truly an epic crapshow.

@trumad

I worked with @trumad on and off, first with Flash emulations, and now generally, and we have a screenshotter that does what people suggested for years - directly yank the canvas out of a puppeteer instance. It works spectacularly and a mass of screenshotting will commence.

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