Notices by Thad (thad@brontosin.space), page 2

@jacklaridian Pryde of the X-Men did air, BTW, it just wasn't picked up for series. I remember catching it in a Saturday morning block that was usually a rerun of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends followed by an episode each of Dino-Riders and the Robocop animated series. IIRC once in awhile they'd run the X-Men pilot instead of Robocop, and pair it with one of the Spider-Man episodes that guest-starred the X-Men.

@zaratustra I'm sure there will be plenty of Mickey representation in @mmasnick's annual public domain game jam.

@jalcine I'm a comics fan and it is absolutely wild seeing how often self-professed "fans" side with corporate publishers over the human beings who actually write and draw the things.

@charliejane I don't think he should have any origin story.

At least, not a definitive one. I like the hook that he tells different sob stories to different people to manipulate them, but always as an unreliable narrator.

@thomasfuchs I think it's common for people who are experts at one particular thing to overestimate how well their knowledge generalizes.

Someone looks at a website, thinks "I could build that better," and maybe they're right, but then they also think they can build a better government or financial system or some other extremely complex thing well outside their area of expertise.

@thomasfuchs I think there's also a bias toward new shiny things, and it's easy to mistake something interesting for something useful and important.

I think the blockchain is fascinating, as math, as a concept. I also see no use case, thus far, where it serves any practical purpose that wouldn't be better served by a traditional, centralized database. It seems hard for some people to accept that both things can be true, that a new technology can be fascinating *and* completely impractical.

@thomasfuchs The Mac version of Wizardry is the best version of Wizardry. It's always been weird to me that the later remakes went back to the DOS version as their starting point when the Mac version has the far superior graphics and UI.

I did recently discover there was a WonderSwan Color version and it looks really good. I'm sorely tempted to give it a try, but I should know by now that starting a fresh game of Wizardry will only end in tears.