Notices by atomicpoet (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org), page 2

To me, the Commodore 64 will always be better than the Nintendo Entertainment System because there was no Commodore Seal of Quality.

Anyone could create a C64 game. And many of us did.

Even I—a non-programmer—made a C64 app. I wrote a simple ski jumping game from BASIC. It took me all day to make it, but I did, and it was incredibly rewarding.

What a great experience that was!

The truth is uncomfortable.

Google has proven that giant corporations can leverage open source to build monopolies and destroy competition.

The most important video game companies of all time:

1. Atari
2. Nintendo
3. Microsoft
4. Sierra
5. Valve
6. Sony
7. Bandai Namco
8. SEGA
9. Square Enix / Eidos / Taito
10. Commodore

But sometimes I think Apogee was a more important company than Commodore since they pioneered the shareware market, the FPS genre too, and kickstarted a renaissance in PC gaming design.

But ultimately, I think Commodore is more important because, not only were they significant to North Americans but Europeans too.

I tried the Amstrad CPC for gaming.

It’s nowhere as good as the C64 or Atari 8-bit. But it mostly is better than CGA era DOS.

@goatsarah Did the Atari 8-bit not take off in the UK? It was a big thing over here.

@goatsarah The Archimedes seems cool. Don’t think there were many games released for it, though.

@thedansimonson @panos Maybe the infrastructure is not in place for your server, but I assure you that it’s in place for my server.

@panos @lutindiscret I think if we stopped thinking about the Fediverse as “Twitter replacement”, and thought of it more as “general social media replacement”, then we’d generally be more open about what the Fediverse can and cannot do.

This tech could replace everything social. If you want, it can be Tumblr, Flickr, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and even basic blogs.

What the Fediverse can’t do is be something like Adobe Flash where everything is exactly like so – which might piss off certain web designers obsessed with reproducing an experience in the exact same way again and again. But hey, we already have technology for that anyway.

All this in mind, I think we need to change expectations about what the Fediverse is.

Here’s the difference between consoles 30 years ago and consoles now:

Back in the day, the goal of consoles was to bring the arcade to the home. And games reflected that. You turned on the console, you got started right away, and the action was instantaneous.

Nowadays, consoles don’t give a damn about bringing the arcade to the home because few people go to the arcade.

Instead, the goal of consoles seems to be to bring PC gaming to the living room. Which is fine except consoles—with the exception of the Switch—now seem to be less user friendly than PCs!

@goatsarah Nope, invented by a Canadian.

Sports that were actually invented in the USA:

1. Volleyball
2. Skateboarding
3. Snowboarding
4. Ultimate frisbee

Had food poisoning for the past few days. Therefore, I’ve been lying in bed.

Today, I finally did some exercise. Nothing intense. Just ran for 9 minutes because I’m still recovering.

Got to say, though, I love running. All my life—until now—I hated it. But late at night, when I’m going for a jog, it feels like sheer freedom.

@HistoPol Do you remember what I said?

@HistoPol Holy crap, does that look cool!

The luxury home market in Vancouver is crashing down to Earth.

This home was originally listed for C$16.8M.

Now it’s selling for C$8M – and can’t even find a buyer.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-british-properties-home-1056-groveland

@goatsarah I really want to try it!

There’s also C. Taliensis. I haven’t tried that one yet.

What people don’t realize about tea is that white, yellow, green, oolong, black, and pu’ehr all come from the same plant: camellia sinensis.

The colours simply refer to a degree of oxidization.

White is unfermented, green is slightly oxidized, black is mostly oxidized, and pu’ehr is completely oxidized – to the point of fermentation.

Now if you want to know why black tea tastes different from Indian tea, it’s because Indian tea is a different subspecies called camellia sinensis assamica.

@joeo10 https://atomicpoet.org/notice/Alq1k8aUFvNJCRdnX6