EA's rebundle of the 'complete’ Sims 2 for Steam is missing the IKEA Home Stuff pack. Literally unplayable.
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It was early in the morning when he rode into the town
Right away he was impressing when he pressed a button-down
If your oxford shirt is rumpled
Or your trouser crease lacks drip
Then you come and find the ranger with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip
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For years, in a small Derbyshire town, I unknowingly lived three streets away from a Bletchley Park codebreaker who knew Alan Turing. Learned this information from his obituary.
What about you? What’s your most regretted what-if?
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The other day I started to reminisce that Kit Kats used to come wrapped in an actual piece of aluminium foil, and I realised with horror that the (much younger) people in the room were looking at me the same way I looked at my parents when they told me they used to buy tripe from the “tripe man”.
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In 1975, researchers at Bell Labs developed a method to exchange emails with people exactly fifty years in the future. Despite its initial successes, the project was cancelled in 1976, six months after the last reply was received.
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I have 2300+ games in my Steam library, got a Deck in the first shipment out of the factory, rebuy games that I own elsewhere because the Steam version's more convenient.
But if I could only play games from one storefront of my choice for the rest of my life, I'd pick itch.io in a hot second.
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I know that game trade publications aren't sexy and nobody read them as a kid. They're pretty niche. But old issues of these magazines aren't digitised, and they contain different information than can be found in the material that has been.
I’ve been scooping up old MCVs from eBay on their rare appearance, and I have close to 200 physical issues to scan and upload in the coming years.
[#]videogamehistory
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New scan: MCV Magazine issue 650 (August 2011). Inside:
• Exhibitor lists, maps and lots of information if you're heading to Köln for Gamescom 2011.
• Dancing games go from strength to strength. #1 on the sales charts: Zumba Fitness.
• A look at Namco's upcoming slate, including some game called 'Dark Souls’ they think will sell.
• A big Resident Evil 15th anniversary feature.
• There's also, weirdly, a photo of Johnny Chiodini shirtless?
On archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/mcv-650-2011-08-12
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I started out by scanning the entire magazine at the wrong dpi so let's just say I'm taking a trial and error approach to resuming this activity
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(not even kidding. there are so many options to choose from when creating a PDF in Acrobat, most of which do irreparable damage to the scan.)
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Haven’t scanned one of these in a while. (In fact this stack of pages have been sitting next to my scanner for the last two years.)
PDF coming up, assuming I can remember how to make one…
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Fascinating to see prolific game manual scanner Kirkland show his process and collections, and talk at length about cataloguing, speed vs. quality, collaboration, and what's next. An interview conducted by @ChariotRider:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UjGtsoDl0o
[#]videogamehistory #gamepreservation
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The Switch 2 is the first Nintendo console with a 2 in the name since the Wii U.
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I know internet-connected appliances are always terrible, but I would put up with a lot of dark patterns and dysfunctional design for even a 50/50 possibility of turning my boiler on remotely a few hours before I arrive
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Anyway that's why I wore a lot of the same clothes in bed last night that I'd lately been wearing outdoors in Norwegian January.
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Late last night I learned that when you return to a flat you haven't been in for a month, and that was unheated for that period, the temperature in the bed you want to immediately crash in will be 11ºC, and the radiator will warm the room and its contents by about one degree every hour.
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Connections
Puzzle #581
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Given the blue category, kind of embarrassing to get that one last…
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As tempting an offer as £10,000 a year might be, anyone hired because of this ad would be out of work ten months later when Imagine imploded in a cloud of debt.
(Home Computing Weekly, October 1983)
[#]videogamehistory
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Clearly I should come up with a strict algorithm for creating pages for every game ever made. Alphabetical order, perhaps.
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I need a better strategy for adding content to a mostly empty videogame history wiki than 'haphazardly'. #morguefilewiki
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