Curly's World

Merry Christmas to everyone who still occasionally ends up on this forum. I spent a week recently in Washington DC and I was surprised how many model trains there were in public. The National Christmas Tree was surrounded by them and at US Botanical Gardens they had built tracks around the plants . ...

For once, the spambot posted in the right forum and was on topic.

I think Gilbert released a new game that is not Blackwell but very close to it.

The new show from Matt Groening, Disenchanted, feels a bit mixed from me. It's clearly similar to Futurama but not as nerdy...

This is the special version of Clustetruck that parodies Superhot.

Forums are still a very used medium as long as it has a topic to be centered around (a game, a hobby and such). Yeah, but I think they are now very much consolidated. You talk about games, you go to Neogaf/resetera, you talk about board games you got BGG... the age of small boards is pretty much go...

Half-Life turns 20 years this year. Your screenshot also reminds me that I never played the Laura Bow games...

I think Igor refers to the Igor: Project Uikokahonia? I never played the full game, or... maybe I did, I can't remember.

The BBS had a good run, the phpBB boards had a good run, but now that the Internet blew large the people who posted on forums have moevd to closed communities while everyone else went to more public social media sites. Yeah, this forum created a group of friends but in the current climate, can a for...

Actually, it was MI2 and I thought I needed a stick. I can't remember if on second try I realized I didn't actually need a stick.

That is patience. I remember getting stuck on the first Monkey Island, if I remember correctly I wasn't able to find a stick or something, and it took years before I continued the game.

I guess no-one cares about the Truth anymore =)

I have to say that throughout the years I have thoroughly enjoyed reading your updates, Railwaymodeler.

I think this insane thing of doing Tetris on Conway's Game of Life has some ideas about abstractions.

What's the link between formal logic and chaotic, irrational human behaviour, Zyx? Do we know more now? The never-ending fight against entropy and chaos. Computers and logic systems are created by humans and have certain assumptions about their existence that set limits but also mean that everythin...

Sites like OG and CWF has been created by certain online civilisation(s) which died, but later come new generations who feel it is in fashion to leave something on this column, like "Johnny kissed Mary here", you know. Bots do the fine job. They come, unaware of what CWF (or any other) site is or w...

True, not sure where the places for heavily anarchist, individualist and elitist people are on the internet anymore except these derelict phpbb boards.

Some kind of preservation site for forgotten or impossible to find games may become necessary to establish sooner than I expected.

Yeah, I think the Archive.org guys are doing that. We probably could still hunt for those games and periodically send them over to them with metadata.

I think it's just one tiny aspect of school that we learn whatever the powers that be have determined is the baseline about the surrounding world. The bigger thing are the tools and mindset to continue that on our own and solve whatever problems we might face. Yet, with the ability of accessing all ...

Nowadays, with faster internet connections and faster computers, pages don't have to be built to load over slow dialup connections. Then smartphones and the developing world getting internet on their phones happened. The Google front page is optimized to fit on a lower level to as few TCP/IP packet...

That would be awesome! I did enjoy Limbo quite a lot.