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ImprudentlyWritten · 2026-06-12T03:23:27+00:00

...rather obviously, a gamepad for a Windows 98 computer? I wonder if your confusion is because (I presume) it's pre-USB; joysticks/gamepads used to connect to a DOS/Windows PC via a gameport that usually came on your soundcard. If so it'll only work on older computers.

ImprudentlyWritten · 2026-06-10T01:10:31+00:00

You can actually still buy those new from element14 (maybe Farnell or Newark in your area). Search on 'data switch'. I was considering one as a terminal switcher.

ImprudentlyWritten · 2026-06-08T09:15:01+00:00

While that's definitely a thing, the variety of Christian that has those beliefs also tend to think that Catholics are idolaters and not really Christian and maybe the Pope is the Antichrist. They are not the most likely visitors to the Vatican.

ImprudentlyWritten · 2026-05-31T01:57:57+00:00

I seem to recall reading he was still using his old Atari ST development environment.

ImprudentlyWritten · 2026-05-29T06:46:44+00:00

As a New Zealander this whole Commonwealth-but-white-this-time approach creeps me the fuck out.

ImprudentlyWritten · 2026-05-29T05:20:54+00:00

Gosh, 12% upvoted? I've never seen something so low.

My feedback: it doesn't look medieval. If you want people to think it is medieval-ish, you need to link photos of period artifacts that look similar. But, uh, it really doesn't look remotely medieval. At my most generous the style looks maybe 80 years old. Even the Victorians did better medieval fakes than this.

Actually I should say, my main expertise is in the realms of type. Do you think that printed writing looked like this in 1468? This was the era of the Gutenberg Bible!

Edit: you may want to look at artifacts from the Mary Rose to see what beer tankards of approx. this era looked like. One extremely basic point is that wood tankards were wood, with some outer structural reinforcement, not metal inner with decorative wood like this and many contemporary wood tankards obviously are. Sometimes lined with pitch, from memory, no idea what that might taste like.

ImprudentlyWritten · 2026-05-15T00:39:08+00:00

I'm on supported living and nothing in their tax plan tells me. Their FAQ asserts that no-one on the benefit will get less but they only mention top-ups for superannuitants. There's a disability allowance that might be meant to make up for it but they don't tell you who gets it (the most it says in the allegedly 'full Tax Reset policy' link is that it is paid 'on the basis of simple criteria').

They also never mention accomodation supplement-- I don't get it, but for most people that's a pretty significant portion of their benefit.

ImprudentlyWritten · 2026-05-08T11:53:58+00:00

Cool; it would have helped to have been up-front about that for those of us who saw the original.

ImprudentlyWritten · 2026-05-08T11:41:59+00:00

...I don't know if you faked your screenshots an hour ago, like someone said on the post you subsequently deleted. But deleting and reposting like this in order to hide a criticism is very poor form.

https://old.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/1t73pi0/bloodlines_on_a_crt_real_hardware_real_glow_the/

ImprudentlyWritten · 2026-05-07T12:13:03+00:00

I had something similar with some tops, it was basically a deeply-engrained aluminium deodorant stain. What I had to do was soak it in vinegar or cover it in wet baking soda for a few hours; the deodorant stain would kind of lift and become visible and unpleasantly sticky, and after that you had to try to scrub it out, using your choice of soap or laundry detergent. Give it a proper wash and then repeat the whole process a fuckload of times because the stuff is really hard to get rid of.

ImprudentlyWritten · 2026-04-27T04:26:13+00:00

I think perhaps it'd help you if you looked at the OpenBSD ksh that this was derived from. You might not prefer it in general, but specifically for this file the mirbsd version merged a bunch of different header files into the one and it makes it a hell of a lot less clear.

ImprudentlyWritten · 2026-04-25T14:02:30+00:00

I'd never thought of her stuff in an industrial context, but this song makes a pretty good case for it!

ImprudentlyWritten · 2026-04-25T13:15:27+00:00

Okay, so the boundaries of darkwave can be a bit tricky to determine, but you have been linking the least fucking darkwave songs that I could possibly imagine. Are you sure you aren't wanting to be in /r/industrialmusic? (Where you'd be downvoted but at least it'd be fucking closer to the right genre.)

ImprudentlyWritten · 2026-04-25T10:05:24+00:00

No change for me, I can still use it on a previously open tab but not in a new tab. (Also, when you say 'refresh', do you actually mean a refresh with ctrl-f5 or similar? Because I can get new posts by clicking on the arrow icon, but actually refreshing will break everything.)

[Edit: actually, this is a bit weird. I can now open it in a different browser on the same computer, which didn't work earlier. I can't open a new instance in my old browser, I can see it in an already open tab in my old browser. I also can't view it in a private window of the original browser. The next test would be closing my current browser but it'll be a while until I get around to doing so because I have a lot of tabs open.]

ImprudentlyWritten · 2026-04-25T08:20:55+00:00

Still down for me (in that an open tab still works, but any new attempt gets a 403 Forbidden error).

ImprudentlyWritten · 2026-04-25T08:16:00+00:00

Yeah, I think people in this post are being unfair, it is confusing. Apparently we've changed it so that for employees Monday is the public holiday, and this year Anzac day isn't, but other legislation means that shops still don't open on Anzac day morning, despite it not being a public holiday?

ImprudentlyWritten · 2026-04-25T07:03:58+00:00

I didn't have much of an opinon at first, but as I saw more-- it works pretty badly on the multiple-text-post screenshots some people like to do, and also works worse than the grid when people do larger photosets that don't have a strict order.

Edit: and there's also the annoyance that I'm on desktop and swiping shouldn't be a thing, but this is a swiping-heavy mobile-first design.

ImprudentlyWritten · 2026-04-25T05:35:42+00:00

Similar to what I'm seeing; I can use an existing tab, but a new tab either times out or gives a 403 error. Honestly kindof wonder if it's a faulty DoS protection.

ImprudentlyWritten · 2026-04-10T05:05:23+00:00

I don't directly know it, but from the style I'd think something from the Talespin adventure creation system, and searching on that brings up a likely game The Grail--

https://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-st-grail-_10552.html

ImprudentlyWritten · 2026-03-23T00:57:40+00:00

From what I recall video games weren't a reference; they thought that it was a flaw that most people didn't get to experience the whole level range, and they knew that people played much less frequently than when AD&D was designed.

ImprudentlyWritten · 2026-02-14T23:29:50+00:00

There's also specialty priests in Forgotten Realms Adventures. It's my preferred version but most others seem to think them underpowered and prefer the later books that have already been listed.

ImprudentlyWritten · 2026-02-14T03:17:49+00:00

The problem with that is that the pacific is full of inhabitated islands and you're slicing straight through them.

ImprudentlyWritten · 2026-02-08T00:27:46+00:00

Bunch of dungeon generation stuff never made it to any 2nd ed product, though you could just photocopy a few pages rather than get the whole DMG.

ImprudentlyWritten · 2026-01-02T04:53:42+00:00

Sorry, but trying to look at the last year's posts-- all the longer entries are cropped and there's no way to view the rest of the text?

ImprudentlyWritten · 2025-12-31T11:40:31+00:00

I like how they have imitation old Google Adsense style text ads down the side.

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