Gregnant.

SCO Group.

I’ll try to give the shorter version of my long-ass answer to this question.

When I first went online and got involved with the hacker community, the queer community, and other subcultural stuff as a kid in the 1990s - first on BBSes, then online services like CompuServe and AOL, and eventually the real Internet via Usenet, email lists, and web forum type things - it definitely was not the thing to do to use your “real” name and identity. So I did that for a while under made-up screennames, and eventually settled upon the screenname you see me using here.

Eventually around the turn of the millennium, as I grew up and the communities I’d flourished in online became a more and more important part of my life, I got tired of trying to lead the double-life thing. I was always conditioned to worry about what would happen if the people at my day job, my family, etc. in “real life” found out about the “me” I was online, but the more I settled into my adult self the more I realized that online me was the me I enjoyed being and I didn’t want to have to hide it. I never had much of a taste for living in closets.

Not to get all overdramatic or invite direct comparisons, but I’d found myself thinking about how in the Batman universe the Batman identity was described as the man being his true self while the playboy Bruce Wayne identity was the fake persona he put on to hide behind. I got tired of having to fabricate my own Bruce Wayne.

I’d stopped being camera-shy online or at hacker events, and began sharing my face photos in a time when it was not expected for everyone on social media to do so. I registered the domain of my more mundane non-screenname name, and put my personal site in all my online profiles. I began incorporating online work I’d done under my screenname in my resumes, figuring it was time to find myself work, friends, and “real life” surroundings that would appreciate the things I enjoy doing instead of freaking out when they found out about them.

It’s all worked out pretty nicely for me. My real-life family, friends, and colleagues appreciate who I am, people interested in work I do can easily connect, and I don’t have to worry about it all falling apart because the wrong person learns something about me. I like sharing who I am. I’m also in a very happy marriage with someone who met me on a dating app where I used this same screenname connected with both my online and real-life weirdness, and she appreciates all the different chunks of my life.

So, when it came time to ditch Reddit and check out Lemmy, I continued to use the same screenname and userpic I use everywhere else, and you can still click my profile and find both my online and real-life info. There was no compelling reason for me not to do that.

I’m all for letting children be children, but this article is about college students who are, generally speaking, supposed to be adults.

Which is why in Latin, “Jehovah” starts with an “I.”

The Mines of Narshe music from Final Fantasy VI still comes to my mind whenever I’m wandering around someplace suitably grim.

Their last big cartoon came out seven months ago, and it was a big celebration of the idea of going back to playing on individual websites instead of just being fed the same handful of social media crap.

Emulated Flash version on the h*r site - YouTube video version

Holy crap! I played with that Barney page for hours back in '95. I had no idea it was still up and running!!

43-Man Squamish.

Last time some rich fuck started screwing with people’s access to natural sunlight cycles, it didn’t end well for him.

Next tech-sector grift will probably go for our network adapters or some shit…

There are many entirely-valid ways to write out the sound of laughter including endless variations of “heehee,” “heh-heh,” “hahaha,” and more, but I believe “hehehe” is just incorrect.

The Doctor from Doctor Who. It’d be nice to think we were all being simultaneously respected, cared for, and defended by someone smarter and kinder than most of us.

In Germany.

You might wish to read the original novel that the crappy movie was based on, Jumper by Steven Gould. The book was so, so much better, possibly good enough to unfuck the story in your head, and it continues with a series of pretty good sequel novels if you like.

It’s already functionally an ad for Canva’s premium services.

I’m in my late 40s, and have so many Doctor Who toys on desks and shelves.

My spouse is sweetly tolerant of the sheer quantity of TARDISes in our small apartment (which is, alas, not bigger on the inside) and has even gifted me some of them.

I’m picking nits, but Impossible Mission didn’t use voice synthesis (where a computer creates the voice sounds from scratch.) It was using really low-fi by modern standards (but amazing for the time) recordings of actual speech provided by an unknown actor.

From this interview with the programmer:

The speech in the game was real, digitized speech. The performances were provided by Electronic Speech Systems, who also provided the software for reproducing the speech on the Commodore 64. I told them what I wanted the game to say, and when they asked me what kind of voice I had in mind, I said I was imagining a fiftyish English guy, like a James Bond villain. I was told that they happened to have such a person on their staff, so, instead of hiring an actor, they let him take a whack at it, and I thought he was just fine. I never met the guy who provided the voice, but, to my knowledge, the recordings were not altered or processed, apart from being digitized. It is certainly possible, though, that Electronic Speech Systems could have tweaked them without my knowledge. There are no other digitized sounds in the game.

The “Final Cut” rerelease added voice lines for (I think) all the characters.

Even the turrets!