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By Bay Posted Sunday Oct 9, 2022

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Alright, finally.

Last week I posted about Angelic Layer, an anime from the early 200o’s. I mentioned briefly that it’s become less science fiction and more science fact with time (although we’re not at all at battle dolls just yet). But mainly, I talked about how hopeful it was that the fictional company in the show was trying to make prosthetics, and only made the dolls to help pay for that endeavor.

I ended that post by admitting that I was meant to be talking about the Oculus, but got distracted with 1000 words of anime babble, oops.

I swear the two thoughts were connected somehow, and not just…’heehoo both have headsets’ Although, they do, so 1 meaningless point to me for being on-topic..

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Deus Ex Pitch Part 5: Underneath the Bridge (Post-mortem post)

By Heather Posted Wednesday Oct 5, 2022

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Note: Shamus had this entire series written and prepped to post (sans his copious editing prior to posting.) I will be posting these on Wednesdays until they are finished. Other old content will also post on Wednesdays as we find it and have time to work through it.

The heli drops Troy Denton off on the roof of the Mirai Building in Tokyo. It’s nighttime. We’re here to get the source code for Denton’s augmentations. We want to find out how he got hijacked, and how we can prevent it from happening again.

Our exploration is limited to the top-most floors of this massive office tower, so we don’t need to create the environment assets for a street-level location. The city can just be a really pretty skybox.

Mission 5: Miri Technology

I’m thinking this level should be a nod towards our visit to the VersaLife building in the original Deus Ex. We should have some encounters or conversations with rank-and-file office workers. There should be a few haggard, overworked guys scattered around. They’re not a direct threat, but they can summon guards or activate the security system if you spook them.

The stuff Denton needs is down a few floors in the server room, behind some heavy security doors that can’t be hacked. We’ll talk about how to open these doors in a minute.

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Sci-Fi Reality

By Bay Posted Sunday Oct 2, 2022

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The year was 2005, I was seven years old. Netflix was still sending out discs in little paper sleeves, tucked into envelopes for people to rent on a subscription. There was no limit to how many discs you could rent, for a monthly fee, provided you could get the thing into the mail fast enough for them to return a new one. Our family was on the ‘two discs at a time’ plan, Dad got one, and the kids got one Mom would get something occasionally but it was usually something to sit down and watch as a family. As a mom of three homeschooled kids, she just didn’t have the time..

The day we got to sit down and pick out our next run of discs was sacred. The library was huge, with more things than I’d ever seen as options in my tiny little life. I’d been in a Blockbuster before, and my library’s poorly-run disc rental section (which made one feel like a fugitive for checking out a movie), but Netflix’s selection…it was everything I could dream up.

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Animal Crossing and the Missing Genre

By Bay Posted Sunday Sep 25, 2022

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I first played Animal Crossing when I was way too young for it. This wasn’t a case of being not ready for the content, like that time I watched someone play Doom when I was sevenThanks dad. 10/10. No, Animal Crossing required the player to read, which I could not yet do. I tried my best, but I can only imagine the endless stream of little-kid-voice shouting out ‘what does this say?’, ‘can you read this for me?’, and ‘what’s he saying?’ that I imagine my poor mom just loved hearing day in and day out. But, by the end of it, wanting to play Animal Crossing was one of the driving forces of my actually learning to read.

I have some really horrible learning disabilities and was a pretty late bloomer in that particular court. My younger brother, Peter actually learned to read before me (by a good few years) and at higher levels. So, it’s safe to say that my little animal friends were pretty integral to my growing up.

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Being Transparent

By Bay Posted Sunday Sep 18, 2022

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Some of you have noticed the issues with the site. The weird-colored user backdrops (or in Peter’s case, complete transparency.), the sticky post that blocks people from seeing the new content, and even before Dad died; the lack of updates to WordPress.

There are a lot of issues and reasons here, but I don’t feel confident making decisions on how it’s handled entirely on my own, or at least without talking about it first. So, let’s do that…

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The Thieves Guild: Because Reasons

By Bay Posted Sunday Sep 11, 2022

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I was fourteen years old and playing Skyrim for the first time. My poor, ancient computer just barely chugged through it, constantly crashing during loading screens or during important cutscenes; and I was in love.

I had played games I’d loved before (mostly Nintendo classics like Super Mario Sunshine and Ocarina of time) but Skyrim was my first real love in the video game world. There was something special about it, I would put on headphones and just vanish for hours into this little world, like a book I couldn’t put down.

Part of this was likely due to the fact that I played it during a tough part of my growing up. It was 2011, about the time in the Twelve-Year Mistake when we kids got the news; the house we grew up in was being foreclosed on, and there was nothing we could do about it. Being 14, or anyone, that was world-shattering, and Skyrim offered escapism from that whole mess.

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Introduction: Guest Star

By Peter T Parker Posted Wednesday Sep 7, 2022

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So! It’s my turn to introduce myself. Some of you may have ‘met’ me if you watched the stream of my dad’s funeral. (Which is a hell of a sentence, but we don’t have time to unpack all of that) but for any who missed it, here we go.

My name is Peter T. Parker. The T stands for Telemachus which I’ve pronounced wrong (Tel-ehm-ah-cuss) since I was a child. I don’t plan to stop now and that is, unfortunately, everyone else’s problem. I’ve been mentioned a few times here, but under a different name that doesn’t bear repeating. I’m the middle child, aka the youngest daughter turned oldest son.

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