{"id":1158,"date":"2007-05-23T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2007-05-23T07:00:22","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T12:00:22","slug":"catching-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1158","title":{"rendered":"Catching up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a bunch of links.  I&#8217;d wanted to do a post about each of these, but I am falling further behind and just don&#8217;t have time to do some of this stuff justice. So let me just point to some posts and say, &#8220;That&#8217;s cool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><table width='251'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='right'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/ootw.jpg' class='insetimage' width='251' alt='ootw.jpg' title='ootw.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transbuddha.com\/index.php\/buddha\/comments\/9433\/\">Transbuddha<\/a> I find a link to a demo of the 1991 classic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anotherworld.fr\/anotherworld_uk\/index.htm\">Another World<\/a>.  What? A demo of a sixteen year-old game?  Yes, but this is a new version which allows for higher resolution and plays well with Windows XP.  Very cool.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of old games, Mark has a <a href=\"http:\/\/kaedrin.com\/weblog\/archive\/001237.html\">great series<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/kaedrin.com\/weblog\/archive\/001238.html\">posts<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/kaedrin.com\/weblog\/archive\/001239.html\">old Commodore 64 games<\/a>.  It looks like he was able to grab some great screenshots using his emulator.  I never had a C64 (<a href=\"?p=213\">alas<\/a>)  but I saw variants of these games on other systems and I enjoyed seeing them again.<\/p>\n<p>Steven has moved his <a href=\"http:\/\/denbeste.nu\/Chizumatic\/\">long-standing anime site<\/a> over to <a href=\"http:\/\/mee.nu\/\">mee.nu<\/a>.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/chizumatic.mee.nu\/\">new site<\/a> just has new content, but it sure is nice to have permalinks to work with. Now I can link to a particlar post that stikes my fancy, as in this case where <a href=\"http:\/\/chizumatic.mee.nu\/we_have_a_winnah\">he foretells the future using only numbers<\/a> as his source of divining power.  (I&#8217;ll bet he&#8217;s right.  I&#8217;ll bet 148 million bucks he&#8217;s right.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cineris.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/21\/obligatory-victimization-lamentations\/\">Cineris has a great post up on some anti-nerdist advertising<\/a>.  Er. Nerdisim? Nerdaphobia? He also has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cineris.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/21\/final-fantasy-xii-first-thoughts\/\">a post on his first impressions of Final Fantasy XII<\/a>.  His thoughs on the game are similar to <a href=\"?p=1137\">mine<\/a>, although thankfully he wasn&#8217;t baffled by the plot the way I was <a href=\"?p=1143\">at first<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a bunch of links. I&#8217;d wanted to do a post about each of these, but I am falling further behind and just don&#8217;t have time to do some of this stuff justice. So let me just point to some posts and say, &#8220;That&#8217;s cool.&#8221; Via Transbuddha I find a link to a demo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}