https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL109280

I was there, I bought it too. At release it was already dumbed down so much that it did not live up to the expectations from the tech demos.

Thrive is very much a spiritual successor to those tech demos.

It was supposed to be an evolution engine. That’s how they developed it and how the tech demos and marketing pushed it.

But then it ended up being simplified and gamified so much that it basically didn’t matter what you did, so the only fun part was making your creatures look like penises.

*Kirk shame

Thank you for demonstrating.

Pretty sure the NES was brand new when it came out. That’s just how age works.

The 360 is 21 years old today.

The NES was 0 years old when it came out.

You could have done that, but here we are.

Print it out and scan it. Use a barcode reader. Use another mobile. Upload it to a barcode decoder website.

What exactly is “improper use”?

I put it all into an LLM and asked it to calculate the totals and overall percentage for the episode. I can supply the prompt for that too.

Congratulations, you’ve turned the fun and interesting into lame and boring.

Is there though?

That first one sounds like every racing game ever, so I’ll guess a good one: Rallyman GT?

High Frontier

Favorite(s):

• Take 4-12 hours to industrialize the solar system on a gigantic beautiful board. Only use 20% of it. Roll or FINAO.
• Take 2 hours to industrialize the west coast of England.

Least favorite(s):

• Take 5 hours to pick a random winner by giving someone a carrot.
• Take 15 minutes to randomly drive people insane by throwing a die at them.

I think the OP can be understood to mean “how MS came to be as successful as it was, as quickly as it was.”

Without assistance from IBM they’d likely be nothing.

Yes.

Yeah but the headline is that the cat survived, which is good news.

You are suggesting that it would have been better if the cat had died?

Ever on, indeed.

I like the way you write, FWIW.