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Graham White

@hamwhite.bsky.social

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Digital graphic artist (mash-up-ish). Renewable energy investor (not seeking new prospects). Tabletop gamer (RPG and non-RPG). Musician (piano). Ferret hoarder (obsessive). Programmer (AGK). Audiophile (the obnoxious kind). Ex-husband (ha).

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Graham White @hamwhite.bsky.social · 1d

BIG money! BIG prizes! I LOVE it!
#SmashTV

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Graham White @hamwhite.bsky.social · 2d

But whenever I complained, I was reminded of the hell of 1960s punch cards.

Graham White @hamwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Could scare him even further with 80s IT trauma.. using single-sided 400k disks to backup a 100mb harddrive with a single floppy drive that alternately needs 1) the system disk, 2) the application disk, 3) and the destination data disk. The process took 5 hours of steady disk swapping.

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Graham White @hamwhite.bsky.social · 13d

The Rocky Horror Picture Show released on 4k blu-ray today. On a 50" screen, sitting close, it's almost like being back in the theater again (though we had to supply the audience lines).

Graham White @hamwhite.bsky.social · 21d

i see you shiver, with antici

Graham White @hamwhite.bsky.social · 23d

My Freshman college roommate and I both got the exact same Macintosh for our high school graduation. And we'd both bought Prince of Persia. We probably played that thing waaaaaay too much. Prince of Persia 2 was even more fun. Mac glory days.

Graham White @hamwhite.bsky.social · 23d

Applesoft BASIC, because, why not?

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Graham White @hamwhite.bsky.social · Aug 4

even though I don't speak it, I've long felt Japanese is a more intelligent language. For example, there are no spelling bees in Japan. Since every symbol is a syllable, everything is spelled exactly as it sounds. I've never understood why only the far east has languages that use this style.

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Graham White @hamwhite.bsky.social · Jul 31

gotta have that 2000 FPS.

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Graham White @hamwhite.bsky.social · Jul 31

While this dungeon doesn't technically exist in Ultima V (1988), it is in essence a collage of most of the dungeon rooms in the game, with a little combat flavoring added.
#4kWallpaper #apple2 #retrogaming

Assembled from dozens of screenshots in Photoshop, screenshots of Ultima V being emulated on an Apple 2 emulator (apple2win). In the center is Lord Blackthorn, surrounded by three Shadowlords. Above that room is the official shot of the party, with Lord British Himself reflected in the mirror.

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Graham White @hamwhite.bsky.social · Jul 29

seriously tho, it's a fun game to play. Boring AF to watch, and like graveyards it belongs to a time when people didn't need to think about conserving land resources, but IMO it's fun to play. Miniature golf, too.

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Graham White @hamwhite.bsky.social · Jul 29

Yeah, I thought Middle Earth.

"Bandobras 'Bullroarer' Took, a large hobbit, charged into the goblin ranks, struck their king, Golfimbul, with a club, and knocked his head off. The head flew through the air and landed in a rabbit hole, which the hobbits then considered to be the first game of golf."

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Graham White @hamwhite.bsky.social · Jul 28

Space Quest (1986) 4k wallpaper composite image here of the first location you start out at. It's very graphic gory.
#apple2 #retrogaming

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Graham White @hamwhite.bsky.social · Jul 28

Me school you? Surprising! You could be a university professor in Photoshop.

The shadows _do_ have to be cut back a bit when you do that to make it look right; they overlap unconvincingly. So it's not a good technique for pure roll20'ers.

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Sara McWeaponsry @saramchenry.bsky.social · Jul 27

do not ask me to elaborate, but Tom Lehrer is music for people whose parents went to college

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Graham White @hamwhite.bsky.social · Jul 27

It was fun, funny, catchy, and educational. Not much in the world fits all that.

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Graham White @hamwhite.bsky.social · Jul 27

Have had a lot of fun with this set. You can get really tall cliffs by creating a new layer below the main, and shrinking the cliff elements. Then create another layer below _that_ that shrinks the elements even more. Absolutely realistic looking results.

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Graham White @hamwhite.bsky.social · Jul 26

In our time measurement system, it counts zero. 7 am (and zero milliseconds) is definitely 7 am, not the previous hour. So the same would be true for the Tomorrow Line of midnight, I think.

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Graham White @hamwhite.bsky.social · Jul 25

(probably goes without saying, but BritBox streams every British show I've ever heard of)

Graham White @hamwhite.bsky.social · Jul 25

That is amazing. What a scam.

We use the BritBox app to stream shows. Wonderful app/website, no commercials, reasonable rates, A+ customer service.

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Graham White @hamwhite.bsky.social · Jul 25

Not to mention cars. I adore the cars from that era.

Graham White @hamwhite.bsky.social · Jul 24

I wish there was a planet we could send all the MAGAts to. Videos like this show how Trump & the MAGAts are already in their own world. Deflect reality!

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Graham White @hamwhite.bsky.social · Jul 24

The one on the right is how police hold it. If the light is in the criminal's eyes, they might simply shoot at the light. So police hold the light up and away from their bodies.

Outside of that very understandable reason, I'd imagine nearly everybody holds it like the one on the left.

Graham White @hamwhite.bsky.social · Jul 20

This is The Sims Zero. Also known as Little Computer People (1985) for the Apple ][ personal computer. The image has been enhanced with lighting/shading in Photoshop, but otherwise this is the game. One screen for the whole house.
#4kWallpaper #retrogaming #TheSims

In Little Computer People, you take care of an LCP and his dog (the dog is at the bottom left of the screen). You can watch him do his thing, or you can ask him (nicely) to do specific activities. Also, if you don't deliver food to him, his skin turns green and he gets sick. If you leave him like that for a few days, he dies. It's so great.

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Graham White @hamwhite.bsky.social · Jul 19

Agreed. Tho if it couldn't be Nimoy, I'm glad it was Sid. I read on IGN years ago that it was the last Civilization game that Sid Meyer was directly involved with designing, so it fits.