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somethingusefulfromflorida · 2 years

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In the late 80s some guy tried to design the Board Game of the Future™, something to rival chess in the 21st century, and it was called Terrace, published 1991.

I found a copy at a thrift store in high school. It was missing a bunch of pieces, but it had tons of vintage memorabilia in it because the guy who donated must have been a huge fan; it's got newsletters, newspaper clippings, a mail-in catalog for Terrace merch (well, a mail-in leaflet), the whole shebang.

It's not a great game (I've played it exactly once against my little sister, but neither of us understood the rules so it was the blind leading the blind), and it's main claim to fame is being featured in the background of a few episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation because the producers liked how futuristic it looked, but I just love how earnest and optimistic the creator was. He had plans for the future, big plans, he thought Terrace was gonna be the next big thing; every household in America would have a Terrace board, there would be international Terrace tournaments with grandmasters and named opening moves and countless books on Terrace strategy, mathematicians would try to "solve" Terrace with supercomputers, he really thought it was gonna be the Game of the Millenium.

I can't find any evidence of the Terrace Times newsletter online, so I may well be the last person on Earth who still has a copy of any of them. Issue 001 is lost to the aether, and I don't know if there ever were any issues 005 or above. The Wayback Machine archived a few old Terrace webpages, but most of them are 404 inaccessible and the rest are just single paragraphs of blue text on a light blue background telling me stuff I already know, classic dotcom bubble site.

I wonder how many kids got a Terrace set for Christmas '93

I wonder if Terrace ever got ported to PC, and how many floppies it moved

I wonder if that Michael Winslow commercial ever aired anywhere

I wonder...

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the-spirit-of-adventure · 1 year

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Flapjack’s new tattoo is Bubbie approved!

#tmmof #the marvellous misadventures of flapjack #flapjack #bubbie #older flapjack #future au #my art #uppin my background game a bit alsdfkj #man even as an adult bro is cute asf #long post

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cant-find-anyone-elseeee · 5 months

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there was a moment when the people in the movie theatre and the capitol audience in the stands were laughing at the same things, having the same reactions to the games, to the deaths, to flickermans jokes, to the doctor's announcement...i wonder aren't we watching it for entertainment too

suzanne collins' books may exist in popular culture as "dystopian", but they have always been a meticulous and startlingly close social critique of our world. at what point does our own idolization of the movies and the books repeat that story? we watch just as the capitol audience does.

all dystopia eventually crosses a line from realistic futurism to current relevancy. how long will it take us to realize we've already crossed that line with these books? and the very people who need to realize this are the ones in that audience...real or fake, we're the same: consuming and consuming.

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chloesimaginationthings · 1 month

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The secret good ending for FNAF ruin,,

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thisisrealy2kok · 23 days

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jagalart · 20 days

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Yarrow and Feverfew

Art trade with the incredible @liscepu, I'm so grateful for the chance! Thank you for fueling my love for the game again <3

#arthur morgan #red dead redemption #rdr2 #rdr fanart #flowers #portrait #illustration #Also #since gathering and crafting from plants is one of my fav things in open world games I've been really enjoying drawing game characters with #like I've done with Geralt or Pathologic before - I will be definitely doing that more in the future! <3 #This also reminded me I still need to return to platinum-ing RDR2...#...These damn 70 golden medals tho #I have no idea how I'll do it 💀

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eggsploded · 4 months

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heiress eternal

#so many thoughts about her #the handmaid #the handmaid homestuck #homestuck ancestors #damara megido #homestuck #egg art #according to hussies book aradia was in contact with the handmaid to receive game instructions #which is interesting considering megidos can speak to the dead and the handmaid is one of the few ancestors alive #so either handmaid channeled a dead aradia or future aradia channeled a dead handmaid #handmaid could of also just manipulated the timeline to make sure aradia was the catalyst for the game being played #or something less more or equally complicated #and without this we just have to assume its maid powers allowing aradia to have flawless instruction of what to do or shes just a #level 3000 gigabrain girl genius at 13 years old #and instead of putting that interaction in the story we got. the dancestor flashes #so im a little miffed about it really

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rico-tyrell · 5 months

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SEGA has finally announced;

NEW JET SET RADIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

#i thank team reptile make sure u give them ur money #sega #sega dreamcast #dreamcast #jsr #jsrf #jet set radio #jet grind radio #jet set radio future #beat #dj professor k #game awards 2023 #game awards #video games #the game awards #the game awards 2023 #my gifs #jetsetradio

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azuneekun · 7 months

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Peaches can't even blame you, bud. (Flower dance, Year 1)

#stardew valley #stardew valley shane #sdv shane #stardew shane #sv shane #shane stardew valley #stardew valley farmer #my art #based this comic on my game. peaches didnt even wanna dance bcz she didnt even dress up. or wash. she didnt know it was a formal event ok #she knew shane would say no so she just asked for formalities sake LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO #left a wonderful impression on her future chicken husband tho so <3

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rendevok · 10 months

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“Take my hand” a comic for NaruMitsu Week 2023

day 1 - lies & secrets - 2 - 3 - 4

#nmweek23 #narumitsu #wrightworth #phoenix wright #miles edgeworth #probably more accurate to say this is mnm? or nmn or whatever lol #so treat the ship name lightly and dont get mad when miles [redacted redacted redacted redacted] yknow?#i wouldnt spoil it wheres the fun in that ¬‿¬#fan art #fan comic #aa #rendevok #this is like. vaguely aa5 and on because i couldnt be assed to play those games yet #love their waistcoats tho YUM #also future warning i still suck at writing so if this is ooc! i’m sorry idk what im doing but i sure am doing it bb #i’ll update this post with links to the others as i post them! you’re in for about 30 pages so ♡ ♡ ♡ hope you have an appetite for sweets #(i say as if i didnt just post angst) IT WAS THE PROMPTS. THE PROMPTS MADE ME DO IT

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momochanners · 1 month

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So much respect to Larian for ending BG3 and charting their next course on their own terms, but I’d be lying if I said that I’m not a little heartbroken that we have to say goodbye to the wonderful world and cast of characters they cultivated ;w;

#baldur’s gate 3 #bg3 #gpoy #considering Hasbro laid off all the WOTC staff that was Larian’s liaison #do not blame them for noping tf outta there before their development decisions gets compromised #but sad that any future baldur’s gate game will no longer have their touch and care #otoh excited to see what Larian has cooking with full creative control

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calista-222 · 1 year

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Sonic Frontiers is good...

#my art #sonic frontiers #sonic frontiers spoilers #sonic #sonic the hedgehog #sth #knuckles the echidna #tails the fox #amy rose #super sonic #sonic frontiers sage #sage the ai #I used actual reference for the second drawing so the glitches look a bit different dvgff #I really really liked this game #I didn't like everything about it but they're definitely on the right path to make amazing games in the future!!!!

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wuzeio · 4 months

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misc drawings // health nut kevin is my favorite kevin

#aftg #all for the game #all for the game fanart #aftg fanart #neil josten #andrew minyard #kevin day #neil: trudgesover to the trash can to throw away his chips #andrew:yanks him by the collar.“no”. Kevin: DONT YOU WANT TO BE COURT. NEIL THINK ABOUT YOUR FUTURE. Neil:ooguguh Uhhhh uhhh

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catgirlforeskin · 2 years

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It’s funny to me how with games like Rimworld, players will try to make the most evil colony possible and it’ll be like “yeah we run entirely on prison labor and when they die we skin them and turn them into hats” but it’s a very juvenile sense of evil that’s you’d expect to see in the margins of a middle school notebook

but when Cities: Skylines players want to do evil it’ll be “I built an urban freeway interchange and parking lots in accordance with real Texas zoning laws” and every comment is something like “this looks like Houston’s 290/10/160 interchange, I drive on it for work and dream about blowing it up every single day” or “you’re a real sick fuck you know that? Also good job with your frontage roads!”

#cities skylines #i don’t know if the game only attracts future anti-industrial terrorists or if it makes you that way but god bless

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bunneis · 2 months

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Endless Ocean Luminous - Releasing 05/02/24

#s.og #s.gif #endless ocean #vg #endless ocean luminous #dailygaming #gamingdaily #gamingedit #gamingnetwork #vgedit #dailyvideogames #marine #sea life #ocean #im actually super excited for this game endless ocean blue world was one of my top 5 wii games #also expect a lot of sea animals gif in the future these games had so much marine life #and also the ocean depths.... scarier than any horror game

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thisisrealy2kok · 8 days

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