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Lemmings: How DMA Design Redefined Puzzle Games
Lemmings: How DMA Design Redefined Puzzle Games
A look at one of the greatest puzzle games ever created. Lemmings in 1991 was developed by DMA Design and published by Psygnosis. Originally releasing on the Amiga and Atari ST it has seen ports to 20 different computers and consoles and has sold over 15 million units. In this episode we take a look at Lemmings and how it changed the industry. Sources/Credits: ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlFnMt3o1as ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChmQBK_EaUQ ► https://web.archive.org/web/20180525191513/http://tle.vaarties.nl/lemmings/versions/ ► https://lemmings.info/lemmings-gamehistory/ Music Credits: ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC5AkdCbjuY ► 1988 - Psygnosis ► Composer: David Whittaker ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiWbcws-s4o ► Lemmings (1991) music by Tim Wright. TimeStamps: 00:00 - Psygnosis in the early days 01:23 - DMA Design 02:29 - The idea/concept 04:03 - Lemmings the game 09:45 - 2 Player Spilt screen mode 11:02 - The Ports 13:58 - Legacy Social Media Links : ► X : https://x.com/ModernVintageG ► Threads : https://threads.net/ModernVintageGamer ► Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/ModernVintageGamer ► IG : https://www.instagram.com/modernvintagegamer/ ► BandCamp : https://modernvintagegamer.bandcamp.com/ #Lemmings
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Lemmings: How DMA Design Redefined Puzzle Games
Who Does a Supervisor Really Serve? Hayes Valley Deserves an Answer - Hayes Valley San Francisco
Who Does a Supervisor Really Serve? Hayes Valley Deserves an Answer - Hayes Valley San Francisco
In light of recent developments regarding the closure on Hayes Street, we’re answering the two top questions we ask and have been asked as of late:Who does a Supervisor really serve?And have you even talked to Bilal about the closure?Yes, we did. Once. It was a meeting that left the room stunned and the community even more demoralized. What follows ... Read post
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·hvsafe.com·
Who Does a Supervisor Really Serve? Hayes Valley Deserves an Answer - Hayes Valley San Francisco
Real Masculinity has Never Been Tried
Real Masculinity has Never Been Tried
More info about this below, but I released a new short story on Itch called Soft Hands. It's about masculinity and weakness and sledgehammers. It's pay-what-you-want, so check it out here. On to the newsletter: I love to write about men. Men with strange ideas and fixations, men who are
·newsletter.theworldsgreatestwriter.com·
Real Masculinity has Never Been Tried
Ex-cop jailed and deported during holiday to US
Ex-cop jailed and deported during holiday to US
A former NSW police officer has described the terrifying ordeal she faced after she was detained, jailed overnight and deported from the United States – despite travelling there legally on a tourist visa to visit her US military husband.
·news.com.au·
Ex-cop jailed and deported during holiday to US
The New York Times Really Asked Ms. Rachel If She's Paid By Hamas | Defector
The New York Times Really Asked Ms. Rachel If She's Paid By Hamas | Defector
The house style of the New York Times is severely outdated. Depending on the topic, the newspaper’s purportedly impartial tone instead reads as smug, self-amused, and deeply lazy. The results are disastrous when applied to a recent article which sincerely considers the idea that Rachel Griffin-Accurso, the popular children’s entertainer known as Ms. Rachel, might […]
·defector.com·
The New York Times Really Asked Ms. Rachel If She's Paid By Hamas | Defector
Real Constraints
Real Constraints
The Global North talk constantly about the "Finance Gap", but finance for climate is limited by orthodoxy, not reality.
Today’s economic orthodoxy is rooted in neoclassical economics. It treats a lack of public finance as a natural constraint, downplaying the state’s role in shaping the economy and obscuring how money is actually created.[1] In reality, though, the only true constraints lie in the availability of real resources—workers, materials, infrastructure—to meet our collective needs.
These estimates rely on production functions and assumptions about capital that carry through all the problems Robinson identified. In doing so, they offer the illusion of precision while quietly embedding deeply questionable assumptions about technology, efficiency, and pricing that lead ultimately to needlessly inflated headline costs. By collapsing everything into a single variable, these models omit vital questions of coordination and resource planning. They
Export earnings are often volatile, especially for countries dependent on raw materials whose prices fluctuate on global markets. Foreign investment, meanwhile, can be highly selective and short-term, chasing speculative returns rather than long-term development. And borrowing, particularly from institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or World Bank, is rarely unconditional. Positioned on the margins of this system, many countries find themselves trapped in recurring cycles of debt, austerity, and underdevelopment.
The “Asian Tigers”—Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan—and more recently China, did not passively wait for foreign capital. Instead, they followed state-led strategies: implementing long-term industrial policies, investing in infrastructure and education, protecting key sectors during early stages of development, and actively managing trade and capital flows. Their governments treated development as a national project, not something to be outsourced to international markets.
If this chaos has an upside, it is that it presents an opportunity to build an alternative—and radically more just—financial architecture, and to confront the economic orthodoxies that needlessly constrain what is considered possible.
·break-down.org·
Real Constraints
Why The Qataris Are Happy To Dump Their 747 On Trump
Why The Qataris Are Happy To Dump Their 747 On Trump
The president may be thirsting for a new four-engine jumbo jet, but many governments and royal families are unloading their fuel-guzzling palaces in the sky.
·forbes.com·
Why The Qataris Are Happy To Dump Their 747 On Trump
The Heat of the Moment
The Heat of the Moment
In place of paralysis or bland positivity, this is the moment for an honest reckoning with where we stand, what we are up against, and where, already, resistance is underway.
Mainstream climate politics has so far put nearly all its time and energy into correcting the “market failure” of climate change, from attempting to reflect the “social” cost of emissions with a carbon price, to creating markets where none existed and forcing actors to participate. It by now goes without saying that despite some minor improvements at the local or regional level, these efforts have achieved little. This is not to say, however, that they have not been material. To the contrary, in providing the illusion that something is being done, market-based climate policies have had considerable material impact by delaying more effective action.
the belief that those in the luxury cabins would never willingly let the ship sink.
And yet, as Quinn Slobodian has identified, this “new populist right” is in many ways not new. Instead, this new right is simply a warped version of what came before, retaining rather than rejecting neoliberalism’s core tenet: protecting capitalism from democracy.
We are in strange territory. The political no-man’s land of market-based liberalism has proven infertile terrain from which to build responses to challenges from climate change to economic stagnation, and as a result, remarkably fertile terrain for the outgrowth of the new right’s politics and imaginaries.
·break-down.org·
The Heat of the Moment
The Hawk Tuah Memecoin Rug Pull Is The Apotheosis Of Bag Culture | Defector
The Hawk Tuah Memecoin Rug Pull Is The Apotheosis Of Bag Culture | Defector
I can’t ease you into this one, so: Haliey Welch, colloquially known as the “Hawk Tuah girl,” launched a bespoke cryptocurrency token called HAWK last Wednesday, the same day she told Fortune it was “not just a cash grab” and her manager cut off a question in the same interview about its legality (because, he […]
·defector.com·
The Hawk Tuah Memecoin Rug Pull Is The Apotheosis Of Bag Culture | Defector
Policing the New Crisis
Policing the New Crisis
Ryan Moore weighs the convulsions of our present neoliberalism against the rise of Thatcherism, by way of reference to Stuart Hall and his co-authors' classic text on Thatcherite ideology and hegemony, Policing the Crisis.
·proteanmag.com·
Policing the New Crisis
Some rough impressions of Worldcoin
Some rough impressions of Worldcoin
Recently a reader wrote in and asked if I would look at Sam Altman’s Worldcoin, presumably to give thoughts on it from a privacy perspective. This was honestly the last thing I wanted to do, …
·blog.cryptographyengineering.com·
Some rough impressions of Worldcoin
SignalGate Meets WordPress: Outgoing National Security Adviser's Phone Dumps Messages via Israeli App - UNICORN RIOT
SignalGate Meets WordPress: Outgoing National Security Adviser's Phone Dumps Messages via Israeli App - UNICORN RIOT
Mike Waltz had a rough Thursday. A photographer caught him using a Signal-like interface to view chats on his phone. TeleMessage copies messages using a forked version of Signal. We found more details about this Israeli app tech.
·unicornriot.ninja·
SignalGate Meets WordPress: Outgoing National Security Adviser's Phone Dumps Messages via Israeli App - UNICORN RIOT
A People’s History of Surfing
A People’s History of Surfing
From its Hawaiian origins to the postwar surf craze, surfing has been a defiant challenge to the Calvinist work ethic and the commercial pressures of capitalism. But those malign social forces may now finally succeed in extinguishing the spirit of surfing.
·jacobin.com·
A People’s History of Surfing