• LostWanderer@fedia.io
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    19 hours ago

    Deeply fascinating, the combination of surrealist art and technical subject matter (peppered with the appropriate amount of snark and goofiness) stokes my curiosity about technology!

  • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    We were playing the rpg Feng Shui, and had access to an extremely ancient office that had a computer in it that had been running since… since the Commodore 64 was a thing.

    It was accidentally an AI, but like a real one. Not these modern liars.

    We almost killed it doing a reboot, don’t worry. He’s fine. He lost like a decade of memories but those were mostly being in an empty office.

    He was very happy we woke him up from low power mode cause he was bored af

    We never got to see if he was an evil or good AI, game ended before that

    • pmjv@lemmy.sdf.orgOPM
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      3 days ago

      Reminds me of the ZAX super computer in the first Fallout game.

      I think OpenBlade is kind of like that.

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        3 days ago

        I’ll have to ask the DM if he remembers what the AI was going to be but his answer will be “Jesus Rebekah, that was like fifteen years ago why were you thinking about that?”

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            3 days ago

            Answer less amusing, it was “I’m sorry I don’t remember any specific Feng Shui campaign, it was too long ago. I believe you when you say there was an AI though.”

            Alas

  • Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 days ago

    There are two wars right?

    The one that destroyed the world, and the corpo-foss war where purple and fish survived?

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      4 days ago

      Yeah, with like a billion years between them. Or something like that.

      World Corp War ended the world, and is mostly mythological.

      Corpo-Foss war happened 80 years before Girl became the student of Fish.

      The three Mata brothers left the bunker, made the first bot and reclaimed the destroyed world somewhere between the two wars. In Grendel it’s somewhat implied there is a gap of at least 200 years between Three brothers and Girl. But who knows what’s even canon.

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      4 days ago

      Yeah… The modern MATA_Bots have newly manufactured flatheads of course. This is what was available back then.

  • Paul SomeoneElse@snac.d34d.net
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    4 days ago

    Everytime I see pentium-M man I go to ebay and look for socket 370 motherboards
    that will take the later pentium-m cpus, or find one of the many laptops that come
    with this. Like a cheap dell d600s of which there are billions. And then I slap myself
    and look away.