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Cake day: June 26th, 2023
  • ...m...@ttrpg.networktoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is your oldest living presence on the World Wide Web?
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    12 hours ago

    …google’s old dejanews archives don’t go back as far as my usenet activity, but i doubt i had any old web content which predates where they pick up unless we include legacy media archives like newspaper or television; for that matter, i think a lot of old yearbooks are online now, too…

    …anyway, if we’re only counting web-first content, i didn’t make my first website until like `94 and all my hosts before like 2005 are decades gone by now…

  • ...m...@ttrpg.networktoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•there is a special place in hell for these scientists
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    4 days ago

    …for the original doom, the overarching narrative was that deimos disappeared after teleportation research inadvertently opened a portal to hell: episode 1 (knee-deep in the dead) was set on phobos; episode 2 (on the shores of hell) was set on deimos hovering in the skies of hell; and episode 3 (inferno) was set down on the surface of hell itself, not mars…

    …episode 4 (thy flesh consumed) was set back on earth following the invasion of hell, but it was an add-on released a couple years after the original game; counterintuitively, back then the original game was downloadable shareware for episode 1 with episodes 2-3 available via mail-order directly from id, and episode 4 was finally distributed as a retail expansion only after the retail release of doom II (kind of an inter-quel?)…