One thing we've irreplaceably lost, was the feeling of visiting a website built entirely on Flash. It had a little loading bar at the start. They mesmerised with sounds and fluid animations; often chock-full of ornate details, little easter eggs and other little bits. There were no limits back then.

time to dig up the @adamkotsko.bsky.social tweet

these guys spent 60 kajillion dollars to make a computer forget how to do math

Reading the weird tech-bro, "innovation-oriented", start-up, crypto bro, USA vs EU, blue checkmark twitter discourse was a mistake. But there's a funny aspect to it all: realising that these people are basically LinkedIn, but they don't realise it.

Just saw a cyber truck in my gorgeous medieval town. This really is the ultimate reddit car.

One of my favourite bits of vidya trivia is the fact that Yannis Varoufakis, Minister of Finance of Greece when it was battling financial crisis, worked for Valve and helped create the Steam economy, most famously for Team Fortress 2 hats.

Couldn't dream of a better impulse at the start of 2025 than Facebook and Instagram turning into shitholes over the span of a week. I hope something bad happens to Zuckerberg's money.

I'm playing two chess grandmasters by mail. One as white, the other as black. I just send them each other's moves. They both think I'm a genius. Both invite me to their homes to make love to their wives as they watch from the closet. That's when I secretly charge all my electronics. Free electricity

Shout-out to old PHPBB forums where the off-topic section was called "Hyde Park"