Action pack
Last week, I saw an advert for an early 1980s BBC Micro games compilation. Splendid art, very cheering:
Unfortunately Des saw it too and started making phone calls to his associate Paul Scoville. Yesterday, he called me into his "office" and showed me the advert for his latest "drop".
Now, I have just seen that someone has replied to the Holiday Harlequinade with the one-word comment "bad", so I anticipate shortly receiving the one-word comment "worse". But there we are. That is the risk of all art, to land like a plane with one wing missing.
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Tired: Discussing which is better of the US Office or the UK Office Wired: Discussing which is better of MS Office or British Office
Way better than mere "good!"
Y'know, here in parts of America (admittedly a less... dignified... nation), "pud" has a VERY different meaning than that which I think it has here. "Pud Hunter", indeed!
This brightened my day immensely. Are the US rights to "Taylor Swift's Christmas Tree Farm" still available?
Scoville units 1,000,000
I assume the Paul Glancy quote comes from the DJ and record producer, and not the Physics professor at a college in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The early 1990s video game journalist, of course! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Glancey
I know this is of little consolation and probably sounds like a reach, but I would interpret that statement ("bad") as an attempt at black humor rather than sincere criticism.
His account had been compromised, I am very confident that I have no readers who pay for my Patreon who would voice their ire in one unpunctuated word halfway down a comment thread.
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Looks pretty fishy to me.
Paul was with Desmond at the slag pit in Wobbly Head, meaning he’s 100% real
My brain keeps trying to read the post title as "Action Park". (Probably says more about me than anything, though.)
That place would make for an interesting Destroy History storyline
Tempted to break out Ye Olde Basic and write some of these.
Paul says you are welcome to use his "blitter", though I am not sure what that means.
The Santa in the original ad may as well have been drawn by you. Look at him!
I love him!
I LIKE THIS
Love!
Oooh! I found the missing wing! It's right here…
Best!
I so love 80s indie software companies.
You sure that Santa present drop game doesn't already exist?
I imagine it exists many times over, but has anyone dared simply make it a side scrolling row of 800m identical houses? I mean, again, probably yes. Why are you picking on me?
I initially read that game as 'Mincemeat Oubliette'. Someone should make that.
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Scoville content?!? We are truly #blessed
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