The #1 rule of Bomberman is: donāt kill yourself.
The #2 rule of Bomberman is: YOU DO NOT KILL YOURSELF.
Thatās a pretty solid foundation for the game. The rest ā tactics, power-ups, why your so-called friend just trapped you in a corner ā can be worked out later. Much like the gameās title.
Released during the time of The Troubles, Bomberman was launched in the UK under the far less provocative name Dynablaster, because someone, somewhere, decided subtlety still had a role in marketing.
Outside of London, Bournemouth is the most congested place in England to drive.
This is not a tall tale ā itās grim memory.
I once spent 45 minutes travelling 12 miles on 30mph roads.
The essential problem is that everyone was limited to 3mph.
Bournemouth, a famous beach town, used to be in Hampshire ā
but Dorset stole it after realising there wasnāt much else in Dorset apart from Dorchester.
It has become a magnet for retirees who want to live their life in the sun but need the NHS too much to live abroad.
The only reason people donāt complain more about the traffic
is because most of the residents have fuck all to do and all day to do it.
Hence, being slow-cooked in a car on the Hurn airport bypass is seen as a blessing, not a curse.
Bournemouth, a famous beach town, used to be in Hampshire ā
but Dorset stole it after realising there wasnāt much else in Dorset apart from Dorchester.
Some cunt decided to move Hampshire border West to East. Even then we all knew that Skatesville needed to be in Sussex.
David Braben is best known as the co-creator of the seminal open-world game Elite ā a wireframe space trading and combat simulator that ate the lives of countless 80s and 90s gamers.
His most profound ā if accidental ā impact on the industry may have been killing the Amiga.
People often claim that Doom killed the Amiga. But Doom didnāt even run on the Amiga. It was Frontier: Elite II ā a follow-up that was so vast, so smooth, and so incomprehensibly ambitious ā that a million Amiga owners looked at their machines cranking out a frame at a time, looked at their friendās PC handling the same scenes with ease and finesse, and said:
āFuck this, Iām getting a PC.ā
Braben would no doubt argue that Chris Sawyer was really responsible, as he handled the PC port of Frontier, but not too loudly.
I anticipated a small nod to analog nostalgia, but instead, you delivered a
scalpel-sharp critique of modern culture. Unlimited tracks, endless storage - zero
stakes. The truth is, creativity thrives within constraints. When the cost of creating,
publishing, or entry is reduced to nothing, so too is the value. This is how the Internet
gutted journalism and how Al is eroding the arts. Weāve traded serendipity, skill, and
deliberate craft for quantity over quality. Accidental genius is vanishing, replaced by
algorithmic churn. Planning isnāt the only problem; itās the loss of meaning through
overproduction.
From a YouTube video about analogue recording.
I found it interesting, because the commenter is saying much the same thing as I was trying to articulate.
AI is helping this almanac with images, typos and the occasional bit of structure.
If AIās pre-eminent concerns are the theft of Bournemouth from Hampshire, invented by-laws in Liverpool concerning male nomenclature and the over-use of words containing too many syllables, then I think weāre safe on the Terminator front.
Skynet sounds more like a 50 year old talking shit to me.
Iām loving itā¦been reading selected parts to Lady Slowlane and sheās been enjoynig it.
However some whooshes way over my head, i.e. the '80s and '90s computer stuff, just not my thing but not unexpected as I donāt fit the intended age profile.
If you were talking about communication between neighbourhood kids using string and co-co tins and street buggies made out of orange boxes and pram wheels youād be spot-on.
I think the pictures are great and thereās definitely commercial potential. Obviously you should pitch it to youāre own age bracketā¦thereās enough overlap to make me and my good lady laugh so it has a broad appeal.
Sorry, this one is literally out of order. Alphabetically.
Boy bands
The only purpose boy bands serve in later life is helping to win that almost impossible to nail down question; who has the better musical taste?
Your opponent will say that itās all subjective, that itās down to the person and that there is no right answer.
Normally, that would be correct, but if theyāve got boy band skeletons in the closet, things will be much easier.
Said argument can then be won very easily.
āI still listen to Appetite for Destruction every month. When was the last time you listened to the New Kids on the Block? Youāve probably seen more of Donnie Wahlberg trying to act!ā
