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by monti
Sat Dec 13, 2025 5:34 pm
Forum: Mixed Media
Topic: what's on tv?
Replies: 13
Views: 443

Re: what's on tv?

finished up Wolf Hall: The Mirror and Light . i love so much to watch old english character actors Character Act. every time damian lewis is in something i'm always either seeing Bobby Billions or Brody Homeland doing something in my head so its very funny to see him do henry the 8th stuff the ...
by monti
Sat Dec 13, 2025 5:29 pm
Forum: Mixed Media
Topic: what's everyone reading?
Replies: 27
Views: 2187

Re: what's everyone reading?

Started reading The Devil and the White City by Erik Larson, the 2003 popular history that launched a thousand HH Holmes documentaries. It's a breezy and compelling read but also has a lot of what I dislike about journalists writing history*: total certainty in their own reading of the evidence ...
by monti
Sat Dec 06, 2025 1:03 am
Forum: Mixed Media
Topic: The Personal Desktop Computer
Replies: 8
Views: 224

Re: The Personal Desktop Computer


Oh man, that beautiful UI... I really miss when games were still at least partially using OS-level UI. I'm a big fan of Lunatic Dawn: Passage of The Book partially because of that, as well as the PC port of Suikoden I.


The UI is sooo good! On the Mac version each panel was its own system window ...
by monti
Tue Dec 02, 2025 5:57 pm
Forum: Mixed Media
Topic: The Personal Desktop Computer
Replies: 8
Views: 224

Re: The Personal Desktop Computer

Deadlock: Planetary Conquest was very formative for me* as a 90s Macintosh gamer. It's a sort of city-builder/4X game about seven alien empires competing to control the mysterious planet Gallius IV.

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