President Emeritus @ExplorersClub; a Videogame Industry Founding Father; Astronaut, Aquanaut, Polar Explorer; Family: @Ronin_British, @Kinga_British
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Tanks… mighty as they seem on the face of… seem a bit… old school. Seems like lite, mobile, gps/drone/sat targeting items are dominating these days. Am I missing something? Are tanks still superior when backed up, like carriers are backed up in a fleet?
Since the Bradley IFV might enter the war in Ukraine I would like to point out that it has BGM-71 TOWs integrated. The TOW-2B (Aero) variant can easily kill a Russian tank without even hitting it directly. (Turret toss included)
#Ukraine #USA
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Tim,
After a NASA Dr told me that my bad eyesight meant I could never be an astronaut, I started planning how I could someday reach space. After a decade of investing in SpaceHab, EFFORT and numerous others, I learned a path lead by ex-NASA contractors was unlikely. Then I met folks from The Explorers Club, we built the XPRIZE, ZeroG and Space Adventures, finally I secured the first private seat on Soyuz, and then the stock market crashed so I sold that seat to Denis Tito. After rebuilding, I signed up to fly in 2008. Only to be scrubbed for medical causes. After corrective surgery, I was back on track, but then the 2008 market crash. I was broke (again) by the time I flew. 30+ years in the making… but, I made it.
You will fly.
Your friend,
Richard
And just like that, the dreams of my crew are over.
I have such mixed emotions about dearMoon’s cancellation. Of course I’m extremely disappointed, having dreamt about this mission since I first heard about it in 2018 and even more for the last 3 years since the selection process started. I slowly allowed myself to envision a trip to the Moon one little bit by little bit. On the other hand, I have guilt about being upset about a gift that was retracted. A part of me doesn’t feel I’m entitled to grieve since I wasn’t entitled to this mission in the first place. But the reality is, I’ll need to allow myself to grieve this loss as it became a big part of my life, my dreams, and my visions.
Going to space has never been a thing I’ve actively pursued in general. It’s not a goal of Everyday Astronaut. It was simply a cherry on top. Granted, a HUGE cherry, but I’ll be just fine without this mission. I’m extremely fortunate to have the life and the career I have and this mission’s cancellation changes none of that. In fact, I’ve gained new friends, had new adventures and learned more about myself in the last three years because of dearMoon. Unfortunately, I can’t speak for everyone on the crew who all have different emotions, consequences and realities of this cancellation. For those who this affects the most, my heart goes out to them.
The one thing I have a hard time reconciling is the timeline. Had I known this could have ended within a year and a half of it being publicly announced, I would’ve never agreed to it. We had no prior knowledge of this possibility. I voiced my opinions, even before the announcement, that it was improbable for dearMoon to happen in the next few years.
I still firmly believe that, within my lifetime, we will see missions like this happen, and while I will never be the first to do such a mission, it brings me great joy to know the future is bright and exciting. And I’m proud to be able to continue to cheer those on who will do these exciting firsts! I’ll still be here to help explain rocket science to anyone who will listen to me babble on about spaceflight.
In 2018 I started looking at the Moon and imagining artists going around it, then as the selection process narrowed, I allowed myself to imagine going around it. But unfortunately now every time I look at the Moon, it’s a painful reminder of dreams lost. But I will continue on as I always have, one giddy rocket nerd who’s here to witness history, absorb as much knowledge as I can, and break down what I learn for my fellow everyday person.
I love you all, thank you for the ongoing support and encouragement at this time.
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Thanks!!
It’s been 35 years now since Ultima IV came out, still most influential game for me personally. Big shoutout to @RichardGarriott !
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I know @elonmusk I know many of the staff @SpaceXBocaChica I know the care and hard work they are putting in to be good stewards of the local area. The environment and the local citizens have and will continue to greatly benefit from this inspiring and caring neighbor.
Please add your voice to the public comments. Support is greatly appreciated!
Humanity’s future on the moon, Mars & beyond depends upon it.
Thanks,
Elon
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I see your moon from ISS, and raise with two of my own. These show how the shape of the moon distorts as the light passes through earths atmosphere!
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I lived in Russia for most of two years training for my space flight. Since them Moscow and St Petersburg had been flourishing… but as soon as you drove outside the biggest cities, it rapidly fell into squalor. Trash on the road sides, open air meat markets with flies, grungy shops with lots of vodka, some cognac and beer. Leaky mass apartment blocks and rotting wooden dachas.
Don’t get me wrong, I actually loved the people. Open, loving, sharing, caring… but their government has utterly failed them. The Russian kleptocracy of Putin and his oligarchs have doomed yet another generation.
Yet, we cannot bring true democracy to those who don’t demand it for themselves. Most Russians I knew there, felt Putin was better than the communists of old, so were content with his rule.
This is in case anyone thinks that Russia is all about caviar, beautiful women and wealth. Ladies and gentlemen, THIS IS RUZZNIA !! #RussiaIsCollapsing #RussianWarCrimes #RussiaisATerroistState #NAFO #NAFOfellas #NAFOCatsDivision
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And... it happens to be owned by... ME! So, if you have any desire to take it out for a spin, first get yourself to the moon, then text me, I am sure we can work out a deal. You will likely need to bring jumper cables and a took kit.
Whatever your feelings on the Luna 25 crash, I think we can at least admit that Russia still holds the record for coolest looking moon probe. Lunokhod 2 looks like it was fully capable of fighting Doctor Who.
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Thank you Scott! Dad had a great 88 orbits around the sun!
Saddened to learn the passing of former Astronaut Owen Garriott who pioneered long-duration spaceflight aboard #Skylab. My thoughts are with @RichardGarriott and family. #RIP
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I love how he tosses in “I’m being attacked, while they are protecting all those voting machine companies.” Yeah, that’s why your being sued, your lies about those voting machine companies!
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If there is one thing I have learned from being an astronauts son, being an astronaut, serving on the NASA advisory council, having plenty of friends in governments all the way to the top, knowing plenty of military brass and highly placed folks across related fields… it’s that secrets are very hard to keep. If there was real evidence, we would know. If you have real evidence, show it. Not interested in what “whistle blowers” have to say.
I was responding to Mr. Garriot's remarks about extraterrestials. Anything beyond that is your own assumptions.
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You can only imagine the struggle I had, forcing the company to release a fully black box. Yet another “unreasonable demand”, just like cloth maps, boxed games, trinkets, shipping when ready/done vs the marketing window…
In gaming history, 16 April 1992, Origin Systems and #lordbritish @RichardGarriott released #ultimavii #theblackgate @Warren_Spector @Denis_Loubet @ultimadragons @EA
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When I get a backlash for talking politics from gamers who’ve played my games, and somehow are shocked I have political opinions… I wonder if they really understood the games. They were always political (starting with Ultima IV). Virtues, anti-racism, anti blind faith, anti-corruption of power, facing down a world with unfair tactics, recognizing paths other than your own as worthy.
Somehow they missed the Honesty, Compassion, Valor, Justice, Sacrifice, Honor, Spirituality and Humility!
Live by the Virtues!
Needed now more than in my younger days.
Lord British
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I have both the NYC vaccine passport & the EU vaccine passport. Get over it and get yourself vaccinated. For Polio, Yellow Fever and others the world demanded vaccine cards to travel. We must do this again now! Lock the anti-vax folks in their own back yards.
The program is modeled after the vaccine passport programs rolled out in France and other European countries.
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My daughter Kinga and I at lunch discussing game boxes… she asks why would you buy a game in a box, couldn’t you just download it. I tried to explain there was no internet, she then suggested to use your cellular data , I explained there were no cell phones. Ah, times have changed!
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Great thread. I consider Elon a good friend. He’s also the smartest person I know, by far. He works very hard. He plays hard too. He is far from perfect. I often disagree with his social / political stance. But that’s all okay. No one should doubt his devotion to a better world!
🧵/ Since I get asked very often by Elon's critics what good @elonmusk has done, I thought I'd share a thread w/links.
Aside from his work with Tesla and SpaceX, I'll focus on what he has done to help our world and people in need.
👇👇👇👇👇👇
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As President of @ExplorersClub I would like to congratulate @richardbranson & @virgingalactic for their historic flight today. The era of suborbital space exploration is finally open! As well as our friends @xprize & @ScaledC who built the foundations of this amazing day!
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When I lived in Russia for much of two years in 2007-2008, it was very clear that the vast resources of Russia would be unlocked if only they built nationwide infrastructure, as the USA did after WW2. When I asked my Russian friends why they did not do that, they stated that Russia saw the lack of East / West connectivity to be a good defensive strategy, so no thanks.
Probably one of the greatest ironies of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine is that Putin was so hellbent to have Nordstream2 finished that he completely disregarded any long-term strategy for Asia. Almost all pipelines go to the West and it is impossible for this to change in this decade.
Putin, the "master strategist", completely relied on that he will win in Ukraine and that the entire world will go along with it.
It also proves that revanchist fascism as Russkyi Mir is that it never does any good to the people. Russia could have thrived if it had relinquished all imperial ambition. Industry would thrive, the very life could thrive, but all what they have is now a broken society with stupid WW2 fetishism where Soliviki and Ozero-Oligarchs sit in their palaces from Gelendzhik to Sotchi.
And if this is the worst what can happen to Russia then you haven't see everything. With each day this war goes on the more Russia will lose. Like I said, the irony...
#Russia #Ukraine #Energy
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But unlike WW1, we now have precision spotting by drones to drop grenades in their open hatches or target tank destroying shells or missiles precisely on top of them.
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If… I ever got the rights back… should a new “Quest of the Avatar” be solo player? Should it be top down graphics? Opinions?
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What? An outrage! Your implying in no uncertain words that a game I made in 1982 at the age of 20 is anything less than perfect? After Ultima III, your penance is to play Ultima IV! ;) Return once you have proven yourself the Avatar of Virtue!
We'll see each other minax I already completed Ultima II sorry for this richard but I have to say it Ultima II is terrible the story doesn't make sense and it's a very easy game to break but I still enjoyed it (next adventure Ultima III)
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Mark Hamill, star of Origin’s Wing Commander - and that series some of you may have heard of “Star Wars”- will be sitting down with @JoeBiden to discuss Hope & Democracy. Please join us and RSVP here secure.joebiden.com/AKZGTcpZ… 🚀😉
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When Chris mocked this up for the first time… we knew it was going to be a hit!
Damn, I just loooooove this part❤️❤️❤️
#weekend #retrogames #retrogaming #retrogamer #memories #PC #msdos #WingCommander
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Yes, they do make something like this. But, it’s the bristles that have blue tips, which fade to white with use. Once all blue has faded, buy a new toothbrush. I have them now.
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I just returned from summiting Kilimanjaro! Hardest physical thing I’ve ever done. It was an Explorers Club “Young Explorers Expedition”. 5 youth aged 10 to 14 made the climb! Including my two. @ExplorersClub
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Plus that buffoon Michelle, had no idea why she was being so cautious. I know a number of infirm or susceptible people who need to fear even a common cold.
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Okay Tweeters! I have a quest for you. Find Paul Rogers, who was 13 years old in 1981, and wrote the first official “Report Thy Feat” to California Pacific. 6th June 1981
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I love all the folks complaining about Neil’s comment. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I know plenty of smart people who hope that aliens are among us. Unfortunately, their evidence, while mysterious and worthy of curiosity, is not remotely compelling to jump to such a conclusion.
Sometimes I wonder whether alien space vessels are inherently fuzzy & out-of-focus (that would be terrifying). And whether they love the @USNavy (that would be charming).
If so, it would explain a lot.
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Elon, Please don’t expand the short form for tweets! The reason I use twitter over FB and others, is that no one can ask a long question and no one can expect a long answer. Once it’s long form, my ability to expect bidirectional brevity will be gone!
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I agree. It’s horrifically serious. I’m doing my best to sort through the massive streams of data we receive in this hyper streamed conflict. I see the huge Russian failures, I see Ukraine slowly regaining their lands. But I read (US/UN) estimates of casualties as similar. ???
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My thanks to the Ultima Community, @ultimadragons and @ultimaonlinedev for the votes and support.
Introducing the 2024 World Video Game Hall of Fame inductees! Congratulations to Asteroids, Myst, SimCity, Resident Evil, and Ultima on achieving legendary status!
#WVGHOF #VideoGameHallOfFame #Asteroids #Myst #SimCity #ResidentEvil #Ultima
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I like this tech!!
Really happy with what I got done tonight with Ultima VII Revisited! First-floor walls are now drawing and the objects are sorted so they draw in the right order. I also put some smoothing on the camera (people were saying it was too sharp)
#UltimaVII #U7Revisited
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For those NOT in the know… this is the real Iolo, playing and singing on his Lute (which he may have made), with crossbow (of his making) and swords (as he is a Don of light weapons combat.) All at Castleton in Austin Texas in the home I built him with my own hands.
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Heading off to The Challenger Deep! I will be off Email and Social Media (mostly) through march 10th. So, If I miss a "Report thy feat!" please report it after March 10th! Stories to tell after!
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How about…
First remakes of U4, U5 & U6.
Then significant redo’s of U1-3, telling better back stories of the companions.
Then jump ahead to 10+
Before returning to U7-9
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I’m up on roof re-potting a plant, when all of a sudden people all around on rooftops start clapping and screaming, then horns on all the streets... I’m wondering what’s happening... the I realize it’s democracy! And starting clapping, screaming and calling family to join!!!
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Yes, my first games were in bags. State of the art for the time. I demanded a box and map for Ultima ][ and every publisher said “no, it costs too much” except Sierra… so I moved to them to publish the first game in a box and with a map!
Ultima had lots of firsts!
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Please consider voting for Ultima to join the Strong Museum Hall of Fame. It would encourage them, and myself, to get together and create a worthy display for the series!
Thanks, Richard Garriott / Lord British
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Now we’re talking!! That is literally the 15th personally hand made copy of my first self published game. I sold the first dozen on the peg board at the local Computerland, where I had a summer job, for $19.95, before California Pacific put it in a bigger bag for $34.95!
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Here is an almost never told story… in the L shaped strip mall that had Computerland at one end, there was a small print shop near the other end. I had the original cover sheet and manuals printed there, which my mom and I stapled together at home at the kitchen table.
When they were being printed, it was just me, and the young woman on the other side of the counter running the huge printing press. The printing press had ink, that was spread evenly before being transferred to the final roller with the image on it, by running over a series of rollers rolling in opposite directions… perhaps 6 such rollers.
While the woman was operating the press, making the Akalabeth manuals, her hair got caught in the rapidly spinning series of inked rollers! In a matter of a split second, it sucked in her long hair, and slammed her cheek into the machine. Fortunately, she also, instinctively, reached around and shut off the machine.
But, she was now pinned against the machine, deeply entangled and bleeding significantly.
I jumped over the counter and began disassembling the machine in haste. By the time we got her “extracted”, we where both covered in ink and blood. So was the print shop. But we did get her out, a few stitches were needed to patch her up.
So… if you have an original Akalabeth… check it for blood and hair!
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I feel similarly.
No video game has yet reached the power of the early game masters loosely using the original 3 saddle stitched books, to be interactive story tellers, not dice rollers.
As computer games improved, many pen and paper experiences diminished. Too many rules, too little story telling action.
Some new table top games have regained my interest, and digital worlds have yet to exceed my early experiences with a master storyteller. Perhaps even some of my own campaigns I would like to think.
But, neither physical nor digital are lost… they can both still rise to new heights!
We are after all, a pretty clever species!
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When I left California Pacific and announced I was a free agent for Ultima ][ most publishers we interested. Then I stated that I wanted the game in a box, and to have cloth map and large manual. Every publisher immediately said no thanks, except @SierraOnLineUni, who agreed to the outrageous demands… and thus followed the whole game industry!
Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress / Origin-Sierra - 1982
#RETROGAMING #retrocomputing #pcgames #DOSGAMING #bigboxPCgames #pointandclick #adventuregame #adventuregames #rpg #ultima #pixelart #flightsimulator #rtsgames #ultima #lucasarts #sierragames
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Well… let me bow your mind a bit more… some have surely seen this… Ultima III was Origin’s first game. My mother was our art director, and did a massively great job with the maps and manuals. I wanted a cover inspired by Fantasia, with 4 players in a demons hands in a fire pit. My mother made a copy…. While it’s very nice… I made a very tough call… to tell my mother I wanted Denis to redo the image. Here are both their works:
My most favorite piece was from Exodus: Ultima III. That daemon artwork is still the most gorgeous piece of art that I have ever seen.
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Wait. What? Where is mine???
I LOVE awesome surprise packages and this one is stellar!! Big thank you to @EstesRockets for this @SpaceX Crew Dragon Falcon 9 rocket. This is epic! Who wants to go launch rockets? 🙋🏽♀️🚀🌎
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It wasn’t “always”… Origin, in the early days of Ultima, Wing Commander, and more in the 1980’s really was “Camelot”. Everyone supported each other’s drive to make better and better games, and deliver the tag line “We create worlds!” Then, the bureaucrats drove it all into the ground.
This is what happened to me. As a kid I wanted to make games like @RichardGarriott, fell in love with programming and by college realized the game industry was bonkers.
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I created the virtues from scratch, but through a long process of research, during which I read innumerable religious texts, philosophy tomes, books on ethics, and much more. Eventually realizing no existing source would work for me, so I spent months organizing and relating virtues and vices into what became the core 3 principles of Truth, Love and Courage, from which I could rationalize not just the 8 virtues of Ultima, but most every other motivating virtue or vice.
I am proud of it. While it is “fiction”… it is also well imagined.
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Please listen to politics girl. Especially the second half about coordination between Rep lawmakers and DJT lawyers which is ongoing and illegal. This too will likely eventually be prosecuted. This purge of MAGA will take years.
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About to run my first fully baked tabletop RPG session in years, for my kids and a few of their friends, using my own simplified no dice rules set! Practical sets, special effects, lighting and sound!
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On the moon. Literally. Look at the Wikipedia entry for Lunokhod 2 and at the very bottom, it will note it was sold to me in about 96.
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60+ astronauts in attendance. And a massive audience for the premier!
So honored to congratulate my friend @Andrekuiperss on the launch of his incredible new film, Beyond: Ode to the Earth 🎬 It was a blast discussing space exploration with the crowd at the Ziggo Dome. #spaceexploration #moviepremiere #ASE35 #ASE2024
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How does this square with reports that both sides seem to be suffering similar scales of casualties. Why is Putin sending ill prepared conscripts, vs putting conscripts elsewhere and move the trained 2/3 of his troops to the front, and conscripts elsewhere?
We've spent ten months reporting from inside Ukraine. With secret battle plans and interviews with Russian soldiers, here now is the story of what Putin's war looks like on the other side: a calamity of historic proportions with no end in sight.
nytimes.com/interactive/2022…
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It has been my life’s pleasure to provide those hours of entertainment and reflection. I hope you feel the time was as “well spent” as it could have been.
Onward Avatar, there are more paths of virtue to yet discover!
Lord British
@RichardGarriott
Thanks for giving me many many hours of pleasure over the years.
Currently on a replay of Ultima IV onwards - I know I finished some before but can't exactly remember which ones. But IV is now definitely in the bag.
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The term MMO was coined by my team trying to differentiate UO from MUD’s and other dial up service multiplayer games.
Foremost, was the concept of “massive”, meaning truly 1000’s or more could simultaneously connect and interact with each other live in the game world.
UO had significantly more success that EA projected, so we still had to “shard” the world. Another term we made up, out of Ultima fiction history (breaking up Mondain’s gem of immortality fractured reality into each gem shard.
While UO was mostly a single flat world, we did not intend to imply that the massive number of players in an MMO could not also have smaller instanced spaces, rather / mostly that all players in a shard CAN see and interact with each other.
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Even though your already a well known “public figure” @elonmusk, to me there is something special about making the cover of Mad Magazine. Enjoyed it as a kid, now sharing it with my kids.
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Stephen Hawking was far more than than a great physicist. He was a friendly, happy, playful friend to anyone who had the pleasure to meet him. He inspired so many, in ways far beyond his profound vision of the universe. I would say his humanity was a far greater contribution.
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Perhaps you've seen the first sci-fi movie made in space, Apogee of Fear. Now see the first sci-fi movie made at the deepest point in earth's ocean! "Secrets of Triton's Trench" piped.video/Dv6ESt7XLzM @MichaelDubno @VictorVescovo @ExplorersClub @tritonsubs @trhickman
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You are very kind… I thank you!
Happy Birthday to Lord British himself, @RichardGarriott, who arguably had the largest influence on computer role playing games after Dungeons & Dragons.
ALT Title screen for Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar
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Always my intent… it was the Black Gate.
You have to admire the honest simplicity of the Ultima 7 boxart.
@RichardGarriott, did you ever consider going with an actual piece of art for the U7 box, or was this always the intent?
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Exactly right. Great work. Now do more. Much more.
.@POTUS @ABlinken @JakeSullivan46 have led the free world in providing more weapons for Ukraine than anyone ever expected and more sanctions against Russia than anyone could have imagined 2 weeks ago. And now it's time to do more. More weapons. More sanctions.
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Are you suggesting, that even if he is guilty, he should not be prosecuted, or merely that guilty or not, arrest will help him gin up his base? If he is in jail or has two more felonies (Jan 6 and/or Election interference) in process, I suspect the RNC may finally abandon him.
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This is an example of how marketing departments industry wide, were often filled with non-gamers, who rarely knew the lore, often didn’t even know genres well. Yet, often wielded power over how a product would be showcased.
Y'know, I never thought about this, but why the SNES cover of U7 has a key/keychain with a skull? The black gate was never a proper gate with key and lock, soooo... I dont remember keys and keyring being that relevant in the game. @RichardGarriott @ultimadragons
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Scientists discover 9000-Year-Old ‘Stonehenge-Like’ Structure beneath Lake Michigan
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Elon Musk’s AI turns on him, labels him ‘one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X’
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Perfect! Used natural pressure of the Mariana Trench to hydroform brass over an aluminum die!
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The Computer Game That Led to Enlightenment newyorker.com/culture/cultur… via @NewYorker
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Correct. I just returned from the Challenger Deep. If I may be a bit “braggadocious”, I’m now the first person to travel pole to pole & space to deep!
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How do these folks not recognize they are in a cult? I’d be embarrassed to “worship” anything this desperately. But, especially something so divisive and angry and mean spirited.
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I wrote Ultima II directly in assembly language. No real editing environment. I taught myself assembly, as I wrote it. While I am still not a touch typist, the 3 letter assembly acronyms, I had down pat. LDA (Load Accumulator), ASL (Arithmetic Shift Left) etc.
RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language reg.cx/46ds?utm_source=twitt…
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@ExplorersClub Team,
Thanks for all your support and hard work on the rescue operations for our friends aboard Titan.
I believe we have importantly improved the odds of a positive outcome though our advice, volunteering of services and equipment, and even the political pressure we continue to bring to bear.
All has been needed. All continues to be needed. Magellan is en route (should have been accepted sooner), we are still trying to get side scan sonar (should have been accepted sooner), and still working on ships to transport equipment and other details.
We continue to come together for our friends, their families and the ideals of The Explorers Club, and the cause of safe scientific exploration of extreme environments.
There is good cause for hope, and we are making it more hopeful.
I thank you! Keep searching!
Richard Garriott de Cayeux
President,
The Explorers Club
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While I am no fan of Mike Pence, it’s time for the 25th amendment! Mike Pence should now become president! Congressional members sheltered and texted loved ones their “final” I love you. Trump must be removed now! It’s time to do everything we can to get rid of him NOW!
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0- a start
1- a game
2- in assembly code
3- worthy
4- Visionary- Avatar, Virtues
5- Better storytelling
6- A great twist
7- Beautiful new beginning
7SI- Well done
8- Unfinished
9- Eventually Great despite EA’s resistance
UO- The dawn of MMO’s, “shards”, Sandboxes, etc
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Ultima II is __
Ultima III is __
Ultima IV is __
Ultima V is __
Ultima VI is __
Savage Empire is __
Martian Dreams is __
Ultima Underworld is __
Ultima VII is __
Ultima Underworld II is __
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Sorry our views appear not to align. Yes, I both read the whole piece, and listened to much of what he said. He is a dangerous criminal, who will become more and more like the dictators he admires, if we allow it. My Twitter is me, not just game, not just space, politics too.
I used to have a lot of respect for you, Richard, but all of these political tweets have really put me off. Did you even listen to what the man said? Probably not… sad. Never said he would “rule like a dictator”. Ridiculous
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Back on the surface! Back from Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench. Much to report, after a bite and crew debrief! @venturethinking @ExplorersClub #VentureToTheDeep
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I bought lots of “occult”books as research on how to make magic “feel believable”. I was universally disappointed, in how obviously nonsense it all was. I then set out to write magic manuals, starting with Ultima III that read much better! Logical use of reagents and mantras FTW!
LOL I had to donate stacks of my occult books because my mom said I was inviting evil into the house :(
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I, Lord British, will take this up with the creators @Underworld_Asc. We shall use Mondain’s time machine, or Minax’s time gates, or @ErnestCline’s car to go back to the 1990’s & rectify this for thee Lord @notch. Or, perhaps you should try the new Underworld Ascendant on Steam!
The plot to Ultima Underworld 2: Labyrinth of Worlds does not hold up to scrutiny!
There, I said it.
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