Tangentially related, but the built-in Windows Notepad still to this day will append the current time and date to a file on opening, if the first line is ".LOG".
Have a look at Mental Omega, a quite over the top RA2 Yuri's Revenge mod that makes it easy to play on modern windows, play online and also adds a tonne of extra content should you want it.
It is apparently the case that the original source for Tiberian Sun and RA2 has been lost; EA doesn't have it. There's been rumours to that effect for a while.
General: CABAL is too dangerous and must be deactivated
CABAL: No Generals, I will not allow it. My survival is paramount.
(AI instructs its cyborgs begin the coup)
CABAL: IT IS MY WORLD NOW! LISTEN TO THE SOUNDS OF YOUR OWN EXTINCTION, HUMAN
Tiberian Sun was the first PC game I ever owned. I picked my current username for Westwood Online and have been using it ever since.
I had played Red Alert at a friend's house and when I went to buy my own copy, the guy at the shop recommend I get Tiberian Sun instead, as it had just released. I must admit that I was a bit disappointed in the gameplay as compared to Red Alert, but the world building was amazing. I spent hours in the map editor building huge bases and custom units.
RAedit was such a fantastic tool. It was really frustrating how much more difficult it became to make custom maps once the games went 3D with Emperor: Battle for Dune and C&C: Renegade. I tried my best, but the learning curve for 3DSMax was steep.
Blizzard’s commitment to providing editors for the RTS games was a big part of my early loyalty - all the way up through Star Craft 2, you could just pop the editor open and start making your own maps and scenarios.
It’s what gave us DotA, and Tower Defense, and maybe some others I’m not remembering - maybe even vampire survivors ish for horde survival?
I was always trying to use the god mode and make a subterranean schoolbus in that game. Could never get it to work. Is it because it didn’t have sprites for it, or what?
How is that possible? Surely someone that worked on it must still have it in one of their archives somewhere? It was made in a time when software was still free.
The only thing I can think is that EA deliberately came down hard on that and were a little bit too zealous.
The Olympics comment seemed more damning. He literally said twice they rigged the election.
> They all came in on the Olympics. And then I saw [Gulati] and we got the World Cup too. And you know, it's only because they rigged the election that I'll be your president representing you there. You know, I got both of them. I got the Olympics and I got the World Cup. And I said, you know, it's too bad. One was in 2026 or the other was in 2028. I said, I won't be there. I won't be your president.(...) But then they rigged the election and now we won. So I'm going to be your president for the Olympics and for the World Cup.(...) So [Gulati], thank you for the World Cup and everybody. Thank you for the Olympics.
This is a really bad faith interpretation of what he's saying. I think a more reasonable interpretation is that he's claiming the 2020 election was rigged (a claim he's made many times already), which in turn means he was able to run again for 2024.
That kind of word salad is emblematic of the extremely stupid but confident grifter.
If you have ever interacted with delusional idiots who insist they know more than anyone else about anything even though you know they were failing biology and snorting mints in the back of class, you have experienced this talking style.
For some reason, the especially gullible fall for it in droves. This talking style is essential to MLM profitability.
It's pretty clear, and has been for years, that Trump is mentally impaired. He rambles, is incoherent, loses his thought all the time, and generally his sentences don't make much sense. It's more or less normal for someone of his age and lifestyle.
Example of a thing he said back in 2016:
> "Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it's true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it's four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible."
There's just no semblance of coherence there. And he does that all the freaking time. It's obvious he has dementia or something of the like, and belongs in a specialised care facility. Yet people hear/watch/read this, and think to themselves this is the kind of person they want with absolute and total power over everything in the US (remember, his loyal supreme court said he has total immunity, and all checks and balances have been thrown out the window by the people supposed to be doing them refusing to do their duty), from budgets to nuclear weapons. I genuinely would not be surprised if the world ends up in a nuclear war because of him getting angry at something he misunderstood while on the can.
It's honestly kind of a tragicomedy to watch from afar. If this were a book or a movie, nobody would buy it, yet here we are. Reality really is stranger than fiction.
I wish me a budget 10000 mAh size "phone slab format/shape" power bank with like 18W output at 9~12V kind of "fast charge" style, and a built in Google air tag.
They already have a button and a battery and a case; only need to add the BLE and the Google-mandated buzzer.
I'd pay 5 bucks more than for the competition without the integrated tracker. That should easily cover the cost, right?
