Computer Game Graphics: Then and Now

The first computer game I ever played:

Digger.  Screenshot from the web.  Still playable with DOSBox or online.

Except I played on a laptop with display tones all in blue/purple/gold, so it didn't look quite like the above.

The computer game I'm currently playing:

Dragon Age Origins. Gorgeous.

Living in the future is amazing!

Caturday Post: Scaramouche Helps Dance

His spot is smack in the middle of the floor.

Lovecraftian Horror

In silence and in darkness and in cold the horrid unspeakable thing lay, growing, growing, growing, over the slow and patient crawling of time not measured by puny humans, until, at last, it burst the chains laid on it by its long-lost makers and crawled into the world of men...

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I speak, of course, of my potato rosemary bread dough, which I left in the fridge to rise overnight.  While mixing this batch I got lazy and just dumped in all the potato water instead of measuring 3 cups, and the increased volume overflowed the bowl: 

But of the ancient mysteries of oxygen-and-sugar-burning, carbon-dioxide-and-ethanol-producing organisms that are yeast, I must not speak.

Pointless Stitchery

I made a small thing.  The pattern was for some uninspired snippet of melody, and with actual notes, rather than pawprints.  I added the cat and stitched the first few notes of the The Queen of the Night's Aria, because of course I did.

Caturday Post: Resolution Progress

Pursuant to his resolutions, Tamerlane has successfully stolen his brother's cat basket!

The Mad Person-Who-Stitches: My Most Fabulous Leotard So Far

Poetry Tuesday

An HULK-KU* for Dragon Age Origins, The Sloth Demon's Dream adventure arc:

Locked door, can't pick, drat

HULK SMASH!  Door open good now.

Monsters ahead!  Charge!

Smashing the doors was really fun.  Even though technically I'm a stone golem, not Hulk.

*scroll down for the hulk-ku