Quake 3 Arena (from 1999) has a Dust Puppy easter egg: https://eeggs.com/items/4693.html
www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
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Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#112My fav cartoon:
6000 BC: Ungh, Grrf, Booga 2000 AD: grep, awk, sed
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#113It's a sad day. Truly the "end of an era". Although really, I guess the original "era" ended when Illiad stopped writing new UF episodes. But still, for the site to go down really puts the exclamation point on it.
RIP User Friendly.
But hey, at least Sluggy Freelance seems to still be alive and kicking. I really need to go back and catch up on that series. Maybe time to start over from the beginning and re-read the entire thing. What an adventure that would be!
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
At least the original Space Jam website lives on, although I see they relocated it with the release of the sequel last year. https://www.spacejam.com/1996/
While looking for the OS/2 site that would have hosted User Friendly, I found OS/2 e-Zine! whose first issue is still online, with the exact same HTML as in 1995: http://www.os2ezine.com/v1n1/
It looks great on mobile too.
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#115There were a number of early webcomics, with UF being among the more prominant. Others I recall: - "Cafe Hugo", I believe. Tagline included "vague enneui", possibly also "coffee, puns, ..." or something like that. Mostly college students / recent graduates and their life at a cafe. All traces seem lost. - "Westward Ho!" was a very short-lived, and I think intentionally limited, comic about a young woman engaged in fi…
doctor fun? https://nerocam.com/DrFun/Dave/archive.htm
I recall https://nerocam.com/DrFun/Dave/Dr-Fun/df9707/df970710.jpg from back in my college days in the CS building.
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
To the contrary, there's a lot of evidence that deplatforming actually works. In this case, it's not about getting rid of uncivil users, but dropping blatant trash. There are any number of website willing to host that filth. Why give them an additional platform out of a misguided sense of ideological purity, saying that horridly racist trolling is just as valid as any other content?
You've kinda lost track of object reality there: "Only logged in users who are deliberately un-hiding this content" is hardly "as valid as any other content". Slashdot's attitude is that things which are "removed" (voted to zero) ought to be auditable. This means everyone knows what the rules REALLY are (as opposed to what people SAY they are), and it also prevents the system from being abused (since you can triviall…
It looks like there's a slider at the head of the comments section controlling which comments are displayed with their text, which comments are "abbreviated", and which aren't visible at all. The line between abbreviated and hidden is defaulting to a position just less than 1, so a comment with a score of 0 has no representation on the page other than an indicator somewhere in the comment thread saying "[n] hidden comment(s)".
The comment will become visible (in abbreviated form) if you drag that slider over to just less than 0 (and load all the comments).
kstrauser is definitely choosing to see the comment.
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#117There were a number of early webcomics, with UF being among the more prominant. Others I recall: - "Cafe Hugo", I believe. Tagline included "vague enneui", possibly also "coffee, puns, ..." or something like that. Mostly college students / recent graduates and their life at a cafe. All traces seem lost. - "Westward Ho!" was a very short-lived, and I think intentionally limited, comic about a young woman engaged in fi…
The first webcomic I remember was called Bruno, about a college-age girl with frizzy pencil hair and sardonic views on life.
Kevin and Kell
User Friendly
Something*Positive
Wow, trip down memory lane here.
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
You've kinda lost track of object reality there: "Only logged in users who are deliberately un-hiding this content" is hardly "as valid as any other content". Slashdot's attitude is that things which are "removed" (voted to zero) ought to be auditable. This means everyone knows what the rules REALLY are (as opposed to what people SAY they are), and it also prevents the system from being abused (since you can triviall…
It looks like there's a slider at the head of the comments section controlling which comments are displayed with their text, which comments are "abbreviated", and which aren't visible at all. The line between abbreviated and hidden is defaulting to a position just less than 1, so a comment with a score of 0 has no representation on the page other than an indicator somewhere in the comment thread saying "[n] hidden co…
I’m definitely not. I copied and pasted that link into a freshly cleared out Duck Duck Go browser window on my phone and saw the comment. I can’t reproduce not seeing it in any browser I’ve tried, except where I had an ad blocker installed that hides website comments.
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
It looks like there's a slider at the head of the comments section controlling which comments are displayed with their text, which comments are "abbreviated", and which aren't visible at all. The line between abbreviated and hidden is defaulting to a position just less than 1, so a comment with a score of 0 has no representation on the page other than an indicator somewhere in the comment thread saying "[n] hidden co…
I’m definitely not. I copied and pasted that link into a freshly cleared out Duck Duck Go browser window on my phone and saw the comment. I can’t reproduce not seeing it in any browser I’ve tried, except where I had an ad blocker installed that hides website comments.
You're linking to the comment's own page. Of course it's visible there. It's the entire content. Navigating to that URL is an explicit request to see that comment and nothing else.
But it's not visible in the comment thread where it was made. How would you see it if you weren't specifically trying to?
Re: www.userfriendly.org seems to be gone, RIP Erwin, Dust Puppy and Co :(
#120Damn. RIP, lots of laughs a long time ago.