#Razor 1911

[felix-walter]

Comparison between the Chipendance EP cover art and Razor 1911's Chipdisc GFX art (Parody VS original).

[amakioff]

[mod-a-day]

Tomas Dahlgren (Uncle Tom) of Razor 1911 "Spell (amelioration)" Vertical Insanity (1990)

[zoestorm]

(CW: mention of suicide)

Emilio Salgari was one of the most prolific Italian authors of the late 1800s and early 1900s: after debuting in 1883, at age 21, over the course of his career he wrote eighty (80) novels and over a hundred short stories, each of which was based on careful and meticulous research -- he was known to spend days on end in his city's library, bent over a book, taking notes. In 1897 he was honoured as one of Italy's greatest living writers by the House of Savoy.

Since the early 1900s, he was bound to his publisher by a punishing contract: he had to produce three novels a year, which amounted to three pages per day, which in the time when almost everything was written by hand, was a lot.

His health and mental well-being took a toll. In 1909 he wrote to a friend:

A writer's job should be full of satisfaction, both moral and material. I, however, am bound to the writing table for many hours, every day and some nights, and when I should be resting I'm in the library looking for documentation. I have to write pages upon pages at full steam, and send everything to my publisher right away, without even having the time to re-read and edit my writing.

What's worse, he wasn't being paid fairly for his work: he was one of Italy's greatest living writers, and yet he and his family lived in abject poverty.

On the 25 of April, 1911, Emilio Salgari killed himself.

He went out early in the morning, and he was found later in the day in a city park, having cut his throat with a razor.

Before leaving his home, he left several letters on his desk, one of which was addressed to his publisher. It read, in part:

To you who have grown fat by feeding on my skin, forcing me and my family to live in misery, I only ask that in return for all I have made you earn you arrange for my funeral. I bid you farewell, and snap my pen in half.

Today, Emilio Salgari is still remembered as a great writer. He still died at 48, and his death was entirely preventable.

Everyone should be paid fairly for their work.

[yairtabibi]

The Horror Is True- Candyman

In Jordan Peele’s and director Nia DaCosta’s new Candyman released in 2021, Anthony McCoy, the protagonist, slowly discovers more and more layers of truth that he never knew. He discovers his own past, and with it his real identity. He discovers the more recent past, from the 1990s when Helen Lyle, a grad student, became obsessed with Candyman and went insane, murdering and eventually self-immolating in a bonfire. Then he discovers another layer of the past he did not know about, the story of Sherman Fields, a disabled man who in the 1970s was wrongly accused of putting razors into candy and beaten to death for it. Last he discovers the deepest layer of the past, the story of Daniel Robitaille, an artist in the 1890s South who was murdered after falling in love with a white woman.

I want us all to have the same experience, to discover the true stories behind the legends. I think Peele and DaCosta want us to as well. So, let’s talk for a moment about the real Ruthie Jean. It is a story that is only briefly mentioned in both the 1992 and 2021 versions, but it is her murder that sets of the events in the 1992 film. Someone came through her bathroom mirror and murdered her—Candyman did it, right? Well, there was a real woman, a real murder, a real case that inspired this part of the film.

Her name, and indeed let’s say her name, was Ruthie Mae McCoy, a name that gets used in the 2021 (it is Anthony’s last name). On April 11, 1987, right around time that Bernard Rose was planning the first Candyman film, a 52-year-old woman living alone in her apartment in the

high-rise ABLA in the Cabrini Green Projects was murdered by one or more men who accessed her apartment by pushing through her bathroom mirror and entering through the opening. She lived at 1440 West 13th street, and though two men were arrested for her murder, they were both eventually acquitted for lack of evidence. Like any good horror story, there is element of truth to it, and it doesn’t end with Ruthie Mae McCoy.

There are real Daniel Robitaille’s too. In 1880, lynch mobs murdered at least 40 African Americans, and in 1890, 85 were murdered, and in 1891 it was 235—the increase is clear, and yet we should also take note that these are only the murders that got reported and recorded for posterity. The violence was so widespread that racist mobs and the KKK organized “lynching bees,” like twisted and grotesque version of things ladies and children did, like quilting bees or spelling bees. In 1911, the famous boxer Jack Johnson, a Black man, was attacked by a mob in Chicago after he married a white woman. Daniel Robitaille might be fictional, but the things he experienced were very real for centuries in America.

The horror is true. The legends are true. And in Candyman, there are consequences for knowing the truth, for summoning up the ghosts of the past, but in real life there is no choice; we must look in the mirror, we must summon the names, we must remember the hidden dark parts of the past.

[polyamorousmisanthrope]

Lessons I am taking from generational trauma.

One was born in 1911. She was in her late teens when the Great Depression started. Stern, staunch, and stiff-lipped. Her home was very VERY clean.

My other grandmother was born in 1928. She was still in diapers when the Great Depression started and even though her father made decent money... He drank it. She sense of humor that I think calcified at 12 years old. A hoarder. Disorganized. Found it difficult to keep on top of housework. As she aged, it was not unusual for her daughters to converge at her house a week or so before major family holidays to clean her house.

I think, in part, the experience of the world coming down around their ears (or, in my maternal grandmother's case -- that's All She Knew! Want and deprivation) was very formative to how they coped with the world for the rest of their lives.

Grandma (the elder) dealt with uncertainty by controlling her environment. The house was neat, she had years of canned food stocked on her pantry shelves. She never risked buying anything too "nice" because that money might be needed at another time for something more urgent than Pretty.

Nanny never gave the future much of a thought. Why bother, right? Things out of your control could take it away in a heartbeat. But she was always ready for good food and a laugh, and she loved sitting her ass on the beach more than anything in the world.

Up until the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, I freely admit I was firmly in Nanny's camp. What with being constantly told we were going to die in a nuclear firestorm, I never expected to see thirty, so was badly prepared to be living well into my fifties. I'm very Behind as a grownup.

My approach now is to surf the razor's edge between these two women's outlooks.

Yes, "chop wood and carry water" because it is necessary, and you MIGHT have a future.

But I'm not so dumb as to think, "It can't happen here," so I make a lot of plans to ensure that there are moments of "now" that I try my best to enjoy ON PURPOSE.

'Cause real deal...

Who knows?

"I hate reality just as much as the next guy, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal"

- Groucho Marx

[alfieshaw]

Deeper Research

History of ASCII art

Carlson 2003 "1966 Studies in Perception I by Ken Knowlton and Leon Harmon (Bell Labs)", Image of Studies in Perception I Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine

First Use

Among the oldest known examples of ASCII art are the creations by computer-art pioneer Kenneth Knowlton from around 1966.

ASCII art was invented, in large part, because early printers often lacked graphics ability and thus, characters were used in place of graphic marks.

ASCII art was also used in early e-mail when images could not be embedded.

From this we can understand that ASCII art was first used because of a lack of technological power. Images were too large to be stored on downloads and websites so a ASCII images was used instead, since they only consist of text characters, they don't use too much storage.

Game crackers/pirating groups would use ascii art as well for their logos for storage reasons.

RAZOR

www.textfiles.comAvailable from: http://www.textfiles.com/piracy/RAZOR/ (n.d.). T E X T F I L E S.

Razor 1911 is one of the oldest, and probably the longest-living pirating, demo, and couriering groups in the history of software piracy. Along their more than 15 year history (they were founded in 1985) they have produced demos and pirated games for the Commodore 64, Amiga, and Intel PC

[hackernewsrobot]

Razor 1911

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_1911

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“PANZINI HERE AS A CROWN WITNESS,” Toronto Globe. November 11, 1911. Page 9. ---- Comes From Prison Farm to Testify Against Roselli. ---- DEFENDANT ON THE STAND ---- Man Accused of Killing Ceci on Good Friday Makes a Flat Denial of the Charge and Demonstrates How His Hand Was Cut. ---- Frank Roselli, the alien charged with having murdered Glacchino Ceci,  a compatriot at 40 Agnes street last Good Friday night, was the only witness called by the defence yesterday in the Criminal size Court before Chief Justice Falconbridge. He told his story of the fight and denied in wholesale fashion the statements made by one or two of the Crown witnesses. When the prisoner in the crowded court room demonstrated to the jury how his thumb was nearly severed in his effort to separate Panzini and Mele, who were fighting, the scene presented was dramatic. 

When Mr. A. E. Creswick, K.C., the Crown counsel, completed his cross- examination of the prisoner at 2.30 yesterday afternoon, Chief Justice Falconridge asked him when he expected Donato Panzini to arrive in the city from the Central Prison Farm at Guelph. to which he was committed this summer. Mr. Creswick, who asked for an order yesterday morning permitting him to bring Panzini here and place him in the box as a prosecution witness, said he would arrive by to-day. Chief Justice Falconbridge then adjourned the trial until this morning. 

Refutes Mele's Testimony. At the morning sitting Roselli denied using the words, "If I go to death, all right. If I get twenty years, well, I am twenty-six now, and I'll be forty-six when I get out and I will be able to do some work." Andrea Mele, a Crown witness, on Wednesday swore that the prisoner used these words to him in a conversation in the jail cell. Roselli also denied telling Mele he cut someone with a razor during the' fight. He denied saying on Good Friday. "To-night,  must be dead." He told of the quarrel between Tony Savelli and Andrea Mele "over a stick." Roselli saw Panzini at the street end of the lane with a knife. Roselli then dramatically illustrated to the jury how he grasped Panzini by the shoulder in an effort to get the knife away from him and how he, Roselli, sustained a severe cut on the thumb. Acciola tied up his hand with a handkerchief. He said he did not see a razor. Then came the prisoner's positive declaration of his innocence. 

"Did you kill Ceel?" asked his counsel, Mr. W. A. Henderson. 

"I did not." replied Roselli. 

Mr. Creswick. cross-examining the witness, said: "Then you are perfectly innocent? Why didn't you tell all this at the inquest?" 

Roselli thought the lawyer was going to. I thought everybody was found guilty.

The prisoner said he was on friend- ly terms with Panzini. He said he tried to take the knife from Panzini to prevent further trouble. 

How He Was Cut. On a request from Chief Justice Falconbridge that he show how he was wounded in the hand. Roselli gave the knife to the Interpreter, Baron Banasta, then, when the lat- ter grasped it and assumed a threatening attitude toward the witness, Roselli grasped the interpreter by the shoulder and caught the blade of the knife. 

 "That is how it was done," said Roselli. 

Roselli denied ever having a razor. He said his fellow-prisoners urged him to make a confession in the fall. Roselli said he was born on December 1, 1885. 

In making his announcement of adjournment to the jury the Chief Justice suggested that the jury be permitted to go out for a walk, accompanied by a constable. 

Jurors Viewed Fight Scene. Mr. Creswick - In this connection. your Honor, I might say that one juror has suggested that permission be asked for them to take a walk up to 40 (now 54) Agnes street and look over the scene of the fight. 

Chief Justice Falconbridge said this was a good suggestion and told the interpreter to ask the prisoner if he rad any objections to such a move. Roselli acceded, and at 2.30 yesterday afternoon the "twelve good men and true," accompanied by constables, and armed with a blue print chart of 40 Agnes street, proceeded there.

[brookston]

Holidays 3.18

Holidays

Anniversary of the Oil Expropriation (Mexico)

Awkward Moments Day

Bindus Diena (The Day the Bears Wake from Hibernation; Ancient Latvia)

Carnival of Body Music

Cheikh Al Maarouf Day (Comoros)

Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence (Australia)

De Molay Day

Electric Razor Day

Flag Day (Aruba)

Forgive Mom and Dad Day

Gallipoli Memorial Day (Turkey)

Global Recycling Day

Grandparents' & Grandchildren's Day (Michigan)

International Day of Revolutionary Political Prisoners

Make Peace with Your Parents Day

Men’s and Soldiers Day (Mongolia)

My Whole Self Day (UK)

National Anthem and Flag Day (Aruba)

National Biodiesel Day

National Child Sexual Exploitation Awareness Day

National Day of Remembrance for COVID-19 Victims (Italy)

National Farm Rescuer Day

National Natural Gas Utility Workers’ Day

National Public Defender Day

National Supreme Sacrifice Day

Oil Expropriation Day (Mexico)

Ordnance Factories’ Day (India)

Paris Commune Anniversary Day

Stab e-Barat (Night of Records; Bangladesh)

Sheelah's Day (a.k.a. Sheela Na Gig; Australia, Canada, Ireland)

Sheep and Goats Separation Day

South Carolina Day (South Carolina)

Space Walk Day

Sparky the Fire Dog Day

Supreme Sacrifice Day (Congo)

Take Down Tobacco Day

Teacher’s Day (Syria)

Transit Driver Appreciation Day

Trisomy 18 Awareness Day

World Eagle Day

World Juvenile Arthritis Day

World Young Rheumatic Diseases Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Jambon Day (Ireland)

National Lacy Oatmeal Cookie Day

National Sloppy Joe Day

Oatmeal Cookie Day

St. Broccoli Day

3rd Saturday in March

Girl Scout Sabbath [3rd Saturday]

International Sports Car Racing Day [3rd Saturday]

Maple Syrup Saturday [3rd Saturday]

National Corn Dog Day [3rd Saturday]

National Quilting Day [3rd Saturday]

National Tequila Day (Mexico) [3rd Saturday]

Recorder Day (a.k.a. Play the Recorder Day) [3rd Saturday]

Save the Florida Panther Day (Florida) [3rd Saturday]

World Blender Meetup Day [3rd Saturday]

World Whisky Day [3rd Saturday]

Worldwide Quilting Day [3rd Saturday]

Feast Days

Alexander of Jerusalem (Christian; Saint)

Anselm of Lucca (Christian; Saint)

Asklepieia (Ancient Greece)

Barney Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Cyril of Jerusalem (Christian; Saint)

Edward the Martyr (a.k.a. Edward, King of England; Christian; Saint)

Exorcist Day (Make the Spirits Disappear; Pastafarian)

Fridianus (a.k.a. Fridian; Christian; Saint)

Goddess of Fertility Day

John Updike (Humanism; Saint)

Oide Matsuri (Departure Festival; Shinto; Japan)

Philo Zilfinger (Muppetism)

Salvator (Christian; Saint)

Socrates (Positivist; Saint)

Usajingu Reitaisai (Shinto; Japan)

Vodka Day (Pastafarian)

Waqf al Arafa (Islam)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Unlucky 18th (Philippines) [1 of 3]

Premieres

Alexander’s Ragtime Band published (Song; 1911)

Allegiant (Film; 2016)

The Bronze (Film; 2016)

Cedar Rapids (Film; 2011)

The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown (Novel; 2003)

D.O.A. (Film; 1988)

Dominick and Eugene (Film; 1988)

Getz/Gilberto, by Stan Getz and João Gilberto (Album; 1964)

Ice Princess (Film; 2005)

The Man Who Fell To Earth (Film; 1976)

Mickey’s Mellerdrammer (Disney Cartoon; 1933)

The Milagro Beanfield War (Film; 1988)

Naked Gun 33-1/3: The Final Insult (Film; 1994)

Paul (Film; 2011)

Pee Wee’s Big Holiday (Film; 2016)

Rio Bravo (Film; 1960)

Steamboy (Anime Film; 2005)

Whatever and Ever Amen, by Ben Folds Five (Album; 1997)

White Riot, by The Clash (Song; 1977)

Today’s Name Days

Cyrill, Edward, Sibylle (Austria)

Ćiril, Edo, Eduard, Spasoje (Croatia)

Eduard (Czech Republic)

Alexander (Denmark)

Edi, Eduard, Eedi, Eedo, Eedu (Estonia)

Edvard, Eetu (Finland)

Cyrille (France)

Edward, Cyrill, Sibylle (Germany)

Edward (Greece)

Ede, Sándor (Hungary)

Cirillo, Salvatore (Italy)

Adelīna, Ilona, Razna, Sartite (Latvia)

Anzelmas, Eimutė, Eimutis, Sibilė (Lithuania)

Aleksander, Edvard, Sander (Norway)

Aleksander, Anzelm, Boguchwał, Cyryl, Edward, Narcyz, Narcyza, Salwator (Poland)

Chiril (Romania)

Eduard (Slovakia)

Cirilo, Eduardo (Spain)

Edmund, Edvard (Sweden)

Cyril, Cyrilla, Grover, Salvador, Salvatore, Sibyl, Sybil, Sybilla (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 77 of 2023; 288 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 11 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 28 of 28]

Chinese: Month 2 (Yi-Mao), Day 27 (Yi-Hai)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 25 Adar 5783

Islamic: 25 Sha’ban 1444

J Cal: 16 Ver; Twosday [16 of 30]

Julian: 5 March 2023

Moon: 12%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 21 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Socrates]

Runic Half Month: Beore (Birch Tree) [Day 8 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 88 of 90)

Zodiac: Pisces (Day 27 of 29)

Birthdays

John Smith (1824)

William Ebling (1828)

James Toohey (1850)

John Updike (1932)

Jason Chavez (1968)

Alexandra Nowell (1985)

Events

J. Ernest Miller patented a Design for a Beer Mug (1873)

Philip Best Brewing changed their name to Pabst Brewing (1889)

Anthony & Michael Stiveson patented a Metallic Keg (1890)

New England Brewers Association founded (1902)

UK Gov't declared a proper pour of a pint of beer to be 95% liquid (2002)

S.S. Steiner patented the Hop Plant Named “Bravo” (2008)

Chikamitsu Takagi patented a Bottle Cap Opener (2014)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 3.18

Holidays

Anniversary of the Oil Expropriation (Mexico)

Awkward Moments Day

Bindus Diena (The Day the Bears Wake from Hibernation; Ancient Latvia)

Carnival of Body Music

Cheikh Al Maarouf Day (Comoros)

Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence (Australia)

De Molay Day

Electric Razor Day

Flag Day (Aruba)

Forgive Mom and Dad Day

Gallipoli Memorial Day (Turkey)

Global Recycling Day

Grandparents' & Grandchildren's Day (Michigan)

International Day of Revolutionary Political Prisoners

Make Peace with Your Parents Day

Men’s and Soldiers Day (Mongolia)

My Whole Self Day (UK)

National Anthem and Flag Day (Aruba)

National Biodiesel Day

National Child Sexual Exploitation Awareness Day

National Day of Remembrance for COVID-19 Victims (Italy)

National Farm Rescuer Day

National Natural Gas Utility Workers’ Day

National Public Defender Day

National Supreme Sacrifice Day

Oil Expropriation Day (Mexico)

Ordnance Factories’ Day (India)

Paris Commune Anniversary Day

Stab e-Barat (Night of Records; Bangladesh)

Sheelah's Day (a.k.a. Sheela Na Gig; Australia, Canada, Ireland)

Sheep and Goats Separation Day

South Carolina Day (South Carolina)

Space Walk Day

Sparky the Fire Dog Day

Supreme Sacrifice Day (Congo)

Take Down Tobacco Day

Teacher’s Day (Syria)

Transit Driver Appreciation Day

Trisomy 18 Awareness Day

World Eagle Day

World Juvenile Arthritis Day

World Young Rheumatic Diseases Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Jambon Day (Ireland)

National Lacy Oatmeal Cookie Day

National Sloppy Joe Day

Oatmeal Cookie Day

St. Broccoli Day

3rd Saturday in March

Girl Scout Sabbath [3rd Saturday]

International Sports Car Racing Day [3rd Saturday]

Maple Syrup Saturday [3rd Saturday]

National Corn Dog Day [3rd Saturday]

National Quilting Day [3rd Saturday]

National Tequila Day (Mexico) [3rd Saturday]

Recorder Day (a.k.a. Play the Recorder Day) [3rd Saturday]

Save the Florida Panther Day (Florida) [3rd Saturday]

World Blender Meetup Day [3rd Saturday]

World Whisky Day [3rd Saturday]

Worldwide Quilting Day [3rd Saturday]

Feast Days

Alexander of Jerusalem (Christian; Saint)

Anselm of Lucca (Christian; Saint)

Asklepieia (Ancient Greece)

Barney Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Cyril of Jerusalem (Christian; Saint)

Edward the Martyr (a.k.a. Edward, King of England; Christian; Saint)

Exorcist Day (Make the Spirits Disappear; Pastafarian)

Fridianus (a.k.a. Fridian; Christian; Saint)

Goddess of Fertility Day

John Updike (Humanism; Saint)

Oide Matsuri (Departure Festival; Shinto; Japan)

Philo Zilfinger (Muppetism)

Salvator (Christian; Saint)

Socrates (Positivist; Saint)

Usajingu Reitaisai (Shinto; Japan)

Vodka Day (Pastafarian)

Waqf al Arafa (Islam)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Unlucky 18th (Philippines) [1 of 3]

Premieres

Alexander’s Ragtime Band published (Song; 1911)

Allegiant (Film; 2016)

The Bronze (Film; 2016)

Cedar Rapids (Film; 2011)

The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown (Novel; 2003)

D.O.A. (Film; 1988)

Dominick and Eugene (Film; 1988)

Getz/Gilberto, by Stan Getz and João Gilberto (Album; 1964)

Ice Princess (Film; 2005)

The Man Who Fell To Earth (Film; 1976)

Mickey’s Mellerdrammer (Disney Cartoon; 1933)

The Milagro Beanfield War (Film; 1988)

Naked Gun 33-1/3: The Final Insult (Film; 1994)

Paul (Film; 2011)

Pee Wee’s Big Holiday (Film; 2016)

Rio Bravo (Film; 1960)

Steamboy (Anime Film; 2005)

Whatever and Ever Amen, by Ben Folds Five (Album; 1997)

White Riot, by The Clash (Song; 1977)

Today’s Name Days

Cyrill, Edward, Sibylle (Austria)

Ćiril, Edo, Eduard, Spasoje (Croatia)

Eduard (Czech Republic)

Alexander (Denmark)

Edi, Eduard, Eedi, Eedo, Eedu (Estonia)

Edvard, Eetu (Finland)

Cyrille (France)

Edward, Cyrill, Sibylle (Germany)

Edward (Greece)

Ede, Sándor (Hungary)

Cirillo, Salvatore (Italy)

Adelīna, Ilona, Razna, Sartite (Latvia)

Anzelmas, Eimutė, Eimutis, Sibilė (Lithuania)

Aleksander, Edvard, Sander (Norway)

Aleksander, Anzelm, Boguchwał, Cyryl, Edward, Narcyz, Narcyza, Salwator (Poland)

Chiril (Romania)

Eduard (Slovakia)

Cirilo, Eduardo (Spain)

Edmund, Edvard (Sweden)

Cyril, Cyrilla, Grover, Salvador, Salvatore, Sibyl, Sybil, Sybilla (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 77 of 2023; 288 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 11 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 28 of 28]

Chinese: Month 2 (Yi-Mao), Day 27 (Yi-Hai)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 25 Adar 5783

Islamic: 25 Sha’ban 1444

J Cal: 16 Ver; Twosday [16 of 30]

Julian: 5 March 2023

Moon: 12%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 21 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Socrates]

Runic Half Month: Beore (Birch Tree) [Day 8 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 88 of 90)

Zodiac: Pisces (Day 27 of 29)

Birthdays

John Smith (1824)

William Ebling (1828)

James Toohey (1850)

John Updike (1932)

Jason Chavez (1968)

Alexandra Nowell (1985)

Events

J. Ernest Miller patented a Design for a Beer Mug (1873)

Philip Best Brewing changed their name to Pabst Brewing (1889)

Anthony & Michael Stiveson patented a Metallic Keg (1890)

New England Brewers Association founded (1902)

UK Gov't declared a proper pour of a pint of beer to be 95% liquid (2002)

S.S. Steiner patented the Hop Plant Named “Bravo” (2008)

Chikamitsu Takagi patented a Bottle Cap Opener (2014)

[felix-walter]

Look who just came to life today.

[chiskennougat]

Here's an intro for an older TTRPG that I'm working on adapting for distribution!

The moon is silent. 

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The landscape is a vast, powdery grey valley, contrasting starkly with the inky black sky above. Craters speckle it's surface, adding vague detail to a beautifully serene view. 

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The ground shakes. 

Clouds of that same, grayish white particulate are visible, flying upwards behind a quickly accelerating object in the distance.

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The ground vibrates at a higher frequency as it gets closer.

Two other entities come into view behind the speeding object, each with their own clouds of dust trailing behind them. 

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We now see the object in more detail. 

It's a small vehicle, on four wheels. A small golden satellite dish is mounted on the back of it, surrounded by similar gear and equipment. Sitting at the controls of this bare bones, metallic vehicle is a person in an American Lunar Excursion suit. Their golden visor reflects the vastness beyond them. 

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The Astronaut's right hand is on the control panel, their left hand is buried in a large equipment pouch mounted on their torso. Even through the bulkiness of their suit, their movements are obviously frantic. 

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The two objects following them come into view. 

These, too, are figures piloting vehicles, but of a very different nature. 

Speeding through the non-existent air, each is on a seemingly levitating personal platform. Two huge spherical oxygen tanks are mounted on either side, exerting gas downwards into the soil, propulsing them at a nearly equal speed to the astronaut. 

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Standing on the platforms, their left hands steadfastly gripping sets of spindly controls, are two Cosmonauts. Their helmets whitish tan, emblazoned with CCCP in bold red letters. Their visors reflect a gunmetal mirror image of the back of the Astronaut's cart. 

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In their right hands, mounted on the handlebars of the platforms, are dark, heavy assault rifles. 

Their gloved fingers tighten on the triggers.

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Noiseless shots are fired in quick succession. Most miss their target, but a few clip the rear wheels of the Astronaut's cart. 

The Astronaut temporarily slows due to this damage. The Cosmonauts are now just a couple meters behind. 

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The Astronaut finally produces their hand from the equipment pouch, grasping a modified Colt 1911. 

Straining against their suits' limited range of motion, they turn towards the Cosmonaut on their left, and fire two shots with their outstretched arm. 

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One bullet hits it's target, puncturing the right oxygen tank on the Soviet's vehicle. 

With fire that's extinguished as quickly as it appears, the tank explodes into thousands of razor sharp metal fragments. 

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The platform spins out of control, the Cosmonaut soundlessly collides with the ground, their limbs flail as their visor shatters against the Lunar gravel. 

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The remaining Cosmonaut fires one more shot. 

This time they meet their target, the center of the American's life support pack. A jet of air leaks from the bullet hole.

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The cart slows to a lazy halt as the Astronaut takes their last breaths. 

The Soviet steps off their landed platform, and reaches into the Astronaut's pouch, retrieving a small video camera. They remove the film reel, and take their leave. 

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Even as the Cosmonaut leaves our view, 

The moon is still silent.

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Welcome to SPACEWAR: 1973.

[mod-a-day]

Jo Gunnarshaug (Codex) of Razor 1911 "technolife" delicate sounds of razor (1990)

[scarfacemarston]

Things that existed: 1890′s-1914 (For fanfics, hc or rp!)

For me to reblog in the future with more. Notes: I did not include most of the cigarettes, guns and alcohol. These are mostly American brands or international brands in the U.S at the time. Lots of wars, psychological studies, economic recessions, inventions, and media published in this time. This is obviously not an exhaustive list. Spans from a bit before canon to RDR 1′s epilogue  Pre 1890′s: (Just for fun) 1883: The Monopolist (Yes, an early rendition of the board game) The game of Logic, Oscar Mayer, Pinocchio, Long John Silvers,

1884: First modern Cash Register (Imagine the gang trying to figure out how to open one of these)

1885: Dr. Pepper (the soda), first automobile

1886: Heinz Beans, Coco-Cola, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr, Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

1887: Sherlock Holmes Book 1 by Arthur Conan Doyle

1888: Vending Machine, Drinking Straw, Four Roses (Bourbon Whiskey) Kessler Whiskey, Seltzer's for upset stomach/heartburn, Mum’s Deodorant, Hunts (the brand)

1889: Lysol 1890′s: 1890: The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde,  Prom (The event for teens)  Matryoshka doll, The Edison Talking Doll (Yes, those creepy ass ones), Lipton Tea, Vicks, Marston’s Brewery, 

1891: Basketball, Rayon, Fig Newtons, Swiss Army Knife, Hormel, 

1892: The second bicycle boom, the “modern” clothes washer, Maxwell Coffee House, Ithaca Kitty - an early paper doll, later stuffed toy?

1893: Cream of Wheat, Juicy Fruit Gum, Johnson’s Baby, Good and Plenty, Wrigley’s Gum, popcorn maker, toaster, Diesel Engine, moving walkways, meth, Ferris wheel, The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, Sunkist Co,

1894:Corn flakes, Phonograph, Silent Films, different fonts for typewriters? Hydrogen Peroxide (The fizzy stuff that burns like hell), lobster thermidor, mousetraps, Purina animal feed, 

1895:Rugby leagues, Volleyball, Budweiser, T. Martzetii Dips, Whittaker’s Chocolate,  X-rays, 1896: Cracker Jacks, Movie theaters, Frank Merriwell’s Books (A children’s series), Del Monte canning

1897: Jell-O, Cotton Candy, Grape-Nuts (cereal), mufflers, vasectomies, Smucker’s (jelly company), Dracula by Bram Stoker,  1898: Pepsi, Palmolive (Brand), steering wheel, heroin, Walker’s Shortbread, Nabisco, War of the Worlds by H.G. Welles, 

1899: Martha white (food),  Pall mall cigarettes',  Wesson cooking oil, Lux soap, flashlights, revolving doors, first early telephone 1900′s: 1900: Wizard of Oz Book 1 released by L. Frank Baum, Chiclets, Hershey Bars, Kodak cameras, Triskets, escalators,  1901: Disposable Safety Razor, Sweethearts (The candy) the Scholastic Altitude Testing (Standardized Testing that American high schoolers take. Jack would have to take one, I think.) Necco’s candy,  The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter (All of her books then)   1902:  Neon Lamps, Teddy Bear, periscope, air conditioning, polygraph tests, Peter Pan,  The Virginian by Owen Wister - A western novel

1903: Kraft Food’s Company, Crayons

1904: Banana Split, tea bags, Ovaltine, Canada Dry, French’s (The brand),  K-Y Jelly, Discoll’s Berries,  1905: Cadbury Dairy Milk, Hebrew National Brand, popsicles, RC Cola, Planters brand, Kellogg’s Brand,  Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc (Stories about a master thief) 1907: Gumball machine, rear-view mirrors, tootsie rolls, Hershey's kisses, 1908: Coffee filters, Ford Motel T engine, Hydrox cookies (Oreo’s lemony older brother), Milk-bone the biscuit (For Rufus),  Anne of Green Gables, by  L. M. Montgomery, Mr. Toad - the kid’s character, 1909: More modern lightbulbs, Pearson’s candy company, Tillamook Creamery, Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux  1910:  instant coffee, milkshake machines,  1911: Wall plugs, Nivea products, Midol (pain reliever), Crush Soda, Crisco, processed cheese, Mars brand,  1912: Edison Disc Record, Goo Goo Clusters, Oreos, LifeSavers candy, Lorna Doone Cookies, Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs 1913: Zippers, Crossword Puzzles, Camel Cigarettes, Hellman’s Food company, 

1914: Traffic Cone, Gasmask, Tinker Toys, Listerine, Salad Cream,  Heath Bar, Mary Jane Candies, Grapico Soda, Turkish Delight, Mother’s Cookies (The rainbow animal cookies with sprinkles), Chicken of the Sea, TastyKake,

Bonus: Modern Slang they would know. Sorry for the tags, but I worked hard on this and I want it to go out. Edit: Wow, thanks, guys! I didn’t expect this to gain traction. At all. Anyway, I’m a historian so feel free to send me asks about stuff like this! I will probably edit it for medical stuff. 

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Archibald Thorburn (British, 1860-1935)

Puffins and Razor Bills ,1911

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