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phoebebarton.bsky.social
it has been *decades* and I was still able to type this from memory
"Richard Baxton piloted his Recon Rover into a fungal vortex and held off four waves of mind worms, saving an entire colony. We immediately purchased his identity manifests and repackaged him into the Recon Rover Rick character with a multi-tiered media campaign: televids, touchbooks, holos, psi-tours--the works. People need heroes. They don't need to know how he died clawing his eyes out, screaming for mercy. The real story would just hurt sales, and dampen the spirits of our customers." -- "Mythology for Profit," Morgan StellarTots keynote speech
February 6, 2026 at 11:36 PM
pumpkinpal.bsky.social
Like look at this shit this is what you get when you figure out how to make theaters:
"Richard Baxton piloted his Recon Rover into a fungal vortex and held off four waves of mind worms, saving an entire colony. We immediately purchased his identity manifests and repackaged him into the Recon Rover Rick character with a multi-tiered media campaign: televids, touchbooks, holos, psi-tours— the works. People need heroes. They don't need to know how he died clawing his eyes out, screaming for mercy. The real story would just hurt sales, and dampen the spirits of our customers." – Morgan Stellartots Keynote Speech, "Mythology for Profit"
August 26, 2024 at 4:24 PM
riotdoll.bsky.social
Recon Rover Rick character with a multi-tiered media campaign: televids, touchbooks, holos, psi-tours--the works. People need heroes. They don't need to know how he died clawing his eyes out, screaming for mercy. The real story would just hurt sales, and dampen the spirits of our customers.
March 17, 2026 at 4:59 PM
electricmood.bsky.social
I think about this quote from SMAC a lot these days
Richard Baxton piloted his Recon Rover into a fungal vortex and held off four waves of mind worms, saving an entire colony. We immediately purchased his identity manifests and repackaged him into the Recon Rover Rick character with a multi-tiered media campaign: televids, touchbooks, holos, psi-tours-- the works. People need heroes. They don't need to know how he died clawing his eyes out, screaming for mercy. The real story would just hurt sales, and dampen the spirits of our customers. Morgan Stellartots Keynote Speech, "Mythology for Profit"
March 3, 2026 at 10:57 PM
mlrosenbloom.bsky.social
24. Favorite classic game. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. EXTREMELY influential and iconic. Excellent VA work, striking and memorable Wonder cinematics (credit to the film Baraka (1992) for the real-world sequences!) and a really good sci-fi experience.
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Box Art. An view of the planet Chiron from Low Chiron Orbit, with the main binary stars of the system having just risen. Images of the seven faction leaders dimly appear in the darkness of the space above, and the title in large font dominates the upper half of the box art. Richard Baxton piloted his Recon Rover into a fungal vortex and held off four waves of mind worms, saving an entire colony. We immediately purchased his identity manifests and repackaged him into the Recon Rover Rick character with a multi-tiered media campaign: televids, touchbooks, holos, psi-tours-- the works. People need heroes. They don't need to know how he died clawing his eyes out, screaming for mercy. The real story would just hurt sales, and dampen the spirits of our customers. —Morgan Stellartots Keynote Speech, "Mythology for Profit" (Accompanies first construction of the "Hologram Theatre" base facility) You are the children of a dead planet, earthdeirdre, and this death we do not comprehend. We shall take you in, but may we ask this question--will we too catch the planetdeath disease? —Lady Deirdre Skye, "Conversations With Planet" (Accompanies discovery of the "Advanced Ecological Engineering" tech) gameplay screenshot. Territory of the Gaia's Stepdaughters faction showing some of their cities on the southwest continent.
January 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
grayranger.bsky.social
Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri is in that same kind of sweet spot as Babylon 5 or Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda where they’ve got some really profound writing but also still retain a bunch of classic sci-fi camp.
Some would ask, how could a perfect God create a universe filled with so much that is evil. They have missed a greater conundrum: why would a perfect God create a universe at all? —Sister Miriam Godwinson, “But for the Grace of God” I maintain nonetheless that yin-yang dualism can be overcome. With sufficient enlightenment we can give substance to any distinction: mind without body, north without south, pleasure without pain. Remember, enlightenment is a function of willpower, not of physical strength. —Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, “Essays on Mind and Matter” Richard Braxton piloted his recon rover into a fungal vortex and held off four waves of mindworms, saving an entire colony. We immediately purchased his identity manifests and repackaged him into the Recon Rover Rick character with a multi-tiered media campaign: televids, touchbooks, holos, psi-tours—the works. They don’t need to know how he died clawing his eyes out, screaming for mercy. The real story would just hurt sales, and dampen the spirits of our customers. —“Mythology for Profit,” Morgan Stellartots Keynote We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure that our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism? —Specimen 46, Vat 7, Project PYRRHO Activity Recorded Mission Year 2302.22467 TERMINATION OF SPECIMEN ADVISED
January 7, 2026 at 7:38 PM
mvende.bsky.social
Touch, feel, and learn 🌈 Our non-toxic Touch Books are made for little explorers.
Encourage sensory learning from day one 💛
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#MontessoriLearning #TouchBooks #EarlyEducation
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September 30, 2025 at 8:49 AM
mvende.bsky.social
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October 22, 2024 at 5:27 PM
tfbelieversleisure.bsky.social
Oh, and not to mention me wondering whether the #TikTokBan MIGHT impel parents to encourage children and teens - including those who aren’t old enough to use social media - to #TouchBooks… www.quora.com/unanswered/M...
A white rectangle with the question in black text, “Could the recent ban on TikTok in the USA motion parents to encourage children and teens to read more books, especially with most of them being too young to use social media?,” superimposed on a light blue background of an AI-generated image (lovingly altered by ME) of bookshelves in a library. The screenshot of the FYP on my app (I EVEN received the message in my resident country of the Philippines, on the morning of January 19, 2025.) that read in black text on a white popup, “Important update from TikTok: we regret that a U.S. law banning TikTok will take effect on January 19 and force us to make our services temporarily unavailable. We're working to restore our service in the U.S. as soon as possible, and we appreciate your support. Please stay tuned.”
January 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
silvaef.bsky.social
[veille] Plusieurs études sur l’utilisabilité et les usages des touchbooks - SimpleWeb.fr
January 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM