Here's a joke I found on YouTube.

Did you hear the one about the Muslim who walked into a gay bar? he looked at the bartender and said "FREE SHOTS FOR EVERYONE!"

Third parties are only as ineffective as you make them.

If you don't vote for a third party because "they'll never win", it becomes true. If all the people who voted Democrat or Republican because they "don't want to waste their vote" voted for their actual party, maybe the two main parties wouldn't be a duopoly.

trail

2 10 1848

it was so close

we were going to make it
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it was twelve miles

i was the last one left.

-jd

You know how it feels to find something from your past again?

wdell.com

Walton Dell's website was a pretty big part of my childhood. I found it from looking for Super Mario 64 stuff, and there it was. Then I went to look at the other things, and I was hooked.

If Walton Dell is in the audience, please update it more.

Rest in Peace, ZippCast. 1 March 2014 - 10 June 2016.

As you may or may not have seen, ZippCast is dead. This is a tragedy to me, but it's just a video sharing website. The world will keep turning. So far, as of 10 June, 2016, the servers are being shut down and you will never be able to visit the website again. It did have a cycle of reboots in the past, but Louis, the site owner, seemed sincere this time. It's a shame, too, since ZippCast had the advantage of being large, having a UI reminiscent of YouTube back in 2009 or so, and having mediocre copyright enforcement, which is more than I could say for YouTube. It really is basically like a 2009's YT, but modern. Was, sorry. The closest places in functionality I could find were Upload Society and Wenoo, but I heard bad things about them and probably won't make an account there. The ZC core community of Maklarr4000, NJP, spiderfan, CaptainNnif, mattwo, Cameron, and possibly x51dg I believe it was, correct me if I'm mistaken, Amandablue, Mr_Superannuated, GamingTopTens, possibly Kratos, and Alisson. If there are any former ZippCasters that would be considered part of the core community, please leave your name below. I myself would join but the website has an age limit of the seemingly completely arbitrary 23 years old.

Of course, I have to shout out two important people whom I made my content for in the first place - my subscriber, Maklarr4000, and my colleague in videomaking, Nintendo64World, who introduced me to the friends feature of the website.

HERE LIES ZIPPCAST

"IT WILL BE FIXED WITH THE NEW CORE"

2014-16

The colossal amout of work that goes into developing a game that we will never see is astonishing.

Sure, you've got your coding and all of that, but that's a topic for another post. What I mean is all of the unused, forgotten, or accidental materials that get cut before the release of the game. Like the original story of Half-Lfie 1. The story the game had in the early part of 1997 is that it's 2003, six years in the future, and you're a weapons research scientist that opens a superamplified portal drawing power from a Cold War-era nuclear warhead to an alternate universe, and when aliens come spewing out, you have to fight for your life while the other scientists, security guards, aliens, and even the friggin' CIA try to kill each other on top of you. The CIA in particular is important, since they're about to detonate some explosives in the same building as the nuclear missile from earlier that will wipe out the west half of the United States, so you have to stop them, and also free the alien slaves from their masters and command them into battle against their former owners.

Just that should have made you go "Huh" if you've never read it before.

And other than people into gaming at the time and people who have spent enough time looking for that information to know about it, like me, nobody will ever know that. It just blows me away. The page is currently still up, too, as of 3 June 2016, so you can look at it here. If it stops working, the page has been archived many times, so just pop the link into the Internet Archive and it should work.

And that's not all. In fact, the whole damned game is technically Half-Life 2 in a developmental sense - that means that at least seven Valve-made Half-Life games have ever existed. Half-Life, Half-Life 2 (1998), Half-Life Air Exchange, Half-Life Borealis Control, Half-Life 5 (2004), Half-Life 6 (2006), and Half-Life 7 (2007). That is, based on how different each version was from the last. Allow me to go off topic for a second, but there are four Valve HL games officially released, and two of them are just thirds of the same game. Suck on that "Half-Life 3 is never coming out" people, you've had it since 2006.