With all the renewed interest in terminal user interfaces over the last few years, I am convinced that simple graphics capabilities in a text terminal are very useful and should make a comeback. What people are doing with Textual and plotext shows a clear need. Then there are new image protocols like kitty. Maybe it's time to stop bolting on features to X3.64 and rethink terminal emulation?
Thinking more about my GURPS campaigns, they could use a couple more suitcase nukes to liven things up. Especially my Dungeon Fantasy campaign.
It would be easy - stat up a world/dimension-hopping chronoterrorist with a penchant for nuking random places in random eras. Make the terrorist completely batshit so I don't have to come up with a plausible motive for doing so.
GAMECUBE: 23 years ago... OMG! 😱
Release date (USA): November 18, 2001
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Cripes. Got put in Facebook jail for posting "My GURPS campaign could use a few suitcase nukes", which apparently goes against their acceptable use policy for "inciting violence".
Meanwhile, my wife and her activist friends routinely face threats of violence and FB does nothing about it.
Suppose the algorithm only takes action against make-believe violence.
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in reply to Parade du Grotesque 💀 • • •@ParadeGrotesque The thing about Sixel is that it was originally designed to display images on a VT125 and to print on a DECwriter IV dot-matrix printer, which is why it was called "DECwriter graphics" in the VT125 manual. The GIGI also used Sixel when printing.
Doesn't mean it isn't useful or that I am not happy that it's still around, but it was designed around async serial lines and low memory systems. We are talking 1981 here.