Earlier this week, the Stanford College Republicans exposed ASSU candidate Gabby Crooks for making numerous racist statements over the course of the past year. These statements are beyond troubling and have become all too indicative of the campus climate at Stanford University and beyond. Crooks has complained that “white people
SOUTHINGTON Edith Burge, 92, passed away peacefully Saturday morning, April 24, 2021, at her home in Southington.
Edith was born Nov. 2, 1928, in Warren, the daughter of Harry and Marie Davis Knight.
She was a lifetime resident of Trumbull County, growing up in Weathersfield, and graduated from Mineral Ridge High School in 1946. She earned a degree in business from Warren Business College, and thereafter, until her marriage, worked as a bookkeeper at Bolz-Weir Insurance company in downtown Warren.
It was here that she met the love of her life, Bruce A. Burge, and they were married on June 6, 1955. Together, they built a life, and for 65 years, rarely spent any time apart, raising seven children, all of whom will forever after miss her wonderful smile and warm heart.
For PC, 1999 Was The Golden Year
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We’ve had a bit of a discussion about golden years, particularly the massive string of games that dropped in the late ’90s. But if you were a PC gamer in particular, there was one year that changed the shape of the market permanently.
It’s hard to imagine a gaming world without internet, or one where online multiplayer wasn’t the primary focus. And for a large part of the ’90s, that was the case. Not only was implementing online multiplayer difficult – and a powerful factor in licensing other companies’ engines – but most people barely had quality dial-up connections.
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With GameStop’s stock exploding and shrinking on a weekly basis, it’s easy to forget that until recently, it was an open question whether the next-gen of gaming consoles were going to come with an optical drive at all. Physical games managed to avoid the grim reaper, for now, but little care is put into their packaging these days. A whole generation missed out on a time when you could walk into a Babbages and an encyclopedia-sized PC game box practically leapt into your hands.
During the video game industry’s adolescence, a visit to the shelves of the computer shop meant finding shareware games in ziplock bags beside boxes adorned in the state-of-the-art of graphic design of the time. But some designers went further and took the opportunity to turn those standard cardboard boxes into eye-catching sculptural objects. One of the unsung heroes of the PC box is the designer Hock Wah Yeo.