Richard Garriott
@richardgarriott
Creator: Ultima, “avatar”, MMO genre Explorer: Pole to Pole, Orbital Space to Deepest point of Oceans
One of my favorite automata toys. From Japan. Found my first one during the 90’s in Japan, ended up parting with it. Took years to find another, via a Japanese eBay like site. Check this out. Seen it anywhere? May be more parts to add on.
Riddle me this? What does this do?made for cattle? If you push up the rope, a button is pushed letting some liquid spill onto the rope. Does it have medicine? Bug repellant? Vitamins? Cattle rub or lick?
I collect puzzle boxes… I cannot figure out how to open one I bought a few years back! Anyone know? It has a slightly movable “drawer” on the bottom. I’m stumped.
@theexplorersclub.bsky.social “Discovered” by the Imperial Palace Tokyo!
Lesser known fact… I am in fact “Sir Richard Garriott”. I was knighted by the Portuguese Duke of Braganza into the Royal Order of St Michael of the Wing.
@bsky.app @support.bsky.team Suggestion. Give me the smaller “+” sign her so I can follow these folks back. Right now, I have to open them one by one to see if I am already following them, and when I return after adding often the screen has changed.
‘Since the 2016 US presidential election, the Egyptian god Kek, portrayed as Pepe the Frog, has become a symbol of the so-called “alt-right.”’
Just saying… Sphere, cube, tetrahedron… The three Ultimate Evils… Also from Squid Games… Also the symbols of EA… Coincidence?
The folks from @ultimacodex.com.web.brid.gy posted this video. I immediately noticed that the Lord British character in the video, is wearing the same sweater I actually wore this weekend when I went to visit Santa with my kids! Coincidence? I think not. (Couldn’t add a video)
Again… here I am lying in bed at 10:32… wearing the snake I cannot take off. Made it and worn it since about the age of 13… should be little doubt. ;)
Not quite accurate. Helen Sharman, Richard Garriott and then Tim Peake!
Akalabeth (Ultima 0) / Shroud of the Avatar (Lord British in New Britannia)
True! I have a letter calling me “The Satanic Perverter of America’s Youth”. I started having friends write me checks to “satan” to put on my office wall after that. I still have them!
Son of Skylab astronaut Owen Garriott has his mass measured aboard the ISS. Device works by accelerating and decelerating your body, while you try not to let any parts “slosh”.
My very first RPG, circa 1975, hand written in BASIC, coded via teletype onto paper tape. After 28 “DND” games on a teletype connected to a PDP, the Apple ][ was released. I then wrote Akalabeth, basically Ultima 0. Fresh out of high school, I wrote the first published CRPG, & the first 3D RPG.
One of my favorite images I’ve taken, from the International Space Station. ;)