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It truly taught me that our oceans are so close, yet much farther than outer space can ever be. Looking at that lone blue globe in space always makes me feel so insignificant, so meaningless. Space is vast, but empty, and sterile. Down the abyss, not even light can shine to bless and purify.

The greatest contributor to that is certainly its soundtrack. With its unnerving, relentless low horns; harps hitting on the same two or three notes; there's a feeling of utter despair, hopelessness. A sense of doom, as aquanauts armed with teeny darts and harpoons grunt through the deaths of their colleagues, outmatched by opponents so unfairly superior, in the harshest environment on Earth. They couldn't have done a better job.

I have been working on a new "HD" soundtrack for TFTD that I plan to release as a mod for OpenXCOM (this article is great timing!). I am not finished yet, but you can listen to some of the tracks already (and download them if you wish):

Turn your Google Sheets into a beautiful Gopherhole :)

I exploit this in my Unnamed Gopher Client[0], a client for the predecessor of the Gemini protocol, where I render links in a familiar files/folder format:

However, instead of coding my own scroll gestures, I delegated to CSS Scroll Snap, which works beautifully, even in complicated scrolling scenarios, and scrolls natively.

I find myself playing it often, for a quick minute or two, just to release tension accumulated during the day :) Maybe you'll have some fun as well!

It doesn't need anything other than a browser to play, and you jump straight into action!