You know it's a frickin' weird year when even #APOD is going for the existential horror angle.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250701.html
"Eye Sky a Dragon"

#NASA #Astronomy #PictureOfTheDay

APOD: 2025 July 1 – Eye Sky a Dragon

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.

@rl_dane It does look like a dragon eye though!

@SeaFury

Yeah, I was thinking a bit of the Eye of Sauron. ;)

Kinda both creepy, and beautiful.

@rl_dane looks like a Myst-like game that I would like to play, tbh

@vanderZwan

It's fun to track the evolution of computer hardware's computational capacity over time by the size of the video resolution of the various myst games and sequels.

The original Myst used little bitty 160x120 video rectangle inside books. Not sure about Riven, but I think it was probably larger video elements seamlessly embedded in still-frame pictures. Maybe it was full-screen? I don't recall.

By 2000, we definitely had full-screen 480p video. Mid-90s, 240p at best. Early 90s, 120p. I recall windows 95 had a 320x240 (or x200?) video mode for playing videos full screen ;)