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Phone posted:I watched a bunch of people play Cities: Skylines, but Paradox knows what's up. No DRM on their games and they have quite the following. Instead of burning a poo poo load of calories on making sure h4x0rzz, they spend it on making good games. scuz fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Sep 3, 2015 |
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BrokenKnucklez posted:Misc small engine repair and over priced parts incoming. Awesome! I have a 214(K321) that I use year round. I recently rebuilt the carburetor with a rebuild kit and a throttle shaft kit. The bore for the throttle shaft was terrible egg-shaped and the throttle shaft kit includes a bushing you press into the top of the carb. I highly recommend both. I have the FSM for the 200 series, let me know if you have any questions.
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scuz posted:I remember playing California Games on the Tandy my dad bought. Their DRM was "What's the 34th letter on the 6th line of page 18?" edit: waitaminnit it wasn't California Games, it was LIKE California Games but the gist was that you'd start the game with like $500 and have to buy a car and modify it and drag race it against other computer-controlled racers. It was a DOS game that ran on floppies and ugh, I wish I remembered what this was. Street Rod?
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Sep 3, 2015 19:43
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YES! Ahh, poo poo, I remember this. Thanks, dude. edit: http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/street-rod/screenshots/gameShotId,518400/ <--that's the copy protection. Love it. scuz fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Sep 3, 2015 |
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Sep 3, 2015 19:45
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Phone posted:That said, the copy protection schemes of consoles back in the day are rad as hell and checking SRAM is like a few lines of code. If you're interested in that kind of thing, here's bunnie's blog on hacking the original xbox I had one from geohot about the PS3 as well, but I can't find it right now. I'll link it if I find it again.
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Sep 3, 2015 19:53
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MustardFacial posted:If you're interested in that kind of thing, here's bunnie's blog on hacking the original xbox I'm talking more like the piracy check in Earthbound that would greatly increase the number of enemies on the screen and would softlock and erase your save at the end boss.
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Sep 3, 2015 19:56
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scuz posted:YES! Ahh, poo poo, I remember this. Thanks, dude. Yeah. I loving loved that game. Played it on an IBM PS/2. Looks like you can still play it if you are comfy with dosbox.
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scuz posted:YES! Ahh, poo poo, I remember this. Thanks, dude. Gotta love the use of a color-based question to thwart photocopied game manual piracy  I played Street Rod II, I could get to the King fairly reliably but could never beat him. I think I managed to get through to the Mulholland race against him once, and got pulled over.
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Magnus Praeda posted:Yeah. I loving loved that game. Played it on an IBM PS/2. Even easier: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Street_Rod_1989
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Oh, OK, yeah - I generally don't preorder stuff months in advance or whatever. This one already had good reviews, and the developer had made several games that I enjoyed already. Hell, half the time I buy used, but this one looked good enough, and I want the Mad Max franchise to benefit, basically. T1g4h posted:I just got the Shovel Face, Furnace, and I got the Ripper, but not far enough along yet to start swapping stuff. Only just got to Jeet's fortress last night. Did get an enemy car stored there, though. NOW I MUST COLLECT THEM ALL!
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Just got off the phone with interview #2 at a place that called me out of the blue for the same thing I do now. The starting pay is a window of +10-25k more than what I make now. Bills are getting paid just fine but I'm not rolling in money or anything so the extra bump would definitely be appreciated. Negatives? Losing out on 5k cash due to an acquisition I wouldn't be around for in 6 months, adds 5 miles to my commute and leaving a place I've worked at for 13 years is straight up loving terrifying. Of course this is all moot if I don't proceed to interview #3 but my anxiety is through the roof. Just gonna drink until Murphy's Law kicks in. I fear change at a fundamental level.
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Have you talked with your current employer about it? It sounds like they're under paying you quite a bit. Maybe you can work out a raise and stay at your current location.
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Sep 3, 2015 21:13
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Fitted an ariel in the attic last night, hardly str-level stuff but I got good reception on my first try so  Had to short the multiple cables in the attic one by one to find the one for the living room though, short one, run round the house with a multimeter, label the shorted one and move on. Someone in the future who wants more than one tv in the house is going to thank me Down to three boxes to unpack in the living room, garage is about half full but not stacked high, all bedrooms are pretty sorted. I need to get some 2x4s and 2x2s and 18mm chipboard and build some 2'x8' garage shelving, should cost me less than a hundred quid for 16' of floor to ceiling shelves that will readily take 300kg per shelf. Treated myself to a ryobi jigsaw, might add an impact to that to help with the woodwork later. We were discussing where to put the last bookshelf (Ikea but sturdy enough) and my lad asked if it could go in his room "so it doesn't get in your way and me and sister can get books without waking you up"  Okay son, sold.
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Darchangel posted:Oh, OK, yeah - I generally don't preorder stuff months in advance or whatever. This one already had good reviews, and the developer had made several games that I enjoyed already. Hell, half the time I buy used, but this one looked good enough, and I want the Mad Max franchise to benefit, basically. Bolded: destiny.txt Bungie had such an amazing track record, it had amazing reviews.... and then they dropped a Cleveland Steamer right on everyone's collective chest. What a loving letdown.
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kastein posted:Hey, strict immigration policies and careful selection of who is allowed ashore is super important. You joke, but when I lived in Italy, the more-or-less racist Lega Nord regionalist party had a campaign poster with a portrait of a American Indian in a headdress and the slogan "He suffered the immigration, now he lives on a reservation."
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Sep 3, 2015 21:33
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Cakefool posted:Fitted an ariel in the attic last night, hardly str-level stuff but I got good reception on my first try so Spent 10s wondering what for and how you'd get an Ariel Atom into your attic.
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Darchangel posted:I got the Ripper, but not far enough along yet to start swapping stuff. Only just got to Jeet's fortress last night. Did get an enemy car stored there, though. NOW I MUST COLLECT THEM ALL! Just wait until you start getting lots and lots of upgrade parts unlocked. My Opus is a goddamn tank now:  Twin turbo, spikes all over, and fuckoff huge bash bars 
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Sep 3, 2015 21:55
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kimbo305 posted:Spent 10s wondering what for and how you'd get an Ariel Atom into your attic. What for? To hide it from my wife. How? Ramped it.
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Sep 3, 2015 21:57
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I just ate some fully dressed chips. Super weird.
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Sep 3, 2015 22:09
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Super Aggro Crag posted:I just ate some fully dressed chips. Super weird. What the gently caress are fully dressed chips? Do they have little tuxedos on them?
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Sep 3, 2015 22:21
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Super Aggro Crag posted:I just ate some fully dressed chips. Super weird. Which brand, though? Humpty Dumpty is really dusty but probably the best flavor. Lay's is bleh.
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Sep 3, 2015 22:21
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It was Humpty. Fully dressed chips is like every flavor of chips combined. It was mostly an initial salt n vinegar taste followed by BBQ. Weird poo poo.
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Sigma X posted:What the gently caress are fully dressed chips? Do they have little tuxedos on them? In Canada, we have special chip flavours such as all-dressed and ketchup. Mr. Crag has presumably accidentally wandered across the border or into one of our sleeper cells. http://whatsdifferentincanada.tumblr.com/post/103153965644/all-dressed-chips
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Super Aggro Crag posted:It was Humpty. Fully dressed chips is like every flavor of chips combined. It was mostly an initial salt n vinegar taste followed by BBQ. Weird poo poo. this sounds horrifying
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They have good penetration into northern New England. I have my from-Maine coworker bring Humpty down every time she visits home. Sampling a global food corp's local offerings is one of my guilty pleasures in traveling. South African Lay's flavors were a disappointment.
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Frankenstein posted:Awesome! I have a 214(K321) that I use year round. I recently rebuilt the carburetor with a rebuild kit and a throttle shaft kit. The bore for the throttle shaft was terrible egg-shaped and the throttle shaft kit includes a bushing you press into the top of the carb. I highly recommend both. I have the FSM for the 200 series, let me know if you have any questions. Thanks for the tips. I paid 1000 for every thing. Blade was a front mount but he converted it to a rear mount (still have the front mount if I ever want to change it back). The blower is good, and the deck is good. I hear these older Kohler's are like 90s Toyotas. Impossible to kill and run for ages.
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My tractor has a K321 in it too... my carb is all kinds of gunked up and corroded inside though so I ended up buying a new one. Will probably slap it on sometime next week. Then I have to basically rewire the whole thing because it's had a number of baling-wire-and-stick-welder previous owners and none of the electrical stuff is done properly or working at all.
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corn in the fridge posted:this sounds horrifying It smells like dogshit but is actually really good. Other strange Canadian things: this has happened to me more than once, and returned the favour (Tim Horton's is garbage coffee) MustardFacial fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Sep 3, 2015 |
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kastein posted:My tractor has a K321 in it too... my carb is all kinds of gunked up and corroded inside though so I ended up buying a new one. Will probably slap it on sometime next week. loving hell. I'm lucky mines been well maintained for the most part. Needs a little minor bullshit here and there but nothing major. He already did the Bendix on the starter and new motor mounts.
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I wish we got Smarties in the U.S. The chocolate candy ones, I mean.
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CharlesM posted:I wish we got Smarties in the U.S. The chocolate candy ones, I mean. Look at this guy farting directly into he own mouth
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If you chew an entire roll of Smarties at once it tastes exactly like Red Bull. My girl gets 9 hours of paid time off every 80 hours she works. What the gently caress!?
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Super Aggro Crag posted:If you chew an entire roll of Smarties at once it tastes exactly like Red Bull. Don't you get a month off for every couple you work?
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Haven't been laid off in 2 years now, thank you. Altho I could use a couple weeks of rest.
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Sigma X posted:What the gently caress are fully dressed chips? Do they have little tuxedos on them? It's me; I am fully dressed chips. At least for now 
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Noise Complaint posted:Don't you get a month off for every couple you work? 30 days paid a year baby. Granted I'm also usually gone for 9 months a year two more loving years and I'll be in a nice civilian job, hating life for the same reasons the rest of you do.Unless I let people talk me into staying in. I've been in the navy for 7 years, made E6 at 5 years, so I could technically ride out the next thirteen and retire at age 41 and get a paycheck for life. But gently caress me this poo poo is dumb as gently caress and I'm tired of the politics of it. Oh you want a good eval? Better spend all of your off time and $100+ a month on volunteer poo poo! Plus god loving drat am I tired of running. Edit: also the GTI I bought has techtonics tuning 268 cams in it. My machinist buddy also broke an ez out off in one of the stripped head bolts, sooooo who loving knows what now. iwentdoodie fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Sep 3, 2015 |
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And that's why you should have just welded poo poo on instead of dinking around with ez-snaps. Fortunately I don't think it'll significantly impact your ability to weld poo poo on overtop of it, then spin it out anyways.
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iwentdoodie posted:Unless I let people talk me into staying in. I've been in the navy for 7 years, made E6 at 5 years, so I could technically ride out the next thirteen and retire at age 41 and get a paycheck for life. But gently caress me this poo poo is dumb as gently caress and I'm tired of the politics of it. Haha. I was slightly tempted by the "16 more years and you can retire and get that sweet pay!" Glad I said gently caress that, I couldn't imagine still being in the military, I still have nightmares about it.
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iwentdoodie posted:30 days paid a year baby. My father-in-law always tells stories like this. "I was just going to stay in the Army for a few more years!" 30 some odd years later, retires as a Colonel, and months later goes to work for the DoD. Guess he couldn't stay away.
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