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The Samsung T839 was great. Though I haven't bought a Samsung since because they said at launch they'd upgrade it past Android 2.2 and then was like "We're Samsung you'll maybe get an update if it's under a year old, otherwise get hosed."
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Aug 23, 2015 08:28
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I loved the Android Sidekick. How is it gone and Blackberry is still around. 
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Aug 23, 2015 08:49
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Dr_Amazing posted:I remember really wanting a Samsung SPH-N270 Way way back in TYOOL 2002 Sony Ericsson made touch-screen phones (for use with a stylus) that had a semi-flip cover that acted as a physical keyboard so it looked like a candybar phone. It was bulky as poo poo and ran on Symbian, but it let you choose whether you wanted to use actual buttons or not: Cover off:  Cover on, closed  Cover on, open 
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I loved my old Razr phone, man that was thin.
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Aug 23, 2015 19:03
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Early 00s attempts at touchscreens are so endearing. I loathe Steve Jobs' place in the world but one thing he was dead right on-- no consumer on earth will get involved with a touch-screen if the world "stylus" is mandatory.
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mind the walrus posted:Early 00s attempts at touchscreens are so endearing. I loathe Steve Jobs' place in the world but one thing he was dead right on-- no consumer on earth will get involved with a touch-screen if the world "stylus" is mandatory. Welp, that explains why the DS crashed and burned.
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Aug 23, 2015 19:25
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Jonathan Yeah! posted:Welp, that explains why the DS crashed and burned. The DS has a shitload of games that don't need a stylus for anything.
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Was it worth the rush even if you skipped over the word "mandatory"? Cause it looks like you skipped over the word "mandatory." You can get away with not using a stylus on the DS until you're deep into a game that suddenly pulls out the stylus for a minigame. That was the point. If you start talking about an accessory first thing people immediately turn off. "Why am I holding this ugly wand right away? I thought this thing could sense my fingers like in the Star Trek. Isn't that the point? Ugh this isn't ready."
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mind the walrus posted:Was it worth the rush even if you skipped over the word "mandatory"? Cause it looks like you skipped over the word "mandatory." That and you can just use your finger on the DS if you want, it works just fine and I usually do that on games where touch controls are only required sporadically.
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Aug 23, 2015 20:33
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The original DS even came with a weird plastic thumb pad on the strap if you needed more accuracy than a finger but didn't want to mess with the stylus. I personally thought it was great but I never saw anyone else using it.
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Ryoshi posted:The original DS even came with a weird plastic thumb pad on the strap if you needed more accuracy than a finger but didn't want to mess with the stylus. I personally thought it was great but I never saw anyone else using it.  Eleven loving years, man. You've blown my mind.
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Aug 24, 2015 06:32
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Ryoshi posted:The original DS even came with a weird plastic thumb pad on the strap if you needed more accuracy than a finger but didn't want to mess with the stylus. I personally thought it was great but I never saw anyone else using it. It was great but it didn't come with the Lite and I was sad for missing out 
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hyperhazard posted:
Page 9 of the Nintendo DS instruction booklet posted:
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Hirayuki posted:Does no one read manuals anymore? I was a young and excited teenager. I probably made it to the part where they showed how to turn it on, and stopped there.
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Ryoshi posted:The original DS even came with a weird plastic thumb pad on the strap if you needed more accuracy than a finger but didn't want to mess with the stylus. I personally thought it was great but I never saw anyone else using it. I independently invented that for my roommate who had a later-model DS. Cut up an old credit card and bent it into something similar to a thumb pick for a guitar, except with the point in line with the thumb. 
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Hirayuki posted:Does no one read manuals anymore? Like anyone read manuals before.
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This brand name makes me laugh whenever I see it
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I completely agree with you - what makes it worse is I've had delicious tasting food cooked off a Smeg - they're like the Gucci of cooking applicances in Australia (well at least in 2007).
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auzdark posted:I completely agree with you - what makes it worse is I've had delicious tasting food cooked off a Smeg - they're like the Gucci of cooking applicances in Australia (well at least in 2007). Are you saying that Smeg makes your food taste better?
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auzdark posted:I completely agree with you - what makes it worse is I've had delicious tasting food cooked off a Smeg - they're like the Gucci of cooking applicances in Australia (well at least in 2007). 
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spog posted:Are you saying that Smeg makes your food taste better? They've got a whole "Cooking with Smeg" section of their website so I'd assume so.
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Aug 31, 2015 03:48
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Krispy Kareem posted:Coke even when it's not that brand. This is fairly limited to one specific region.
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So I just got this flyer from Chic-fil-a I mean, I get what they're going for, but uh.... that's a little awkward. I'm not the only one who thinks so right? Innocent or creepy? Also the mixing of uppercase and lowercase letters is giving me a brain hemorrhage.
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Sep 10, 2015 19:50
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No way dude that is sketchy as gently caress
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Zaphod42 posted:So I just got this flyer from Chic-fil-a My elementary school did a ball where dads take their daughters. I'm not exactly sure what goes on there as I don't have a sister and it isn't a dad/son sort of thing. So I'm saying innocent.
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Zaphod42 posted:So I just got this flyer from Chic-fil-a You haven't heard of the phrase 'purity ball' before? Because if you haven't, you are in for a treat of creepy poo poo.
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Tempest_56 posted:You haven't heard of the phrase 'purity ball' before? Because if you haven't, you are in for a treat of creepy poo poo. Oh god, I just googled. Its even worse than I imagined. (well, not as bad as one possibility I guess  )I knew being chic-fil-a it had to be some conservative christian values thing.
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Zaphod42 posted:Oh god, I just googled. No, no, I wouldn't give up on your first instincts there too quickly.
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Len posted:My elementary school did a ball where dads take their daughters. I'm not exactly sure what goes on there as I don't have a sister and it isn't a dad/son sort of thing. So I'm saying innocent. Right but that was surely called a "father-daughter dinner dance" or similar, not "date night"?
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It is a Weird Thing in American culture that fathers and daughters are treated as some sort of hosed-up quasi-incestual-fantasy thing sometimes. I haven't really thought about it before as I am not a father or a daughter but I remember watching a father's dance at a wedding and thinking, wait, she dances with the groom and her dad, why those two? As I type, it probably has more to do with patriarchal roots than anything incestual but it still made me uncomfortable and I got way drunker than I needed to and cut a rug to "American Pie"
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Paineopticon posted:It is a Weird Thing in American culture that fathers and daughters are treated as some sort of hosed-up quasi-incestual-fantasy thing sometimes. I haven't really thought about it before as I am not a father or a daughter but I remember watching a father's dance at a wedding and thinking, wait, she dances with the groom and her dad, why those two? As I type, it probably has more to do with patriarchal roots than anything incestual but it still made me uncomfortable and I got way drunker than I needed to and cut a rug to "American Pie" I think it's more like a backdoor way of getting a father and daughter to spend time together one on one. I only have daughters so if I want to lavish attention on a child all I've got are girls - but maybe it's different when you have sons also. This is an opportunity for the girl to have maybe half a hour of uninterrupted time with her father. I used to take my girls to Daddy/Daughter dances for Girl Scouts and I can assure you there is absolutely nothing sexual about doing the Electric Slide in a crowded gym with 100 dads and their daughters. Except for the 18 year in a short party dress who really probably should have aged out of Girl Scouts several years before. That is awkward to watch.
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Krispy Kareem posted:I used to take my girls to Daddy/Daughter dances for Girl Scouts and I can assure you there is absolutely nothing sexual about doing the Electric Slide in a crowded gym with 100 dads and their daughters. Except for the 18 year in a short party dress who really probably should have aged out of Girl Scouts several years before. That is awkward to watch. Sure, but if your Girl Scouts troop called it a "Date Night" I would be similarly uncomfortable 
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sweeperbravo posted:Right but that was surely called a "father-daughter dinner dance" or similar, not "date night"? I think it's the Cinerdella Ball?
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Paineopticon posted:It is a Weird Thing in American culture that fathers and daughters are treated as some sort of hosed-up quasi-incestual-fantasy thing sometimes. I haven't really thought about it before as I am not a father or a daughter but I remember watching a father's dance at a wedding and thinking, wait, she dances with the groom and her dad, why those two? As I type, it probably has more to do with patriarchal roots than anything incestual but it still made me uncomfortable and I got way drunker than I needed to and cut a rug to "American Pie" The father-daughter dance at a wedding, as a tradition, is a way of saying goodbye. "Now that you have another man in your life, you don't need me to take care of you anymore," and "Thanks for everything dad but I'm an adult now." (not an endorsement of the patriarchy or whatever, just an explanation)
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For what it's worth, all the weddings I've been to recently also had a mother/son dance too. I personally find them both a little weird but my family is not the get close/touch type.
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That kind of stuff sounds kinda cute (bring your daughter to work day etc) but calling it a date is weird and of course the idea of those purity things is weird as poo poo.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:The father-daughter dance at a wedding, as a tradition, is a way of saying goodbye. "Now that you have another man in your life, you don't need me to take care of you anymore," and "Thanks for everything dad but I'm an adult now." Which is all well and good, but somehow it's generally accepted to pick songs explicitly about romantic love/lust 
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The weirdest part is going to a daddy-daughter dance/ "date night" that's sponsored by a fast-food restaurant. A cheeseburger-themed ball seems like the exact opposite of classy.
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