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Police Automaton posted:Holy poo poo that site is up: http://heavensgate.com/ Warning: dead cultists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coNLfyVb5C8
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Did the internet short circuit cultism more generally? It only seems to crop up re: scientology and evanegelicals, both of whom are groups that tightly control internet access. Are there hot cults I'm missing out on??
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Feb 12, 2016 08:00
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computer parts posted:The issue with that is the same issue with modern DRM - the false positives are much worse than the false negatives. There was a game (I'm thinking 80s) where it would delete a character from the diskette every time you died. I don't know what would have happened if you ran out of player characters  e: This wasn't copy-protection. It would do that with legal copies.
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pretty soft girl posted:Even better, it would jack up the monster spawn rate for the entire game to make it nearly unplayable, and then during a line of dialog in the final boss fight it would lock up and delete all your saves Huh? I don't remember this at all. Are you saying for ROMS of Earthbound? Remember when CDkeys for game jewel cases were only numbers? I used to have my Red Alert 2 CDkey memorized 
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Feb 12, 2016 09:07
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Wicker Man posted:Huh? I don't remember this at all. Are you saying for ROMS of Earthbound?
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Feb 12, 2016 09:17
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The Kins posted:Yes. Most ROMs online have long since cracked these protections, but the original cartridge release had multiple "layers" of protections against copier devices. Well that explains why grinding made my characters so overpowered. I never questioned those times when there would be so many enemies, the game would noticeably slow down. I had no idea!
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Feb 12, 2016 09:58
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One of these Heaven's Gate people was the brother of the woman who played Uhura on the original Star Trek series. They're not all dead, since I found the website was still active and looked around on youtube a little, I found at least two people who are apparently not only active on the internet but still pretty convinced that old dude was the messiah or something. That cult existed for a long time before they decided to kill themselves, just like the Jim Jones people. Look it up kids if you find such craziness interesting, that was about a thousand dead people (Jonestown massacre).Fasdar posted:Did the internet short circuit cultism more generally? It only seems to crop up re: scientology and evanegelicals, both of whom are groups that tightly control internet access. Are there hot cults I'm missing out on?? I have the feeling people who are susceptible to cults spend their days nowadays in the Youtube comment section, talking about the zionist world conspiracy and how jet fuel can't melt steel beams in all caps. That whole UFO crap specifically seems to have somehow died with the 90s, and the world has kinda changed since 9/11.
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Feb 12, 2016 10:41
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Wicker Man posted:Well that explains why grinding made my characters so overpowered. I never questioned those times when there would be so many enemies, the game would noticeably slow down. I had no idea! A clean, unmodified ROM dump will run fine in an emulator. Earthbound is just balanced so that you never really have to go out of your way to grind. The copy protection was meant to stop people from playing copies on a real SNES with a device like this one. 
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Feb 12, 2016 11:02
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Feb 12, 2016 13:06
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Snuffman posted:Soldier of Fortune? Or Operation Flashpoint.
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I think Flashpoint warned about having such a copy protection but was it actually real? When companies get too excited about "creative" copy protection schemes it usually backfires.
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Feb 12, 2016 13:28
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Police Automaton posted:I have the feeling people who are susceptible to cults spend their days nowadays in the Youtube comment section, talking about the zionist world conspiracy and how jet fuel can't melt steel beams in all caps. That whole UFO crap specifically seems to have somehow died with the 90s, and the world has kinda changed since 9/11. UFOs was wrapped up in the Chariot of the Gods crap that felt so loving stale by the end of the 70's that my generation left it behind. I think it was also a hanger-on to the space program and once that got boring then the weirdos couldn't convince anyone that their 'secret knowledge' meant anything. It was replaced with New World Order, One World Government, Illuminati, just like you said. IIRC the John Birch Society kinda rebranded effectively too and got back into the whole business, and they don't give a gently caress about anything off-world.
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Police Automaton posted:I think Flashpoint warned about having such a copy protection but was it actually real?
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Police Automaton posted:
They also spend allot of their time in the comments section of zerohedge
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Fasdar posted:Did the internet short circuit cultism more generally? It only seems to crop up re: scientology and evanegelicals, both of whom are groups that tightly control internet access. Are there hot cults I'm missing out on?? there are lots of cults that took to the web and almost all of their websites were designed by the creeping specter of geocities
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Feb 12, 2016 15:16
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Police Automaton posted:Holy poo poo that site is up: http://heavensgate.com/ Gotta love the "Our Position Against Suicide" page.
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Feb 12, 2016 15:33
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Remember flash websites? This gem was actually still up in its full glory until sometime last year when they finally changed it. A shame, really.
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Feb 12, 2016 15:40
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Shinmera posted:Remember flash websites? Kind of sad, but such is the steady march of progress, I suppose.
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Feb 12, 2016 15:47
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The Kins posted:Not even Adobe remembers Flash websites - they just rebranded the Flash application as "Animate" and re-aimed it at HTML5 and TV production, with the whole Flash thing more or less being a legacy feature. Without Flash how am I supposed to leave a giant gaping security hole on my machine?
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Feb 12, 2016 15:58
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Germstore posted:Without Flash how am I supposed to leave a giant gaping security hole on my machine? Java Applets got you covered, man.
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Feb 12, 2016 16:02
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Anyone remember when HP actually made a half way decent computer but looked like it was made from marshmallow fluff?
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Shinmera posted:Java Applets got you covered, man. Nah no such luck, Oracle will release a new patch every six minutes to ensure you have the very latest Yahoo toolbar
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Feb 12, 2016 17:38
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Now that Minecraft has an embedded java runtime there's no reason to install java-anything either.
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Feb 12, 2016 17:56
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Germstore posted:Now that Minecraft has an embedded java runtime there's no reason to install java-anything either. Welcome to the world of e-banking in south-eastern Europe. That is, unless the poo poo is running under NT 4.0.
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Mad Monk posted:Anyone remember when HP actually made a half way decent computer No.
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Data Graham posted:Nah no such luck, Oracle will release a new patch every six minutes So what you're saying is that they got you doubly covered.
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Fasdar posted:Did the internet short circuit cultism more generally? It only seems to crop up re: scientology and evanegelicals, both of whom are groups that tightly control internet access. Are there hot cults I'm missing out on?? Let me tell you about this cult called ISIS...
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Data Graham posted:Nah no such luck, Oracle will release a new patch every six minutes Oracle is killing the Java plug ins
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Police Automaton posted:I have the feeling people who are susceptible to cults spend their days nowadays in the Youtube comment section, talking about the zionist world conspiracy and how jet fuel can't melt steel beams in all caps. That whole UFO crap specifically seems to have somehow died with the 90s, and the world has kinda changed since 9/11. UFO nuts are still around, they just seem to have merged extraterrestrials with demons and Nephelim, because for some reason every batshit conspiracy has to be true at the same time.
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Germstore posted:Without Flash how am I supposed to leave a giant gaping security hole on my machine? I'd like to think this smilie is a tribute to websites that use Flash:  You know, why just show me the content when you can have a Flash applet that makes me click a button that makes something slide out and then rotate and then do something else and then slowly show the content in a way that prevents me copying and pasting things.
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 I remember my dad bringing home a Toshiba laptop that looked like this from his work, and I sometimes used it when I went to his work. It had a  plasma display a long time before plasma displays were something everyone wanted in their house.I remember playing Castle Adventure on it.   I don't know how it got on there though and I didn't even remember its name, I had to go through all PC games on Moby Games starting from the beginning to find it. Some other memorable names came up when I was doing that: Lunar Landing, 3-Demon. Speaking of lunar landing, did anyone else enjoy playing Astro Chicken in Space Quest III over and over? I saved game there and just kept going back over and over.
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slomomofo posted:Let me tell you about this cult called ISIS... Fair point. Although with ISIS recruitment, the spiritual/religious elements seem to be largely window dressing for getting the chance to murder, rape, and pillage. Thread Content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLfNNBh8zGs This shipped with Packard Bells for a good chunk of the nineties, and I still find myself wishing I'd kept the cd. Edit: Holy poo poo the sequel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apw2weHUzuY Fasdar has a new favorite as of 04:40 on Feb 13, 2016 |
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People have brought up that movie maker. I spend a lot of time with the demo of that. I also spend some time with Virgil Reality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aynclw6TXeE There was also another thing. It was a Nickelodeon game where you could make animations and pictures or something. I can't find anything on it though.
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I visited my parents house for the first time in ages and I found this book that I got from my primary school's library for 10c about 20 years ago. It's from the 80s and it's actually a pretty comprehensive overview of computers back then. It's three sections, one which is an overview, one on how to write programs in BASIC and the last which is a bunch of games to try out. I learnt a lot about programming from this book. While BASIC is obviously obsolete these days, a lot of the material on good programming practices and debugging are probably still useful today     The games section has some pretty dope artwork
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Fasdar posted:Fair point. Holy Christ, thank you for this. I didn't remember this game AT ALL, until I played that YouTube clip. Then it all came crashing back to me, all the hours I spent just racing around. And the graphics at the time were UNBELIEVABLE OMG!!! So thanks for triggering a memory I didn't even know I had. But I definitely remember that guy and his ridiculous hair.
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Good news is they are all playable from gog.com http://www.gog.com/game/megarace_1_2
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archive.org has put up another collection of old programs that run inside your browser -- this time it's all your favorite Windows 3.1 apps! https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_win3_showcase&tab=collection I went straight for WinRisk. Oh, the memories...
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Chief McHeath posted:Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear ruled. And for all I played, I forgot so much of it. Like Met, or sib1, or this clusterfuck chokepoint on desal ( I completely forgot about desal WTF): 
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Since this is about internet relics as well, LET'S GO BUY SOME LUNIX! http://www.somethingawful.com/feature-articles/jeff-ks-user/ This one always cracked me the hell up.
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:I visited my parents house for the first time in ages and I found this book that I got from my primary school's library for 10c about 20 years ago. It's from the 80s and it's actually a pretty comprehensive overview of computers back then. I read an article literally a few days ago that said those books are now available online free. Also there's (unfortunately) Visual Basic  I guess not everything is totally different, just most of it!
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