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Imagined posted:I've always thought HAM radio guys were the king of the nerds in the old traditional pre-internet heirarchy, above Linux guys, model train guys, and LARPers, before Tumblr added people like Bronies to the list. I don't know how it is in the states but in my province you can apply for a custom license plate with your ham callsign on it, I've seen a few running around
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mobby_6kl posted:This was just the first screenshot I grabbed off GIS so who knows why it's dithered. But back then Unreal (and many other games) could run in 16-bit color mode which was IIRC the only format some Voodoo cards supported and was faster than 32-bit on some others. So maybe that's it. I never ran 3dfx cards because they were garbage wrapped in marketing, much like Bose. I guess the card I had when I first played the game was 16-bit (or I had the wrong settings). I distinctly it being better when I played the game again a few years later, and it was so much prettier without all that mud-colored junk over the image.
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# ? Feb 10, 2020 20:32 |
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This is the coolest thing you can do as a HAM radio guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpZqaVwaIYk
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# ? Feb 10, 2020 20:34 |
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Nocheez posted:I never ran 3dfx cards because they were garbage wrapped in marketing. Except for the part where Voodoo and Voodoo2 chipsets dominated the 1st and 2nd PC 3D graphics card generations, and were better than any of their competitors only by support, speed, and performance.
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Phy posted:I don't know how it is in the states but in my province you can apply for a custom license plate with your ham callsign on it, I've seen a few running around It's the same in the US. How else would I tell other drivers what a giant nerd I am? If ham radio chat stirred any interest, we actually have a goon thread in DIY. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2827275
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# ? Feb 10, 2020 20:58 |
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HAM got a bit more interesting with satellite repeaters accessible by amateur operators, but it's largely still just boomers talking boring bullshit. I listen with a smal Baofeng to local repeaters and it's bearable, but definitely full of people that fit the Unabomber profile. I don't have a license and don't really want one. I have no desire to ever hit the Tx button with these people, but listening is alright sometimes
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# ? Feb 10, 2020 20:59 |
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wa27 posted:This is the coolest thing you can do as a HAM radio guy: LOL! He contacts the space station and both of them start talking about equipment. Love this.
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# ? Feb 10, 2020 21:01 |
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Der Kyhe posted:Except for the part where Voodoo and Voodoo2 chipsets dominated the 1st and 2nd PC 3D graphics card generations, and were better than any of their competitors only by support, speed, and performance. Except they weren't. The RivaTNT and TNT2 were knocking on the door and beating the Voodoo in some aspects. I remember showing up to my first LAN party with a TNT2 and blowing away everyone who was still using Voodoo cards. Here's a fun blast from the past: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia,87.html
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# ? Feb 10, 2020 21:11 |
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Jerry Cotton posted:Well sure. Until they get activated. Then it's "detonate your relatives and fly to Petrograd". And the weather. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=altSJMUmmHw
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# ? Feb 10, 2020 21:27 |
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Nocheez posted:Nah, just watch this guy's videos instead. Going to repeat for a new page that this is absolutely a pro click.
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 00:24 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usrl2FUWhEE
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 00:58 |
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Manuel Calavera posted:Going to repeat for a new page that this is absolutely a pro click. I'm overjoyed that you guys are loving it! Me wife even watches them with me, the host is a natural.
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 01:13 |
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i enjoy when people are in hot air balloon or that wierd trike plane those fools cause so much chaos lol also wtf is up with everyone's mics in those vids?
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 01:18 |
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Manuel Calavera posted:Going to repeat for a new page that this is absolutely a pro click. Thank you, I missed this the first time but it has me in stitches.
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 01:33 |
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mobby_6kl posted:Anyway, they realized it and made up an in-game explanation that it was blown up by terrorists. ...did Ion Storm accidentally activate the lathe of heaven through a technical kludge?
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 01:35 |
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Posting on page 666 (it was hard to find the right patches for this!):
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 01:47 |
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Oh poo poo, HAIL SATIN I had a friend in HS disown me cause I played doom on the sega 32x...he was a really confused christian dude and felt like me owning this game was going to ruin his life as well. He said "get rid of this game or we can't be friends." I laughed in his face! worth it! Also had it on PC lol.
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 01:55 |
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LifeSunDeath posted:Oh poo poo, HAIL SATIN I had a Catholic friend growing up whose dad was all about playing the demon murder simulator
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LifeSunDeath posted:Oh poo poo, HAIL SATIN Should’ve played Super 3D Noah’s Ark. (It’s a reskin of Wolfenstein 3D.)
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 02:07 |
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Nocheez posted:I'm overjoyed that you guys are loving it! Me wife even watches them with me, the host is a natural. Are the others just as good? Does he still do these videos? Because if so then a sub is in order because god drat was that quality. Rip Bitchass J-3 Cub. e - also hail gay Satan, Seitan, both of whomst have said trans rights. Mercedes Colomar has a new favorite as of 03:02 on Feb 11, 2020 |
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Manuel Calavera posted:Are the others just as good? Does he still do these videos? Because if so then a sub is in order because god drat was that quality. Rip Bitchass J-3 Cub. I was sent this one and it's good as well, so I'm probably going to binge on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fajm2QQ_Wck
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 03:57 |
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Platystemon posted:Should’ve played Super 3D Noah’s Ark. The irony is that Doom and Wolfenstein are some of the most righteous video games ever made being entirely about murdering masses of demons and nazis, while Noah's Ark is about kidnapping and drugging irate animals.
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 04:01 |
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Code Jockey posted:This is extremely Fallout This past weekend I went nosing around an abandoned Voice of America transmitting site and all I could think about was the Fallout energy there. To justify that interjection, enjoy these photos of old-rear end presumably-obsolete microwave equipment slowly rusting away in an auxiliary shed since 2006 or earlier. hackin and whackin and choppin' that meat
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 05:32 |
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Bethany, Ohio?
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 05:56 |
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my most obsolete demonic technology was my dick
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 06:07 |
Ham radio havers should throw off the "law" and start broadcasting tv, music, and internet to whoever wants it
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 07:35 |
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SniperWoreConverse posted:Ham radio havers should throw off the "law" and start broadcasting tv, music, and internet to whoever wants it I'm pretty sure the other ham radio guys would triangulate your position and then call the FCC.
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 08:20 |
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Having multiple transmitters in different places and keep switching it up / driving them around.
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 08:27 |
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taqueso posted:Having multiple transmitters in different places and keep switching it up / driving them around. Yeah... (I don't know if you can do mobile ham radio without that sort of craziness, but I did a Google image search for "car with ham radio antenna" and got what I was expecting)
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 08:34 |
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Buttcoin purse posted:Yeah... That's like, a full power antenna. You don't need that unless you live like forever away from the closest repeater.
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 09:24 |
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These days, someone could use the Internet to triangulate a mobile transmitter in real time. Hams might not have such a system on standby, but step on enough toes and they will find you.
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 09:30 |
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I doubt Hams would appreciate you hogging their bandwidth with internet noises anyway.
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 09:32 |
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Imaging having to goatse hams by just describing the picture in detail.
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 09:47 |
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Weatherman posted:Imaging having to goatse hams by just describing the picture in detail. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow-scan_television quote:Slow Scan television (SSTV) is a picture transmission method used mainly by amateur radio operators, to transmit and receive static pictures via radio in monochrome or color. "Television" is a misnomer, the one time I saw some crusty ham radio guy doing it, it was very akin to the experience of downloading an ancient porn GIF at dialup speed. But it would be entirely possible to goatse hams on the other side of the globe.
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 10:20 |
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Kwyndig posted:I doubt Hams would appreciate you hogging their bandwidth with internet noises anyway. But KA9Q NOS is a thing? I guess the point of it was to be able to do FTP or something over ham radio, not to route between radio and the public Internet?
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 10:34 |
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https://i.imgur.com/oGYH7Pq.mp4
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 12:59 |
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Extremely cool. I also suspect that if you were to put it in a floppy drive, it would get utterly stuck.
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 13:01 |
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Stoatbringer posted:If can't output 5318008 it's no use to anyone. Here's my cue.
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Known Lecher posted:Bethany, Ohio? no, the Greenville NC (even though all three sites are like 20 miles away) site. One of them is now an ECU lab, this one is now game land, only the third is still operating
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Platystemon posted:Hams might not have such a system on standby, but step on enough toes and they will find you. Stepping on that many toes takes longer than you'd think given the prevalence of diabetes in ham radio.
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