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The Sausages posted:To be fair elemental mercury is basically a kid's toy compared to methylated mercury compounds. IMO the dangerous chemistry thread got a bit This is what a lot of people that freak out over everything mercury miss. Elemental mercury, while you certainly don't want to ingest it or allow children to have access it, is relatively harmless in and of itself.
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Shawon Dunston posted:This is what a lot of people that freak out over everything mercury miss. Elemental mercury, while you certainly don't want to ingest it or allow children to have access it, is relatively harmless in and of itself. So's strychnine.
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 Drain enough of those mercury puzzles into a tub and you can float on that poo poo!
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:Drain enough of those mercury puzzles into a tub and you can float cannon balls on that poo poo!
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Collateral Damage posted:I had a Konix Speedking for my C64, which was a weird rear end joystick that you held in your hand. I recall it wasn't too bad, though you did get tired of holding it after a while. I had that joystick for my Atari 1040ST. It was actually pretty cool. Mine didn't have autofire but I used to use it to play Rampage and Tower Toppler, etc. That era. It though it worked well.
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:
Did Cody's brain give out yet?
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It's hard to tell, it's Cody.
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Cojawfee posted:Did Cody's brain give out yet? It's long gone. Don't tell him though. We teh viewers are his support network and need to make him feel normal at all times.
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Being a lefty sucked as a kid in the 80s We had an Odyssey 2  Super unsatisfying button. The 2600 controller had the same joystick/button configuration. I think after gaming so much I trained my right hand to do precise stuff. When I learned to use a Mac I just instinctively used my right hand for mousing
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Keith Atherton posted:Being a lefty sucked as a kid in the 80s I swear there were arcade machines that had the joystick on the right and buttons on the left...really whatever way they designed controllers people would have adapted.
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LifeSunDeath posted:I swear there were arcade machines that had the joystick on the right and buttons on the left...really whatever way they designed controllers people would have adapted. Most early arcade cabinets had the stick on the right. Moving it to the left was a scam by arcade owners to make the games more difficult. Yes really... https://www.youtube.com./watch?v=LwyKx8TvRcE
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Sweevo posted:Most early arcade cabinets had the stick on the right. Moving it to the left was a scam by arcade owners to make the games more difficult. Yes really... LOL, I had a feeling. Pretty weird growing up left handed and feeling like they designed computers for righties but consoles and arcades for lefties.
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Sweevo posted:Most early arcade cabinets had the stick on the right. Moving it to the left was a scam by arcade owners to make the games more difficult. Yes really... He doesn't provide any sources for that or even give any specific examples of the modifications he mentions being made other than a vague date. It might as well just be baseless speculation. And that was all pre-standardization stuff, so if that was the case we'd see arcade cabinets where there's examples of both button configurations, and that absolutely would be something that would get tracked in a community as obsessive as the arcade collecting community, but I've had little success in finding any examples of one.
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And you would expect that the fighting game community would have a bunch of right-side sticks for a competitive edge. The stick on those things is all large hand movements instead of fine motor control, it makes perfect sense to put it where most people’s off hand is.
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And another day, another random 3rd Party Vidya thing: I've been wanting a clear PSX shell to go with my clear controller/memory card and Pocketstation. These unofficial shells were made in Venezuela and were out of production 13 years ago. They are VERY fragile and international shipping at the best of times resulted in busted pieces. I was actually in touch with the people in Venezuela who still have New Old Stock but they are locked down and cannot/will not export at the moment. By shear chance I found a clear purple here in Australia for a reasonable price considering it comes complete with a console so I don't even have to transplant internals!  
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ishikabibble posted:He doesn't provide any sources for that or even give any specific examples of the modifications he mentions being made other than a vague date. It might as well just be baseless speculation. And that was all pre-standardization stuff, so if that was the case we'd see arcade cabinets where there's examples of both button configurations, and that absolutely would be something that would get tracked in a community as obsessive as the arcade collecting community, but I've had little success in finding any examples of one. A clickbait YouTuber with a bad cartoon of them as the branding is full of lies and speculation? Well, I never. 
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Humphreys posted:And another day, another random 3rd Party Vidya thing: Not gonna lie That is pretty sick. 14 year old me is jealous.
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its a shame that clear plastic fell out of favor, because id have all of my electronics in clear plastic
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0 rows returned posted:its a shame that clear plastic fell out of favor, because id have all of my electronics in clear plastic How appropriate you mention clear plastic in the failed technology thread because EVERY CLEAR PLASTIC CONTROLLER WAS BUSTED growing up. You'd go to your friend's house and they'd hand you a clear plastic death sentence in Mario Kart or Street Fighter or whatever. Every. Time.
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0 rows returned posted:its a shame that clear plastic fell out of favor, because id have all of my electronics in clear plastic They still make it. It's all bottom of the barrel poo poo designed for prisons though.
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ishikabibble posted:He doesn't provide any sources for that or even give any specific examples of the modifications he mentions being made other than a vague date. It might as well just be baseless speculation. And that was all pre-standardization stuff, so if that was the case we'd see arcade cabinets where there's examples of both button configurations, and that absolutely would be something that would get tracked in a community as obsessive as the arcade collecting community, but I've had little success in finding any examples of one. For real, and where did these arcade owners get new artwork for this chiral control scheme?
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I thought clear plastic was cool as hell back in the day, today I don't want anything in clear plastic.Sweevo posted:They still make it. It's all bottom of the barrel poo poo designed for prisons though. I'm sure you're already aware but Techmoan did an episode on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3PfsndsihY
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Kamrat posted:I thought clear plastic was cool as hell back in the day, today I don't want anything in clear plastic. I think about the fact these are made for prisons and I think "that's good that companies produce electronics so people in prison can have some enjoyment in life" and then I realized they're only doing it because there are so many people in prison its worth producing see through electronics because its a profitable market.
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Loading clear resin into the injection molder really isn't a big deal.
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0 rows returned posted:its a shame that clear plastic fell out of favor, because id have all of my electronics in clear plastic i never cared for it because i strongly associate it with the nintendo 64 i like it now for bootleg stuff, somehow clear plastic suits everdrives
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lord funk posted:How appropriate you mention clear plastic in the failed technology thread because EVERY CLEAR PLASTIC CONTROLLER WAS BUSTED growing up. You'd go to your friend's house and they'd hand you a clear plastic death sentence in Mario Kart or Street Fighter or whatever. I think everyone had some clear third-party controller as an extra at some point in the Nintendo 64 days because they were cheaper. It inevitably had weird extra buttons and usually had some other issues with it. It was inevitably the third controller in a house were only two were normally used, or in my case, the fourth when we normally used three. Ironically, the one that lasted the longest for us was a semi-transparent one that some googling tells me was called "Ice Blue". We played that thing heavily until 2004 or so, and it was still played semi often until like 2012, and it resisted stick drift longer than any of the others.
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twistedmentat posted:I think about the fact these are made for prisons and I think "that's good that companies produce electronics so people in prison can have some enjoyment in life" and then I realized they're only doing it because there are so many people in prison its worth producing see through electronics because its a profitable market. That and the massive, massive markup.
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Some Goon posted:That and the massive, massive markup. So very true. I work in a state prison in a maintenance position, and we have inmates for helpers that make the princely sum of $.13 to $.21/hr, and half of that usually goes to ‘restitution’ that is usually court fees, not ‘paying back the little old lady whom you stole her car’. So when the inmates pay five months work for a 13” lcd TV that should be about $25, but is $175, it pisses me off, and when the quality is so bad that ‘abysmal’ doesn’t begin to describe it, it really pisses me off. I end up fixing all this busted poo poo for these guys with parts from other broken poo poo since I have rudimentary electronics skills, but it’s really a terrible scam that nobody cares about since they’re prisoners.
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JnnyThndrs posted:So very true. I work in a state prison in a maintenance position, and we have inmates for helpers that make the princely sum of $.13 to $.21/hr, and half of that usually goes to ‘restitution’ that is usually court fees, not ‘paying back the little old lady whom you stole her car’. don't read up on the Parole Officer/Bail Money mega scam that ensures people who do get out of prison remain completely broke and likely go back in.
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Oh, I’m very well aware of that, and other factors that ensure these guys don’t have a chance of making it once they leave. We(myself and some of the other workers)try to teach the inmates enough to get low-level jobs in our fields; what to say in an interview, and even how to get a reference from us(even though we’re not supposed to have any contact with parolees), but it’s an uphill battle. The first thing that gets cut is vocational education, even though it’s proven over and over again to be very helpful to prevent recidivism.
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JnnyThndrs posted:The first thing that gets cut is vocational education, even though it’s proven over and over again to be very helpful to prevent recidivism. Because 
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JnnyThndrs posted:the first thing that gets cut is vocational education, even though it’s proven over and over again to be very helpful to prevent recidivism. Yeah, this is by design. They want, and need, those people in prison.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Yeah, this is by design. They want, and need, those
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When they banned slavery except for prisoners, they were almost certainly thinking punishment duty like dredging swamps and cracking rocks, but of course Americans figured out how to make a profit off it. Again, Americans love to make every social problem a moral failing off the person in question rather than results of capitalism or racism or all the other fun stuff America has at its heart. So teaching people in jail skills that they can use to have a normal life after leaving prison is actually bad because these people are terrible people and therefor aren't deserving of things. Unless they're white and good at sports.
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You know, the more I learn about America, just seems like it's not really a great place at all!
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Johnny Aztec posted:You know, the more I learn about America, just seems like it's not really a great place at all! If you're rich its great, if you're white and rich its even better!
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Johnny Aztec posted:You know, the more I learn about America, just seems like it's not really a great place at all! Being an american is like disaster tourism every day.
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"I don't want one of those old-fashioned pregnancy tests... I want a digital one..." https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1301707401024827392?s=20
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Dick Trauma posted:"I don't want one of those old-fashioned pregnancy tests... I want a digital one..." What's obsolete about a pregnancy test?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:What's obsolete about a pregnancy test? It's all about smart pregnancy tests now.
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