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disaster pastor
May 1, 2007


"If the cannabis industry winds up as banal as the coffee industry, we will have finally earned our banishment from the garden" is a great late-Achewood line.

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Stringent
Dec 22, 2004


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"matched his pH to the mighty lemon"

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

I'm gettin' that feeling I get about twenty minutes into X-files.

KICK BAMA KICK
Mar 2, 2009

Dear Grandson,
I am sorry you felt the need to send me what you did, though it was an improvement over the Grateful Dead tapes.

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1308672837708734464?s=19

this is like straight out of achewood

Party Boat
Nov 1, 2007

where did that other dog come from

who is he


I can't decide what I like more: the hard-working "perhaps" at the start of the sentence, the price of $79.95 that is allowed to pass quickly and without comment, or the company newsletter as the use case that will make that outlay worth it.

Deathlove
Feb 20, 2003

Pillbug

Party Boat posted:

I can't decide what I like more: the hard-working "perhaps" at the start of the sentence, the price of $79.95 that is allowed to pass quickly and without comment, or the company newsletter as the use case that will make that outlay worth it.

Cue old timers complaining about the price of a lid software in the 90s

Zefiel
Sep 14, 2007

You can do whatever you want in life.


HAS

LID

Phy
Jun 27, 2008



Fun Shoe
LOOKS SMALL,
IS SMALL!

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Party Boat posted:

I can't decide what I like more: the hard-working "perhaps" at the start of the sentence, the price of $79.95 that is allowed to pass quickly and without comment, or the company newsletter as the use case that will make that outlay worth it.
That $79.95 would buy a meg of RAM back then.

Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
Pillbug

CannonFodder posted:

That $79.95 would buy a meg of RAM back then.

Comes out to 140 bucks of 2020 money, too.

Man, trying to do anything on computers back then sucked. I had so many boot discs in the 3.1 days, all sorts of configurations so it would actually have enough headroom to play games.

Zefiel
Sep 14, 2007

You can do whatever you want in life.


Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!
OS 500kb
Games 1MB
Fonts 6MB
Recipes 25kb

Someone please help me budget this my family is dying

BitterAvatar
Jun 19, 2004

I do not miss the future

Halloween Jack posted:

OS 500kb
Games 1MB
Fonts 6MB
Recipes 25kb

Someone please help me budget this my family is dying

Uninstall Wingdings

ullerrm
Dec 31, 2012

Oh, the network slogan is true -- "watch FOX and be damned for all eternity!"

Ugly In The Morning posted:

Comes out to 140 bucks of 2020 money, too.

Man, trying to do anything on computers back then sucked. I had so many boot discs in the 3.1 days, all sorts of configurations so it would actually have enough headroom to play games.

I tell you Lyle. When I was younger, I could do anything with a computer. I could turn it on, make it list the files that it had... I could even make it write my name on the screen while the background flashed! If I did somethin' like that today, why... why... they'd all laugh at me!

Shout out to anyone who can grok: SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T6 P330 H6 E620

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

BitterAvatar posted:

Uninstall Wingdings

no

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?


Lyle assuring Ray he'll be on the lookout for Adobe Gamma Loader.exe is a wonderful thing.

Zefiel
Sep 14, 2007

You can do whatever you want in life.


Jerusalem posted:

Lyle assuring Ray he'll be on the lookout for Adobe Gamma Loader.exe is a wonderful thing.

hey, you laugh now, but Lyle will know what to do if his porn suddenly goes black and white on him. And you know how he loves his pornography.

Then again, think, if the power goes out, who holds all the cards?

drrockso20
May 6, 2013

Has Not Actually Done Cocaine
Just watched the old animation test reel, and honestly I can see why no one was interested in it, it was honestly really bland

trilobite terror
Oct 20, 2007
BUT MY LIVELIHOOD DEPENDS ON THE FORUMS!

drrockso20 posted:

Just watched the old animation test reel, and honestly I can see why no one was interested in it, it was honestly really bland

Yeah, I wasn’t impressed.

Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
Pillbug
Toby Huss was a great choice for Ray but I don’t think the voice he did for it fit Ray all that well.

Shibawanko
Feb 13, 2013

the timing was just all off and most of the jokes are too verbose to translate into speech and still be funny

Nessus
Dec 22, 2003

After a Speaker vote, you may be entitled to a valuable coupon or voucher!



Zefiel posted:

hey, you laugh now, but Lyle will know what to do if his porn suddenly goes black and white on him. And you know how he loves his pornography.

Then again, think, if the power goes out, who holds all the cards?
On the one hand I can't imagine any live human being saying "Print smut?!" in a natural conversation. And on the other hand, if I stress a little, I can kind of see it - and it is exactly a little bear who went to Yale.

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
i still think the phrase "a scone is a biscuit from history" in Toby's voice sometimes though

Android Blues
Nov 22, 2008

"He's my best friend!" was also a great line read.

e-dt
Sep 16, 2019

Onstad did Roast Beef well, exactly the right measure of meekness

Leroy Dennui
Aug 9, 2014

Gina McCarthy made us gay,
but we would not have met
had Biden not dropped his cones
:gaysper::frogbon:
Cardiac arrest gonna get you, Roast Beef!

trilobite terror
Oct 20, 2007
BUT MY LIVELIHOOD DEPENDS ON THE FORUMS!
Is “Ray Gets Sort of Stoned” like far and away the best-selling strip to get printed? Like, I just picture Onstad’s warehouse with like a small pallet of them ready to go and literally every other strip is “order as needed”.

Pentaro
May 5, 2013


With a smaller pallet of Best of Hot Tub Brawls / You can do whatever you want in life.

Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
Pillbug

Cardiac arrest gonna get all of us one day.

trilobite terror
Oct 20, 2007
BUT MY LIVELIHOOD DEPENDS ON THE FORUMS!
He switched...

From red to black,

Thinking he’d thrown them off his trail.

How would they know it was him?

Anymore.

A construction guy. A clean slate.

The stick. A remote trigger,

Buried in the licorice. Pressed by a tooth.

A microchip. On his right ventricle. Implanted when he joined The Agency.

Oh shiiiiiiit!

Rev. Bleech_
Oct 19, 2004

~OKAY, WE'LL DRINK TO OUR LEGS!~

smarxist posted:

i still think the phrase "a scone is a biscuit from history" in Toby's voice sometimes though

same but "Yaaaaaawn. Yawn yawn yawny-yawn" and "bless the baby angel in charge of days like today"

Android Blues posted:

"He's my best friend!" was also a great line read.

"the hell that man gonna suffer" and "but in a way that will be too strong for some people" too.

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

Ugly In The Morning posted:

Cardiac arrest gonna get all of us one day.

Sometimes I practice graciously guiding my forehead to the table.

ColdPie
Jun 9, 2006

That comic about downloading Ad Aware from lavasoft dot de brings up some very, very deep memories I didn't know I had. Remember protecting your computer from spyware? What the gently caress?

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

ColdPie posted:

That comic about downloading Ad Aware from lavasoft dot de brings up some very, very deep memories I didn't know I had. Remember protecting your computer from spyware? What the gently caress?

Seriously, that used to be burned into my brain but I haven't thought of it in years.

Rand Brittain
Mar 25, 2013

"Go on until you're stopped."
Why did we stop doing that? Did Windows just get better at auto-blocking that poo poo, or did it all get replaced by the horrifying data-tracking powers of The Cloud?

Daktar
Aug 19, 2008

I done turned 'er head into a slug an' now she's a-stucked!
No need for spyware when people will happily hand over their data to you. Also I think for what remains most antivirus programs deal with it now.

Phy
Jun 27, 2008



Fun Shoe

Rand Brittain posted:

Why did we stop doing that? Did Windows just get better at auto-blocking that poo poo, or did it all get replaced by the horrifying data-tracking powers of The Cloud?

iirc Microsoft Security Essentials was reviewed as being pretty good at that for a while so I stopped using third party programs, and then just kinda forgot to check if it was still good

Zefiel
Sep 14, 2007

You can do whatever you want in life.


I was happy when Windows 10 offered to take over the virus protection by itself, saving me the ten minutes it took to install Avast and the lifetime of pain from shutting off all its notifications. I also liked Win ME, XP, and Vista. It's me, I'm the guy who sucks. (Plus I got depression)

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disaster pastor
May 1, 2007


Windows Defender is not only still the best at virus and spyware protection, other virus software (like Avast, which has been caught selling users' browser histories, among other problems) is now basically spyware itself.

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