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HopperUK posted:Explained ZX Spectrum games to my mid-20s boss the other day. She was astounded. Yes, you had to wait for many minutes, and sometimes it just wouldn't work for some arcane reason, but you see, we had no choice Sometimes I listen to ZX Spectru loading sounds on YouTube. I watched all the Dizzy playthroughs recently. I loved those games. The only one I didn't complete was Treasure Island Dizzy because of that fuckwitted item selection thing were you could accidentally remove the snorkel while underwater. I never completed Spellbound Dizzy without the infinite health cheat either, but that must be almost impossible to do normally. Slogging over to that Sandstone Quarry was a right pain in the hole after the first dozen trips.
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Feb 7, 2022 23:56
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It is exactly as I called it a year ago, these antivax cunts are homegrown terrorists and I can't wait till they start rioting to support their masters more explicitly (tax is immoral, don't cancel my slurs, global warming isn't real, etc)
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Feb 7, 2022 23:58
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Gambrinus posted:Sometimes I listen to ZX Spectru loading sounds on YouTube. Was mental about Dizzy myself. Had the pleasure of meeting the OliverTwins when I went trying for a game coding job in their place in Leamington Spa. Loved to have worked there, even though they were doing shovel ware poo poo even poundland wouldnt stock. Edit: And sad Spectrum story. Friends uncle was a nerd too, and he had an original ZX Spectrum box never opened, all parts in it, no box marks, pristine. Got offers from £500-700 for it. He died from a work accident, and they sold it in a job lot with all his other stuff, didn't see the value in it. happyhippy fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Feb 8, 2022 |
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Feb 8, 2022 00:10
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Strategic Tea posted:It is exactly as I called it a year ago, these antivax cunts are homegrown terrorists and I can't wait till they start rioting to support their masters more explicitly (tax is immoral, don't cancel my slurs, global warming isn't real, etc) I can wait tbh
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Feb 8, 2022 00:22
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happyhippy posted:Was mental about Dizzy myself. Had the pleasure of meeting the OliverTwins when I went trying for a game coding job in their place in Leamington Spa. Last time I met them they were running some kind of trade body for UK indie game developers. I vaguely remember it being at some sort of awards show in the mid 2000s. I wonder what they're up to these days.
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Feb 8, 2022 00:25
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Wolfsbane posted:Last time I met them they were running some kind of trade body for UK indie game developers. I vaguely remember it being at some sort of awards show in the mid 2000s. I wonder what they're up to these days. I thought they had sold out to EA but that's the Darling brothers, and how many sets of siblings does one game developer need?
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Feb 8, 2022 00:29
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This Starmer thing isn’t funny. As someone said, the genie is out of the bottle. Johnson’s slur has worked, the tactic of whipping up a mob has worked, and it’ll be used again. Next time it probably won’t be a target that you find so amusing. This unleashed anger and fury is very concerning because I don’t know how one stops it and I suspect that government has no interest in stopping it; probably the reverse. While you’re chuckling away ask how it ends and who the next targets are.
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Feb 8, 2022 00:42
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They already had to arrest a guy for plotting to kill corbyn thanks to the efforts of the same press that is handwringing about it being used against starmer, so I am far past giving a poo poo. If you're running a society that wants to kill its politicians, that's the fault of the politicians. They're the ones making the society that wants to kill them, so gently caress em, let them reap what they sow for once. If they want to make a better society at any point, they're welcome to.
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Feb 8, 2022 00:55
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OwlFancier posted:They already had to arrest a guy for plotting to kill corbyn thanks to the efforts of the same press that is handwringing about it being used against starmer, so I am far past giving a poo poo. Yeah, but next time it might not be politicians. It might be refugees, or asylum seekers, or human rights lawyers, etc. This poo poo can’t be controlled once it’s unleashed and the targets are broadly going to be people that we actually care about.
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therattle posted:Yeah, but next time it might not be politicians. It might be refugees, or asylum seekers, or human rights lawyers, etc. This poo poo can’t be controlled once it’s unleashed and the targets are broadly going to be people that we actually care about. So did you have a relaxing sleep for the last... 35 years or so? Because official government policy for all three of these groups is "gently caress off and die" and has been for as long as I've been aware of politics. (also "asylum seekers" *are* refugees and it's testament to the power of propaganda you listed them separately despite being on their side)
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Feb 8, 2022 01:03
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It's already all those things and the government is leading the charge though, it has done it under the tories, it did it under labour, protecting the sanctity of starmer's legal career isn't going to change that. All the people in government and at the top of the parties have spent their lives courting those exact attitudes, fostering them so they can play off them come election time, and pursuing them on the level of a personal vendetta most of the time too. That is the society they want, the society they have worked their lives to build, and now it hates them. That it very, very occasionally ends up biting them in the arse as well, cannot move me to anything but laughter as they are simply shocked to think that they occasionally have to live in that society they have built as well. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Feb 8, 2022 |
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Feb 8, 2022 01:04
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therattle posted:Yeah, but next time it might not be politicians. It might be refugees, or asylum seekers, or human rights lawyers, etc. This poo poo can’t be controlled once it’s unleashed and the targets are broadly going to be people that we actually care about.
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Feb 8, 2022 01:05
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goddamnedtwisto posted:So did you have a relaxing sleep for the last... 35 years or so? Because official government policy for all three of these groups is "gently caress off and die" and has been for as long as I've been aware of politics. All asylum seekers are refugees but not all refugees are asylum seekers. And yes, of course govt policy has been anti all of them, but they are just some potential victims. Mob hatred like we are seeing is not a good thing, regardless of who it is currently directed at. I wouldn’t have thought that was controversial.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFvqDaFpXeM When the evil company guy gets blown up by the robot it's funny because it's his fault for building the robot that kills people, even though people getting killed by robots is not, in isolation, funny. This is called "irony" https://twitter.com/screaminbutcalm/status/1105577845642878976 OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Feb 8, 2022 |
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Feb 8, 2022 01:16
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lmao suck it Keith. Edit: bullying these empty cunts is always funny.
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Feb 8, 2022 01:34
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No its not good that is worked but its been loving obvious since the beginning that the oh so forensic electable Starmer has been in his position entirely at the grace of this country's press and when they want rid of him they'll tear him to shreds. This is why all his work to appeal to sun readers has been a waste of time. They'll either be told to vote for him or not, he doesn't have a choice in the matter no matter how much he alienates left wing voters.
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Feb 8, 2022 02:41
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It's probably going to give him a bit of a bump if the press continues to be performatively outraged by it, which I'm sure he will be happy about. Which i suppose makes "getting starmer almost beat to poo poo by an angry mob" labour's most effective electoral strategy yet.
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Feb 8, 2022 02:45
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therattle posted:All asylum seekers are refugees but not all refugees are asylum seekers. It's not controversial, but like... it already happens? Rotherham grooming gangs, the trojan horse poo poo? It's funny because the mob is actually being whipped up against someone powerful for a change.
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Feb 8, 2022 03:04
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Yeah, vulnerable people have been on the receiving end of this kind of violence and intimidation in this country for a very long time. We're well down Niemoller's list by now. Talk to literally any homeless person you meet, and they will have some loving terrifying stories. That's before we get into the more indirect social murder that's been simmering away since Blair and has kicked into overdrive over the past few years. This one's funny because the people who've been using these mobs to savage the underclass for years (and I absolutely count Starmer and his front bench among those) are now receiving a few bites of their own.
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Feb 8, 2022 03:43
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The Sisyphean struggle against technology and common sense continues https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-60293057
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https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1490632843080384515?s=20&t=qA-3_pmnmCOuInzwM7uPyg Interesting. Left-wing policies very popular even among Con voters. But no, gotta swing right eh Keith.
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once keir is pushed out by the new leader streeting i bet there will be articles about how keir was a throughly decent man brutally attacked by an antivax mob set on him by the lovable oaf boris, who gloriously led us through the first dozen covid waves as best as anyone could do
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jaete posted:So this is a society of nerds who will read any old floppy disks (etc) you give them and provide you with the data on something more modern like a USB stick or whatever. Costs nothing (if you're in Finland and have some spare time, lol). They are especially on the look out for "skene" (Finnish for scene as in demo scene) stuff it seems, to make old demos more available to the public There is also a games/gaming museum at the city of Tampere where you can play some super obscure things.
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Strategic Tea posted:(tax is immoral, don't cancel my slurs, global warming isn't real, etc) I get this from my drug dealer (although less rioting, more angrily muttering over a cup of tea). Last time I saw him it happened to come up that he’d never even heard of Starmer, so we’ll see what he has to say when I see him tomorrow. At least it’ll take the conversation away from Joe Rogan.
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Jel Shaker posted:once keir is pushed out by the new leader streeting i bet there will be articles about how keir was a throughly decent man brutally attacked by an antivax mob set on him by the lovable oaf boris, who gloriously led us through the first dozen covid waves as best as anyone could do
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Feb 8, 2022 08:35
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I dunno seems like a problem to me if right-wing weirdos are rioting and trying to kill people. Yes it's a chuckle that it was Kier this time, but people like Diane Abott are going to be solidly in the cross hairs of these freaks.
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Feb 8, 2022 08:40
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TACD posted:I’m still expecting them to make a tenuous connection between somebody in the crowd and JC so they can blame it all on furious Corbyinistas driven mad by his expulsion from the party. Piers was there so ....
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idgaf about kieth but the fact that the far right have been organising & are getting emboldened is a bad thing. There's always been fash about but usually just some pathetic little demos outnumbered by antifash, nowadays it seems like roving mobs of violent fascist are just a feature of life, they're really mobilising off the back of anti-lockdown poo poo & imo we should all be worried The fact that Johnson is just straight-up siccing them on his political opponents is also bad, even if those opponents are themselves bad. Like how the Heil "enemies of the people" headline wasn't bad because we're so concerned about the poor oppressed Law Lords, it was bad because we're witnessing the decline into fascism
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It's definitely bad but tbh I don't see what I personally can do beyond laughing at the hubris of those who thought they could ride the tiger
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Feb 8, 2022 09:25
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It’s also not as “random outraged people” as it looks apparently: https://twitter.com/pozzywozzy/status/1490800200159485958?s=21
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Red Oktober posted:It’s also not as “random outraged people” as it looks apparently: Remember when liberals were sliver-lining Johnson's premiership, saying the way to stop all these far right demos was to put their guy in charge & give them what they want lol
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Feb 8, 2022 10:23
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Don't forget a member of the NEC has openly said that the Freikorps were Good, Actually: https://twitter.com/lukeakehurst/status/1056845497518960640
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Changed my mind because of good points made.
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Can anyone please remind me of the person the Eye take great delight in calling a liar because he was found to have lied in civil court, meaning they can't be found liable for libel?
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Shyrka posted:It's not controversial, but like... it already happens? It's not funny at all. The Tories are rabblerousing scum, but they've always punched down to distract from what they're really doing. Now they feel able to sic the mob on anyone who actually can conceivably oppose them - not that Keir Strasser would, but still. This is how one party states happen.
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We're already in a one party state, and have been since the 2019 election. The descent into fascism is unavoidable now. So I look for nuggets of karmic schadenfreude, and watching Starmer being attacked by a mob for something he didn't do is absolutely loving hilarious. There will also be a time when the mob will turn against Boris, and I will laugh then too. e: and on the subject of looking for nuggets of comedy gold, check out the latest CWS: https://twitter.com/Coldwar_Steve/status/1490981348693139459 fuctifino fucked around with this message at 11:08 on Feb 8, 2022 |
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Sanford posted:although less rioting, more angrily muttering over a cup of tea Ah yes, the English riot
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The Question IRL posted:Monkey Island 2 on the Amiga didn't come on nine discs. It came on 11 discs! In my defence I think this was a fully fabricated memory formed of a patchwork of similar experiences. It wasn't the Barras it was Ayr Sunday Market, it wasn't Ebeneezer Goode (that's a separate memory from a day at Inglestone matket), and it wouldn't be MI2 as my folks would be too cheap to stump up the money for 11 pirated floppies, more likely to be Lemmings 2 or the Chaos Engine. Memories are weird.
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