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dialhforhero posted:8T-88 is definitely not a lazy droid name. Good thing 13-37 came along to show everyone what a really lazy Droid name looks like
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Going to make a droid you can gently caress and name it FM3-69 Gonna design another one that does everything to maximize your enjoyment of smoking weed and call it W33D-420.
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Feb 28, 2022 23:04
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Gonna pal around with my astromech buddy Ar Four Two Oh
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Cartoon Man posted:
oh man, i remember playing this exact thing with my dad forever ago. it was super mario world though, one of the cave levels where you have to get through a bunch of those spinning yellow blocks
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Mar 1, 2022 03:25
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Some more 90s music concentrate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY5Ejus6kgc
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Queen-Of-Hearts posted:Gonna pal around with my astromech buddy Ar Four Two Oh I mean, if you want to get nerdy, that's what the R4's are pretty much for. They're not flight Astromechs like the others, they're garage buddies for people who just want something that can help fix an old land or airspeeder for a home project. And with that tall conical head you know they gotta be able to make a sweet integrated bong.
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Mar 1, 2022 03:39
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Okay so help me fit one in my kia
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Queen-Of-Hearts posted:Gonna pal around with my astromech buddy Ar Four Two Oh You jest, but I always wanted an astromech buddy to pal around with
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I'm not jesting, it would be The Best! Having a little buddy to take care of the tolls on the Kennedy for you, or holding your purse and tossing you your lipstick like launching a lightsaber handle from their dome? Have your own movie projector buddy? Hell yeah. it'd be great. The only hard part of the whole fiasco would be picking out the best colour scheme. Or do they pick it out themselves? When i was a dumb kid in the 90s i convinced myself that an artoo that spoke actual words would be the way to go, but then i read one of those awful eu books where there was just such a thing and good lord it was stupid.
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"OH NO, 69-4U, you launched my MAGNUM CONDOMS for my MASSIVE DONG everywhere!" *tweeee-trooooooooooo*
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little bumper sticker on the back of their dome reads: My Other Ride Is Your Protocol Droid
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I mean, if you want to get nerdy, that's what the R4's are pretty much for. They're not flight Astromechs like the others, they're garage buddies for people who just want something that can help fix an old land or airspeeder for a home project. And with that tall conical head you know they gotta be able to make a sweet integrated bong. Nah dude, put a balloon on that poo poo, make it a volcano vape.
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Cartoon Man posted:
I think I had that shirt
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Milo and POTUS posted:I think I had that shirt We all did, that's a Gecko Hawaii poo poo (how did I remember that?)
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https://i.imgur.com/GuGTTHq.mp4 Bonus sound
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Cartoon Man posted:https://i.imgur.com/GuGTTHq.mp4  I held out on getting a smart phone until 2014, so I was definitely using MapQuest until at least then. Let me tell you driving from Kansas to Maryland was interesting using that method.
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Mar 1, 2022 22:00
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My approach was to rewrite the MapQuest directions (using fantastically obtuse shorthand) on a post-it note which I would then stick onto the center of the steering wheel 
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Distracted driving was legal back then, and therefore not a problem what so ever. Also, driving while smoking weed. Because they couldn't test you for it.
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I hated being the mapquest reader/co pilot as a kid 
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I loved being able to read a Road Map of yore. I was proud to get my family to grandma’s house without a hitch or find the detour or scenic route. 
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AAA triptik was the thing we used through the 90s. Preprinted pages bound into a comb bound booklet. Then a highlighter and stamps to show the route and known construction projects along the way. You can get a PDF simulation of the booklet on their site.
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Guy Axlerod posted:AAA triptik was the thing we used through the 90s. Preprinted pages bound into a comb bound booklet. Then a highlighter and stamps to show the route and known construction projects along the way. You can get a PDF simulation of the booklet on their site. I drove my fully packed Geo Tracker from Boston to Tahoe in 1993, using triptiks.
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I would go to the library and photocopy pages out of the local street directory and then go over my route with a highlighter. To this day, I will still use printouts from google maps if I'm going somewhere really far out of my way.
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Iron Crowned posted:We all did, that's a Gecko Hawaii poo poo (how did I remember that?) because they were very popular!
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Map Quest was for people in countries with sane grid systems and not a country with twisting country roads where the boomers (even when in their 40s) refused to use the real name of a location, and instead preferd to use the old one they were taught when they were 5. Kids these days should treasure their googles and their Internets just for the ease of navigation. "Is this the right way to Settling upon Twine?" "Aye sure, go left at the old barn* and carry on till you see the dog and duck**" *Barn demolished in 1973 and now a spar ** Dog and duck renamed in 1957 to The farmer's boots
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Driving to somewhere I’ve never been to while fiddling with my iPod and reading Mapquest directions and lighting a smoke-it’s a minor miracle I’m still alive
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ShortyMR.CAT posted:I hated being the mapquest reader/co pilot as a kid aw, it was the best! except i also fall asleep in the passenger seat so it meant i got woken up a lot. i don't ever use a Real Map anymore in a car, but i'll always scope out the route for a while on google maps in the days before we head out on a long trip.
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learnincurve posted:Map Quest was for people in countries with sane grid systems and not a country with twisting country roads where the boomers (even when in their 40s) refused to use the real name of a location, and instead preferd to use the old one they were taught when they were 5. Kids these days should treasure their googles and their Internets just for the ease of navigation. Don't worry, the newer England over here in the US does that too. 128 has been interstate 95 for the vast majority of my life, but people refuse to adapt, to the point that they had to re-sign parts of 95 to also be 128 because people were getting lost from old Bostonians giving directions.
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learnincurve posted:Map Quest was for people in countries with sane grid systems and not a country with twisting country roads where the boomers (even when in their 40s) refused to use the real name of a location, and instead preferd to use the old one they were taught when they were 5. Kids these days should treasure their googles and their Internets just for the ease of navigation. Despite the existence of up to date GPS systems on a device that you can carry in your pocket, this is still a regular conversation I have to have with my dad "What's the address for where we're going?" "Do you know where *landmark* is?" "No" "Well when you get to *landmark* take a left, keep going straight for 3 miles, then take a right down *road I've never heard of*" "What's the address?" "Then keep going for about 4 miles until you pass *restaurant that closed in 1992*, take a left, and you're right there" "Sure great. What's the address"
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Neito posted:Don't worry, the newer England over here in the US does that too. 128 has been interstate 95 for the vast majority of my life, but people refuse to adapt, to the point that they had to re-sign parts of 95 to also be 128 because people were getting lost from old Bostonians giving directions. I've definitely seen interstates be dual-signed like this before when they were built on the routes of existing state/US routes
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mactheknife posted:I've definitely seen interstates be dual-signed like this before when they were built on the routes of existing state/US routes I've seen 3 and 4 signs, but that seems to be more related to a interstates temporarily merging through some areas.
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mactheknife posted:I've definitely seen interstates be dual-signed like this before when they were built on the routes of existing state/US routes Yeah, but the 128 signs were actually removed for a few years, then put back up.
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Neito posted:Yeah, but the 128 signs were actually removed for a few years, then put back up. that is different and extremely funny
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mactheknife posted:that is different and extremely funny Boston is the most stubborn city in the country at times. The funny part is why 95 and 128 have to coexist on the same stretch of highway, which involves a whole lot of "The federal government loving up Dorchester and Southie with 93 and Roxbury and Sommerville refusing to roll over for that", which is now memorialized by a mural on the back wall of the Micro Center in Cambridge, because of course it is.
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Boston has nothing on the ongoing war between speed cameras and the french Just decades of vandalism that started with people taking chainsaws to poles/drilling a hole to fill them with builders expanding foam and now they look like this Round 47 has begun https://www.connexionfrance.com/Fre...em-out-of-order
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learnincurve posted:Boston has nothing on the ongoing war between speed cameras and the french A can of spraypaint seems like it'd take care of that.
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ugh, I've had Take A Picture by Filter in my head last couple days
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Neddy Seagoon posted:A can of spraypaint seems like it'd take care of that. yeah i was gonna say, it still needs a lens. how do they design around that.
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uber_stoat posted:yeah i was gonna say, it still needs a lens. how do they design around that. Anti-graffiti coatings exist. They go on clear enough to not interfere with a traffic cam. Spray paint just runs off.
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