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Milo and POTUS posted:https://twitter.com/ComputerLove_/status/1529307546460205056?s=20&t=cmNyEBPBBKmCw0AP1tZsHg I worked at a Regal Cinemas in the late 90's, so I am intimately familiar with this, can't say I recall ever seeing it so clean, because the reel was dirty and beat to all hell by 1997 Cartoon Man posted:Was chatting about this in the blessed thread, this was one of my all time favorite shows as a kid. There was a new Legends of the Hidden Temple airing on the CW at some point last year. I watched an episode of it, it was ok, but much like the rest of the CW for the last decade, I wasn't quite compelled to seek it out every week. It was all ~30 year olds in the temple 
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Cartoon Man posted:Was chatting about this in the blessed thread, this was one of my all time favorite shows as a kid. I hate to break it to you, but they did that already..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydp-vqaDzQM ....but it's not even close to as good, though 
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BaronVonVaderham posted:I hate to break it to you, but they did that already..... gently caress
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Cartoon Man posted:Was chatting about this in the blessed thread, this was one of my all time favorite shows as a kid. THE MONKEY AIN'T THAT HARD TO PUT TOGETHER WHY CAN NOBODY DO IT RIGHT
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Cartoon Man posted:gently caress It's even worse than that. They didn't advertise it for poo poo and quietly canceled it after one season.
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Vandar posted:THE MONKEY AIN'T THAT HARD TO PUT TOGETHER WHY CAN NOBODY DO IT RIGHT I remember reading they had multiple versions of the monkey, some of which didn't fit together. Not sure why, just assume TV producers of kids shows are monsters. EDIT: after watching a couple videos, I don't think it was the same show, but I can definitely remember one goon who worked in TV talking about loving over some teams of kids so a specific team won. Megillah Gorilla has a new favorite as of 12:36 on Jun 15, 2022 |
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mind the walrus posted:It's even worse than that. They didn't advertise it for poo poo and quietly canceled it after one season. It also didn't help that it came on at 9:00, them's prime party hours for younger millennials, and prime sleeping hours for us older millennials who have to get up at 5 in the morning
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I remember reading they had multiple versions of the monkey, some of which didn't fit together. I think there was also a thing where some of the showings were filmed late in the afternoon but everyone was brought in early in the morning, and (maybe by design) sufficient catering wasn't really provided for the kids so they were just exhausted and hungry by the time they had to put that fucker together
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pretty soft girl posted:I think there was also a thing where some of the showings were filmed late in the afternoon but everyone was brought in early in the morning, and (maybe by design) sufficient catering wasn't really provided for the kids so they were just exhausted and hungry by the time they had to put that fucker together It's not like they had expensive prizes on that show, like second place was a bottle of Nestle's Quick, they could have at least put more money into the craft services table.
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pretty soft girl posted:I think there was also a thing where some of the showings were filmed late in the afternoon but everyone was brought in early in the morning, and (maybe by design) sufficient catering wasn't really provided for the kids so they were just exhausted and hungry by the time they had to put that fucker together The other issue is that many of the kids on the show had never seen the show. The first season was likely filmed all in the span of a couple weeks, a few shows a day, taking kids from people doing the Nickelodeon Studio tour or whatever. To them, this was a brand new show, it's not like they were filming one a day/week, putting it on the air, then doing another one the next day/week. Sure, they could kind of see the kids who went before them put one together...but with how the stage might have been laid out, who know if they even had a good angle or were close enough to even see anything at all.
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Milo and POTUS posted:https://twitter.com/ComputerLove_/status/1529307546460205056?s=20&t=cmNyEBPBBKmCw0AP1tZsHg Swear to god they still play this to this day. I KNOW I have seen this in the last 5 years.
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Animal-Mother posted:How would... Why would... What? It's a trackball mouse with buttons, what's to get? The only real bad part of it is the ball's loose rather than secured.
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Also it has "Space" in the name so it's obviously the future.
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Animal-Mother posted:How would... Why would... What? It's 3D. It's THE FUTURE
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I was more astounded by the fact that those things retailed for $1200...in 1991.  https://spacemice.org/index.php?title=Spaceball_2003
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Unperson_47 posted:Also it has "Space" in the name so it's obviously the future. Actually that's a 3D mouse, they're used a lot in engineering and other 3D design applications. This is what the current (cheap) version looks like:  I actually have one on my desk. They continued to use a ball up until about 15 years ago when they were phased out for the hockey puck you see there. This is the version I started with in 2006 (and still my favorite TBH): 
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dialhforhero posted:Swear to god they still play this to this day. I KNOW I have seen this in the last 5 years. I went to a Regal a couple weeks ago to see Everything Everywhere All At Once and they definitely had a version of this play! But it was all Minions-themed 
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Animal-Mother posted:How would... Why would... What? What can I do We just live in a zoo All I do is play The spaceball ricochet
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Iron Crowned posted:Actually that's a 3D mouse, they're used a lot in engineering and other 3D design applications. This is what the current (cheap) version looks like: I am pretty sure that's what The Rocinante uses for steering in The Expanse.
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Animal-Mother posted:How would... Why would... What?  It's basically like a joystick but not. It's designed for use with any kind of software that deals heavily in 3D. In addition to the X-Y movement that you get on a normal mouse, you can also twist the ball and pull/push the ball to rotate or move something in the Z axis as well. Porfiriato posted:I was more astounded by the fact that those things retailed for $1200...in 1991. It was also hooking up to workstations that cost $10k so really it was cheap in the grand scheme of things 
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So you actually rock that ball around with your palm like a joystick or stylus? Edit: oh you said that. I couldn't comprehend how the thing was supposed to work but seeing it from the side makes it make more sense
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Heath posted:So you actually rock that ball around with your palm like a joystick or stylus? I can't speak for that specific model, but I doubt it's much different from the ones I have used, and yes. It takes some practice, but once you get used to it, it feels like you're missing an arm if you can't use it in 3D applications. You push down or pull up to zoom, push forward, back, and side to side for a pan, and twist it for rotation, or any combination of the above.
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Physically you are too. You had a terrible accident, we were worried about you.
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airy, lots of natural light and plenty of room for a nice big bed. yes, i do think i could die in a Wendy's.
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I don't know why that image perfectly captures my state of mind today, but it does.
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There's one of those in Chicago that's now used by a nearby hardware store:
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There's one in the plaza next door to my old apartment complex across town that's now a pizza place.
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Just a bit if cross promotion https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4003404&pagenumber=1&perpage=40&userid=0#post523836841 Over in BSS X-O is doing a retrospective of Wizard Magazine, posting scans of issues.
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This thread is now for posting your local Wendy's sun room and I'm here for it.
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Restaurants were cool in the 90s and now they are boring. Fast food places are boring now. Where’s the salad bar at Wendy’s where’s the big play area at McDonald’s where’s burger king
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This Wendy's nearish to me in Clermont, FL kept the sunroom even though the rest of the building was modernized to the current brand standards.  With a nice view of the highway. 
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This Wendy's nearish to me in Clermont, FL kept the sunroom even though the rest of the building was modernized to the current brand standards. My local Wendy's was still a good place to eat until their COVID-interrupted remodel (sunroom intact). It looks exactly like the above. Then they finished the remodel, reopened, and for some reason the food isn't good anymore. Everything's in smaller portions and all dried out, and of course the prices are higher. The 90s didn't end all at once, and another portion of that decade died that day.
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 This is my current view of the old Wendy’s sunroom from the bar across the street. It’s been several restaurants since the Wendy’s closed in the late 90’s. Currently it’s a Mediterranean place.
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Overbite posted:Restaurants were cool in the 90s and now they are boring. Fast food places are boring now. Where’s the salad bar at Wendy’s where’s the big play area at McDonald’s where’s burger king I really hungry for the SuperBar now. I'm sure it was actually awful, but the nostalgia is real.
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Unperson_47 posted:This thread is now for posting your local Wendy's sun room and I'm here for it. Someone drove into ours a few years ago and they had to remodel. Got rid of the old signs for the baked potato bar in the process. Edit: Superbar! That's what it was called.
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Zero One posted:This Wendy's nearish to me in Clermont, FL kept the sunroom even though the rest of the building was modernized to the current brand standards. doctorfrog posted:This Wendy's nearish to me in Clermont, FL kept the sunroom even though the rest of the building was modernized to the current brand standards. I like to imagine that you two are standing next to each other, posting in the same thread, enjoying some Baconator fries.
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Neito posted:I like to imagine that you two are standing next to each other, posting in the same thread, enjoying some Baconator fries. I actually have a friend who lives in Clermont, and I was talking to him yesterday how it would be cool if we could just go to our local identical Wendy's and through some dimensional chicanery both meet up for lunch.
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