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snorch posted:I never understood why dolphins were seemingly considered “cyber”. Dolphins have sex for pleasure. "cyber sex" was a colloquially called just "cyber" thus dolphins = cyber.
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Johnny Mnemonic had a heroin-addicted cyber dolphin
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May 17, 2023 18:28
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I yearn for those halcyon days when cyber was an abbreviation for "cybersex" and not for "cybersecurity" "The Cyber Team has examined your application" oh wow, did they find any porn in it?
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May 17, 2023 18:35
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Probably because dolphins were easy to render convincingly with the tech of the time.
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May 17, 2023 18:41
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Flinger posted:Johnny Mnemonic had a heroin-addicted cyber dolphin His name is Jones and he is my friend.
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May 17, 2023 18:54
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Wizard of the Deep posted:I blame Ecco. I blame Jonesy.
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May 17, 2023 18:58
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It was liker a weird little ramp up of: "Dolphins and whales are actually really smart!" where it went from just, like, "oh yeah they might be as smart as dogs" to "oh they're like hyper intelligent and might evolve to be smarter than us! Or already are!" The 70's had Flipper. Ramped up a but into the 80's with Star Trek 4 and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Then by the time the 90's hit, we get SeaQuest with the talking dolphin, Ecco the Dolphin, and Lisa Frank using both dolphin AND laser imagery, so again, sort of evoking that "futuristic" theme. And Star Trek TNG had a little Easter egg sort of thing with a "Cetacean Ops" as well, continuing on from Star Trek 4.
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May 17, 2023 19:02
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Kafouille posted:Probably because dolphins were easy to render convincingly with the tech of the time. Just watched the first couple Toy Story movies recently. The dog technology of the time stood out.
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May 17, 2023 19:35
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I blame Jonesy. gently caress you, Shoresy.
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May 17, 2023 19:42
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Data Graham posted:I yearn for those halcyon days when cyber was an abbreviation for "cybersex" and not for "cybersecurity" I literally just stared at the message and did not respond. The next day I messaged her something else and apologized for having been asleep and she said like "oh ill get u next time im horny lol" and that told me A) what cyber meant and B) I needed to break up with her already
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May 17, 2023 19:48
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Dr. Quarex posted:I will never forget learning that word at the worst/best possible time, when my very recent girlfriend asked if I wanted to cyber. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpWGhCTw_l8
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May 17, 2023 21:18
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Dr. Quarex posted:I will never forget learning that word at the worst/best possible time, when my very recent girlfriend asked if I wanted to cyber. Huh? E: am I strange for thinking that cybering with your s/o was pretty common in the old days? Was it really worth breaking up over?? Last Chance has a new favorite as of 21:26 on May 17, 2023 |
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May 17, 2023 21:22
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Wizard of the Deep posted:gently caress you, Shoresy. I heard he hosed a dolphin.
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May 17, 2023 21:51
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Gromit posted:I heard he hosed a dolphin. Allegedlies.
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May 17, 2023 21:58
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Last Chance posted:Huh? It’s just 56k sexting if you think about it
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May 17, 2023 22:32
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Last Chance posted:Huh? Though also as it happened I would 100% have not known what to do given I had never had sex nor really given how to actually do it in real life much thought at the time.
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May 17, 2023 22:34
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snorch posted:I never understood why dolphins were seemingly considered “cyber”. their mates hooked them up with email, it were a blast
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Is that the C64GS pack-in cartridge in the bottom-left there? I'd have thought that would be quite rare given the... less than stellar reception of the GS.
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Two Owls posted:Is that the C64GS pack-in cartridge in the bottom-left there? I'd have thought that would be quite rare given the... less than stellar reception of the GS. Yeah, it came with the instructions too. Played Klax and it was fun but fiddly Played Fiendish Freddie and it was not fun and had a racist stereotype
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DrBouvenstein posted:It was liker a weird little ramp up of: Whales and dolphins also featured in a whole lot of New Age woo, so I could see that being extended into the 90s by the kind of people who talked about cyberspace like it was a new dimension, and that getting online would expand your mind and open your third eye...
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Turns out that two of the misleading factors for the public were the relative brain size of cetaceans(it's mostly fat storage) and the claims of kooky scientist Dr Lilly who also believed that the dolphins protect the world from hostile alien psychic intelligences. Go listen to the Dollop episode, it's crazier than you know.
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snorch posted:I never understood why dolphins were seemingly considered “cyber”. things which were impossibly futuristic and technological in the 90s: - dolphins - marble - marble statues - checkerboard pattern (sometimes marbled)
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- Wine glasses - Chessboards - Wine glasses next to chessboards also: spheres
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How could you forget tea pots
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Yeah I guess a lot of it boils down to easy rendering, and I think especially a lot of the early stuff has a strong coder art vibe. You can get a checkerboard by simply XOR'ing one of the bits of each X and Y coordinates together respectively, and the marble pattern thing was something you could easily make using Perlin noise. Prime example at 17:25: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5xwLFRdewgE On a related note, this is my teapot. 
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Horace posted:things which were impossibly futuristic and technological in the 90s: You forgot 50s American automobiles.
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Quick pic of an easy 286 setup if anyone is looking to get started with some older stuff. Whole setup ran around $150 or so. 286 12mhz Board - https://www.ebay.com/itm/165473396065 - used in routers, needs a 27C512 eeprom burned with the SCAT (C&T Single Chip AT Chipset, awesome name lol) BIOS. Comes with 1mb dram. ($63 shipped) Random Trident ISA card, think this one is a 8900D (~$20ish, it's a 286 anything ISA will work) XTIDE controller with bios ($37) https://texelec.com/product/isa-compactflash-adapter/ OPT390 sound card, nearly any ISA sound card will work this is just what I had. IDE/SD converter card with 512mb SD Card. (~$15) https://www.amazon.com/KOOBOOK-1Pcs-40Pin-Adapter-Drive/dp/B07YFPX7JB/ Random ISA I/O controller, not needed for it to work as it's just there for the floppy. I'm using a monster of an AT power supply but any ATX power supply with a AT>ATX converter ($14, https://www.amazon.com/7-Inch-20-Pin-Button-Converter-Adapter/dp/B075ZPWJBX/) Board seems to run a 20mhz chip fine at 0ws, makes for a pretty snappy 286.
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snorch posted:On a related note, this is my teapot.  (It's an actual staged photo)
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Oh our rose tinted minds, that what the EA logo looked like in 95 or so for sure.
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I remember seeing that logo on their late 80s flight simulator products.
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All I can think seeing the resolution on that photo is "That must have taken what... three days to render"
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Is that a checkered tablecloth with a glass plate on it?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Is that a checkered tablecloth with a glass plate on it? Certainly looks like it.
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Computer viking posted:Certainly looks like it. Just spotted a warped bit. Definitely is. Pretty cool but not, like, perfect.
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snorch posted:I never understood why dolphins were seemingly considered “cyber”. Probably has to do with the overblown studies into dolphin intelligence in the 1970s by John C. Lilly who was tied into the post-hippie psychedelic scene and stuff like SETI, which is all tied into early silicon valley stuff, all that weird stew of California libertarianism.
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Hellequin posted:Probably has to do with the overblown studies into dolphin intelligence in the 1970s by John C. Lilly who was tied into the post-hippie psychedelic scene and stuff like SETI, which is all tied into early silicon valley stuff, all that weird stew of California libertarianism. Is there a good documentary on this stuff? I don’t think people or I realize how crazy it was… I mean forget Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and tell me more about the NASA rocket scientist who was into satanism and the people into Trepanation and all that. Didn’t they all live in the same house at one point? It’s like the crazy tech bro flop house (castle Voltaire?) that popularized NFTs and the explosion of alternate crypto coins. Just a bunch of fart smelling idiocy all the way down
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https://www.recalbox.com/recalbox-rgb-dual/ is my favorite recent "retro" purchase not so much because of game emulation (which does look pretty authentic) but because they also made it work with the Kodi player which is giving me nostalgia overload from the good old days of watching divx movies on a hacked xbox  I still have my xbox but it struggles with modern codecs, a raspberry pi 4 with that recalbox rgb shield however will happily spit out a 4k movie over scart in glorious 4:3 480i to watch on your old CRT TV.  https://i.imgur.com/6vKSBXC.mp4
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r u ready to WALK posted:https://www.recalbox.com/recalbox-rgb-dual/ is my favorite recent "retro" purchase You wouldnt happen to still have that specific XBox would you? XBoxs are kinda my 'thing' and I need one with that front panel for my collection/hoarde.
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