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monolithburger posted:The whole thing looked cool as gently caress though I AM APTIVA A friend's family had one of these growing up and it looked 20 years ahead of the beige Pentium II Dell at our house.
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monolithburger posted:The whole thing looked cool as gently caress though Yes! Aptiva Stealth. There was also a design-matched black flatbed scanner. I know because my gf in 1996 had one and I bought the scanner for her but I didn’t know she mostly used the computer to e-cheat on me via ICQ with some Australian dude, but years and years later they ended up married with two kids, so it worked out I suppose.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Never heard of this one (and it's not Techmoan!) I had one! Still probably do somewhere. Had that little 1990s green/purple stripe design. Pretty sure I had that version of The Wind Beneath My Wings on it. My Dad, fully realizing I was a weirdo with very out of date tastes, made me up a tape that was similar to his own interests. We lived out in the sticks, so there wasn't a kiosk. Pretty sure he either ordered it out of a magazine or maybe mailed off for a list of songs. Have no idea how he would have found out about it, but I definitely had a tape in 1992.
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https://twitter.com/MaureenPlatts/status/1739610038996451334?s=20
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Kwyndig posted:Remember computer shows? All that overstock product has moved to shady auction sites now. I miss being able to buy headphones for like a dollar. Or a TV for twenty bucks, delivery up to you. I was too poor to ever buy hardware but oh man, those endless aisles of garbage shovelwear software-of-unknown-provenance on 3.5" floppies 
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TotalLossBrain posted:Also obsolete: writing games walkthroughs for print magazines (and maybe getting paid for them). One of the worst things about the current internet is how nerdily in-depth hints and walkthroughs and guides on video games have been replaced by loving terrible YouTube videos. Just type it out, dickbag, we can read faster than you can blather.
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Game walkthroughs are judged by their plaintext file size in the GameFAQs listing, the bigger it is the more thorough it is. Secondary points are awarded for ascii art within the walkthrough.
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The last one is still pretty common, though the one I have doesn't lock in place, you just have to keep it squeezed with your left hand.
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Phanatic posted:One of the worst things about the current internet is how nerdily in-depth hints and walkthroughs and guides on video games have been replaced by loving terrible YouTube videos. Just type it out, dickbag, we can read faster than you can blather. This is something that's been bothering me more and more for years now. Whenever I search for something or how to do something - inevitably, I get a bunch of YouTube results first, or maybe that's all I get. I will scroll to the end of the search results to find any kind of text link before clicking on the first video. Example: I searched for the light symbols on my car's headlight stalk. There are 4 symbols there, not super complicated. The first page of results was just videos. I got what I wanted from the thumbnail preview of one of them, so that was good.
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I miss when guides were more of a companion to look at when you are stuck and not just the crap these days where it's just "go here, open this door, punch in 3048 at the code pad, walk forward 3 squares, left 2 squares, forward 4 squares" Ok, but where did you get this information? I hate when I find a puzzle in a game and I just want to know where in the game I can find the hint that says how to solve it. Instead the guide sends you directly to the puzzle and gives the solution.
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Cojawfee posted:I miss when guides were more of a companion to look at when you are stuck and not just the crap these days where it's just "go here, open this door, punch in 3048 at the code pad, walk forward 3 squares, left 2 squares, forward 4 squares" Ok, but where did you get this information? I hate when I find a puzzle in a game and I just want to know where in the game I can find the hint that says how to solve it. Instead the guide sends you directly to the puzzle and gives the solution. Or god help you if you get stuck part way through and want to check a guide that turns out to be written like this They'll give no frame of reference for anything, so you can't figure out if you're in the right place without going all the way back to the start of wherever you are and following it to the letter.
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Since we're on/adjacent to the topic: does anyone remember a story about a video game puzzle contest but the answers only made sense to the one puzzle designer? It ended up being impossible to answer and had no winners as a result. The example I remember is something along the lines of "yellow thing that wakes me up every day" wasn't the sun but his neighbour's yellow car that was noisy or some poo poo.
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Cojawfee posted:I miss when guides were more of a companion to look at when you are stuck and not just the crap these days where it's just "go here, open this door, punch in 3048 at the code pad, walk forward 3 squares, left 2 squares, forward 4 squares" Ok, but where did you get this information? I hate when I find a puzzle in a game and I just want to know where in the game I can find the hint that says how to solve it. Instead the guide sends you directly to the puzzle and gives the solution. The latest Monkey Island game has a pretty good built-in help system. It gives you vague clues at first and if you still remain stuck it finally gives you the answer.
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Trabant posted:Since we're on/adjacent to the topic: does anyone remember a story about a video game puzzle contest but the answers only made sense to the one puzzle designer? It ended up being impossible to answer and had no winners as a result. Was that something along the lines of, there was a book published that was supposed to be a real life treasure hunt with an almost literal pot of gold at the end; it was quite successful and someone ended up winning; then some grifter decided to make his own version to ride the coattails of the first and created basically what you described?
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Weatherman posted:Was that something along the lines of, there was a book published that was supposed to be a real life treasure hunt with an almost literal pot of gold at the end; it was quite successful and someone ended up winning; then some grifter decided to make his own version to ride the coattails of the first and created basically what you described? You're remembering Masquerade and Hareraiser. Here's a man with an ugly couch to explain the whole story to you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouvi-fwrfIY
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Tangentially, in middle school our teachers gave us a dedicated class, like multiple times weekly, to pore over Secrets of the Alchemist Dar to see if we could find any of the hints to find the rings that were supposedly geocached around the world. I suspect the teachers wanted to sell those rings for cash and saw us as a way to crowdsource the solutions There was no educational value to that class and we all dreaded it Killingyouguy! has a new favorite as of 15:22 on Dec 29, 2023 |
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Foisting gambling on the public disguised as book sales, gotta love it
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Weatherman posted:Was that something along the lines of, there was a book published that was supposed to be a real life treasure hunt with an almost literal pot of gold at the end; it was quite successful and someone ended up winning; then some grifter decided to make his own version to ride the coattails of the first and created basically what you described? There were a few of these style things I think, speaking of obsolete stuff. There was one where it was a big ARG and you bought packs of trading cards that had puzzles. They actually had a staff of people playing the characters online and did live events as well with live real time puzzling action. It was called perplex city I think? Iirc the whole thing was to find a cube buried somewhere in the world, and it was a 50k pound prize, or something like that? It was probably over a decade ago now, but I was really into reading about it when it was going on
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Sometimes, videos can be better than a text walkthrough. Like, if I'm trying to find the right way to do XYZ in some large, open-world game, a text walkthrough that says: quote:In the northeast corner of the map, go into the third temple., After the fourth room, take the third exit from the right. Well HOW far northeast we talking? What if I see four temples? And does this long hallway count as a "room"? In those cases, a quick video can be much more helpful to get proper visual indicators. Of course, screenshots can help, too. Best of both worlds, descriptive and visual. But nowadays, if a walkthrough isn't a bad video on YT, it's on (ugh) a Fandom wiki. And God help you trying to read that on mobile. You average about one line at a time before an ad or autoplay video (often about a completely different game) butts in on your screen real estate. At least some games ( seems to be mostly RPGs and Souls-likes) have stuff on Fextralife, which tends to be better.
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Weatherman posted:Was that something along the lines of, there was a book published that was supposed to be a real life treasure hunt with an almost literal pot of gold at the end; it was quite successful and someone ended up winning; then some grifter decided to make his own version to ride the coattails of the first and created basically what you described? Hmm, some broad strokes sound similar, others don't. For some reason I'm convinced it was less of a grift and more the puzzle designer being an utter lunatic. But I'll watch the video VVG posted and make sure -- thank you both!
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The book treasure hunt with largely unsolvable puzzles was called The Secret by Byron Preiss. There have been SA threads of goons trying to solve them. Latest thread should be this one https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3552196&pagenumber=1&perpage=40
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my turn in the barrel posted:The book treasure hunt with largely unsolvable puzzles was called The Secret by Byron Preiss. I work with a guy who is utterly obsessed with one of Preiss' treasures buried semi-locally. To the point that he's written a 60-page explanation of his solution that I can barely follow.
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This makes me ask: is it just me, or has something changed with cans over the past twenty years? It's like the rim of the can isn't shaped to fit the can opener anymore - either the metal of the can is too thick or too thin, or the can opener is just bad-spec garbage, but it's like every can opener I use just wants to chew it's way up the rim and spit the can out instead of actually open the drat thing.
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rndmnmbr posted:This makes me ask: is it just me, or has something changed with cans over the past twenty years? It's like the rim of the can isn't shaped to fit the can opener anymore - either the metal of the can is too thick or too thin, or the can opener is just bad-spec garbage, but it's like every can opener I use just wants to chew it's way up the rim and spit the can out instead of actually open the drat thing. Maybe you just need a better can opener. This is my preferred modern design-- it doesn't even have a cutting edge! I'm not sure how it works, but it somehow unseals the seam between the lid and the sides of the can. https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/starfrit-securimax-auto-can-opener-grey/10141658
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I don't know if I even have a can opener, all the cans I buy have pull tabs.
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Desert Bus posted:all you need to open a can is some solid ground E.A.B.O.H.
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And a chisel. Can't forget that, trying to open the seam with your bare hands is just going to hurt and probably not accomplish anything.
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rndmnmbr posted:This makes me ask: is it just me, or has something changed with cans over the past twenty years? It's like the rim of the can isn't shaped to fit the can opener anymore - either the metal of the can is too thick or too thin, or the can opener is just bad-spec garbage, but it's like every can opener I use just wants to chew it's way up the rim and spit the can out instead of actually open the drat thing. I haven't noticed any such problems (yet). Maybe spring for a nicer can opener.
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Apparently a spoon works too, never tried it myself though.
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Mantle posted:Maybe you just need a better can opener. This is my preferred modern design-- it doesn't even have a cutting edge! I'm not sure how it works, but it somehow unseals the seam between the lid and the sides of the can. Any can opener can do this if you cut it horizontal from the top.
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The perfect can opener was developed in 1948 and hasn't been improved on since: GWS-7030
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barbecue at the folks posted:The perfect can opener The P38 was issued starting in 1942 and is obviously better because cool foldy bit.  
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ContinuityNewTimes posted:The P38 was issued starting in 1942 and is obviously better because cool foldy bit. If you like P38, just wait until you try P51! It's bigger. That's it.
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credburn posted:Any can opener can do this if you cut it horizontal from the top.
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madeintaipei posted:If you like P38, just wait until you try P51! e; gently caress, wrong aircraft!
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