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Because Dr Bombay is an NFT ape nobody has heard about before while Snoop is hugely famous? Also, I can't help bit think of another Dr Bombay, a vaguely racist character invented by a Swedish/Danish Eurodance guy for one album. It spawned at least one hit in Norway when I was a teen and will thus live rent free in my brain forever. Computer viking has a new favorite as of 13:39 on Jan 12, 2024 |
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I also can't help thinking of the guy I literally mentioned.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I also can't help thinking of the guy I literally mentioned. Ah, that read like "why are they not pushing the ape as the main focus", since I don't expect to hear about that specific sin against music outside our dark corner of the continent.
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Computer viking posted:Ah, that read like "why are they not pushing the ape as the main focus", since I don't expect to hear about that specific sin against music outside our dark corner of the continent. Calcutta (Taxi Taxi Taxi) peaked at #31 on Eurochart. e: What the heck lmao? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu4-wjV5dpQ 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 14:08 on Jan 12, 2024 |
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Calcutta (Taxi Taxi Taxi) peaked at #31 on Eurochart. It did? Ouch. But also good on him I guess, I had always though he only really existed in the nordics. E: that's certainly a thing Computer viking has a new favorite as of 19:40 on Jan 12, 2024 |
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lmaoquote:He began as a country singer called Johnny Moonshine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPpuEgAZ2rQ
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He should sue for trademark infringement, because it would be funny.
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# ? Jan 12, 2024 22:58 |
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The real Dr. Bombay:
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https://twitter.com/ruralindexing/status/1748805312218284238?s=20
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# ? Jan 21, 2024 02:03 |
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I love this
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https://twitter.com/Snack_Memories/status/1749839661114249420?s=20
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# ? Jan 24, 2024 15:58 |
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The cage isn't to keep us out. It's to keep them in.
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# ? Jan 24, 2024 16:04 |
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I once had a ford with bench seats too.
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DrBouvenstein posted:The cage isn't to keep us out. Look which way the barbed wire is pointed.
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# ? Jan 24, 2024 16:19 |
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Wait, is this what Kelis was singing about?
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https://twitter.com/PulpLibrarian/status/1751327672905412822?s=20
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# ? Jan 28, 2024 01:35 |
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Ha, that train is an APT. The development project itself went about as well as you'd expect from a bleeding edge research project by British Rail in the 1980s; it did eventually produce a few prototypes but nothing good enough for routine use. On the other hand, the title is arguably right: The trains currently running the routes it was meant for are Italian-built Pendolino trains that both directly license some of the tilting tech and research from the APT, and make use of all the upgrades they made to the tracks in anticipation of the APT. In a very real sense, this is exactly how travel ended up looking in the UK. The schedules they run are apparently almost identical to what was envisioned for the APT, too; it just took a few more decades to get there than they hoped. Computer viking has a new favorite as of 02:39 on Jan 28, 2024 |
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This makes me very sad. I love Frisch’s Big Boy
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https://i.imgur.com/XgrNYtk.mp4
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# ? Jan 29, 2024 16:56 |
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Computer viking posted:Ha, that train is an APT. The development project itself went about as well as you'd expect from a bleeding edge research project by British Rail in the 1980s; it did eventually produce a few prototypes but nothing good enough for routine use. Were those the trains that made people physically ill?? And weren't the British in the 80's putting literal buses on rails?
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# ? Jan 29, 2024 17:07 |
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It's a sailboat
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# ? Jan 29, 2024 17:11 |
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Were those the trains that made people physically ill?? Tired: the trains that made people ill Wired: the beach that makes you old Red: the lemonade that kills you
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Ahh, full color at five frames a second, for 30 minutes until you drain the batteries.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Ahh, full color at five frames a second, for 30 minutes until you drain the batteries. The color palette was rather limited to the number on screen. My buddy had the TV tuner and while it worked, the colors were always weird because of that.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Ahh, full color at five frames a second, for 30 minutes until you drain the batteries. That's why you plugged it in and laid on the floor, all floors in the 90's being carpeted
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DrBouvenstein posted:Ahh, full color at five frames a second, for 30 minutes until you drain the batteries. I remember when I got my blue one for my birthday one year. Played The Lion King for a bit before school, and I was so sad when the batteries died before I even left the house.
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LifeSunDeath posted:It's a sailboat Brenda? I was wondering if it was Randy from my name is earl Dude is weirdly jacked now… and a scientologist I think
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Explosionface posted:I remember when I got my blue one for my birthday one year. Played The Lion King for a bit before school, and I was so sad when the batteries died before I even left the house. I remember both kids who had them at my school had to deal with a wild rechargeable battery arrangement - even though the rechargeable were way more expensive and lasted even less time. The game gear blew through them at an unholy rate.
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namlosh posted:Brenda? pretty sure it's him
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This is the one I mainly remember: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMBeDEF4Kjc
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Were those the trains that made people physically ill?? Yes, absolutely. Just quoting directly from wikipedia: quote:The other problem was similar to sea sickness, but in reverse. Sea sickness is caused when the body's equilibrioception system can feel movement, but inside a closed room this movement cannot be seen. On APT, one could easily see the tilting as the train entered turns, but there was no perception of this motion. The result was the same, a confusion between the visual and the equilibrioception system. The solution was almost trivial; slightly reducing the amount of tilt to be deliberately less than needed resulted in a small amount of leftover centrifugal force that was perceived by the equilibrioception system as being perfectly natural, which proved to cure the effect. As for buses on rail: Yeah. Both trains made from converted buses and buses on guideways. The latter are apparently ok, but the former led to some true trash. I haven't tried either of them; I've barely been outside London when in the UK.
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# ? Jan 30, 2024 00:03 |
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I rode a pacer, the wooden safety ladder was encouraging, very nostalgic for the buses I also rode in the mid 2000s which were made out of the same general components, because I live in a place with horrible trains and horrible buses.
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Big Mac posted:I remember both kids who had them at my school had to deal with a wild rechargeable battery arrangement - even though the rechargeable were way more expensive and lasted even less time. The game gear blew through them at an unholy rate. Fun Game Gear fact: The battery life sucked because the backlight is a tiny little fluorescent tube.
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Dewgy posted:Fun Game Gear fact: The battery life sucked because the backlight is a tiny little fluorescent tube. took six AA batteries, lasted six hours
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Dewgy posted:Fun Game Gear fact: The battery life sucked because the backlight is a tiny little fluorescent tube. Could you disable the backlight and still see the screen? If so, did that make your Game Gear portable again?
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# ? Jan 31, 2024 08:10 |
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You can also mod it to have an LED backlight.
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# ? Jan 31, 2024 08:17 |
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One guy at school had an Atari Lynx and you'd usually find him sitting on the floor wherever the hallway had a power outlet. So I guess it had a mains adapter or something? Mostly I remember the machine was loving huge compared to the Nintendo Game Boy.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:One guy at school had an Atari Lynx and you'd usually find him sitting on the floor wherever the hallway had a power outlet. So I guess it had a mains adapter or something? Cos it ATE batteries. I can confirm this. My parents bought me the AC adaptor a week after I got it cos sick of me stealing all the AAs in the house.
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I could've sworn I posted my Sega Nomad here recently, but looks like I actually didn't. So, here's the Game Gear's even more cumbersome big brother! Demonstrated with the very finest software, of course. Now, this brick doesn't actually have a built-in battery compartment and instead uses a separate battery pack that attaches to the unit (there was one that took six AA batteries and another that was just a rechargeable battery pack) so you can enjoy two or three hours of Bubsy on the go... provided you handle it carefully, because it's pretty easy to knock the battery pack loose or cause the game to crash by moving the unit around too much. I don't have either of those battery packs or any of the newer aftermarket ones because I have no intention of ever taking this beast anywhere, so I just plug in the AC adapter whenever I feel like using it.
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DMorbid posted:I could've sworn I posted my Sega Nomad here recently, but looks like I actually didn't. So, here's the Game Gear's even more cumbersome big brother! I loved my nomad. I had the battery packets. I was like I don't want to play lame versions of Sega games on the game gear I want real games. This thing ruled
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