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Sagebrush posted:in class the other day i was talking with a student about pet toys and discussing material selection. i said that a rubber toy could potentially be made of silicone. image searched "silicone dog toys" to look for examples. funy tech poo poo: bad dragon really does have great SEO, all things considered.
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Sagebrush posted:in class the other day i was talking with a student about pet toys and discussing material selection. i said that a rubber toy could potentially be made of silicone. image searched "silicone dog toys" to look for examples. i did an aliexpress search for "dog toys" because the last time i did (years ago) basically the same thing happened, but they seem to have actually improved their search engine instead of making it worse??? how bizarre anyway that led to finding this  lmao
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Beeftweeter posted:i did an aliexpress search for "dog toys" because the last time i did (years ago) basically the same thing happened, but they seem to have actually improved their search engine instead of making it worse??? how bizarre perfect to take to your poker game evenings
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Sagebrush posted:at least they brought back the turtle. big fan of dancing blob too 
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jesus WEP posted:hell yes
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The Leck posted:absolutely my favorite. it has so much personality compared to the boring garbage that replaced it. There were accessibility concerns, AIUI, but goddamn were the flour sack emojis charming and expressive, compared to the soulless identical circles we have now.
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surprised Google could come up with something like that in the first place tbh
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those on demand greeting card printing appliances in department stores i can't find any reference to them now, but i distinctly remember them being very plotter-like and fun to watch
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poo poo, i remember those too now. drat
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outhole surfer posted:those on demand greeting card printing appliances in department stores
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outhole surfer posted:those on demand greeting card printing appliances in department stores Similar thing with custom dog tags, but luckily petco still has those.
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The metaverse
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other people posted:The metaverse not ringing any bells
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outhole surfer posted:those on demand greeting card printing appliances in department stores american greetings create-a-card machines they were neat to watch, but there seems to be almost no information, photos, or video of them on the modern internet. e: the only existing picture seems to be of a forgotten one in an abandoned mall: 
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May 19, 2024 15:55
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The_Franz posted:american greetings create-a-card machines tbh i don't remember these at all, and i spent a lot of time in the mid-late-90s to early aughts in malls, lol maybe they just didn't have them around where i lived
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iirc, they were around for roughly a year, then disappeared as quickly as they manifested
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The_Franz posted:iirc, they were around for roughly a year, then disappeared as quickly as they manifested there was a similar make your own business cards machine next to the one i remember in the corner of a food court. mid 90s.
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fairly recently (2018ish i guess, up until covid hit) there was a little stall in my apartment building's passthrough to fulton mall that let you make your own customized pop-out cards (think of a kid's pop-out book, just way more complex) they were extremely intricate and really cool, but also like $40+ lol. still, they seemed to do pretty good business, the stall was always pretty busy. it wasn't mechanized though, someone at the stall would make them by hand
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card machines were early 90s. maybe 93? they were plotters with swappable colors iirc. i dont think they worked with bitmaps, but more likely gcode as the plotter 'drew' your card
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the game Myth that released with a directory path bug where it would delete your c drive when you uninstalled the game
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:the game Myth that released with a directory path bug where it would delete your c drive when you uninstalled the game iirc that was only if you installed it at the root level of your drive, and what kind of weirdo does that (also myth was and still is one of my favorite games. i was a beta tester for 1 and 2, and admin on bungie.net for a bit. there are updates for it so you can run it on modern systems https://projectmagma.net/downloads/ )
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steam used to delete your home directory on linux https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671 bug report by a banned yosposer
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:the game Myth that released with a directory path bug where it would delete your c drive when you uninstalled the game CASUALTY
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Elder Postsman posted:iirc that was only if you installed it at the root level of your drive, and what kind of weirdo does that  can this run on steam deck?
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:the game Myth that released with a directory path bug where it would delete your c drive when you uninstalled the game Elder Postsman posted:iirc that was only if you installed it at the root level of your drive, and what kind of weirdo does that Myst would never do that. Stop saying this.
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also i thought it was myth 2 that did the bug and instead of just doing a fast patch bungie actually had the discs recalled and replaced entirely
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yeah it was myth 2 iirc
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Beve Stuscemi posted:
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Elder Postsman posted:iirc that was only if you installed it at the root level of your drive, and what kind of weirdo does that all sorts of old games used to dump themselves in C:\ or whatever
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Beeftweeter posted:all sorts of old games used to dump themselves in C:\ or whatever well i never did that, i had a macintosh and put everything in Macintosh HD:Games
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Elder Postsman posted:there is a linux version so probably. you'd need the myth 2 iso which is probably available from several sources its on archive.org iirc
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Elder Postsman posted:well i never did that, i had a macintosh and put everything in Macintosh HD:Games ah, well, old dos games used to do it as a matter of course e.g. wolf3d would install to C:\WOLF3D, rise of the triad to C:\ROTT etc. probably because with dos you don't really know if something's going on a floppy or hdd, and around that time windows was just a fancy dos shell that not everyone used. it wasn't until win95 at the very least that they started not doing that e: actually i'm pretty sure i even remember "doom for windows 95" installing to C:\DOOM95, although that might've been "final doom"? idr exactly, i think they even came out around the same time lol Beeftweeter fucked around with this message at 22:59 on May 19, 2024 |
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Carthag Tuek posted:its on archive.org iirc everything is on archive.org lol here's a linux-specific iso even https://archive.org/details/myth2linux
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The_Franz posted:american greetings create-a-card machines I remember these! Beeftweeter posted:tbh i don't remember these at all, and i spent a lot of time in the mid-late-90s to early aughts in malls, lol I feel like they lingered longer in the malls by me because american greetings is headquartered in cleveland, so maybe a test market with a long tail decom?
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Elder Postsman posted:there is a linux version so probably. you'd need the myth 2 iso which is probably available from several sources   i should grab mechcommander 2 again sometime but god drat i'm sure it's a pain to get running on a modern system
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Kitfox88 posted:
someone has done the work to get a beloved game working on modern boxes, you can probably find instructions if not a prebaked installer.
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outhole surfer posted:card machines were early 90s. maybe 93? i want to say 1994, because my mom's friend, who was born in 1944, had a 50th birthday, and my brother and i were playing with the machine in the store while she was picking out a real card for her
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Beeftweeter posted:ah, well, old dos games used to do it as a matter of course no, windoom and doom95 were their own things. i have a really old issue of game developer magazine somewhere where they talk about porting doom to windows with "wing", the very early predecessor of directx (i was kid and understood basically none of the technical details in it at the time, but it had "doom" in it, so…) iirc, it also had a long article with pages of source code for initializing mode-13h in dos The_Franz fucked around with this message at 02:59 on May 20, 2024 |
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Here's something I just remembered: indiglo™.
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timex still does indiglo.
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