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Waste of Breath posted:drat I remember checking books like this out from the library as a kid that would let you program an adventure game. I didn't really understand what they were (too young) so I just read the descriptions and imagined what it must be like to play. I checked those books out multiple times lmao. I did that same thing. I would actually write it all into QBasic, but there was some step or something that made it function different than BASIC or whatever. I would spend hours just to get what I imagine now must be a really simple to resolve error but thwarted my every attempt to play these awesome PC games that I had to just interpret in my head from reading it 
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I do sometimes wonder, when I want to listen to a song on Spotify and I see five different remasters from different years of the same song, and they all kind of sound exactly the same to my ears but usually the total length of the song is a second longer or shorter, if I'm listening to the best version of the song. Because my ears can't tell but just knowing that I might be hearing the inferior version is frustrating.
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May 28, 2023 21:59
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My Metal Gear Solid vinyl is pretty badass. It's semi transparent!
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May 28, 2023 22:15
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Does Officer Mac have any jurisdiction in the kingdom of the Burger King? Sorry I'm sure this fuckin joke was played out in 1985
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Quake 1 would play without the game CD in, but it would play the audio tracks to whatever CD was inserted. For months I could not understand why the soundtrack to Quake was Fleetwood Mac's Rumors
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Jul 1, 2023 21:36
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Lowen SoDium posted:That must have been one hell of a contrast from what was intended. It was the first time my father showed any interest in the pewpews I was playing.
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Myth II was the best product Bungie ever made, even considering it would delete your hard drive.
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Armacham posted:Anyone else have this bad boy? No, because the day I got Baldur's Gate was the same day my dad bought our first DVD ROM. Only one disc for us, baby 
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Explosionface posted:I respect your opinion, but I'm going to have to stick with Marathon 2 myself more like Durandull e: okay, I put it just slightly below Doom II but perhaps it is only because of Doom II's popularity and modability
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Jul 2, 2023 14:22
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Cat Hassler posted:I’ve got a lot of the old boxed games with discs and manuals. That was a cool time - stop by Egghead Software to buy a new game based on the box! Nice! I collect big box-era pc games. I've been trying to get hold of a NOLF big box; I've got the sequel in pretty good condition. We had a Goodwill nearby that specializes in electronics stuff so for a while it was a gold mine of these things, but they recently got wise to the value and cranked the price up so goddamn high.
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I guess I'll jump in with my whole collection. It's normally organized but I went through a bad breakup and it's been a mess since.   A lot of the boxes are kinda lovely but I replace them with better ones as I get them. Unfortunately in trying to collect old big box PC games, a lot of them come from "this box of poo poo I found in my dad's attic" and mold and such wrecks a lot of them.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I understand keeping game boxes (at least if they have games in them) on shelves because where else would you store them - I keep books and movies on shelves too. But "displaying" a boxed computer (or a computer box) just strikes me as being exactly the same as using the box my coffee maker came in as some sort of decoration. They are kind of a decoration. But every person that sees it for the first time is intrigued by it. The boxes aren't only decorative; most of them contain all the stuff that it came with originally. Those old maps, instruction booklets, little trinkets that come with it, it's all super neat. And these are hard to find, now; I don't collect DVD boxes or modern boxes because they're all uniform and plain. There weren't standard sizes for these boxes, so they came in all kinds of awful, bulky, unwieldy shapes that were a hassle to put on store shelves.
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My copy of Alpha Centauri isn't in great condition but it is still shrink wrapped. The General posted:How hilarious is Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire?  I'll have to check out some undoubtedly hilarious streams of it. I did kinda chuckle that the host is named Egregious Philbin.
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Civilization: Beyond Earth goes in one of those "This isn't what we wanted" categories like Duke Nukem Forever or Fallout 76.
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I'm Okay; You're a Robot I remember playing as Gaia and befriending and weaponizing the mind worms. What a cool game that was.
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OwlFancier posted:The alternative would be making up more letters after Z or making the alphabet a kind of inverse-hexadecimal and make 0 the 27th letter. We went from X to Millenial, we don't have to follow the drat alphabet. I find this very upsetting. Alpha is the first thing. What does this mean? What does that suggest? This is an enormous burden for the next generation to carry.
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My grandmother just turned 90, and she keeps making jokes about how my grandfather isn't doing so well, and if I knew any "foxy young men maybe in their 70s or 80s."
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I knew a guy who owned a bunch of dollar stores, and he said he went from perpetually going out of business to being fuckin loaded for life when the colored ketchup fad failed, because nobody wants to buy that poo poo at a grocery store but he couldn't keep them on the shelves at Dingo Dollar or whatever the gently caress his stores were called
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Desert Bus posted:The Razr was the best phone I ever owned. I worked for T-Mobile from 2004-2008 and the RAZR was by far the worst phone we ever sold, and the absolute most successful. The phone was technically a complete piece of poo poo; it was fragile as gently caress, the screen resolution was garbage, to compensate for its super thin thing it was half as powerful as anything comparably expensive. It was prone to randomly breaking for all sorts of reasons (temperature was a real problem; if you happened to bring it to a place that's too cold or to a place that's too warm it would cause a weird effect that made it look like the screen was leaking). When your RAZR randomly broke, it was hard to get T-Mobile to replace it, because the "liquid damage indicators" in the RAZR would just fuckin trigger for some reason, even when there was no actual water damage, so out of the thousands and thousands of people who needed to have their RAZRs replaced every single day, a ton of them were getting hit with huge restocking fees. In the summer after the RAZR launched, the call volume in the call centers went up so high that we had to have a huge nationwide hiring thing to keep up with the demand. The RAZR was on every metric a awful awful awful phone that performed lovely, broke easily, but until the iPhone it was the phone everyone had to have. From a consumer standpoint I think the RAZR was just the cool trendy phone, but inside the industry it was a goddamn nightmare. Everything we did was suddenly focused around fixing RAZR issues instead of all the other stuff we normally did during the day. Anecdotally, when the RAZR was announced we all dreaded it because Motorola, especially at that time, was known for making really really really fragile phones that were full of problems and prone to breaking, and hearing they were making "the world's most fragile phone" just made us all dread it. Sometimes Motorola would come in and give every "high performing representative" gifts, of which I was one, and every time they were things that just hilariously broke. They gave me a really nice pen that immediately started leaking. They gave us graphing calculators (we sure didn't have a need for graphing calculators) that snapped into two if they were dropped. They gave me a squeeze doll thing once that exploded and its fuckin weird neon guts went all over me while I was on a call. credburn has a new favorite as of 23:18 on Dec 11, 2023 |
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Sir Mat of Dickie posted:It was nice to close the phone to hang up. I hate fiddling for the end call button. When I was a kid, I was once told it was rude to hang the phone up like that, and it caused a lifelong habit of always hanging up by pressing gently down on the thingy with my finger first. I never got to experience the feeling of hanging up the phone properly without it being accompanied by crippling guilt
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Anyone remember what that quote was, some news report that talked about the PSP, its wifi capabilities, and how high school students were "swimming in a sea of wifi pornography" or something like that?
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 I don't know how this image got so compressed. I'd take a new picture but my phone got run over and the camera doesn't work anymore. I don't have the RAM anymore but I do have this box, which was a Christmas gift from like 1992, and it allowed our Tandy 386 to finally play the game I'd gotten the previous Christmas, El-Fish
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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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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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Paul Bunyan about to take a huge bong rip
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Are NFTs a thing still?
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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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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! Oh wow, I've never seen one of these. Haha I immediately hate the screen. The sleek offset border around it would cause me constantly feel like I need to correct the orientation.
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Finally checking out The Sopranos.
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With Winamp you could set a color to be the visualizer screen, so if you chose, say, black, then any black pixel on your screen contributed to the visual effects.
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Cojawfee posted:I still think Spotify just straight up does not shuffle. There's no other explanation why, when I pick any song in a genre, it will then play the exact same songs in that genre in the exact same order every time. If I play, say, the third song in the usual playlist of similar songs, it will still play that song third when the original song ends. I've picked a song, it goes to the similar songs playlist, then I pick a different song in that genre and then plays the exact same songs it just played. Spotify absolutely has a weird shuffling algorithm that is more complex than "play them in a random order." I only have one playlist, I pretty much just listen to my playlist of about 2000 songs. There are 2000 songs, and yet I will hear at least three or four of the same songs every single day, despite it being highly improbably if it were truly shuffled.
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When I worked at T-Mobile we sold HTC products and a lot of customers would ask what it stood for. I'd say "Hi-Tech Corporation" and they'd laugh every time. What a boring rear end name.
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Dick Trauma posted:https://twitter.com/astromarkmarley/status/1787970965462544874 Is the, "in a meeting" thing related to an actual thing? Is that why this thing was brought out, or is that just... made up narrative to support a random post? I'm genuinely curious if this was produced because it was needed or if someone just wanted to show it 
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