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Pham Nuwen posted:I definitely remember in middle school (so ~1999) there was this belief that Google was only for looking up porn. Was it because Google was just indexing everything automatically with no filtering, so it became easy to find porn? Did the other search engines of the time take steps to prevent porn getting indexed? I hadn't quite gotten into computers yet so the particulars didn't really interest me. I don't remember this being a problem for Google but it definitely turned into a problem for Alta Vista. What used to be the best search engine ever started handing out porn results for basically everything after a while. Really bizarre, too.
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axolotl farmer posted:You played Dactyl Nightmare! I played this at Disney World (or something very, very similar) way back in the day. It was pretty underwhelming, but 20-odd years later it was nice to be able to remember that when I got to try out PSVR. Oh how far we've come.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I'm hoping one of you guys can remember a game for me. It was a point and click style game, and I played it in 1992 or 1993. I had remembered it as being a Blade Runner game, but apparently the only blade runner game like that came in 1997 so it could not have been that. I played it on a mac. It was definitely a dystopian future kind of thing, but I really don't remember details beyond that. Beneath A Steel Sky is likely what you're thinking of. It's also officially freeware thanks to the original developers.
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Mak0rz posted:Maybe in the UK, yeah. I'm not sure if I can expect to see them in North America. That's the Philips Laseractive, it was laserdisc based and had both Mega Drive/Genesis and TG16 modules (sold separately). Isn't the top middle the FM Towns Marty?
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The Kins posted:I believe a lot of pirated games commonly posted online were modded to be "self-booting", meaning you didn't need to put in a seperate "boot disk" first. So that's probably where you got it from. Yeah the DC did have copy protection but it was pretty thoroughly defeated, you didn’t need a modded console at all.
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Last Chance posted:anyone remember liksang.com Gonna pick up a hot new Bung product! 
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Astoundingly Ugly Baby posted:My aunt & uncle called me up today and asked if I could drop by and help move an old tv in an old house they just bought. I figured it was just wedged in somewhere difficult, which it technically was. Turned out it was a giant Sony Trinitron -the biggest one I've seen, sitting alone on the second floor. That thing must've weighed north of 300 pounds. Trinitrons were great. Almost as good as the Wega, more or less the best consumer grade tube TV ever. Almost bought a 32” for 50 bucks once. Phenomenal deal, in the sense that a free upright piano is a bargain.
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:For me, on a pc with mouse and keyboard is non-inverted, but on a console with a controller is inverted. not sure why, but that's how my brain and fingers work I guess I used to play every FPS with inverted vertical until I was in my 20s. Turok, Goldeneye, MoH, Halo, Quake, Unreal Tournament, anything. Then I played Okami for the Wii. Absolutely no loving idea how it happened, but after getting used to the camera in that game for the 60 or so hours it took to finish it, inverted vertical for FPSes just feels weird now. Oh but flight sims? Invert me up, hell yeah. Obviously. Thanks, brain.
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SLOSifl posted:Packard Bell Navigator I loved Bob as a kid. It was also kind of interesting in how setting up the “easy to use” interface was actually more complicated than just using loving Windows by itself, but on the other hand... that rear end in a top hat cat friend! 
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GIMP actually got a pretty decent UI overhaul, same with Blender.
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Vanagoon posted:I remember when rendering Toy Story in real time was seen as being some kind of computer graphics holy grail, can we do that now? I mean rendering the movie exactly as it appeared in theatres on a desktop PC? Game graphics are built on a lot of the same underlying tech, so we’ve been there for a while and improving on it. Ray tracing actually wasn’t part of Pixar’s render pipeline in Renderman until Cars, which is insane to think about. Just like video games, they’d fake everything, but you don’t have to worry about anything other than a single frame at a time when doing a movie. The big clever thing Renderman did was drop a bunch of values into a single pixel space, then run a program on the data in each one. That program’s called a shader, and graphics cards have been good enough to do full screen lighting with detail shaders like Toy Story since around the original Xbox, and got way closer in the next gen. At this point it’s just a matter of pushing enough hardware at the problem to match theater quality.
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Regular Nintendo posted:I played the most recent tomb raider on the high-end xbone on a 4k tv and it had options to "favor resolution" or "favor framerate" and the favor framerate option legit looked like a 70s tv show next to the favor resolution option. What makes me wonder is if I would've noticed that if it just defaulted to favoring framerate, or if I would've felt the same if the game just ran at low-res 30fps to begin with The recent indie horror-ish game Little Nightmares had a framerate increase on the PS4 Pro and I found it pretty jarring at first. The game has a real claymation kind of style that is sort of lost a bit when it runs so smoothly. (Still looks drat good either way though.)
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The Jack Chop Guy posted:In high school C programming class we learned that ms office Open (as in pick a file to open) windows acted the same as win explorer windows, so even though windows explorer was somehow made unavailable to students, we could just burn poo poo to disc, open the Open boxes in word and excel, navigate to source and destination folders and drag/drop between them Similar tip I learned from working at a bank that had File Explorer access cut off on our remote systems: On most computers with this restriction, nobody's bothered to remove the option to triple-click a folder in the Start menu to open it. (Because outside of this example, most people have no reason to know that option's even there.)
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Jul 22, 2019 23:25
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rndmnmbr posted:If the sound of typing drives you crazy, maybe an office job isn't for you. I’m assuming said skull crushing would be done with the Model M as well?
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Bargearse posted:I watch Modern Vintage Gamer every now and then, but his delivery always comes across like he's reading off a script, and hearing him pronounce "solder" with a silent L throws me every time. I thought MVG was kind of grating at first but he really knows his poo poo, and it turns out that carries a lot of weight for being watchable.
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quote:The company sold over 600,000 copies of SoftRAM95 at a list price of USD $79.95, GBP £60 or 170 DM. 
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Lol that thumbnail just made me realize for the first time in maybe 25 years that Doonesbury was a thing that existed Exists. Doonesbury is still going. (Sundays only for the last couple of years though.)
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rndmnmbr posted:Towards the end of my newspaper tenure, my boss got a wild hair up her rear end to send me to free InDesign training offered by the Texas Press Association. This was a spectacularly bad idea - not only could I have taught that class (and done a better job - don't loving tell me straight PDF export is bad and breaks things and I absolutely must save to Postscript and Distill from there or I make printers cry, how the gently caress about not doing business with printers using RIPs from a decade ago - I digress, but that was one of a hundred things that pissed me off that day and the memory still makes my teeth itch) but I was supremely bored and trying not to get into an argument with the teacher. wow what a badass lol
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With Tim Sweeney at the helm it almost seems like it’d be more appropriate to call it something based on ZZT, but eh. Marketing.
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Sweevo posted:So every game three times, plus every 30 year old broken miss-dump that ROM file packs insist on including for some moronic reason. If they’re in 7zip format then it doesn’t make that much of a difference. I remember a set I downloaded once had a ~3MB 7z extract to over 200MB of ROM variants thanks to hacks and variants.
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SCheeseman posted:I remember someone trying to convince me back when optical mice were getting more widespread that ball mice would always have a place in gaming because you could flick the ball when lifting from the pad. Inadvertently flicking the ball sounds like a downside to me, but I guess some people are into that.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:How do people feel about 8-Bit Guy? Not to open a can of worms but I thought his videos were decent before people over in SH/SC were saying that he didn't treat his gadgets too well. Covers some interesting topics, bit of a dingus, open carry weirdo.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Didn't some game(s) on the Sony Play Station home computer system allow you to hook up two systems (with two television sets, two copies of the game, etc.) to play head-to-head? I'm thinking Wipeout but could be dead wrong. Bushido Blade supported this too, for versus matches using the really bizarre first person mode.
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Mantle posted:I know it's not a real Model M but I tried one of the Unicomp M keyboards out of nostalgia after typing on Cherry Blues for a few years. I couldn't go back to the heavy weight of buckling springs and got actual fatigue typing on the M. Isn’t Unicomp just IBM’s keyboard manufacturing shop spun out into its own company though? It’s about as much of a Model M as you could hope for, really.
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You can usually replace that thing with a simple RCA to coax plug adapter nowadays, since most of the time you won’t have an actual cable box competing with the console for the jack on the TV. Way easier to source and a lot cheaper.
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mlnhd posted:I refuse to believe that works. It worked as recently as 14 years ago but mileage may vary apparently.  I only ever used them with CRTs to be honest, so the digital switchover wasn’t really a problem I had to think about.
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calandryll posted:When I was in high school, I was a teacher's aide for the business department. When I wasn't doing anything, I would mess around with SimCity 2000 during a typing class. This was my posture and I could type 20 times faster than anyone in the class. The teacher couldn't understand. I had an absurdly high WPM in my computer classes in high school and my teacher was extremely annoyed that I did it without ever using the home row. I’m a hunt and peck typist but I’ve been using computers since about the same time as I could read, so it works for me. They had these blue cardboard covers that were supposed to cover your hands so you had to touch type, and if you got caught sneaking a look at the keys too often you got the ultimate punishment: A black rubber cover for the keyboard that stopped you from seeing the letters. Eventually I just started asking for the black thing at the start of class so we could skip the whole “escalating penalty” rigamarole, and it had zero impact on my typing speed. Which made her even more annoyed than she already was.
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I found a ROLM coffee cup at the thrift store not too long ago, it’s pretty rad!
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credburn posted:Isn't Kompressor a goon? I found his music on Napster originally. Kompressor is M R CRACKER aka Crudbump aka HELLORBS aka DA SHARE ZONE aka Drew Toothpaste.
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HKR posted:the ps5 is x86-64, as is the xbox. at this point consoles are just a worse gaming pc Never having to deal with drivers and runtimes is admittedly a plus.
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