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Peter's Evil Overlord List (1996)
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- cdbattags 8y agoThis made me chuckle. But, also, thank you for caring.
- OedipusRex 8y agoReal hero.
- twic 8y ago> 35. I will not grow a goatee. In the old days they made you look diabolic. Now they just make you look like a disaffected member of Generation X. Wow, remember the good old days when Gen X were the generation you sneered at? Whatever happened to them?
- OscarTheGrinch 8y agoBabies.
- crikli 8y ago...that are now in college. Seeing my friend’s kids posting pics in front of the same buildings I took photos in front of in the 90s always causes me to sigh, say something to my wife about how tomorrow I will be 65, and then run my fingers through hair comfortably graying.
- wglb 8y agoWait--you still have hair? Not me, other than a little.
- amyjess 8y agoHonestly, I can't wait for my friends' and relatives' kids to grow up. Why? Because once the kids are old enough to have actual conversations with, I'm probably going to have more in common with them than with their parents. There's just something about having kids that strips people of their personalities and turns them into the most boring people ever. I'm childfree, and in a lot of ways I'm still just a very big kid, and it's honestly pretty lonely now that so many people I used to hang out with when I was younger are parents now.
- sevensor 8y ago> strips people of their personalities and turns them into the most boring people ever Harsh. As a parent, I find people my own age who don't have kids to be boring. It's probably less that your friends have lost their personalities, and more that your relationships can no longer draw from the well of shared experience. For example, I have a lot of elaborate and hilarious stories revolving around poop, but I'm not going to tell them around non-parents. I've tried, but all I get is puzzled and uncomfortable looks.
- failrate 8y agoI can't eat Hershey's chocolate, because it tastes like baby vomit. Yep, I know where you're coming from.
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- larrydag 8y agoMore like teenagers now.
- acheron 8y agoBest Gen X joke is from the Simpsons: “Are you being sarcastic, dude?” “I don’t even know anymore.”
- ben509 8y agoI definitely recalled hearing many of the complaints about millennials, though ending every sentence as if it's a question is an annoying tic.
- beat 8y ago"Whatever happened to them?" says every Boomer and Millennial ever. Sigh.
- teekert 8y agoHaha, I'd love to see a movie which implements these :)
- Splognosticus 8y agoIn a similar vein there is "2500 things Mr. Welch can no longer do in an RPG". https://theglen.livejournal.com/16735.html https://theglen.livejournal.com/16735.html
- phigcch 8y agoNot to mention the 213 things Skippy is no longer allowed to do in the U.S. Army: http://skippyslist.com/list/ http://skippyslist.com/list/
- binarymax 8y agoOh this is a great flashback that I'd totally forgotten about. Thank you!
- wiredfool 8y ago"Pie does not have tentacles!" edit Ok, that was actually from some other similar guy who got into trouble with his CO for a cream pie + squid at a charity pie auction. edit the second Nope, same guy. http://skippyslist.com/2007/07/09/cephalopod-surprise/ http://skippyslist.com/2007/07/09/cephalopod-surprise/
- amyjess 8y ago> NEVER nail a stuffed bunny to a cross and put it up in front of the Battalion Headquarters sign as an “Easter Desecration.” This is made all the more disturbing by the fact that, when I was in college, I witnessed a friend's roommate actually crucify a dead rabbit and stake it out outside... somewhere around Easter. And, no, it wasn't a dead rabbit they randomly found lying around either. He and some buddies of his went Wabbit Hunting with Airsoft guns one day, and then they settled on crucifixion when they were debating what to do with their newly-acquired dead rabbit. Not so fun fact: around a decade after this, one of the guys involved in the hunting party got killed in a mass shooting. I still wonder if anyone told this story at his wake. This all happened when my friend and I were studying on his couch, by the way. It was very hard to concentrate on the physics textbook when we kept hearing the whack whack whack of his roommate nailing a rabbit to the cross on the kitchen floor. Edit: Because it's telling me I'm posting too fast, I can't reply directly to the person replying to me suggesting I'm victim-blaming Tony, so I'll post a clarification here: I'm not saying that he deserved to get killed or anything. The shooter was a despicable excuse for a person who was upset his ex-wife was moving on with her life and enjoying herself, so he killed her and almost everyone attending her party. None of the people who got shot that day deserved it in the slightest. I only mentioned he got killed in a mass shooting because it's a really fucked-up coda to an already fucked-up story. Like this story is fucked-up to begin with, and it's even more fucked-up that he got murdered. Honestly, if I was at his wake, I would've told the story not to make him out to be a bad guy or something, but to add some levity and remind everyone what a... shall we say, dynamic guy he was.
- undecisive 8y ago> 99. Any data file of crucial importance will be padded to 1.45Mb in size I absolutely love this one, if for no other reason than it has no practical parallels today. (In case anyone is unfamiliar, 1.44Mb was the size of a standard floppy disk, so 1.45Mb would have been more difficult to copy to disk and run away with.)
- arethuza 8y agoWhat about having files in a 10GB TrueCrypt file - with the documentation for hidden volumes also being in the same place?
- sbr464 8y agoand when found, the 200+ character encryption keys are screenshots, forcing you to type them in.
- arthurcolle 8y agoThankfully OCR was researched in our timeline's tech tree
- jcranmer 8y agoFor extra fun, the "standard" 3½" floppy disk (the last major floppy disk) does not contain 1,440,000 bytes or 1,509,949 (i.e., 1.44MiB). It contains 1,474,560 bytes, or 2,880 512-byte sectors. So a 1.45MB file would actually fit on a floppy, since disk utility programs invariably use the decimal-based number for K,M,G,T sizing.
- 0x0 8y agoIf I remember correctly, an MS-DOS formatted 1.44mb 3.5" floppy usually has 1,457,664 free bytes for user files?
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- _the_inflator 8y agoThx for this gem. Haven't had a look at this website for 20 years, which was a newsgroup phenomenon back then.
- acheron 8y agoJust a week or so ago I found a printout I had made of one of these lists in 1997 (had a date printed at the bottom of the page). Good times. I think today’s equivalent of this list is TVTropes?
- Sharlin 8y ago> I think today’s equivalent of this list is TVTropes? Pretty much. Indeed, most of the entries on the list probably have an associated named trope.
- tangent128 8y agoThey do, and have been helpfully annotated: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilOverlordList https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilOverlordList
- Sharlin 8y agoHa, thought so! For some reason I didn’t find it when I googled.
- statictype 8y agoI remember reading this over a 33k modem and a dial up link. I sometimes miss those early days of the internet where everyone had their own geocities page.
- rossdavidh 8y agoOuch: "Finally, to keep my subjects permanently locked in a mindless trance, I will provide each of them with free unlimited Internet access."
- jalgos_eminator 8y agoYeah, that one seemed particularly prophetic. Seeing as this was written in 1996, was that a real concern then? I'm too young to have known the early internet.
- vkou 8y agoMost people's internet access was limited to either their university, or a shitty, time-limited, low-bandwidth dial-up connection that blocked your household phoneline.
- weinzierl 8y ago"This page has been blocked by your network operator." Oh, come on, really!? The internet that is to come is going to be a very unfunny place.
- dredmorbius 8y agoClearly, you're working for an evil overlord.
- kemayo 8y agoIf you enjoy the Evil Overlord List, and are in the mood for a diversion into fiction, A Practical Guide To Evil plays to a very similar theme. https://practicalguidetoevil.wordpress.com/ https://practicalguidetoevil.wordpress.com/
- armagon 8y ago> 109. I will see to it that plucky young lads/lasses in strange clothes and with the accent of an outlander shall REGULARLY climb some monument in the main square of my capital and denounce me, claim to know the secret of my power, rally the masses to rebellion, etc. That way, the citizens will be jaded in case the real thing ever comes along. [From 'Cell Block A'] Makes me think, as an evil overlord, I'd do something like: "I will allow the people to have a democracy, and elect a new government every few years. I will rule from behind the scenes, with my henchmen acting as civil servants. If the people are upset about my rule, they can always be reminded to elect a new government (which will, of course, be powerless to do anything about me)."
- lukifer 8y ago> If the people are upset about my rule, they can always be reminded to elect a new government (which will, of course, be powerless to do anything about me) This is paralleled/satirized in the British comedy "Yes, Minister", wherein an idealistic politician attempts to enact his campaign agenda alongside a cynical (and unelected) bureaucrat, who holds all the political capital, and tediously educates the new Minister on how power actually works in practice. It's also mirrored in the original concept of the "Deep State" (before the term was heavily co-opted by conspiracy theorists): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state
- progval 8y ago> 65. If I must have computer systems with publically available terminals, the maps they display of my complex will have a room clearly marked as the Main Control Room. That room will be the Execution Chamber. The actual main control room will be marked as Sewage Overflow Containment. Another rule: I will not brag about my overlord list (which contains critical information) on the Internet