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by pbj1968 3y ago
Once people know something is possible with video games, they tend to imitate it fairly well across platforms. I like to use Street Fighter 2 as an example… good ports on PCE, SNES, Genesis.. and surprisingly decent bootlegs on NES and oth
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In the UK, it’s possible to rent small castles. I’ve never felt more secure in my life. The stairs on the staircase were huge and would have slowed down anyone, particularly people of the average height at the time. You really contemplat
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by pbj1968 3y ago
Anyone bitching about USB does not remember the horrors of serial ports. My favorite cables were the ones where the connector housing metal was so soft it was actually indeed possible to plug them in upside down and bend all your pins. Sp
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About 250 years
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Connect the dots…
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I’ve been tested for a similar product, these things have been around in various forms for many years now. The results were I was too hopeless a case for any real benefit. I’m also skeptical, as a colorblind man, when the “before” and “aft
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by pbj1968 3y ago
Nearly got me fired from a graphic design job when they figured out I couldn’t see red or green. After two years. (I had a cheat sheet) :)
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Thought this was about a cure for color blindness and now I’m disappointed
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My elevator takes almost a minute to go from the first floor to the second floor. I guess I have a slow one.
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by pbj1968 3y ago
My mistake, it was Hannibal published in 1999. “Mapp had inherited her grandmother’s skillet and used it often. It had a glassy black surface that no soap ever touched. Starling put it in front of her on the table.” I read the series long a
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by pbj1968 3y ago
I blame the novel Silence of the Lambs. It has some weird aside where it mentions that soap never touches her cast iron pan. So the pretension has existed long before Alton Brown showed up.
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And here’s the third bucket - can’t see the forest for the semantic trees.
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Because they are still sources of income so you’re paying a premium. I did chuckle that none of the other responses mentioned this, but the new business model on them is to run them on location a couple of years and then resell it to a hom
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by pbj1968 3y ago
Yeah, I watched a 45 minute video and listened to an hour podcast arguing the same.
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Who the hell consumes milk anymore?
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by pbj1968 3y ago
Can it run Gauntlet Legends 100% in MAME?
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by pbj1968 3y ago
And I was called a racist 25 years ago when I said, “like, our engineering school is, like, crawling with Chinese nationals.” We said like a lot on the 90s.
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They will convert at precisely the moment it makes economic sense.
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What killed Fark was the founder ran for office and we all found out what a terrible person he is. It’s still fun to visit that ghost town and look at the tombstones occasionally.
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Yeah, well, the Vietnamese American population in my city can’t get enough of it. And, yes, we’ve all seen that documentary on Netflix, too.
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Maybe what we need is a fan to cool down the fan.
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by pbj1968 3y ago
I can’t believe the author wrote an entire article about neopets and refused to install a free browser downloaded in seconds that would work with it.
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Now fix decimate. :)
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There’s a particularly hilarious bridge to nowhere in St. Thomas, USVI. I think they’re around 30 years working on it. https://stthomassource.com/content/2019/03/29/bridge-to-nowh...
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Or you just shut off the lizard brain and don’t think about your coworkers that way.
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Russian space program started with killing a bunch of cosmonauts they pretended never existed…
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by pbj1968 3y ago
Every consulting experience ever: They all work at “top” firms and have “elite” educations. All of them. Seeing it in this thread. After we sign the contract, “the problem is far, far greater than we were led to believe, and the solution
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by pbj1968 3y ago
Ah yes, someone else noticed that the only personal example the author could provide was his time at Yale.
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Conan has been cringe and terrible since he got a TV show. He wrote a few decent Simpsons episodes.
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by pbj1968 3y ago
Yes, and it used to be thousands. Even recently.

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