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by xoxxala 3y ago
Great game. Sadly, out of print at the moment but used copies are relatively easy to find. Definitely not for everyone, but most devs I've played it with have really enjoyed it. Fortunately, another dev friendly game, the classic Robo
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by xoxxala 3y ago
Yes. Kindle is around 65% the ebook reader market in the US. Nook is about 25%. Apple and Kobo make up the rest. Kobo is more popular in Canada and in other international territories. https://booksliced.com/books/the-ex
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by xoxxala 3y ago
You kids and your high-speed 2400 baud modems. When I was dialing up, we had 300 baud AppleCats and we liked it.
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by xoxxala 3y ago
BioWare developed the Infinity Engine, BG1 and BG2. Interplay was the publisher. Black Isle was an internal division of Interplay and box label. Black Isle developed Icewind Dale 1 & 2, and Planescape: Torment using the Infinity Engine.
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by xoxxala 3y ago
A state official delayed releasing water for firefighting efforts over a water usage dispute: https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/08/a-state-official-refused-t... This water dispute has been going on for a while. From
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by xoxxala 3y ago
In the early 90s, we had a disk replacement policy and would mail people updated floppies on request (and a $10 S&H fee). Few people took advantage of it. We then started hosting some patches on Compuserve, GEnie and Prodigy.
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by xoxxala 3y ago
I was the Compuserve rep for Interplay back in the day, and the account number (76702,1342) will be forever burned in my memory. That account was free for some areas of CIS, but not all of it (much to the chagrin of one of producers, who ra
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by xoxxala 3y ago
"The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic." - Kurt Tucholsky (usually misattributed to Joseph Stalin)
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by xoxxala 3y ago
I doubt the US Army has many options for locating DSVs.
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by xoxxala 3y ago
Bill Hammond, the Engineer Guy on youtube, has a video on the design and engineering of the aluminum can with a brief clip of someone standing on a can (around the 7-8 minute mark). https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hUhisi2FBuw
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by xoxxala 3y ago
The easiest part would be the 3d printed cartridge. There's a file on Thingiverse. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:13605
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by xoxxala 3y ago
I worked at Egghead when Windows 3.1 was released. We pushed that hard because the spiff for it was $25, iirc. My sales bonus that month was something like $2,000. (And Egghead was how I met the people that got me into software dev at Inter
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by xoxxala 3y ago
I get better results by searching Amazon via DDG, Brave or Kagi. Amazon's search, especially for books, is nearly useless by comparison.
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by xoxxala 3y ago
Dog park. We take our furry friends twice a day, see the same group of people (and dogs) plus new people (and dogs) quite often. Get outdoors, play with dogs, chat with friends and strangers. And pet plenty of cool dogs. People that go to d
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by xoxxala 3y ago
Different font than TNR. > Times New Bastard is a modified version of Nimbus Roman No. 9 L and Nimbus Sans
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by xoxxala 3y ago
It's kind of an extreme measure, but there is an extension called "Unhook" that you can use to remove recommendations, and only show your subscriptions. It has a bunch of other tweaks and has made the Youtube UI tolerable for
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by xoxxala 3y ago
Saw this at the Big Newport theater when I was 10. Scared me so much I had to pretend to go the restroom just to get a breather. A genuine classic that almost didn't happen. CinemaTyler on youtube has a series of behind the scenes vide
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by xoxxala 3y ago
I didn't like Star Trek TMP when it was released in theaters because it was slow, but have come to appreciate it over the years. There are some really beautiful shots, and the story has some depth that the later more action-y movies ar
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by xoxxala 3y ago
One of the reasons that scene works is that the only actor that knew what was coming was John Hurt. Everyone one else there was just as surprised as the audience!
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by xoxxala 3y ago
Great channel. Very informative, interesting and tasty. I also recommend it. Max Miller also just published a cookbook: https://www.amazon.com/Tasting-History-Explore-through-Cookb...
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EU decision clearing $69B Microsoft, Activision deal expected May 15(reuters.com)
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by xoxxala 4y ago
Obligatory Scott Manley video on the launch and a look at the failure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkaYPMgpvIY They did very well for their first launch. Most impressive.
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by xoxxala 4y ago
Forgotten Weapons on YouTube has a video on the Armatix iP1 "smart" pistol, the technology behind it, it's development and why it was a commercial failure.
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by xoxxala 4y ago
The Ioniq 6 does not replace the 5. In the Ioniq series, odd numbers are crossovers/SUVs and even numbers are sedans.
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by xoxxala 4y ago
My youngest son was 3 or 4 when we played Everquest together. He sat on my lap so he could see the monitor and killed snakes in front of Qeynos for 10-15 minutes a night for a few months. We constantly played console games and board games a
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by xoxxala 4y ago
When we moved into our newly built house, the USPS wasn't quite ready for us and it took a couple months for them to recognize and validate our address. Fedex and UPS had no such problem. We had to order a bunch of stuff off of Amazon,
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by xoxxala 4y ago
My wife has been a Starbucks barista for 17 years. She uses a K-cup machine at home. We had the fancy stuff but she doesn’t want to deal with that outside of work.
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by xoxxala 4y ago
There’s a few on Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=Wopr&page=1&type=things...
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by xoxxala 4y ago
Similarly, Tom Clancy was questioned by the FBI after ‘Hunt for Red October’ was released because of the technical details within the book were eerily close to classified info at the time.
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by xoxxala 4y ago
Thanks. I sort of recommend Khraniteli, the Soviet Lord of the Rings Soviet TV movie from 1991. Delightfully bizarre in small doses but a little hard to sit through the whole thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xluxT4fj2U

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