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Keiya posted:Even in the US the genre is alive and well, honestly. Go look at the jewelcase-sized games in a big store some time, I can pretty much guarantee you'll find at least two or three of 'em. They're just marketed towards women now, so they don't count. those are hidden object games. they don't count because they're a completely different genre, and they're also mostly complete shovelware, not because they're targeted at women. e: if there's actual point-and-clicks being released to the shovelware bins please correct me because I'm going to loving poo poo with happiness.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:those are hidden object games. they don't count because they're a completely different genre, and they're also mostly complete shovelware, not because they're targeted at women. HOGs are more like Eye Spy style puzzles if anything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YslEmZeuALA
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C.M. Kruger posted:HOGs are more like Eye Spy style puzzles if anything. The reality of a Mad Max futureline isn't wicked V8s and monster trucks. It's old blokes who know how to slowly roll coal over the wastelands. Also you can hear the blacklung coughs in a few scenes.
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Humphreys posted:The reality of a Mad Max futureline isn't wicked V8s and monster trucks. It's old blokes who know how to slowly roll coal over the wastelands. Since we ALL know how clean a fuel coal is.
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C.M. Kruger posted:HOGs are more like Eye Spy style puzzles if anything. Cool video, thanks.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indrema How I had I never heard of this (never released) console before?
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Randaconda posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indrema Nice I never heard about this either. Sounds a lot like OUYA.
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tone dialers: the original redbox too poor to afford a TOUCH TONE PHONE? no worries! this device will play the tones into your old rear end phone!
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The only use I ever saw for a tone dialer is you could use them in old bt phoneboxes to call for free.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U70BWviOXEQ
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Ha, I just watched that. I find these videos oddly satisfying.
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Caganer posted:too poor to afford a TOUCH TONE PHONE? no worries! this device will play the tones into your old rear end phone! The opposite were phones with touchtone keypads that had a switch to make the buttons send a chain of pulses to emulate a rotary dialer. My best friend from school had one at his house, because his father refused to pay an extra dollar a month for touch-tone service. Phanatic has a new favorite as of 04:14 on Mar 5, 2018 |
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Jesus, look at all that lead. I wonder how he decided to get rid of it all.
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this is my kind of asmr poo poo. goddamn.
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on 3d printer chat: im a 3d artist who's currently going to an art school and i can say with certainty that 3d printing and other forms of rapid prototyping have fucken revolutionized the art world (especially in regards to sculpture as a medium)
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Kanine posted:on 3d printer chat: Good luck getting eaten.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Good luck getting eaten. what does this mean??
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Kanine posted:what does this mean?? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Mallet_du_Pan
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Arivia posted:this is my kind of asmr poo poo. goddamn. This is mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvTSLRab7Kg
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Who's first to launch a retro-Cherry keyboard kickstarter?
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E: sorry didn't see it's the same video as you didn't quote it
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That was the video I was replying to. 
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I didn’t even know Cherry was that old. That’s pretty cool.
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GotLag posted:Surely if anything's obsolete there it's Toto's Africa
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spog posted:Ditto: I have a few of these in different sizes and they all work very well. 3xAA for the car, 2xAA for taking the bins out, 1xAAA pocket carry and they are all as bright as gently caress and cheap enough not to worry about. This is from approximately a million pages back, but drat if you didn't post my thoughts word for word.
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Here's a nice bit of very obsolete technology. Modular electronic modules from the 50s, essentially tiny circuit boards with a few discrete components each which were then stacked and connected into a sort of proto-IC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhuuOWteelc
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Not what I would call obsolete, since it's still very useful to me, but in the interests of a thread where people reminisce about old cell phones (I'm old enough to remember a time of no cell phones)... Please indulge this rambling post. I don't know who else to share this with. I'm a musician, and all my master tracks from 2000 to 2016 were done on an XP machine running software that stopped being updated in 2003 or so. Said software begrudgingly runs on Windows 7 with some jiggery pokery, and just won't install at all on the one machine still running in the house with Windows 10 on it. As such, I haven't been able to make music the way I was used to, as my old machines have died and I've been left with using whatever the latest quintuple core or whatever hotness my husband buys. They're blazing fast at his software, but won't even run mine. Yeah I could learn to use newer, better software, but I'm old and stuck in my ways. I literally have muscle memory in my wrist for where to point/drag/click, you guys get that, right? Today my husband came home with a laptop he saw sitting in someone's garbage. We figured it was a brick, but we'd scavenge it for parts (we make art out of junk). It actually had the power supply and everything, so I jokingly said "try firing it up, maybe it'll run XP and I can make music again." I came drat close to tears seeing that XP startup screen. And it's not password protected (wtf?). So yeah, I just got my groove back with a laptop someone thought was so obselete they should just throw it in the trash. Fake edit: hahaha, no wonder the browser couldn't figure YouTube, its clock was apparently convinced it was 2005 and the browser was all "I dunno what this YouTube thing is". Yessssss, that's just the era I want in a machine
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What kind of program was it, if I may ask? Post in the music threads once you've got some stuff done.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Fake edit: hahaha, no wonder the browser couldn't figure YouTube, its clock was apparently convinced it was 2005 and the browser was all "I dunno what this YouTube thing is". Yessssss, that's just the era I want in a machine It's not the greatest idea to go browsing the web on software that old. The very last security updates for XP were released in 2014, and chances are very good that this machine isn't even THAT up to date. Keep using it on the Internet and it's only a matter of time before it's part of someone's botnet and/or verrrrrrry slowly mining bitcoins for them.
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Probably won't mine bitcoins on them as most chains require a 64-bit architecture. But yeah, still, don't really bring it online. And if you care to use it for much longer, clone the hard drive to a SSD, because otherwise it's 10+ years old and hitting MTBF.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:What kind of program was it, if I may ask? From their description of the specifics, I'm gonna say Pre-Sony Acid/SoundForge? Edit: Hooooooooo donkey was I wrong. Clockwork Sputnik has a new favorite as of 02:55 on Mar 19, 2018 |
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Grand Prize Winner posted:What kind of program was it, if I may ask? Well, originally In 1998 I started making music with a PlayStation "game" called MTV Music Generator. This was for the original PS, not the PS One, the OG poo poo. I pushed that poo poo as far as it could go, which is kinda my MO as a visual artist: pushing the limits of what I can do with crap I find, not buy. MTV MG got ported to PC, and they added a bunch of features that made it a jillion times more robust (but no less flakey, and there was no owners manual to speak of, I had to figure it out). My first three albums were done almost entirely with that. (Shameless plug: go to khate.bandcamp.com, "Fig 3" and "Doxology" are examples of what could be done) Around 2000, I was lamenting to a co-worker that my poo poo could really use some production stuff, just tweaking the levels and adding effects, and he burned me a copy of Cool Edit Pro. Again, I just kinda taught myself how to use it, and it was my workhorse for over a decade. Started with CEP2000; CEP 2.0 was a nice upgrade, never cared for CEP 2.1. Then Syntrillium got bought by Adobe and it's what's now known as Audition. I tried Audition, but they moved poo poo around (plus it didn't have all my plugins that were tediously imported in vst wrappers) so this old grey mare said "feh" and never adopted it. I want my old sea-foam green waveforms and shortcuts, dammit. So I kept flogging my tower I built in 2001, Devastator, that ran all this old poo poo, and when he died, so did a lot of my musical creativity. His successor, Vanguard, would run CEP (albeit very squirrelly), but he died two years ago. And my husbands machine won't run either. So that's why I'm gushing on an Internet forum about finding an XP laptop in the trash, thanks for listening
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Sorry for the double post, but wanted to keep this reply separate: Thanks for the heads up on keeping the new girl* offline. Will do. (No worries, I'm posting this from a lovely handmedown iPad that doesn't even render animated gifs in PYF funny pics; have I mentioned my love of using free old crap?) *suggestions on names are welcome, I name all my computers, cars, and other major appliances JacquelineDempsey has a new favorite as of 03:19 on Mar 19, 2018 |
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Can't you just run a VM instead of running some janky POS laptop that'll die in 6 mo anyway?
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What was it, an unpatched XP system is compromised in, literally,seconds?
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Pham Nuwen posted:Can't you just run a VM instead of running some janky POS laptop that'll die in 6 mo anyway? Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own:: JacD: A Crappy Laptop of One's Own JacquelineDempsey has a new favorite as of 03:40 on Mar 19, 2018 |
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Johnny Aztec posted:What was it, an unpatched XP system is compromised in, literally,seconds? Sounds about right. No this isn't just an excuse to post a Vinesauce Joel video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9DST-6jIBU&hd=1
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