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3D Megadoodoo posted:case in point: Fallout New Vegas had Chinandolor Boing in the cast and they gave him exactly zero good lines??!? The heck did they think they were making - Friends? what in the god drat
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Dec 3, 2020 01:01
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“could I be any more crucified?”
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:“could I be any more crucified?” yeah you know that 100% would've made the game better!
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chamandla bong
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Actually, I just realized there are no well-written (as in dialogue) characters in Fallout New Vegas, and the ones they put most effort into range from lethally bland to infernally bad (Ulysses).
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Silver Alicorn posted:google wave could have been Slack if they had known what to do with it
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Actually, I just realized there are no well-written (as in dialogue) characters in Fallout New Vegas, and the ones they put most effort into range from lethally bland to infernally bad (Ulysses). the think tank
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jesus WEP posted:the think tank I forgot about the Think Thank. They're OK apart from the bit where they literally read out the bits in the script that are supposed to be sound effects which is REALLY weird.
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axolotl farmer posted:could have been Slack if they had known what to do with it but would slack pass the toothbrush test???
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Dec 3, 2020 20:50
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wasn’t this like seven hundred loving dollars
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Dec 3, 2020 21:44
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it was cursed
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Dec 14, 2020 00:11
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:back in the day i really wanted a sony picturebook. it was like the coolest thing to me at the time nipple mouse plus decent keyboard... sign me up.
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Dec 14, 2020 02:16
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just remembered the whole OLPC thing and nerds climbing over each other to buy one.. weren’t they ridiculously underpowered and got irrelevant immediately when netbooks started appearing ?
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Dec 14, 2020 17:53
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you just said you remembered the whole thing
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Dec 14, 2020 17:57
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poo poo
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Crime on a Dime posted:you just said you remembered the whole thing bazooper
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Dec 14, 2020 18:32
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netbooks were based on intel atom lmao I remember buying into that promise
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Dec 14, 2020 18:47
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I’m tempted to buy a netbook with an ssd and see if it’s still usable, but I already have a 12” MacBook so idk
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Dec 14, 2020 18:52
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Theoretically it should be possible to make decent/cheap netbooks now, but intel's low-end cpus are complete garbage that stagnated 10 years ago and I guess it's generally too hard to get phone chipsets to run stuff other than android. The lack of demand is also a problem, obviously, and the few companies that are making 8/10" laptops aren't interested in bothering with the low end.
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Dec 14, 2020 19:36
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Dec 14, 2020 19:52
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Netbooks use-case got eaten by Intel's Celeron lineup (both Chromebooks and Windows), internet-connected smartphones, and tablets all around the same time. Windows 10 on ARM might make netbooks feasible again in a year or two assuming they don't go back to those god-awful shrunken keyboards.
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klosterdev posted:Windows 10 on ARM might make netbooks feasible again in a year or two surely they'll get it right this time after failing utterly the previous 3 [4?] attempts
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Dec 14, 2020 20:06
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my old netbook was my tiny low-res (1024x600 lmao) little king
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Dec 14, 2020 20:08
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:my old netbook was my tiny low-res (1024x600 lmao) little king I made a hackintosh out of a refurb dell netbook [deeply shameful I know] and the screen was so small some of the system control panels didn't fit
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Dec 14, 2020 20:22
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Ruffian Price posted:netbooks
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Dec 14, 2020 20:22
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qirex posted:surely they'll get it right this time after failing utterly the previous 3 [4?] attempts Windows Store is basically SOL at this point, so long as they let people install their own .exe's, they work reliably, and the performance isn't trash it might actually work this time.
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Dec 14, 2020 20:25
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qirex posted:I made a hackintosh out of a refurb dell netbook [deeply shameful I know] and the screen was so small some of the system control panels didn't fit i was doin malware analysis back when these were around and we got a requirement on some Mac stuff, except we didn’t have any Mac stuff. instead of using our considerable budget to buy the Mac stuff, we bought some dell netbooks (a10?) to hackintosh them (which is deeply stupid on its own, but to try and do some RE? lol). extra funny because the purchase process took so long that dell had updated the whole line and we couldn't get the hackintosh going. so the little underpowered pieces of poo poo went into storage until we did inventory and found they all disappeared. spooooooky
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Dec 14, 2020 21:14
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Ruffian Price posted:netbooks were based on intel atom lmao the later atoms where they got hyper threading and more cores are pretty decent but they were pretty dead by that point
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Dec 14, 2020 21:25
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mystes posted:Theoretically it should be possible to make decent/cheap netbooks now, but intel's low-end cpus are complete garbage that stagnated 10 years ago and I guess it's generally too hard to get phone chipsets to run stuff other than android. The lack of demand is also a problem, obviously, and the few companies that are making 8/10" laptops aren't interested in bothering with the low end. in many ways the original atom series was the last really interesting intel cpus. they were really incredibly slow, but they did run in a minuscule power envelope with some really substantial engineering effort going into it (as it was also the phone play). what they have *now* is by comparison unmitigated trash, though at least aimed at a segment that exists. for arm socs the problem is the usual, you don't get so much drivers as you get a hacked up five year old linux kernel which must not be disturbed in any way or the thing wont run right.
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Dec 14, 2020 22:37
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I think linux ARM support is going to rapidly improve with AWS investing heavily in ARM hardware https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-m6g-ec2-instances-powered-by-arm-based-aws-graviton2/
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Dec 14, 2020 22:49
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Qwikster did we do that one already? I tried checking but search thread function is broken and I'm loling at it regardless
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Dec 14, 2020 23:06
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netbooks fit into your baggy pants cargo pockets, so were pretty good note-taking machines for the sort of student that just wanted to rock up to class without having to carry a bag around
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Dec 15, 2020 00:25
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Jabor posted:netbooks fit into your baggy pants cargo pockets that is terrible
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Dec 15, 2020 02:00
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netbooks died because people who bought them were the kinds of people who continually want to pay less for something so a $350 laptop sounded great until they realized why it was $350 and then stopped buying them things like the windows vista version was artifically limited to 3 programs running at a time.
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Dec 15, 2020 02:00
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Ik trying to think when I last had thigh pockets. I know I wore convertible cargo troushorts to work like maybe 2003-2004? I don't I ever unzipped the legs though.
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If you want a modern netbook you do have some options that come close. If price is your main concern, there is the Pinebook from PINE64 which is an ARM SBC crammed into a laptop chassis. The base model is only $99 with an 11" screen while the "Pro" model is $199 with a 13" screen and significantly upgraded specs otherwise (you can swap the Pro mainboard into the base model which I would highly suggest if you want to use it more than occasionally/as a toy). If the form factor is your main concern, you can probably find something made by GPD that will suit your needs, though not very cheaply (their stuff usually starts around $500 with Atom or Y-series Core processors and integrated graphics only). That said, I don't think you can get any computer today that combines the tiny form factor (with a keyboard) and the low price of the original netbooks, though that's probably because those machines turned out to be bad compromises compared to smartphones and tablets which now largely make up the low end of the "(semi-)portable Internet browsing device" market.
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