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Jan 11, 2023 04:21
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WilWheaton posted:8 year old me was OBSESSED with coconut monkey i read a satirical article once by coconut monkey about a fictional game called Gravy Trader and it is the hardest I've ever laughed at written word in my life; i wouldn't dare try to read it again because i'm sure its nowhere near as good as my memory of it but god drat it was funny as hell at the time
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Jan 11, 2023 04:23
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git apologist posted:hell yeah. how good were those massive detailed ads with a whole computer stores catalog in the back pages. i used to pore over those I remember there was an ad they ran in the back of like every issue with a big picture of a woman with a server rack in the background and the text said, "NOW THAT'S A GREAT RACK!" and I spent a lot of time as an 11-year old trying to figure out if there was a joke there and why the woman was so prominent. There was also an ad for a dongle-less PCMCIA Ethernet card that had a picture of Michelangelo's David statue with the headline "BECAUSE THINGS THAT STICK OUT GET BUSTED" that at the time I thought MIGHT have been a penis joke but wasn't quite sure.
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Jan 11, 2023 04:53
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nudgenudgetilt posted:electronics boutique still exists in australia. i think. haven't deliberately been to one in at least 15 years
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Jan 11, 2023 07:48
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yeah eb games is the place you go to pay nearly full price for secondhand games, if you're into that
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Jan 11, 2023 09:22
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Hed posted:Funny tech poo poo: paper magazines trying to figure out how to do multimedia: some reviews of hardware or how-tos sent on a CD-ROM with copies of the article and maybe movies / screen shares. Apple’s develop magazine launched in 1990, came with a dual-format HFS/ProDOS CD-ROM and it was awesome—it was basically all the documentation, sample code, tech notes, and everything else you could ever ask for, all in the form of HyperCard stacks and DocViewer books that were basically equivalent to PDFs (my coworker for the past couple decades wrote DocViewer in the late 1980s) it and MacAddict (with its cover CDs full of demos and new shareware and icons and Kaleidoscope themes) were about the only version of “magazines doing multimedia” that I think really worked
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Jan 11, 2023 09:35
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpKxtTPQ1Q8
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Jan 11, 2023 10:04
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Kitfox88 posted:playing they hunger Hell yes. Time to fire up hl again
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Jan 11, 2023 11:34
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Buck Turgidson posted:Hell yes. Time to fire up hl again apparently there's an effort to remake the mod in hl2 going on? no idea if it's dead in the water or not tho
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Jan 11, 2023 11:40
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i think i read about that more than a decade ago lol maybe i'm misremembering tho hell black mesa did actually eventually come out so who knows
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Jan 11, 2023 11:55
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black mesa was super fun to play
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Jan 11, 2023 11:56
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black Mesa both releasing and being a drat good game, as well as HL2VR finally seeing the light of day after like 7 years of delays has restored my faith in humanity (or at least the part of humanity that mods half life games). HL2VR was started way back in the oculus DK1/2 days when it wasn’t much more advanced than a google cardboard and still used an Xbox one controller
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Jan 11, 2023 13:55
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textfiles.com has a huge collection of shovelware disc images on two different sites. the crappy shareware games I played in the dying days of DOS are probably around somewhere there. http://cd.textfiles.com/directory.html http://discmaster.textfiles.com/cd-rom/
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Jan 11, 2023 14:07
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have a pile of old MacFormat magazines somewhere, just checked, they're still pulishing in tyol 2023!
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Jan 11, 2023 14:51
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that “high definition” half life 2 mod that just upscaled textures and made alyx have huge boobs
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Jan 11, 2023 15:35
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nudgenudgetilt posted:electronics boutique god these guys had such a ridiculously permissive returns policy idk how they didn't go out of business sooner. it was a no questions 14 day policy, so being 15/16 and having no actual responsibilities you could very easily buy a new game, complete it in 14 days and just take it back again. I did this all the time lol
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Jan 11, 2023 15:45
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Wild EEPROM posted:that “high definition” half life 2 mod that just upscaled textures and made alyx have huge boobs the Lara Croft nude cheat that was in every PS1 magazine even though it didn't work. for tomb raider 2 the devs put the cheat in, except it made her explode
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Jan 11, 2023 16:27
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Wild EEPROM posted:that “high definition” half life 2 mod that just upscaled textures and made alyx have huge boobs The "cinematic" mod that made her look like a oiled up supermodel and had a fully modelled vagina with cervix
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Jan 11, 2023 16:34
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that whole debacle with Elliot Page (pre trans) in the video game shower cutscene where they modelled everything even though the camera was not intending to show it, and of course someone modded the camera to be unlocked. Game devs; just don't!
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Jan 11, 2023 16:40
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Sweevo posted:the Lara Croft nude cheat that was in every PS1 magazine even though it didn't work. iirc the metal gear solid one of "crawl in the vent enough times and Meryl will be doing sit-ups in her underwear" worked though e: yes https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/Metal_Gear_Solid_secrets kojima lol
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Jan 11, 2023 16:56
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:god these guys had such a ridiculously permissive returns policy idk how they didn't go out of business sooner. used games were such a crapshoot to buy too, because people would steal cdkeys and replace them with fakes
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Jan 11, 2023 17:04
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if you're gonna do that at least use one from a keygen 
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Jan 11, 2023 17:18
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NoneMoreNegative posted:that whole debacle with Elliot Page (pre trans) in the video game shower cutscene where they modelled everything even though the camera was not intending to show it, and of course someone modded the camera to be unlocked. not surprising since david cage is a creepy pervert. there exists a video where he's showing off a scene from one of his previous games where you do qte bullshit to make a woman put on makeup and the whole time he was doing that creepy, mumbling porn commentator "mmmm, yeah. oh yeah, that's hot" Powerful Two-Hander posted:god these guys had such a ridiculously permissive returns policy idk how they didn't go out of business sooner. didn't gamestop buy them and close all of the eb games stores because in most cases it just meant that one company suddenly had two locations in every mall? The_Franz fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Jan 11, 2023 |
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Jan 11, 2023 17:19
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they did lol, i remember there being a babbages, eb games and gamestop in one mall and they all got rolled up into the same company. the stores didn't immediately close either so it was like a ripoff twilight zone ep
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Jan 11, 2023 17:21
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WilWheaton posted:8 year old me was OBSESSED with coconut monkey same. but honestly I had a feeling he’d be much much more offensive in hindsight, and I’m happy to see it could’ve been worse.
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Jan 11, 2023 17:46
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Beeftweeter posted:they did lol, i remember there being a babbages, eb games and gamestop in one mall and they all got rolled up into the same company. the stores didn't immediately close either so it was like a ripoff twilight zone ep at one point the local mall had an eb games and gamestop, another gamestop in the strip mall across the street, and yet another gamestop in another strip mall less than 5 minutes away it was like the joke where every corner at an intersection has a starbucks, except with video game stores
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Jan 11, 2023 19:08
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Beeftweeter posted:if you're gonna do that at least use one from a keygen if the keygen works im not going to eb in the first place!
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Jan 11, 2023 19:57
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I forget the name but those custom windows install discs that let you disable various services and extra features
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Jan 16, 2023 15:07
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polyester concept posted:I forget the name but those custom windows install discs that let you disable various services and extra features slipstream was also handy to save you time from doing 400 reboot round trips installing service packs on a new install
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Jan 16, 2023 15:56
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right, i remembered it by the name nLite
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Jan 16, 2023 16:16
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windows xp with the insane streamlining that made the whole thing like 200mb and super lightweight and fast was peak OS, its been downhill from there imo
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Jan 16, 2023 17:41
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"windows xp without all the dumb poo poo" is what windows 2000 was.
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Jan 16, 2023 17:48
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wasn't that the one that had porn popups within seconds of being connected to the internet?
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Jan 16, 2023 17:58
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I want to say XP had the built in firewall, 98 and 95 did not, so it was a race against time to download what you needed to survive being online before you got popped.
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Jan 16, 2023 18:05
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95/98 was the era where a ton of ports and services were left accessible by default and the OS had minimal security anyway 2000/XP cleaned up a LOT of that stuff, but with XP in particular you got a lot of people still running it with no service packs 10+ years later
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Jan 16, 2023 18:10
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Shouldn't it be fine if the first place you went on a clean install was directly to malwarebytes' download page or whatever Just don't browse until you have some sort of antivirus installed.
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Jan 16, 2023 18:14
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Sagebrush posted:Shouldn't it be fine if the first place you went on a clean install was directly to malwarebytes' download page or whatever No, because the system had ports open by default for things that were wormable. Just being connected to the Internet was risky. The updates for 98 would disable their being on by default, but if you didn't have a firewall it was a race against time to pull the necessary updates and then disconnect.
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Jan 16, 2023 18:23
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"but couldn't you just get a copy of an install from someone" this is the era of CompUSA and firewalls being $50 in the box. "Malwarebytes or whatever" didn't yet exist in a free form, you bought a copy of McAffee from the local store and installed it, because being online was still uncommon.
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Jan 16, 2023 18:25
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I’m pretty sure XP SP1 is when a built in firewall came with the OS. which made me remember before that the hot thing to have was ZoneAlarm 
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Jan 16, 2023 18:28
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"wait but if you weren't online how did you get something McAffee would do anything about"
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Jan 16, 2023 18:28
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