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SO DEMANDING posted:but i cant remember where the hell this was originally posted. yospos? shsc? This was on the gray forums, in one of the megathreads, coding horrors iirc, and it was an utterly magnificent way to call out nbv4 for making GBS threads the thread up. It was a masterstroke when it was written and it remains a wonderful post.
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Feb 24, 2023 19:55
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the entire
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Feb 25, 2023 03:54
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sad but true
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magic leap
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Feb 27, 2023 04:18
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Feb 27, 2023 08:09
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the rear end subtitle format
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Feb 27, 2023 08:41
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many years ago there was a BBC TV show where they'd play Rome: Total War with a game show commentator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJhOa1ugByQ ahead of its time really
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Feb 27, 2023 18:53
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distortion park posted:many years ago there was a BBC TV show where they'd play Rome: Total War with a game show commentator for years i was convinced i'd imagined this until someone at work mentioned it. my only (possibly faulty) memory of the show is there was a team playing a roman legion and they thought the interlocking shield thing was some kind of super-move, so they just walked into the middle of the enemy and did it, as if expecting that would somehow make them win
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Feb 27, 2023 19:13
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they rebooted that show a few years back with dara o’briain and it was bad because they tried to make it an actual competition the weapons expert transitioned though and it was fun watching her do the same goofy weapon demos she did on the original series in far less practical clothing
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distortion park posted:many years ago there was a BBC TV show where they'd play Rome: Total War with a game show commentator oh my god I had forgotten all about this
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Feb 27, 2023 23:23
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it's one of those short-lived forgotten shows - like cyberzone or interceptor
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Sweevo posted:it's one of those short-lived forgotten shows - like cyberzone or interceptor You misspelt x-fire
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Feb 27, 2023 23:58
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I remember when my friend's dad at Nortel got this insane phone: we definitely felt like we were living in Star Trek
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Feb 28, 2023 00:00
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is that a nikon camcorder 
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Feb 28, 2023 00:03
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njsykora posted:they rebooted that show a few years back with dara o’briain and it was bad because they tried to make it an actual competition girls stay winning woo
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Sweevo posted:it's one of those short-lived forgotten shows - like cyberzone or interceptor cyberzone was great, it took us 20+ years to reach the same heights of vr it reached: two dorks on treadmills pretending they were in cyberspace e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLj-xibrpoM just choose any bit of this it's all as terrible and great as any other Powerful Two-Hander fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Feb 28, 2023 |
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kazaa
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Feb 28, 2023 01:26
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Internaut! posted:I remember when my friend's dad at Nortel got this insane phone: 
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Feb 28, 2023 01:46
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jammyozzy posted:You misspelt x-fire x-fire loving ruled and was probably responsible for multiple homosexual awakenings with the amount of hot people (and AJ) in tight latex suits and big stompy boots, shame only one episode is on youtube in any kind of acceptable quality while the rest is roughly 160p and also split into 8 parts each, also shame it got completely derailed by being a goofy gameshow about global terrorism that started airing in august 2001 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykZkGvx5BDo
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Feb 28, 2023 03:57
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Internaut! posted:I remember when my friend's dad at Nortel got this insane phone:  ICL One-Per-Desk AKA Merlin Tonto AKA Computerphone. Basically a Sinclair QL (failed 68008 micro) with a built in phone and a Speak & Spell voice for messages.
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Feb 28, 2023 13:07
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all this is really telling me is that the most famous thing amstrad ever made was actually long after its time
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Feb 28, 2023 13:29
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ring ring ring ring ring ring ringSweevo posted:Computerphone.
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Feb 28, 2023 13:59
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windows 8 was pretty much memory holed
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Feb 28, 2023 16:17
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Beeftweeter posted:windows 8 was pretty much memory holed my last job was building and supporting training labs and a bunch of them were loving windows 8 that I could never get the buy in to update to win 10. imagine selling a training package to someone and it’s a mix of 7, 8, and 10 (and a few with xp lmao) with no consistent theming or feel. guaranteed they still use them
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Feb 28, 2023 16:27
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Beeftweeter posted:windows 8 was pretty much memory holed id take the windows 8 start screen over the windows 11 start menu every day of the week
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Feb 28, 2023 16:38
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:id take the windows 8 start screen over the windows 11 start menu every day of the week we didn't know how good we had it
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Feb 28, 2023 16:39
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Beeftweeter posted:windows 8 was pretty much memory holed i'm honestly surprised we haven't had any "windows 8 was good actually" takes like people have for vista Cybernetic Vermin posted:id take the windows 8 start screen over the windows 11 start menu every day of the week wasn't this just the windows 10 start menu?
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Feb 28, 2023 16:40
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njsykora posted:wasn't this just the windows 10 start menu? not quite, but id take that too
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Feb 28, 2023 16:42
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Win8 really sucked. 8.1 was tolerable. 7 and 10 are where it's at obviously though. High hopes for 12
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Feb 28, 2023 16:44
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njsykora posted:i'm honestly surprised we haven't had any "windows 8 was good actually" takes like people have for vista vista really wasn't that bad. i was involved with the beta program (before it was open to all) and it was extremely interesting to watch the progress. it got a bad rap because it was too heavy for most people's pc at the time, if you gave it enough resources it was fine windows 7 was basically just a refined vista, and i think it's probably uncontroversial to say 7 is probably the "best" windows after xp. similarly you could say windows 8 was a "refined" windows 7 too, and that's not exactly wrong either — most people just didn't agree with the direction it went in imo windows 10 is probably analogous to vista. i think it was an attempt to refine whatever windows 8 was supposed to be, and it works pretty well, though i don't like it as much as 7. there's too much extraneous crap tacked on to it, which was also vista's problem windows 11 swings too hard in the other direction. instead of refinements, they have no idea what it's supposed to be. until they figure that out windows 12 stands to be even worse
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windows 11 should have just been a service pack for windows 10
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:windows 11 should have just been a service pack for windows 10 you know what kind of person made 11 bad? the ones who go "ugh, why are we using this old framework/library/code base? it'll *save* time to rewrite from scratch"
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I distinctly recall in the early days of windows 10 they said it would be the last version of windows and they’d just keep updating it and deprecating older versions of it. did I dream that?
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njsykora posted:all this is really telling me is that the most famous thing amstrad ever made was actually long after its time lmao I worked in an electronics store in 2000 when I was a teenager and we got a shipment of those soon after I joined and by the time I left in 2002 we had not sold a single one I got close once but it turned out the people were from Brazil and we had no idea if it would have worked (it would not)
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:you know what kind of person made 11 bad? the ones who go "ugh, why are we using this old framework/library/code base? it'll *save* time to rewrite from scratch" that's another reason i think 10 is kinda like vista. they tried doing that too and eventually just hit the reset button and based it off of windows server 2003
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the big problem w/ windows 11 is UI regressions like loving up the context menu for no reason or loving up the start menu with icon grid. them rewriting backend stuff to improve performance (i.e. direct storage) is good and fine.
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I wish I hadn't upgraded to 11 but it got a bit better in the last update because they reverted the idiot icon changes in file explorer whoever decided to rename the settings sections needs to be fired though because why the gently caress would you break like 20 years of consistent naming?
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MS had to drop the claimed minimum system requirements for Vista so that OEMs could sell off their remaining stocks of shitbox PCs. so the kind of people who buy computers from supermarkets would come home with a P4 Celeron with 512mb and then blame Vista when it ran like crap
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