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The Puppy Bowl posted:Oh poo poo, I'm going to try and check that out. Last year streaming RRR off Netflix turned a chill morning off work into the cardiac equivalent of a cocaine binge in a burning building. Would love to see it on the big screen. I caught it at the Hollywood Theater tonight. There's a couple theaters here in Portland still showing it.
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BlindSite posted:100% The monkey’s paw curls and instead it’s a diatribe on the military using movies as propaganda. My lazy Sunday is spent letting the missus have a rest, so it’s been me and the baby heading into the big city for nerdy poo poo.
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harperdc posted:My lazy Sunday is spent letting the missus have a rest, so it’s been me and the baby heading into the big city for nerdy poo poo. These little days are the best
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LeeMajors posted:These little days are the best She’s almost a year old, so still able to use the Ergobaby and take her by train. Went into Shibuya and hit this to get some limited edition goodies for friends (not my Twitter, just the easiest way to show). https://twitter.com/Genki_JPN/status/1631282718200975363 Like the poet Ice Cube said, today was a good day.
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Can't sleep so I decided to rewatch the original Stars Wars trilogy for the first time well over a decade and I do still like them a lot. It also reminded me that one of my few legit good childhood memories with my dad was going to see a theater run of them in the run up to the Phantom Menace release. One of the few sober outings we did since my dad is a huge Star Wars fan. I also beat the SNES Return of the Jedi game before anyone else did!
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Tulalip Tulips posted:I also beat the SNES Return of the Jedi game before anyone else did! I went back to the Super Star Wars games when I bought an SNES Classic several years ago, and sweet Jesus, we put up with some insane bullshit difficulty as kids. Maybe I'm just old, but Super Empire Strikes Back just absolutely annihilated me. Super Return of the Jedi was nigh-impossible.
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Timby posted:I went back to the Super Star Wars games when I bought an SNES Classic several years ago, and sweet Jesus, we put up with some insane bullshit difficulty as kids. Maybe I'm just old, but Super Empire Strikes Back just absolutely annihilated me. Super Return of the Jedi was nigh-impossible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC9RJ_SCRfM I'm guessing my dad was into technology (so got an NES) and also got the bug for Top Gun (as all dudes, who rocked, in the 1980s did) but I don't think either of us got too far in that Top Gun NES game. Yeesh.
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harperdc posted:I'm guessing my dad was into technology (so got an NES) and also got the bug for Top Gun (as all dudes, who rocked, in the 1980s did) but I don't think either of us got too far in that Top Gun NES game. Yeesh. Tech dads  Mine was more of a hobbyist, but did self-taught programming as an electrician and ended up working for almost 3 decades in high level manufacturing and robotics. We were early adopters of basically all sorts of PC poo poo and I just remember being like 8 or 9 trying to play MechWarrior swapping approximately 247 5 and a quarter floppies in our little 386sx 25MHz machine. Wild times.
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I think I landed the plane in Top Gun one time. Thank god they fixed that in the second game.
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LeeMajors posted:We were early adopters of basically all sorts of PC poo poo and I just remember being like 8 or 9 trying to play MechWarrior swapping approximately 247 5 and a quarter floppies in our little 386sx 25MHz machine. Oh, man, memories of loving around with config.sys and autoexec.bat for DOS boot disks, and HIMEM / EMM386 to get the Wing Commander games going ... fun times. And we had a 386 SX with a Cyrix "upgrade" chip.
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My grandmother died yesterday. She was 95.and got Covi in January and it seems like even after she got over it she wasnt quite the same. My mother and all of her siblings were with her, at least, including one uncle who drove up (to CT) from Virginia overnight to be there. I feel worse at the thought that my mother lost her mother, than I am that I lost my grandmother, if that makes sense. Also for my uncle who moved back from California five or so years ago to take care of grandma and grandpa and has been living with them. Grandpa passed two years ago and that's gotta be a lonely house to be in right now. 
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Quiet Feet posted:My grandmother died yesterday. She was 95.and got Covi in January and it seems like even after she got over it she wasnt quite the same. My mother and all of her siblings were with her, at least, including one uncle who drove up (to CT) from Virginia overnight to be there. My condolences, and it's a perfectly normal reaction to have. My mom lost her parents one after the other (my grandfather had dementia and tried to kill my grandmother; he passed away about a month later in a nursing home, and then my grandmother, a few months later, fell while drunk at home, broke her hip and never left the hospital after that), and it sent my mother into a very, very bad spiral, one that I'm not sure she's ever really recovered from almost 20 years later, especially because she and her sisters got into the mother of all fights over what should be done with their parents' farm property in Michigan's UP. 95 is a hell of a run, though. Take some peace in knowing that your grandmother enjoyed a life well-lived, and that her children all cared enough to be by her side when the time was up. Hang in there.
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So sorry to hear that QF. She sounds like she had a good long life with plenty of loving family.
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Quiet Feet posted:I feel worse at the thought that my mother lost her mother, than I am that I lost my grandmother, if that makes sense. When we lost my paternal grandmother, it wasn’t just losing her, but that my dad was absolutely shattered on the phone when he called me. I think that’s an understandable reaction. Deep condolences, especially as 95 is a hell of a run.
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Quiet Feet posted:My grandmother died yesterday. She was 95.and got Covi in January and it seems like even after she got over it she wasnt quite the same. My mother and all of her siblings were with her, at least, including one uncle who drove up (to CT) from Virginia overnight to be there. I'm really sorry for your loss
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Quiet Feet posted:My grandmother died yesterday. She was 95. Sorry for your loss. Echoing that 95 is a hell of a run. Timby posted:And we had a 386 SX with a Cyrix "upgrade" chip. AlecGuinnessLongTime.gif
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Ornery and Hornery posted:this is rerun content but I still love it and I love him, thank you for sharing Yeah that’s my fault, those were just the most recent ones I had
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:What goes well with lobster bisque? Planning tomorrow night's family dinner. A White pasta or a really nice mahi steak
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harperdc posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC9RJ_SCRfM The refueling sequence always killed me. I also have fond memories of replacing the 90mhz Pentium with the floating point bug on it. The wild wild west days of early PC technology was awesome.
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Bird in a Blender posted:I think I landed the plane in Top Gun one time. Thank god they fixed that in the second game. Same. I always followed the directions instead of looking at the instruments, didn't realize until I was older I should look at the altitude and speed
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I landed the plane once and then my dad made me turn the game off because we had to leave. Never did find out what the next level was like because I was never able to do it again
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Joey Freshwater posted:I landed the plane once and then my dad made me turn the game off because we had to leave. Never did find out what the next level was like because I was never able to do it again ahhh, the old days of having to go in the middle of a level you've never beat and leaving the system on in the hopes that it would still work when you and your dad got back from the hardware store or whatever
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FizFashizzle posted:ahhh, the old days of having to go in the middle of a level you've never beat and leaving the system on in the hopes that it would still work when you and your dad got back from the hardware store or whatever I remember all the games that had complicated 10 line passcodes instead of save files.
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FizFashizzle posted:ahhh, the old days of having to go in the middle of a level you've never beat and leaving the system on in the hopes that it would still work when you and your dad got back from the hardware store or whatever i remember getting to the final level in castlevania and leaving the nes on overnight or something like that 
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My condolences, Quiet Feet. I only vaguely remember my maternal grandmother when I was a toddler as she came to the US to take care of me & my sister. I remember going to the Philippines for my paternal grandfather's funeral, and I never got to meet my other grandparents as they died before I got to visit them. I did learn from my cousin in Alhambra about my paternal grandfather though. 5th grade education, mean motherfucker, but cool otherwise. Also learned my family name is just a generic Spanish one given to the locals, but that group were a bunch of ornery bastards that loved getting into fights & wars. 
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Bird in a Blender posted:I remember all the games that had complicated 10 line passcodes instead of save files. I remember that the password to the final level of Air Fortress on the NES (an underappreciated classic) is simply SUGA. Why I remember that to this day, I do not know. Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:I also have fond memories of replacing the 90mhz Pentium with the floating point bug on it. The wild wild west days of early PC technology was awesome. I think we upgraded from a Packard Bell with a 75Mhz Pentium to a Gateway with a 200Mhz Pentium II and it was like my world changed. Then when I went off to college in 2002, I used some money I got from my high school graduation to buy a Dell desktop with a Northwood-core Pentium IV clocked at 2.53Ghz and I was like "Where have you been all my life?" Blew so many hours on Max Payne 2 and CounterStrike on that thing.
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Timby posted:I remember that the password to the final level of Air Fortress on the NES (an underappreciated classic) is simply SUGA. I still have several passcodes for Rogue Squadron and Episode I Starfighter from N64 absolutely burned into my brain from replaying those games so many, many, many times.
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007 373 5963 If you know, you know.
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Silly Burrito posted:007 373 5963 Hell yes. Now I feel the urge to gnaw someone's earlobe off.
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fartknocker posted:I still have several passcodes for Rogue Squadron and Episode I Starfighter from N64 absolutely burned into my brain from replaying those games so many, many, many times. That Taloraan mission was bullshit because the hitboxes were bugged.
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My dad brought home an IBM XT in a PC Portable case when I was about 8. When I was 16, we used that case (with the mini amber monitor disconnected) to build my first computer that was just for me, a 386-sx-16. I still have that motherboard in the closet somewhere, the cpu is soldered to the board and it doesnt have a heat sink lol. I learned computer poo poo from setting dip switches to get both the modem and the serial mouse working on COM2 with different IRQ settings, and uncovering the horrors of DR DOS and HIMEM.SYS. Dialing up to local BBSes at 2400baud, reading 2600 magazine and dreaming of being a leet haxxor. The upgrade from 16 color EGA graphics directly to 14" SVGA with 16m colors after I got my first job was the most profound single tech leap of my life probably. I got a used 19.2 modem about the same time, holy moly.
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Downloading porn 1 still at a time from mIRC chat rooms on a 14.4 modem….
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seiferguy posted:That Taloraan mission was bullshit because the hitboxes were bugged. I have no memory of that mission being a problem, although getting the upgrade thingy at the city at the end was mildly tricky since IIRC it was in between some buildings and you had to go very slow and at the right angle to get it. The Imperial Construction Yards mission on Balmorra was tricky the first time for me, and I remember protecting those drat AT-PTs on Fest causing the most trouble when I first played the game at age 8.
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Thanks for the condolences all. She was a really sweet and mild mannered lady. At least as a grandma. My grandparents did the extremely Catholic thing and had ten kids so I like to imagine she got any yelling out of her system when she was younger. 
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Quiet Feet posted:Thanks for the condolences all. She was a really sweet and mild mannered lady. At least as a grandma. My grandparents did the extremely Catholic thing and had ten kids so I like to imagine she got any yelling out of her system when she was younger. Lutheran on my mom's side, Catholic on my sperm donor's side. Both sets of my grandparents had eight kids each.
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Eric Adams says Lori Lightfoot's defeat in the Chicago mayoral election is a "warning sign for the country."quote:New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Sunday brushed aside the suggestion that Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s reelection loss was merely a warning sign for Democratic mayors, instead calling it a “warning sign for the country” at large. Lightfoot, of course, spent her entire term pissing off pretty much everyone in sight and managed to alienate essentially every union in the city of Chicago. Also, shut up, Adams, you idiot.
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