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Back in those days you could do a lot with 625MB. No bullshit bloat from 100MB browsers, no ads, no windows 10, no MAME bloat. It was all real active code that DID something!

Haha! Reminds me how Johnny Mnemonic had 80GB data storage in his brain. That was huge in 1995!

Yes, which explains why Devon needed that tractor-trailer rig, because they needed to hook KITT up to an IBM 3084 mainframe, which transferred the updates vis-a-vis a 9600 beee-brrrr-brrrrt .... beeeeeeee 8-N-1 modem, which also explains why that rig had a kick-ass sleeper-cab complete with a Betamax and a minibar, because a gargantuan 625MB update might take forrrr-evvvv-er.

Incidentally, that red WHIRRRL-a-whir thingy on top of the hood was actually a prototype de-multiplexing IR-port receiver which kind of sped things up.

I'm not making this up!

WOOHOO!!! That's Awesome!   I used to mention them quite a bit. 

And Elvenking is opening!  I like them too! (YMMV)  Looks like the closest they are coming to me would be Omaha, NE but that's an 8 hour drive if memory serves (We did do that once for a concert...)...These days,  I'm making sure I have the energy to drive down to Denver Sunday to see my friends' bands play.  And that's only 2 hours away

@GoldLeader Only a 4 hour drive for me but... I got no money lol

Well...silver lining.

I'm happy your doggo didn't have to deal with the anxiety this year. Consider a smoke alarm with a strobe light. They make them for deaf people, and it might help her to help you.

i'm glad doggo didn't have issues.   

we're a cat house (ha). our two oldest cats (10 years old) were annoyed it disturbed their sleeping, but our youngest (4) was acting like it was the end-times. poor kitty.

Ah, yes.  A classic.  Reminds me of (also NSFW language) anal fissure Bob.

Oh my, I have never seen that one!  And then I noticed the domain name....

Hardcore porn shouldn't even be ALLOWED on steam. I thought they had higher standards then this. How i miss 2004

Which ones are your favorite so far? 

@Rick Dangerous if you must know, the one that made me go "Holy crap!" for the fact it exists and is on Steam was "Operation Lovecraft: Fallen Doll"

Beware to anyone easily offended!  This ain't no Custer's Revenge!
 

From that list, I would pick Metroid.  It's much less annoying than the rest of your list.

Thought of another one I had beaten - Kid Icarus, might do that next.   Metroid seems easy with maps.

I've always felt Ninja Gaiden was always pretty easy up until that last bit.  Those bosses, yeah... those'll probably be a pain even with save states.   Maybe rewinds or something might help.   But yep, if you have a map, Metroid isn't hard at all

Nostalgia can be used for good, or it can screw us up so badly that there's no point in reliving the past.

In my case, Rebuying Goldeneye. Was hyped, so disappointed 

Select Cancel the first life/magic and go for the attack upgrade.  Those Bubble skulls are killable(Lots a stabbing) and worth 50 exp points.  Find exp bags.  Every 6th enemy you kill will drop a potion/exp bag. Once find a 1up on the overworld, don't collect and remember the location. You'll need it for the Great Palace. Remember where red potion in palace are, they respawn upon leaving/entering palace.  One town folks don't know which way is east or west telling you where Payapa Palace is.  I am not Error.

Me:Inside Patrick's Brain - YouTube

But they did deliver it. So... job done! Merry Christmas!  

Thanks for the panties.  I've needed some new ones for a while now.

Had a lady tell me the other day that she stayed home from work to get a FedEx package that she missed the day before, note said they'd try the next day. She saw the FedEx truck pull up and the driver got out with NO package and slapped another note on the door and took off!

7800Knight posted that joke yesterday, too.

A joke so nice, it has to be told twice!

If it's not Baroque, don't fix it.

The only I-shouldn't-be-watching-this-movie moment in my childhood was when my mom brought me to Batman in 1989 (PG13, I was 9). The violence was not much more than the DC comic books I was reading at the time, but seeing it on the screen was different. I vividly remember "the taste of cool violence" when the Joker was killing people for fun.

Dune is kind of scary even for some adults and I found it disturbing the times I watched it on the TV as a kid, so watching it at 10 years old on the big screen must have been a traumatic experience.

As a kid, I don't think my parents ever brought me to a movie that was too complex or without enough action. In retrospective, it would have been cool.

Oh, I don't mean trauma or scariness, that stuff I thought was neat.  Most of the movie was so slowly paced I slept for at least half of it.

Didn't see Dune in the theaters.  Hope to remedy that with the next Dune movie. 

Awesome!   Now,  I don't know who that is...At first speed read,  I thought it said Kenny Loggins, but then I read it again even quicker, and came up with Henry Rollins...So I read it regular speed instead of trying to get through it in .04 nanoseconds and thought Cool!  Who's Kent Rollins?   (heh)

You're talking about that cowboy chef, right?

@SlidellMan Yup!  His recipes always look amazing.  I got to meet him and his wife, and try the food in person.  They are the nicest people you could imagine.

NOT GUILTY!

Why would anyone want to sell the greatest console ever made, with so many exclusive games?

*I am not a Fartari-made AI or marketing department intern

haha- not me!  (I live in SW MO)

look on the bright side, your heating bill should end up lower

Probably not much, sadly.  The heating bill in winter is half what the AC summer cost is.  But maybe this will help with that too.

Ours would just randomly lock up from time to time.  Needed a reset.  Had it repaired a few times, but it never fixed it.  Was just old.  We did the reset method for years..    Finally replaced it last year...  The newer ones are much more efficient, so that is nice.  But of course, it will take ages to offset the cost of a new one.  But that wasn't the driver to replace it, just a nice benefit.  Good luck!

Oh,  Don't be so down on yourself.   I'm sure you've done stupider things if ya just think about it.

do you now own a shiny new Ford Bronco? hehe

@digdugnate   No, but she wants to order one.  That stuff costs money!

I had a co-worker who would send things with "read receipt" on them, then IMMEDIATELY RING MY PHONE upon seeing that I opened the message. No more read receipts from me!

Hah, oh yeah those are blocked too.

Preach.

Man, those are some generic looking logos. Did they make those in Create A Franchise mode?

Hah, a friend said something very similar, "Looks like logos from a non-licensed console game from 1994."

I like Deadspin's take. "They look like teams in a direct-to-Netflix movie."

https://deadspin.com/the-new-xfl-team-names-and-logos-are-something-worse-th-1837446136

Do a bit of googling, my Win10 Pro, looks like Classic Windows, with start bar and no bullshit on the desktop.

It's not the cosmetic stuff, I've figured that all out.  It's how it will re-enable services and such that I told it to disable.  Or ones that it won't let you disable without super 3rd party hacks.  Not to mention all the telemetry.

It's my damn PC, stop changing what I want it to do!

It takes a lot of digging, to find all the shit they hid.  I agree, it sucks.  Luckily, my monster PC was configured by security IT services, from my company, creepy shit they can do with it remotely, fully secure.  Took me forever to do half of it, to my own machines.  Still dual booting Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows 10 Pro, on my own shit.  Some drivers don't work on 10.

Where does society come up with these people?

Hahah... ok. Go Don Quixote!

Whaaa? LOL

you mean at Twin Galaxies, the fake news of video game websites?

Yeah, the first place score does look a bit out of place...

I have a 3D TV, and some glasses I've never used. What are the best titles? Are they readily available, or stupid expensive?

Tron Legacy is probably my favorite.  Ready Player One is good, Pacific Rim, while kind of a dumb movie, has really good 3D.

Just check Amazon, most don't look overpriced compared to normal.  The used media stores around here put the 3D Blu Rays in a separate section so they're easy to find.  Oh, and they're plentiful on eBay too.

I do not see the photo nor a link.

Yeah, it's a twitter link, and apparently it only works if you click on my profile.

- Ok, it's fixed to at least displaying a URL.

ITCHES

Addicts. Addicts gaming the system.

Haha... That is good. "Many have tried to lo-ball, all have failed." I guess so...

That's hilarious. The dude ought to post better pics if he wants that much. Looks like he took those pics with a circa 2002 flip phone. Crappy pics hide flaws. Plus the all CAPS is douchey. He probably has a mullet.

Run to the left instead!

Strangely enough I played this game once way back at an arcade in Berkeley in 1985 or so. I was blown away and I swear my hazy memory remembers the marquee at that time actually said, "Moon Patrol II" or something like that. So glad for the internets and to be able to play it again all these years later. It is an awesome game, but yeah thank goodness for modern day save states when playing it via an emulator.

Twitch.tv is a very foreign land to me.

Ever see that movie 24 Hour Party People? Eventually DJs (as in people playing records) were "The Band"...Seems he's found a way to be involved in video games without the effort of actually playing...Not for me. He's missing the point entirely.