GoldLeader

And how, pray tell, did you learn said lesson?? ?

Had a friend...talked slow sometimes until Everyone in the room was listening...Then he'd up and hit us with something like this!

PS  To be clear,  even if there's money to be made,  I'm not saying anything one way or the other,  about investing.  Fridays are often down days for the market,  and unless you're an expert, I am not recommending anything...I just found it interesting.

It's not entirely off-brand for them. But what they need to do is build a time machine, go back 10 years, and close 3/4 of their stores before it's too late.

Or maybe, just maybe they could have had a passion for video games,  an interest in "retro" because it was fun, not because it was a cash grab, carried more stuff, hired better people, trained said people better, carried more controllers for Every system, carried all versions of Flashbacks, kept bobbleheads and dumbass products to a minimum, not bombard customers with the latest thing as soon as they walk through the door, listened to customers, paid attention to market trends, carried homebrews, given more than 3 cents on the dollar for trade-ins, carried what people wanted, offered to special order things when they (inevitably) Don't have it in, and kept boxes for All used games to the best of their (admittedly limited) ability...

The main difference, and again, it could be I'm misremembering, was that I had 2 flippers, and I know there were areas on the playfield that were triangles fenced off by big rubber bands, but if you hit the ball hard enough it could go under the rubber band and get stuck, which happened to me...

There were so many of these. The one I had as a kid was item (B) and possibly (C):

^That Item C looks familiar (seems like the same form factor anyway)!  I bet it wasn't that the bumpers themselves lit up, just that triangle light in the middle!  That's probably it.  Thanks Keatah!

Update:  The sun is already out...Melting it up a little bit,  mainly in the roads...And ya know,  I was just gonna be lazy and not even shovel,  but I think my EXGF may stop by later and she may be bringing music and beer so I better bust out a quick path.  Don't want her tracking stuff in to the house.

do timezones have any impact?  would daylight savings cause chaos on the little buggers' snack schedule?

^Ha!   Good Point! 

you're in the mutar nebula

This is a very fair point @GoldLeader. Technology can be an instant solution in many stories. I like reading older, public domain stories that have older technology to see how they handled things; in particular, communication. One great example is "The Secret Adversary" by Agatha Christie, staring Thomas and Tuppence Beresford. They used telegraphing services quite a bit. The story was written and set in 1922 (nearly 100 years ago). Maybe someone should program a game based on public domain stories like this one.

Rest and some heavy-duty antibiotics (if it is bacterial pneumonia) are indeed the way to go. 

Some years ago, I thought I just had a really bad cold and cough; I ended-up in the emergency room at like 5 AM with difficulty breathing. I was feeling better with just a few days. Sleep does wonders. 

go start the car up and lay a strip down the street

Thanks Everyone!!

I'll be back to my ornery self before long I hope.

^Love it!    Now...Is it just me or,    if you speed up Puttin' on the Ritz...Does it not suddenly sound like Istanbul Not Constantinople?  That's OK, I thought Ghostbusters and I want a New Drug sounded alike too, ...but still give Zep the credit for Stairway even if it does have the Spirit of Taurus (Haah!)  

LOL Every time I hear "Puttin' On The Ritz" my mind goes to Young Frankenstein!

Ya know,  I figure it's a little tricky dealing with obscurity...If I remember correctly,  it's one of my favorite things.  (Like I don't know if I remember because ...it's obscure haaaa) ... I mean it's all too easy to come up with something Everyone's heard of...And something No One's heard of,  but to come up with something everyone remembers that they forgot about.  Now that's a trick.

Big Daddy.  I started watching it and realized "Aw crap, I wasted money on this a second time???"!

Nope, because I only rent the kind of movies watching multiple times is fine for....

BOW CHICKA WOW WOW

Oh I buy those kind of movies.

Yikes!  Hope you're okay.

Yeah, that's scary when the doc says you have to get into the ER. But at least there are meds which will help control BP and other heart ailments. Yours truly is on bpmeds but they're very affordable.

Keep us updated.

It's a 1974...Last of the big ones!  

 Really it needs restored at this point...maybe someday *sigh* ...

It was my college car, actually had it in high school too, but it needed work and only ran one day when I was in high school..I mostly drove my '72 Mach I in high school, which I sold before going to the University...Kept the Roadrunner though!

I get SO MANY Leaves!  Probably around 15 barrels full (compacted) all told.  I'm about to go mow the rest up off of this lawn,  then I'll worry about driving them to the compost heap another day.

I just say the hell with the leaves and mulch them up.  Saves from getting blisters from raking.

Well,  Most of them were at the side of my house and on my backyard patio...I only worried about raking/mowing for the front lawn, where I got one tiny side done before I'm out of room in the barrels (I have 5) and the compost heap is closed til Tuesday (when I have work of course...)

I thought it might be "Hats.....people aren't wearing enough of them."  

Haha, saw you mentioning the HHG in a post a few days ago, almost commented then.

I still have my copies from the mid 80's, at least a couple, a couple have had to be replaced-I started reading them when I was about 11, haha, I was a PBS kid, had seen and liked the BBS shows(I was a weird kid...).

I always like throwing things out there that almost noone else had ever heard of, SEP's, the Ravenous Bugblatter solution to avoiding problems, etc, etc, it was almost like my own set of inside jokes.

Was a grown up by the time the movie came out, it really blew me away that they were gonna do a big budget deal, but I have to admit, tho it wasn't exactly bad, the movies don't come close to doing justice to the books, seriously.

I imagine Life, the Universe, and Everything is my favorite, I really dig that one.

*Edit*

Oh, and explaining to people the concept of how to fly, missing the ground, That was always fun.

But,  I do like the way Google puts it on the calculator.

@Max_Chatsworth I figured you guys would supply the context...And I'm never disappointed!

@Razzie.P I still have a Team America poster up in my living room!  Seeing it in the theater was an experience...It's even funnier when you're there in a room full of people I think.

@GoldLeader Making lasagna Johnny. 

@GoldLeader: don't forget The Ungroundable.  Burning down Hot Topic seems like a reasonable Hallowe'en activity (or any other time of the year, really).

+ The Scoots, and Sons a Witches!  South Park does have a bunch of good ones...And there's all those Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episodes...Always liked those,  but we don't have Halloween Specials so much like we do Christmas specials.  Then again as a kid,  just seeing something animated during Prime Time was something special

Regardless, I just named mine Chachi.

I saw Phantasm 2 in the theater as a teenager.  I remember the scene where he bolted two double-barrel shotguns together and then fired, and didn't even move from recoil.  Even back then I thought "That would have broken his arms!" 

Re: Phantasm   I think the first one as a self contained movie is just Awesome!  But I like the ideas so much that I enjoyed the sequels too,  Esp. Ravager (If you've ever read behind the scenes about it) as it's a small miracle that it even got made, and it wraps things up nicely with interdimensional explanations.

I love that game and it has a special place in my memory because my older brother and I used to play it almost every Saturday morning at King Louis West entertainment center here in my hometown. It was this great place that had an ice rink, bowling alley, arcade, and bar.  As a kid, I really saw pinball machines give way to arcade games one week at a time in the late 70's/early 80's at that place.  Our sister had figure skating lessons every Saturday morning and my brother and I would play Starhawk and Warrior almost every week.  As a kid, it always reminded me of the trench/Death Star scene from Star Wars. 

That was one underrated vector game.

Hehaa,  Yeah...Do they have those kinds of warnings all over commercials in Norway too?

@GoldLeader

Not always; only when the commercials contain viceral violence, horror and disturbing images and are not adviced for viewing by general audiences.

I always think of this beer commercial,   where the friends jump off a cliff and dive into the ocean,  and the commercial says something like, "Why haven't you jumped?" (And everybody's smiling and happy)  And the guy jumps, of course, and all is well...But if you pause it and read the fine print, it advises Against doing dangerous things while drinking...Of course.

Both platforms have been slowly moving forward with streaming options. But it seems like selling new hardware is still a primary goal. What year is the article from?

2016.  I think Sony's became PlayStation 4 Pro (or something) and Microsoft released a Scorpio Edition XBOX, whatever that is.  Like I say,  I really don't keep up, but the idea seemed intriguing...Not sure how they'd do Forward compatibility;  Seems like it would require an analog update of some sort.  For example, (quick idea off the top of my head) a hardware module that snaps into the unit...

Scorpio Edition was the “limited edition” launch of Xbox One X.   It just had some fancier artwork and a scorpion or something engraved on the CPU.

Technically, they’re keeping that promised “forward compatibility” stuff so far, as I understood it to be.  They were basically saying that all games made from that period forward will be guaranteed to work on their future hardware.  So all games released from that point for Xbox One would be 100% compatible with their next console (series X) and the ones after that (Series XX, and Series XXX or whatever) and so on…  

 
So if you buy a Series X, should be able to say “this is backwards compatible with all XBox One games.“  And several years from now, Series XX should be bc with everything from Series X and Xbox One.  And several years from that, Series XXX should be bc with Series XX, Series X, and Xbox One.

They might blow it later, but seems ok so far.   I think the big “get out of this promise free” card is gonna be how they’re leaning hard into streaming and cloud stuff.   I dread it.  I hate the thought of it.  But that seems to be their next big thing.
 

You forgot 4 out of 5 doctors smoke Camels. C! AM! EL! S!

@ClassicGMR  And here I thought I had some people barely remember!  Seems like there's always a couple I can't even find on youTube...

AT&T - We do chicken right!

Wow. That's hard to wrap my head around. It's going to be 75 here all week.

yeah, keep that stuff away from here, lol.  Mid 70s and rainy is our forecast.

1 weatherman said combining all data, we're due for 1.8 inches...But another said "Probably just a light dusting", which is what I'd predict.  Still it kind of wakes ya up.  I got out pants and a jacket and put my garden hose away so it doesn't freeze...

Someday they'll get these things called "computers" figured out.    *Sigh*

Well it is a nice console once you put the community update on it ... having said that I have owned mine for at least a year. Can't tell you with any certainty how long I have had it. I updated it, played 2-3 games and, well, there it sits. I use my Pi setups, emulation laptop and Playstation Classic consoles to play Atari. It just never occurs to me to boot it up.

@ClassicGMR yeah as I've noticed;  It's one of those systems you forget that you have (heh).  I ordered it  as soon as they went on sale and there is a 6 (in Sharpie) on the box, so I always wondered if I got the 6th one?

Yes, I have watched the whole season. I liked it, although I am not happy about everything that happened. I recommended it to my brother, but he only managed to watch 13 minutes before he had to turn off, mainly due to the guy being such a huge idiot/dick.

I finished it last night. I only thought it was okay. I don't think I could suspend my disbelief enough to buy into the premise, plus I was able to guess how certain things were going to happen, so I wasn't caught by surprise when they did. I still think it's worth watching, though.

Those of you who liked Squid Game might also like Sisyphus, which is a South-Korean sci-fi series on Netflix. I would say it is equally good.