Swami

Besides all that, it's in the middle of the story. Would be nice if we got a movie to finish the story at least.

^That would have been a good idea!

Well,

the swedish original "real humans" ended after only two seasons! And errmm, regarding humans (the british series), only the first two seasons are available in german language, the third season is not (english only, since several years now)...

Makes sense. The VCS is such a smash hit that there just isn't any room for competing consoles of any type anymore.

P.S. Here's what I'm talking about. Hope you didn't pre-order one:

https://www.horuscc.com/products/video-game-console-game-emulator-console-pre-install-40000-games-hd-4k-hdmi?

Lucifer, Satan, Beelzebub...sigh, one can hope not. Isn't Mortimer bad enough?

Dana is another name you don't see many guys under 40 with. Same goes for Tracy. I've only known 2 men named Dana and 1 named Tracy in my whole life. 

@GoldLeader @Swami look at this stud https://stt.wiki/wiki/Lucien

Some will fall out of love with wife and want to throw her off a mountain.   ?

Some will quote lyrics from crummy one hit wonders.

troll alert

There is a console equivalent to the Xavix sold only in Europe called the Domyos, seems to be mostly in France and Spain. Seemed very unique and had a whole bundle for $40, but not worth $150, I think. I know a guy from France that may be able to get something over here.

HMMmmm...I'm not familiar, but I don't really mess with PAL stuff...

Generally I think the French post is one of the more expensive ones in Europe. Not sure if Spain is any better, but if the seller lives close to a country border sometimes it can be beneficial to drive to another country and ship stuff from there. In particular the border between Belgium and the Netherlands would be an example of a such zone.

My best friend let me know about this about 3 or 4 years ago.  I was surprised as well.  I decided to do my own research on this recently when I was talking about it with another friend, just to make sure I had my facts correct and I wasn't spreading misinformation, which is so easy to do online now-a-days because it is everywhere and people lack critical thinking skills, but anyhow, I read up, and yes, the male lead in his younger days was a Neo-Nazi member, but got out of it and reformed himself before starting Ace of Base.

My eBay package 2 days ago arrived in an Amazon Prime box (But ebay shipping label)...Then the following day the second half of my amazon order arrived, delivered by a girl driving one of those blue "Prime" vans...

I'm thinking it could be possible he sells on both Amazon and eBay and got his shipping screwed up. I'm not sure what eBay would think of that, but whatever. As long as I don't have to keep going to an Amazon drop off to pick up my eBay orders.

I'm also curious, as I have a PS4VR setup (which works well) and a Vive.  This deserves it's own topic!

I only have a wired Vive.. it works very well still so we have no motivation to look at newer models. We really love VR games

Bad news is that I just learned Oculus has blocked Virtual Desktop from streaming SteamVR. Happened like a week ago, I think.

Hah, maybe they'll get dumped next to the 2600 ET and Pac-Man carts... lol

Hey, they have to pay Namco somehow with all the legal stuff going on :\

Black Betty

And I also have particulate allergies, so no good treatment for that except quadruple doses of steroidal ones, which is a bad idea with a plague level virus on the loose.

Are you sure it's allergies only?

numb face, tired, sore swollen ear canals and gassy all week, always the same, nothing else.

sorry the reptilian and cat people are currently embroiled in war to see who can eat the most of each other....

Crab...  People.

Crab...  People.

Crab...  People.

Cat People got no reason to live.

Not a bad song, but damn has it gotten a lot of airplay these days. Saw Marc Cohn in concert several years ago. Was a pleasant enough experience. 

Wouldn't be so bad except I have to hear those horrible off-key people singing it almost every commercial break on CBS All-Access this week. Really makes me think about upgrading to premium.

Of course they do- it's a recognizable & arguably important piece of our pop culture heritage. That means MONETIZATION, BABY! Squeeze all the dollars out of that artistic integrity until there's none left of either!

We need a taco popover.

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It's kind of like a silent jack-in-the box experience. A little creepy, but it's fine.

Speaking of digital projectors, I remember back in 2000 when I was looking around for home theater option me and my girlfriend ended up looking at one at a church with an 8 year old digital projector that was so big it had its own room in the back. The lens cup on its front was like 8 inches across or so and the projector itself was easily 200cm to a side and 80cm high. That probably cost a mint when it was new as well. 

Depending on how thick you mean by "thick"....but many of the LCD tv's in those days were LCD "projection" , especially the thick ones.  It would have a tiny LCD screen in back...that was projected forward to the display surface. Essentially killing any clarity LCD gave you over CRT.  It was ridiculous time when the TV manufacturers wanted to make tv's big enough to compete with the larger plasma tv's, wanted to claim "LCD", and wanted it to be priced competitively.   

Ah yes, the DLP rear projections ones.  I kinda forgot about those.  Way smaller than the regular tube rear projection, but still bulky.

When I said $10k+, I was talking about the first LCD/Plasma flatscreens.

I so remember that!  My friend and downstairs neighbor in college was this East German guy who had escaped Communism about 6 months before the Wall fell, and I asked him about that word.  He said (just like the commercial) "It means 'The Joy of Driving' "

That is correct.

Our refrigerator just started acting up and it's only about half a year old! Luckily it is still within its service warranty, but we are scrambling to save what we have in it until a repair person gets out here. Yep, Chinese crap!

Drive burnt out on my computer today. Why? Because the cooling fan was not held in place with bolts, but with little rubbery springy gobs that have disintergrated over the last four years, so the fan fell down and the drive over-heated.

I don't have any large appliances that are less than 50 years old for just this reason. The exception would be my flatscreen tv, which, in my history, lasts 3 years.

My girlfriend is watching 1970's TV like Three's Company. What constituted normal behavior back then would be considered sexual harassment by today's standards.

You mean you can't put your hand on waitresses' butts anymore?

As primitive as the games are, even compared to the 2600 that came out the same year, I'd still like to see a revival of the console with some homebrews or game fixes. I even told ATGames Bill L. they should make a Telstar Arcade Flashback.

Cool.

That's cool! I tried getting one a few years back, but they wanted a fortune for them here.

I just logged into my work account from my home Win10 PC. No problem here, with both Outlook and Excel (didn't try the rest).

because long ago, when the windows 10 OS was still young, Bill gates sold his soul to make it as user unfriendly as possible. The program became Office 365 which if spelled backwards, spells 666. makes sense to me

I was just in the E.R. today, laying on a bed for hours on end, someone next to me (I could hear everything), was a 39 year old Brit, who stated he works 73 hours, here in the U.S., per week.  He was showing all the signs of a future heart failure.

Bad work days suck!  Going to the E.R. sucks!  (Obviously heart failure and 73 hour workweeks suck too)...I hope work improves Swami,...And I hope everything's all right CPUWIZ...Health issues and work issues are truly the worst...But with work issues IMO, you always get the idea that it doesn't have to be bad.  What is it with bosses and coworkers?

A proper bad day can set me to tears within a few hours- but I work retail, so a proper bad day is lines around the corner, with an overflowing dressing room I can't get away to clean, no backup, AND customers screaming at me about what a terrible job I'm doing becuase the store's a mess and the lines are long.

Today is a one day sale, and as best as I can tell, I'm the only person on the entire floor for the first 2-3 hours (we need a minimum of 4 for decent coverage). Unless they snuck someone in off-schedule, today might be a bad day.

Yeah it doesn't appear to get too good of reviews.  I never heard of it.  I usually stick to Asus, LG, Lenovo. etc. for computer parts.

Does it always have to be restarted twice for it to work?  I'd return it.  I never had such a problem with an external optical drive.  I recently needed to order a new wi-fi adapter for one my my laptops.  There were a gazillion off brand ones on ebay for $5, but I paid $10 for a D-Link branded one.  Plugged it in, and Windows 10 instantly saw it and it started working right away.

I'll try the LG one. Thanks. I think I got the Valoin one because it was USB 3.0 and the LG ones were all 2.0. I saw the rating is down a lot now. Higher ratings were probably due to plants.

@jd_1138 As long as it's plugged in it continues to work. If you unplug the DVD player and plug it in again later, maybe after a computer restart(?) the first time the laptop doesnt see it, after restart it sees it, but can't read it, so you manually start the DVD and it says to insert disk even when one's in it, after another laptop restart it works. After both restarts Dell says it has been updated.