Remember PDAs? The only games that things had were mineswipper, solitaire, chess, sudoku among others.
Space Trader and Dope Wars, all the way. Still worth playing today! You can emulate it on Archive.org or there’s Android ports for Space Trader. Still a fun game. :D
Unfortunately same with Bill Nye. He seemed so pissed at getting recognized by people at a symposium.
Like geeze dude sorry you inspired people as kids and encouraged them to pursue science and they’re excited to meet you.
It probably sounds a little weird, but while I was sitting at the safety of my “occupy a desk until someone asks questions” job that sapped my soul, I often would research places I really, really wouldn’t want to be.
In a weird way I find this “Dark tourism behind a screen” to be a bit fascinating in a "safe danger " kind of way.
Reading the state department’s notices on some countries really puts in perspective. They’re like “Don’t go here without an armored vehicle, armed security detail, and most preferably a good friggin reason. Even still, have a next of kin lined up and ransom plans.”
Edit: also “Oh yeah, if everything goes bad off embassy grounds (if there even is one) our ability to intervene is limited. Don’t expect direct support to come save you.”
Like. Damn.
I’d say inside the country, it’s not as bad as the news makes it sound, because cameras are only pointing at the worst events. It’s a pretty big country and most people are content to just leave each other alone.
…But a huge radius around the borders or airports are “Constitution-free” zones where nobody has any rights, and our borders/customs folks have a reputation for being less than kind. And those zones, bad enough as they are, are so freakishly large that most people in any populated area are within those zones…so…
…Yeah, maybe wait. . .
before I learned about the Dubai porta potty
I was expecting some sort of ridiculous public sanitation custom. I knew about suspicious weird stories about models “getting on flights and never coming back” but the details make it even worse.
Wish there were people like John Wick to move through these grotesque billionaire circles and purge the monsters entirely.
I have always had zero interest of travelling to or supporting the place, and this only reinforces that.
Hehe me sitting here with my 9800 GTX++ wondering what the heck to do with it. 😂
Kinda wanted to make a retro gaming machine but, sheesh I bet it’s such a power hog these days!
Stability aside, I loved ME’s personalization stuff, all the themes and sounds and icons and everything they included out of the box to encourage you to make it feel like “yours.”
I wish they had kept with that into later versions.
Thankfully KDE fills that void for me now. :D
Dunno if she wrote “thumbs” or the collab with Alan Walker, which I always thought were kinda based, but she was just starting to get popular then maybe. Really sad if she’s let the fame go to her head that badly.
A soul is a terrible thing to waste. :(
Thanks! Added. :D
BTW. . .
“On your left!”
Lol I could keep going all night if I don’t stop myself and I’ve work in the morning. XD
(Edit: Some new ones)
I saw it in my head just reading it. Absolutely moving.
I can’t get through
Sam’s monologue
With dry eyes either. That speech has kept me going, so many times. I’ve even posted it in various places on Lemmy as a counter to the sheer hopelessness and defeatism (understandably) pervading a lot of threads.
I often consider getting it wholly or partially inscribed on me.
“Everybody’s going to the party, have a real good time… … Dancin’ in the desert, blowin’ up the sun-shine…”
–System of a Down, “B.Y.O.B”
This made me laugh way more than it should have rofl
Meanwhile, the dolphins decided to sneak out the back.
… At least they thanked us for the fish.
This sounds like a way to die in one of the Space Quest games lol.
I actually felt like the Elder Scrolls games handled this elegantly. The interactable doors could be wonky but also strategic, but for cell changing doors, on today’s hardware you barely even notice the loading screen.
It felt like it kept each area of the game nice and concise, but also it still felt so connected! Especially with how characters could follow you between cell changes after Morrowind. (SURPRISE, pants-ruining Oblivion guard jumpscare!)
[Early Resident Evil Titles have entered the chat]
A browser based Doom or Quake engine world sim to run around playing with others sounds like such an awesome concept. I’d love that!! And in the 90"s no less. That would’ve been crazy impressive.
Microsoft and MMOs, man. I remember they were gonna make a really neat online fantasy one for the Xbox and canned it, too.
That’s such a wild story. Thanks for sharing that with us! I wish they wouldn’t have cold shouldered you like that…
Here’s how I was imagining that went down the whole time I was reading it lmao. Just for you.
“Cat? Dog? Pig? LOAF OF BREAD. SYSTEM ERROR!”
I used to love those Kairosoft simulator games. They get a little samey after a while but you get the whole game which is cool