Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast
There was actually a tape format called VCR. Made by Phillips, I believe it was the first video tape system that recorded a high quality signal in color available to consumers. It was test marketed in the PAL regions, proving to have reliability issues, and then JVC launched VHS later that year and Phillips gave up.
They did later reduce the Ti-84 Silver to 48K. Still…idiots.
The Ti-83 Plus Silver Edition and early models of the Ti-84 Plus Silver Edition had 128K of RAM, upgraded from the typical 28 or 48 that the 83 Plus or 84 Plus had. But the additional RAM was impossible to use as the OS had not been altered to address it.
The Leatherman Skeletool is currently available in several varieties, including the long-running standard model with an unfinished stainless steel body, a chunk of aluminum in the handle, and a 420HC semi-serrated blade, and the Skeletool CX variant with…whatever the black coating is made of, a carbon fiber chunk in the handle, and a 154CM plain blade.
When the model was first introduced, the base model had a plain blade, and the CX had a semi-serrated blade. This was swapped, as they realized first time knife buyers were more likely to see the semi-serration as a value-add, while more serious knife guys would prefer a plain blade. So you might find a very old Skeletool with a plain 420HC blade, or an old CX with a semi-serrated 154CM blade.
Trackpad looked wrong is why I went PS4, but yeah you’re probably right.
“Researchers surveyed 1,000 women of all ages across the UK who play mobile games.”
Shows a picture of a woman holding what appears to be a PS4 controller.
Poifect.
KSP2 is a pretty apt comparison because it was fucked over by corporate acquisitions.
Someone had a vision, formed a studio called Squad, ran a very successful early access campaign and built a critically acclaimed game. Then, it was acquired by Take Two Interactive which of course has some parent company whatever, and then you start getting ideas like "We’ll make an expansion to the original game. No, we’ll make it a whole other game but it has to be based on the original code, which is a big pile of tech debt spaghetti. They put out some cool looking trailers, they show off some beautiful artwork, then the lizard people in the C suite say “Wait, we could make big profits this quarter if we shut down the whole studio, laid off all developers, and left the game as it is on sale on Steam.” Which is where the game is now.
This is the future of the Subnautica franchise under Krafton. Krafton, by causing this whole kerfluffle by being shitty dead souled businessmen, have already burned down Subnautica.
Last I saw of it, she had also resigned from the company, and then something something Gwyneth Paltrow?
First question: Why is it okay for payment processors to conduct censorship of any kind? Why is it their place to decide what is and is not buyable?
Second question: What’s the next thing some right-wing death cult is going to pressure them into censoring? Anything addressing minority rights? Any adult content at all? What about sex toys, birth control drugs, abortion drugs, hormone treatments? What else are they going to cull from society by saying “Get rid of this or we’re not going to allow you to do any business in the world?”
Absolutely not. I’m staying right here, and they’re going to have to kill me right here.
In about 2014 or 2015, there was a Mission Impossible movie being advertised with this annoying song that went “Ready or not, here I come” in an annoying nasally voice.
It played ahead of every Youtube video I watched for at least a month.
I will never watch another Mission Impossible movie again, I will not watch another Tom Cruise movie ever again, I don’t think I’ll watch any new spy or action movies ever again, and I may never watch a movie of any kind ever again.
I’m a vengeful asshole given to doing brain surgery with a back hoe.
I’ve got an old TRS-80 in stored-in-a-leaky-shed-for-40-years condition. I can also lay my hands on an AM/FM radio that I think dates to the 70’s.
I graduated high school in 2005, one out of some 300 of my graduating class. Had plenty of friends. Went to community college, several folks I knew from school went to the same community college, met plenty of new folks. Had plenty of friends. Transferred to university, had plenty of friends, got to know my roommates pretty close, that kind of thing.
Out of college, I disappeared into what I thought was going to be my career for a few years. When I came back up and looked around, I found myself in a different world with people that aren’t people anymore, there are walking talking eating shitting cell phone stands.
I don’t try to socialize for the same reason I don’t go hunting for Carolina parakeets: Interpersonal relationships aren’t a thing that exists in the world anymore. We killed them all and the corpse of the last one is on display behind glass at the Raleigh museum of Natural Sciences.
Concussion at an ice skating rink.
I’ll admit to liking the look of some gaming PCs, with a custom loop with clear tubing, colored coolant, coordinated lights; it hits the same way a well done build in Satisfactory does.
I’m not really interested in gaming peripherals like a big chunky mouse with a bunch of angled plates on it trying to look like Gigatron’s jock strap. Some RGB can be kind of cool, I kinda wish I could do more useful stuff with it, like I always throught it would be cool to have RGB lighting that varied from blue to red with component temperature or something. I’m not the biggest fan of just unicorn vomit for the sake of unicorn vomit.
In the 1940s or 50s. My family has owned it since the 60s.
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You know that cute thing vets do when they come out to the waiting room and call the cat’s name?
They won’t do that if you name your cat “Shithead”.
I wanted to be a pilot since I was a child. I got an introductory ride in a Cessna on my 14th birthday. Started taking flying lessons in earnest around 16, earned a private pilot’s license my freshman year of college. Decided I wanted to go into it as a job, started working on my instrument rating, and for my junior year of college I transferred to ERAU in Daytona Beach. Lasted just over a semester there. Ended up earning a light sport flight instructor certificate and I taught classes at a small school, eventually earning an LSRM certificate and working as the company mechanic as well. I’m a walking flight school, just add airplane.
Wasn’t earning enough money to pay all my own bills, and though I was logging 20-30 hours a week of flight time little of it was applicable to further ratings, and then the owners of the school started doing some sketchy shit and I decided to dip out. In the summer of 2012 I landed after a lesson with a student, and I haven’t flown an airplane since.
I kinda built myself a job as the project manager of a little job shop/prototyping firm, then that business didn’t survive COVID. I’m a woodworker now.
I don’t think anything you just said is correct.
I cannot find anything about a tape format called “LP-2000” that came out in 1970.
Phillips released the VCR format in 1972, and a successor Video 2000 in 1979. Most people on earth have not heard of these, because they weren’t nearly as successful as Sony’s Betamax format which lost the format war to…
VHS. Made by JVC, Japan Victor Corporation, at the time owned by Matsushita…and/or Panasonic? Not Phillips.
The first VHS deck was released by JVC under the Victor brand name in 1976, three years before Video 2000. If VHS is a successor to anything, it’s U-Matic.