“Space,” it says, “is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space. Listen…” and so on.
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3·5 days agoJojo Rabbit is like if Wes Anderson and Leni Riefenstahl collaborated.
1·11 days agoNo they didn’t. Go read the Budapest Memorandum. It’s short.
3·13 days agoI just sit around in my bathrobe until I’m dry enough to put on clothes.
Where’s the “check Caps Lock key” step?
13·16 days agoAnd it’s still here in the 2020s.
What about those of us who pirated in the early '80s?
The computer lab at my junior high was basically one big floppy copying/trading center. It was great.
My school had one of those. One day we got the idea to tie one of the kids to it around his waist and make him run around to spin it. I still remember our teacher asking “where’s Willy?” once recess was over, then looking out the window to see him desperately trying to untie himself.
Balances*
101·24 days agoWine is not an emulator.
There was a retail chain called Christmas Tree Shops, and while they weren’t exclusively Christmas-themed, it was certainly a part of their brand. I recently learned they closed all stores after over 50 years in business.
Oh, I played them both. I didn’t really care for II’s splitting the game into 8 “worlds”, I preferred the original’s single huge dungeon, but I did enjoy it.
Game: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Book: Ender’s Game TV Show: Tom Baker Doctor Who Movie: The Sixth Sense
Oh man, Ultima Underworld was mind-blowing in its time.
Don’t forget that you can also prevent a closed door from being opened by shooting the control panel.
No, it’s from a game called Total Distortion.
Shocking! Well, not that shocking.
Possibly Fargo, there’s a scene where she’s clumsily hit on by a colleague.
Edit: Just checked, Fargo season 3 episode 3.
I think any change in style can be explained by the change in angle that the writer needed to adjust to as they moved down the board.
Reminds me of a setup I had for local serial multiplayer on my Atari ST. I had cable going from the ST’s 25 pin serial port to a 9-pin connector, a gender changer, a null modem module, then 9-pin back to 25-pin. But hey, it worked.