I bought a bunch of hard to find NES games dirt cheap from Funco/Funcoland back then.

Anyone that remembers Aliens: Colonial Marines and Duke Nukem Forever knows that Randy Pitchford is garbage. He also ran off most of the talent behind BL1 and BL2, which is why BL3 writing was shitty.

Ah, my mistake. If only our souls were as pristine and premium as Randy Pitchford lmao

What a total dick. Lots of people with high end PCs are all saying how it runs like shit, so what’s the next excuse?

Finally a mod worthy of installing!

This shit looks like a low budget Dr. Who antagonist. Nope Nope Nope

Windows 10 had already done a great job of that, but Windows 11 has really amped it up. I only have a single Windows machine in the house at this point for specific corporate stuff I need for work.

FF3 on the NES had summoning too

They were granted the patent in the US in this case.

There was a sci-fi book called Parable of the Sower in the early 90s that had it as the slogan of a shitty fascist president. It’s worth a read and will feel especially creepy right now.

I’d take that page with a grain of salt, especially since it is quite old and not all of it valid anymore, but I agree that generally you hear the good things about Matrix. Even disregarding what that site has to say, I’d give XMPP a look. XMPP likely isn’t all rainbows either, but I like the traction it is getting and it did a lot of things right in my mind.

I’m not the person you replied to, but a lot of my friends that pushed us to initially use Matrix have grown unhappy with the direction it’s gone and really dislike the clients. I personally host a private Matrix server and I am fine with it for now, but I’m able to avoid most of the drama and bugs by simply not moving to the latest and greatest. I always liked XMPP in the past, but I haven’t used it in a few years. I am glad to see it picking up support and hope that some of the things I didn’t like about it (which I can’t seem to recall at the moment :) ) are no longer problems or at least may get some traction on resolving.

Perfect for Florida!

IRC is still awesome and I am have come back to it every time whatever new platform we try becomes shitty. I think I’ll just stay put this time.

I confirmed this with my own SDR years ago after seeing a presentation about it at DEFCON.

Starting fights today are we?

Although I don’t hate my PS5 (it’s the only console i still use), I do think the launch PS3 was peak Playstation. Yeah, it did have a “Homer car” vibe to it by including everything and the kitchen sink, but it was truly amazing.

Nice to see posts from lobsters making it over here

They require that the kids use the Chromebooks and use Google accounts.

I have always enjoyed Burning Chrome by William Gibson. It’s OG cyberpunk sci-fi, it includes the Johnny Mnemonic short story the 90s movie was (loosely) based on.