“Everything printed by Tabloid is automatically capitalized, and an exclamation point is added. Why would you want anything else?”

Finally an opinionated programming language with the right priorities.

This is for me.

I love open hardware and the modern 8-bit game scene.

Good point. With the specs fully open, hopefully we get a portable of this, at some point.

I want to spend Christmas at Lance’s house.

If one person has never used Twitter, I think they get all three antidote doses.

One could argue Tetris could carry the whole competition alone, but it is joined by Mario Brothers, Duck Hunt, Spy Hunter, and Gauntlet in 1985

I would leave it at that, except Pac-Man, Frogger, Galaga, Defender, and Donkey Kong make 1981 a contender

That’s a fair point. I enjoyed the game later out of curiosity - but it wasn’t a “this is your only Christmas gift” kick in the gut, for me.

they’re all some random platformer which sometimes alluded to they had a movie name.

That’s a good point. E.T. was not alone in this, and had more to do with it’s movie that many games that followed.

I played E.T. relatively recently to remind myself what the fuss was about.

The game plays fine (with average Atari bugginess).

It just stands out as an early huge miss for a movie tie in. Almost nothing about the game feels like the movie, or is particularly anything a fan of the movie would seem likely to enjoy.

I say “almost” because the exploring kind of fits. The same exploring that is constantly frustratingly interrupted by pit falls.

It’s really not that bad of a game, though.

I’d argue Superman 64 for the N64 is a worse game by all measures.

I’ve spent some unfortunate time with both, and can confirm. Superman 64 is worse by a pretty large margin.

E.T. is genuinely playable, after a needlessly awful learning curve. Superman 64 still continues to suck even for (shudder) players who have put in the necessary time to learn to play it.

Edit: As others have said before: E.T. is a decent game, it’s just a lousy choice for an E.T. tie-in.

Fans of a beloved highly polished film masterpiece about gentle communication and wide eyed exploration discovered the Atari game was a nearly unfinished punishing high stress race against a merciless clock - which frequently abruptly ended any aspiration a player had of discovering anything beyond the same pit they fell into many times before.

Are you considerimg turning down a promotion (with more pay or progression to more pay?) because a couple of coworkers talk too much?

I would rather space out while they gossip and daydream about all the extra money I’m going to make.

I would absolutely not raise this concern with my boss. Since my job includes needing to work well with all kinds of people, raising your concern would be career limiting, for me.

Sweet. It worked this time.

I hate having to reboot the simulation.

Edit: Debug: Did this post inside the sim?

Shit shit shit. Where’s that rollback script? And stop logging this to that comment-

Yes. Sadly Linux viruses are doing well, today. I suppose it is a reflection of Linux’s success.

I recall IR game controllers of that era were only particularly bad when I got excited, nervous or too focused on the game, and let them point a millimeter away from the sensor…so they only really thoroughly failed exactly when it cost me the most in the game. Haha.

Congratulations! You should get a cake.

“If you don’t want to carry it home, that’s okay. I can bring the smell home for us with a quick roll in it.”

If it’s all dumped into a single commit, I will whip your computer into the nearest body of water and tell you to go fish it out.

I’m going to steal this for an update to an internal guidance document for my dev team. Thank you.

When unsure of what the Captcha is trying to learn from me, I find “Kill all humans.” is a pretty good guess what the Captcha is really after.

“I’m sorry too, Dmitri. I’m very sorry. All right, you’re sorrier than I am. But I am sorry as well. I am as sorry as you are, Dmitri. Don’t say that you’re the more sorry than I am because I am capable of being just as sorry as you are. So we’re both sorry, all right? All right.”

Oh, gee. A Microsoft product that worked perfectly locally is about to require a subscription. Who could have possibly guessed that would happen, yet again? (This is sarcasm.)

I really like OneNote, but I decided to learn something else when I realized which way the wind was blowing.