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Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast

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This is just a more verbose way of saying the

Old person: Why don’t kids want to go outside these days?

The outside they built:

meme.

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I’m currently excited for the batch of ice cream setting up in my freezer. gonna be tasty.

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“Poor man’s ice cream from '49”

Vanilla flavor. I’ve got some apples I intend to bake, and some strawberries I’ve cut up, it’ll go great with both.

While the original publisher of the recipe called it “Poor man’s ice cream” and it is indeed quite inexpensive to make, I prefer to think of it as homemade soft serve. It comes out with a much softer smoother texture than traditionally churned ice cream; you’re in no danger of bending a tablespoon in this stuff. It also requires no churn; it can be made with more multifunctional tools like a hand or stand mixer.

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Didn’t he cast his daughter as one?

Yeah, according to Wookiepedia, Katie Lucas has actually had a few small roles and cameos in the prequel trilogy as well as several writing credits in The Clone Wars. In Episode 2, you know that sports bar scene? “I don’t want to sell you death sticks/Jedi business go back to your drinks” as they’re walking around a Twi’lek extra in the background turns and checks out Anakin, that’s her.

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Some of the people are robots.

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I know, right? ICQ managed to survive when MSN, Yahoo and AIM were all killed by Facebook Messenger?

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Wizardry was ground breaking in 1981. I’m not sure how well it has aged. I bet a lot of modern gamers would enjoy a youtube video essay about it more than actually playing it.

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I refer to that “the devs like it shitty” thing you get out of moderately old FOSS software “GIMP syndrome” because GIMP has it the loudest. A legitimately capable piece of software that you’re an idiot for using because good UX is considered a bug by the developers. Best to just let it die in obscurity and create something new from scratch than attempt to fork it.

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I don’t think Inkscape has GIMP syndrome; it’s my understanding that Inkscape is just missing some features that make it a non-starter rather than a deliberately shit UI.

FreeCAD has GIMP syndrome which hopefully will soon be remedied.

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You know those cheap Disney ripoff movies? Like Finding Nemo comes out and then anyone with a copy of Blender and a few hundred bucks to spend on distribution starts selling “The Little Lost Fish?” The video game equivalent of that is called shovelware.

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I once ran a poll on Reddit asking why people switched to Linux. More people responded it was because Microsoft launched a new hated version of Windows than Microsoft discontinued an old beloved version. ie more people switched because Win 8 came out than Win 7 died.

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Yeah, my hypothesis is that most of the folks who will object to Windows 11’s bullshit enough to switch to Linux already have by now. There likely will be another bump in transitions at Win 10’s EoL but not as many as who have switched since the rollout of Win 11 already.

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Meanwhile I still think there’s that group of folks out there who want to decompile the game looking for lore in the code comments.

There’s a Rat Man den in Portal 2, it’s in a later section of the game after you’ve climbed out of the depths, you can get behind the scenes and there’s a niche with a big fan in it, and Rat Man has built kind of a shrine of coffee mugs. And if you listen, under the harsh electro music and the sound effect of the fan, you can hear a sort of insane jibbering, as if Rat Man is still there raving to himself.

Fans of the game hungry for any more lore or story hints, have put more thought into this sound clip than the folks who made it and put it in the game.

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So stop being their customer.

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Still not convinced they’re for sale in my region.

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ironically a weeb would never wear that.

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Hell yeah give him the Ron Popeil treatment.

Are you tired of your life as an authoritarian dictator? We sure are! Introducing the Ronco laser guided AGM-114R9X Instant Ginsu. Watch as the patented steel blades cut through the roof of this SUV, and are still tomato slicing sharp. Makes your darks darker and your whites redder. Order now for your six Instant Ginsu blades and receive a 100 pound kinetic warhead absolutely free, you just pay shipping and handling. Call 1-800-382-5968. Sorry, no CODs.

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Was it GameChamp3000? That’s their MO; beating BotW without climbing, beating Sonic without pushing right, etc.

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I’m pretty sure I couldn’t with Sony because I don’t think I could name a single first-party game from Sony.

Microsoft is a tricky one because of how many studios they’ve bought, and I’m not sure how many platforms the PC counts as (at least three: DOS, the DOS-based Windows era and the Windows NT era.

I cannot for the Steam Deck because I’m not sure Valve has made a total of 25 games.

I’m not as familiar with Sega as I am Nintendo but they were and still are a developer in addition to the platform owner.

Atari is not impossible; it’s probably possible to come up with a list of 25 first party titles that were considered great that were published for the 2600 or for their 8-bit computers.

If I’m going to give it a go, I think I’d go for Nintendo on either the NES or SNES, though for the SNES I think I would have to ask if I’m allowed to count titles made by Rare and I bet someone would clap back if I included Super Mario All Stars.

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Here’s the difference:

On the Super Nintendo, I can name 20 great, all-time classic games if restricted to first and second party titles, so made by Nintendo and Rare. If you open me up to 3rd party titles I can probably come up with 100 all time classics like Lufia or Desert Strike.

On the N64, I’m going to struggle to make it to 20 all-time classics if restricted to first and second party titles, and I might make it to 25 if you let me have the whole catalog. Of the remaining 350+ games made for the system, some of them were unfinished garbage like Superman 64, some of them were badly designed crap like Quest 64, and a lot of them were competent but not memorable things like Extreme-G or The New Tetris, competently made and legitimately fun games we played, finished, put away and forgot about forever.

Us N64 owners tend to have very similar memories of the platform. There aren’t many hidden gems to rediscover.

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Bringing up the topic of nostalgia, I think there are two audiences to talk to here: Those who had those old systems at the time they were relevant and those who weren’t.

I mentioned the game Extreme-G. That was a personal favorite of mine. I occasionally set up an old CRT and my old N64 and during my nostalgia trip Extreme-G and Extreme-G 2 both spend some time running. Just hearing the British cyberpunk announcer chick say “mull tee pull miss aisle” makes 25 year old neurons fire. And I also fully acknowledge that it was an above average 8.1/10 game, that it’s basically Mario Kart hosed down with Axe body spray, the Forsaken brand of 90’s drum & bass cyberpunk is a bit passe these days, and despite the very fast graphics kids these days are going to look at it and go “…okay. Pretty low resolution, isn’t it?”

And from that perspective, I don’t think the N64 aged well at all. Even Ocarina of Time, hailed for over a decade as the greatest video game ever made…is aging like a potato. It kept for a long time but it’s starting to show wrinkles and is distressingly wet on the bottom.

On c/games@sh.itjust.works or however you do that on Lemmy I answered the question “Was Wizardry a good series?” with “Was. Yes.” Because Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord was phenomenal…in 1981. You just couldn’t get computer entertainment like that in the Carter administration. Not sure how well it holds up 43 years on.

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how is babby shot web?

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What, does it talk like that grey bluetooth speaker often featured on Dankpods?

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In the movie, I think it is established that humans enslaved by Ra built the pyramids both on Earth and on Abydos. SG-1 probably leaves it there but opens the possibility to Unas or Jaffa as well.

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SG-1 was made at a time when TV shows could have a range of tones and still make it work.

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