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wa7iut

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Licensed since 1967. Boise, Idaho, USA. Doing a lot of wireless IoT professionally (mainly BLE). Working on getting back on the air, with a magnetic loop this time. Like SWL'ing and CW.

Getting Started with Bluetooth Low Energy book:
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/getting-started-with/9781491900550/

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The most overrated video games of all time – according to me:

  1. Pong – Pong is not the “first video game” that everyone thinks it is. Hell, it’s not even the first game that’s like Pong. Tennis came out for the Magnavox Odyssey first, and it was essentially the same game anyway.
  2. Mega Man – as a series, Mega Man is great. But that first Mega Man isn’t so great. It was incredibly rough and tedious. Mega Man only got great with Mega Man II.
  3. Elder Scrolls: Arena – the only reason this game has the reputation that it has is because it’s the first game in the series. But wow! Are the controls bloody terrible! I would not wish them on my worst enemy.
  4. Goldeneye – let’s be honest, the only reason this game has the reputation that it has is because it was an okay FPS, with a movie license, on a Nintendo console. That’s right, just an okay-ish game with terrible controls. If we’re being honest, Quake blows it out of the water even in the multiplayer department.
  5. Postal – the only reason this game exists is to offend mom and dad. Otherwise, it’s entirely purposeless and is a meaningless shooter that’s boring as hell. If not for the edginess, we would deem this yet another casual game.
wa7iut,
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@atomicpoet

back in 1972 Pong was amazing tho. I remember playing it over beers in a bar in Moscow, ID on a table like this:

wa7iut,
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@atomicpoet

what was significant about it back then (to me) was, at the time, about the only way we got to interact with computers was punch cards for input and 132 column paper printout for output. This was in the engineering school. So interacting with a video display and knobs was a very different experience.

As far as games go, I wouldn’t know. Other than a few years back when Angry Birds was popular, I don’t play any.

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