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And with the season comes the annual 'family-is-coming-over-for-Christmas' housecleaning, in which my back screams in protest two hours into it. Joyous.
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I miss The Fast Show.
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Kompressor break your glowstick. Kompressor eat your candy.
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Having now experienced what it's like to have the background music for the arcade versions of Vulgus and Chelnov stuck in my head since the weekend, it's understandable as to why trepanning was once considered to be a good idea.
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Baseball-sized hail. I'm so looking forward to making this year's second insurance claim for that.
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@Hwlngmad: yup, that would be the same storm that hit us last night. We also got hit by the one at the end of April. Going out to inspect damage now; pretty sure we got at least a couple of holes in the roof.
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If you're not going to call it 'Nemesis', the correct pronunciation is, "gray-dee-us". "Graw-dee-us" is just wrong
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Nicely done with the A8 / 7800 Ballblazer comparison!
I'm just amazed that there're any 7800 Ballblazer cartridges still containing their original POKEYs
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Ah, actually I can elaborate on "my" Ballblazer story-
We had a game store here, very early in my collecting days(three or four years ago, lol), had stacks and stacks of 2600 games, and a few 7800 games, mostly all 1$ each, big discount to buy more.
They had a stack of mebbe 5 Ballblazer carts, it occured to me to "stock up", but I just didn't, I had no idea it would be so sought after.
The store is closed down now, so I missed that boat.
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The ending theme to 'Spaceballs' has been stuck in my head all morning.
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I prefer Gaplus to Galaga.
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Gaplus & Galaga 3 are the same game.
Gaplus released first and no one knew it was part of the Galaga universe, the arcade earnings were poor. The game was too hard after parsect-sector 9. They release an "update" kit to with a few roms changing the title screen to read Galaga 3 along with a replacement marquee.
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Would Kee Games have bought Atari with the profits from the sale of hot tubs and weed to Nolan Bushnell?
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"Burn it down down, burn down Hot Topic
"Don't let it steal your soul away."
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Ah, full moon in two days. Perhaps that explains the uptick in the number of cases of ass being experienced on the forum.
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Damned if I know what exactly it was that I did, but that client now has VPN access to their network.
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This was a weird one. The VPN connection would establish 100% of the time, but DNS wasn't working. I also couldn't reach any internal hosts, but it would ping straight out to the Internet over the tunnel and return results.
I eventually ended up (mostly) duplicating the VPN config from a working machine and everything was hunky-dory after that. No firewall, routing, etc. changes were made. ?♂️
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The larch.
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Will cleaning the condenser make the Jeep's A/C good enough to not need a recharge this summer? Probably not, but, screw it, let's do it anyway!
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A guy I work with has a Jeep and No AC, but he can take the top off...In fact he forgot, went home, and left the hard top outside one day. We freaked him out as we moved it to our back room so it wouldn't get stolen or used for nefarious purposes by the nearby homeless peeps under the bridge. He breathed a sigh of relief seeing it in our back room when he came in.
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Jeep - Just Empty Every Pocket
Conversation with a neighbour last Summer:
"Did you ever get around to fixing the A/C in that Peugeot?"
"Nope."
"Well, why not? You've only had it for like four years!"
"Yeah, but we also own a Jeep."
(The neighbour in question is a coot in the best sense of the term, and a serious car guy, especially '50s Mopars. He and his wife are probably the best neighbours we've ever had.)
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Unexpected side effect of the loosening of COVID restrictions: I am now free to make my annual pilgrimage to the gas station nacho bar, which inevitably results in a year of reinforcement as to why I don't do this more often.
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Chicken tikka masala and saffron rice topped with kimchi: even more tasty than I thought it might be.
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Dear eBay sellers: that RARE and VINTAGE light gun for the Atari 2600 you're all selling for stupid amounts of money? Yeah, those came bundled with swap-meet Famiclones. And they're complete and utter garbage.
Happy to be of assistance!
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That "Polluting the Search Results" reminds me of some years back when I bought a Sega CDX. I was on eBay and some fools were putting the term "CDX" into their stock Sega Genesis auctions. It was so bad that for every actual CDX there'd be 3 or 4 Genesis auctions. Myself and some other unknown cohorts began bombarding them with questions like where do the CDs go? and so on. Eventually some of them pulled their auctions (and a few may have pulled their heads out). I don't think they knew any better, it was just, they saw someone else had done it, so...
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I encountered a seller who kept listing single games with the phrase "Lot's of Fun" in the title in order to get their listings included when you searched for lots. They were pretty rude to me when I wrote and asked them to knock it off... like they had a whole little smartass response already planned out. I then complained to eBay and fortunately their exploit ended soon after.
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Be confused by my status and wallaby uprisings in Sierra Leone will bring great fortune to the lingerie-industrial complex.
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@leech: didn't want to pollute the thread with this, so here's the playthrough of level 3 on R-Type.
Spoiler: I die at about the point the level would have been finished, but it should be good enough to get the idea across.
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By the time that the 4th of July weekend rolls around, I will have driven 7,000-plus miles in a one-month period.
It's been a long time since I've done this much driving. I'm liking it.
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Trip 1: obtain a rear windscreen for the car that got it knocked out in the hailstorm we had at the end of April. It's a Peugeot, so options were slim. 2800-mile round trip.
Trip 2: Go to Kansas to look at another car. 800-mile round trip.
Trip 3: Go to Texas to look at another car. 400-mile round trip. At least this one panned out.
Trip 4: Collect new car from Texas, add another 400 to the clock.
Trip 5 (upcoming): Deliver new car to owner. 2800-mile round trip.
All of that is just point-to-point mileage without any running around factored in, so the total will probably be closer to 8000 when all is said and done.
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The status updates are not a clown car. Full of clowns, sure, but not a clown car.
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Let's say that a 5200 and a 7800 got really, Really, REALLY drunk one night and had a back-alley liaison that resulted in a single offspring being produced.
Would the most logical name for said offspring be 13000 (5200 + 7800), or would it be 6500 ((5200 + 7800) / 2)?
We need to figure this out, people. It's important.
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Let's see, I like the 6500. The numbers in the Atari line had 4 digits (2600, 5200, 7800) unless they were computers (400, 600, 800)
I do notice that the console had even-ish numbers that you could divide by 2 and get a clean number (5200/2=2600. 7800/2=3900.
6500/2 = 3950... kinda need that double zero at the end.
So I would just make it 6600 /2=3300.
People in the bible belt would go off on how it is too close to 666 and a "evil union of the 5200 and 7800", you get all that free publicity, sales soar, win win!
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