@octothorpe Well yes but then he needs tools, and River's a fuckup. And then there's an angry French guy with a shotgun, and angrier French outside…
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"Previous generations didn't have phones and media distractions!"@octothorpe True, but if you had a Game Genie or whatever you could snapshot, and there were always cheats in magazines. up up down down left right left right B A
Other day I was playing Defender (emulated Atari 800) and kept clearing waves for like 10, 15 minutes. I was *done* when I died, had enough stimulation for a few days. Could've snapshotted & restarted.
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"Previous generations didn't have phones and media distractions!""Previous generations didn't have phones and media distractions!"
WTF you talking about? We had MTV, Cinemax, HBO (Hey Beastmaster's On!). You could spend 24/7 watching that.
We had phones, land-lines you had to talk to one person at a time; girls would spend their lives on the phone.
We had videogames. Just one more try at an impossibly hard game with a time limit and no saves, not like baby-easy games now (Soulslikes excepted).
We had BBS's, which you can't imagine the flame wars.
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Somehow the Maquis resistance fighters were the bad guys and the Bajoran resistance fighters were the good guys but both were fighting the Cardassians. #tng@octothorpe @bigzaphod The Doylist answer is just that Roddenberry was making "Wagon Train in Space", so hostile natives, half-assed colonies, and gunboat diplomacy are the genre, even if that's holy shit not so cool now. He was half-woke on gender & race, at least.
Expanse is very Cold War, which was a little weird in 2010s.
Star Trek fears genetic engineering and AI, so Banks' Culture isn't possible. And even that has some assimilation resistance is futile overtones.
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Somehow the Maquis resistance fighters were the bad guys and the Bajoran resistance fighters were the good guys but both were fighting the Cardassians. #tng@octothorpe @bigzaphod Also there's a *lot* of really shitty shake-n-bake colonies, where people farm or mine and die to alien monsters. TOS had some shady penal/psych ward hellholes like "Dagger of the Mind", too. Kirk came from a half-genocided planet.
I don't like the centralized, Starfleet-run Federation government. Do "citizens" even get to vote, or is it just a military dictatorship? Why is Earth allowed to control life & economy on some planet 1000s of LY away?
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Happy Point Guy Takes All the iOS 18 Bullets Day to those who celebrate.Happy Point Guy Takes All the iOS 18 Bullets Day to those who celebrate.
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12 Lycanthropeshttps://www.tumblr.com/meanwhilebackinthedungeon/38104458663/random-encounter-lycanthropes-are-a-bestial#rpg #ttrpg -
♫ Some people get byWith a little understandingSome people get byWith a whole lot more ♫ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BURM7l6_pvg#music #sistersofmercy♫ In the temple of love, shine like thunder
In the temple of love, cry like rain
In the temple of love, hear my calling
In the temple of love, hear my name ♫
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK7QM5C7pBU
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♫ Some people get byWith a little understandingSome people get byWith a whole lot more ♫ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BURM7l6_pvg#music #sistersofmercy♫ Some people get by
With a little understanding
Some people get by
With a whole lot more ♫
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BURM7l6_pvg
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My torrent/extra crap drive has been clicky and failing sometimes, but not always. So now I'm gonna move stuff to new drive… hopefully.@octothorpe Yeah, I've just moved up from 5TB to 10TB for my stuff drive, so it's really just opportunity and time for backups, not that much $.
It's kind of ridiculous how much I paid for my slow-ass 4TB (3TB) DROBO back in the day.
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My torrent/extra crap drive has been clicky and failing sometimes, but not always. So now I'm gonna move stuff to new drive… hopefully.My torrent/extra crap drive has been clicky and failing sometimes, but not always. So now I'm gonna move stuff to new drive… hopefully.
I have backups local and online of my important stuff, but all the crap I accumulate doesn't have good backups, because there's just too much. Need to invest a few hundred in two duplicates of the new drive and get a whole new backup regimen going.
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MariaDB gets bought by chop shop investors: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/10/mariadb-goes-private-with-new-ceo-as-k1-closes-acquisition/MariaDB gets bought by chop shop investors: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/10/mariadb-goes-private-with-new-ceo-as-k1-closes-acquisition/
K1 claims it won't Toys'R'Us it, but keep selling to the Axis of Evil: "U.S. Department of Defense, Nokia, RedHat, Samsung, and Deutsche Bank." What, no tobacco or oil companies‽
In any case, I have for 20 years only used* SQLite for local, PostgreSQL for server, and that's real good advice for you, too.
* (for myself, when paid I've supported Oracle DB, MS SQL Server <barf>, and MySql.)
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I post a lot of funk, soul, R&B, etc, but really, I don't think there's a genre of music I don't like.@jackbrewster @octothorpe That probably moved a lot of them further right, but country was getting bad in late '80s-90s. Note that RevCocks did Beers+Steers+Queers in 1990. Yee-haw.
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I post a lot of funk, soul, R&B, etc, but really, I don't think there's a genre of music I don't like.@octothorpe I like outlaw country, and a few older soft ones like Bob Denver & Dolly, but modern, law-enforcement country is so fucking awful I can't believe Nashville still exists.
A lot of rap is completely useless to me. But hit me with Public Enemy, Beasties, or Fugees, and I'm cool.
There is very little jazz I can listen to, it's incoherent and that's distracting.
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I find the spin on Apple Intelligence features being “delayed” fascinating. They never said 18.0, fuckers.@tewha I don't think Apple should announce products they can't ship same day. What happened to keep your mouth shut?
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This series of Slow Horses is gonna be REALLY tough.@octothorpe Yeah, that's gonna be rough. I don't watch shows that are too close to my problems…
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This series of Slow Horses is gonna be REALLY tough.@octothorpe Well sure, who wants to watch anything on Wednesday‽ It should be a Friday night show.
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Rust has really innovated in fields like memory safety (while ignoring GC which already exists), failing to meet performance goals, and whining about not being everyone's favorite language.Rust has really innovated in fields like memory safety (while ignoring GC which already exists), failing to meet performance goals, and whining about not being everyone's favorite language.
"No, what is wrong with you‽" is their motto for 2024.
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WTF archive search?WTF archive search?
I'm just looking for horror comics by the Hostess with the Mostest.
Not some Jesus shit. BIBLE OF THE LIGHT? Angels and Immortality?
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https://www.arcadeattack.co.uk/rob-fulop/#atari #retrogaming