Random stupid things on your mind. Post them.

[McPhallus]

Classic, classic, classic. The HALO of its day.

I wonder how many Gen Y people and later think the "first" Wolfenstein was the one ID Software released back in '92.  I'm betting they have no clue what it was like to stare in wonder at a monochrome green screen.

[HAL 9000]

I wonder how many Gen Y people and later think the "first" Wolfenstein was the one ID Software released back in '92.  I'm betting they have no clue what it was like to stare in wonder at a monochrome green screen.

Heck, I didn't know until a few minutes ago, that Wolfenstein advanced past this:



from my C=64

[ziznak]

I remember the apple 2e... before that I had some limited experience with some horrible early pcs.  Those early cga and monochromatic games were a totally different era... seriously the neanderthal and homo erectus era of computer gaming evolution.  I'm embarrased to admit it was actually CRAZY to fit 1 megabite on a floppy disk...

holy fuck I sed floppy disk

[ziznak]

I first learned file systems with a monochrome shell program called Xtree pro... date that shit!!  It was like windows in ascii land..

[The General]

I refuse to be out-curmudgeoned
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[PB the Deplorable]

I first learned file systems with a monochrome shell program called Xtree pro... date that shit!!  It was like windows in ascii land..

The first time I used a computer at my desk it was the Apple II.  By the time I moved on, most places were using Windows.  I completely skipped the whole DOS era.  Then one day I was working somewhere and they pulled out Xtree.  They told me using DOS everything was like that piece of shit. I can't even imagine it.

[ziznak]

these young bucks don't know how hard it was BACK IN MYYYY DAAAAAY.

and we LIKED IT.


I'm still pretty fast browsing with DOS commands.  It's a lost and unnecessary art.

[Eddie Coyle]

I refuse to be out-curmudgeoned
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I'm screwed once we reach 22...

[The General]

          I'm screwed once we reach 22...

ha ha.
you win.

[Eddie Coyle]

ha ha.
you win.

I wish my curmudgeonly Luddite tendencies were only an act...   as I eat Tums and Prilosec like they were M and M's. Oh, do I feel old.

[ziznak]

Ehhhh... I eat tums sometimes cause I think they're yummy.

[Caruthers612]

Classic, classic, classic. The HALO of its day.

        Wolfenstein was the PC game I cut my teeth on. Me and my hacker friends tore into it when Id Software was new, a couple of dangerous young coders showing the world what was possible. When they unleashed Doom, they changed the game more significantly perhaps than any game since. The 3D immersion, the whole concept of a FPS, no one had even thought of what those guys created. I did try to get into Rage when it came out, but found it too confusing. It was, however, really well done and scary as hell.

[Sardondi]

I refuse to be out-curmudgeoned
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When I entered the 1st Grade, the worthies in my school system apparently looked at what to them seemed the diligent little Japanese peoples (the teachers, I swear, called them "Japs"...and I guess that was their idea of being polite: a lot of families of WWII Marines lived in my community at the time) who were turning out all those nifty transistor radios, and determined we young Americans needed to do things the "Oriental" way. So they decreed that all 1st Grade students would be issued and taught arithmetic using...the abacus. I can't remember if it lasted all year, but it was gone by the time I hit 2nd Grade. We couldn't add 2+2 without breaking out those damned Sucrettes-on-a-stick-frame. Arithmetic sounded like a typing class, but without the return "dings".

What a monumentally stupid idea. All I can remember is being terribly confused about what I was doing. But the different colored digit counters were cool. I don't think it's a coincidence (right, George?) that I was almost retarded about arithmetic until the 4th Grade. I truly couldn't grasp the concepts of addition and subtraction. It drove my parents to distraction when they would sit at the kitchen table with apples or sugar cubes or toothpicks, trying to pry open the mussel shell of my locked-tight mind. "Becky, there's something wrong with the boy", I remember my frustrated father saying more than once. It didn't really bother me: I just assumed I was sort of "slow", as they said. And so did the teachers until they gave us IQ tests, and magically my status changed overnight. Instead of being pretty much left alone. I suppose they thought I was a hopeless case and just let me quietly amuse myself among the cache of magical, marvelous books in the back of the classroom instead of being made to listen to the teacher attentively.

And then one day it all clicked somehow with arithmetic, and I saw it all. I became something of a whiz up through the lower-level maths, plane geometry and trigonometry in particular. But with the coming of college calculus came the return of my math retardation - I absolutely couldn't grasp it. I've never been able to figure out why I had such problems with arithmetic, only to be so good at it; or why I had such a terrible problem with calculus even though I was super with trig. Idiosyncratic firing sequence of the Sardondi axons? Corroded connectors at the synapses? Who knows?

This concludes another episode of "Kitchen Table Dramas". We return you to regular programming. George Noory sucks.

[stevesh]

I first learned file systems with a monochrome shell program called Xtree pro... date that shit!!  It was like windows in ascii land..

So did I. I have a two-year-old Dell laptop that I use mostly for booting into FreeDos from a USB stick so I can run a Wordstar-compliant DOS word processor called VDE.

[ItsOver]

I refuse to be out-curmudgeoned
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I'm a little more advanced.





The chemistry teacher in high school told us to get good with the slide rule if we were going to study chemistry or a math-related field in college.  The slide rule was replaced by the electronic calculator by my sophomore year in college.  I remember the professors debating if you could use a calculator when taking a test. 

[MV/Liberace!]

Heck, I didn't know until a few minutes ago, that Wolfenstein advanced past this:



from my C=64

so that's not a screenshot from the upcoming ps4?

[Sardondi]

I'm a little more advanced.





The chemistry teacher in high school told us to get good with the slide rule if we were going to study chemistry or a math-related field in college.  The slide rule was replaced by the electronic calculator by my sophomore year in college.  I remember the professors debating if you could use a calculator when taking a test. 

Heh. I'm of the Slide-Rule Army too. But I haven't used one since I got a Texas Instrument calculator in 1973 for $100!!!! And you're right: the use of a calculator on a test was a huge moral question that was endlessly debated. Times have changed.

[ItsOver]

I thought I'd rule the world once I got my hands on one of these babies.





The uber nerds seemed to go ga ga for the HP-35 and the back-ass "reverse polish notation."  Bunch of posers.

[Eddie Coyle]

 
          Every time I hear(and quickly turn off) Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely", I'm reminded of Tuesday Feb 22, 1994. When my neighbor celebrated the birth of his daughter, by playing that fucking song from 10am to 4pm from his front stairs on a boombox. For all of us to hear. And the six minute version, no less. It gives me chills(of the douche variety) and I don't think I've heard that song in full since that day.

[stevesh]

          Every time I hear(and quickly turn off) Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely", I'm reminded of Tuesday Feb 22, 1994. When my neighbor celebrated the birth of his daughter, by playing that fucking song from 10am to 4pm from his front stairs on a boombox. For all of us to hear. And the six minute version, no less. It gives me chills(of the douche variety) and I don't think I've heard that song in full since that day.

This is what the right to keep and bear arms is really all about. 'Boom' box indeed.

[Eddie Coyle]

This is what the right to keep and bear arms is really all about. 'Boom' box indeed.

My thought at the time as well...but the guy was a low-level gangster, the son of a mid-level gangster. And both were police informants. So we were stuck. Six hours of "Isn't She Lovely" would qualify as a justifiable homicide...but the cops hate losing a CI.

[General Johnson Jameson]

        My thought at the time as well...but the guy was a low-level gangster, the son of a mid-level gangster.

You really should have pissed on his door for a couple days when they went on vacation for the weekend you know ed?

[Eddie Coyle]

You really should have pissed on his door for a couple days when they went on vacation for the weekend you know ed?

The way I drank back then, all of my neighbors front doors got "christened" at one point by me. And their alley ways, cellar doors, cars...

[Sardondi]

...but the guy was a low-level gangster, the son of a mid-level gangster. And both were police informants....

Ah, the old Whitey Bulger Crosscheck.

[ItsOver]

        My thought at the time as well...but the guy was a low-level gangster, the son of a mid-level gangster. And both were police informants. So we were stuck. Six hours of "Isn't She Lovely" would qualify as a justifiable homicide...but the cops hate losing a CI.

Better to be judged by 12 than driven ape-shit crazy by 6 hours of Wonder.

[Eddie Coyle]

Better to be judged by 12 than driven ape-shit crazy by 6 hours of Wonder.

If I could go back in time...I'll kill myself by the second turn of that song than endure the following 5 hours and 48 minutes. Suicide being the only option. Getting up and leaving my neighborhood for the afternoon? Well, that's possible. But death seems better.

Ah, the old Whitey Bulger Crosscheck.

Yes, the shitheel(s) in question on the periphery of that rather loose organization. The father being more significant than the son. 51 of their "friends" were busted on DEA raps in July, 1990 in dawn raids. Those two somehow avoided the dragnet...we were supoosed to believe it was their cunning and genius. It wasn't.

[Sardondi]

...Those two somehow avoided the dragnet...we were supoosed to believe it was their cunning and genius. It wasn't.

Well, now, wait. See, one of the key parts of their business plan was to defeat the competition by becoming snitches. So it was indeed their cunning and genius which kept them out of jail. Nyuk, nyuk.

Sort of like how in the last 5 years many major corporations have abandoned the traditional method of making business decisions based on market and economic factors, and instead began making decisions based on government regulations and then contributing to what politicians could grant them the most relief from those mandates. So that several major corporations have literally immunized themselves from all manner of potentially devastating threats to their businesses, whether from government administrative and regulatory requirements which were strangling their non-contributing competitors, to the near-fatal mandates of ObamaCare, by making massive contributions to Obama's campaign and/or the Democratic National Committee. Very few major corporate contributors to Obama have not received substantial to almost total relief from the mandates of ObamaCare. Which of course was one of the main goals of the legislation. 

[stevesh]

http://everyfuckingwebsite.com/

[analog kid]

                 If I could go back in time...I'll kill myself by the second turn of that song than endure the following 5 hours and 48 minutes. Suicide being the only option. Getting up and leaving my neighborhood for the afternoon? Well, that's possible. But death seems better.

Songs that make you pray for a lobotomy. "Fight for your Honor" (or what-have-you) by Chicago is one here.

[Eddie Coyle]

Songs that make you pray for a lobotomy. "Fight for your Honor" (or what-have-you) by Chicago is one here.

Being lobotomized would help, because then that music would suddenly become enjoyable after we lose pesky things like good judgement,wits and taste.

      The song you referenced, "The Glory of Love" by Peter Cetera is atrocious...which explains why it was number one on the Billboard singles chart for the weeks of Aug 2 and Aug 9, 1986. It's also the theme to "Karate Kid 2"...which grossed over 100 million in the summer of '86.

          Proving yet again...the "good old days" weren't so good. 80's culture stinks.