Delayed reaction to the TF2 talk.. I remember playing TF in high school LAN parties. (Aside: Remember those? There was always one person who could never get his PC working until just before the first mum came and it was time to pack up.).
It's kinda funny for me to see people reminisce about arcade games. I never lived close enough to one to really get into arcade games, yet now I have my arcade gaming coffee table. I thought I might go exploring through the MAME set on there, but I tend to get lost and slightly overwhelmed and just put Street Fighter 2 on. Any suggestions for good 2 player arcade games? Or modern stuff, there's a decent PC in there. It plays SF4 just fine.
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
I do have the Streets Of Rage Remake that combines all three SoR/BK games into one slice of awesomeness on there, so there's that.
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HacksawJ. Duggan Esq.Wrestler at LawRegistered Userregular
My right shoulder has somewhat healed back to its original state from years past. My right knee is not longer shot. My hearing has repaired itself over time, somehow, and my vision isn't degrading like I thought it would be at this point in my life.
Basically, this job that keeps me so physically active seems to be having a bit of a Wolverine Effect on me.
My mother is constantly concerned about my father turning into his father, but I'm fairly confident I have been vigilant enough to prevent a parallel fate for myself. We'll see.
HacksawJ. Duggan Esq.Wrestler at LawRegistered Userregular
Also I can read faster than I used to be able to. That's weird.
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
My brother is turning into my dad so quickly it's hilarious. He was in denial about it for ages but now he's bought a house I think he's just decided to embrace it.
Like my dad is a neat freak. He jokes that he has OCD but I think he's just super anal. One time when I was living with my brother he came home from work and walked into the lounge where I was, and before even saying hi he noticed a wonky picture frame and crossed the room to straighten it. I found myself shouting "You've become dad!" in a kind of bemused horror and he just fled the room.
I remember installing quake shareware and shitting my pants at the graphics.
I also remember a friend giving me his (pirated) copy of Mortal Kombat 2... on 12 floppies packaged in .rar files.
I remember Sound Blaster... and how we couldn't afford it so my dad made what amounted to an extra internal speaker that just made things really loud you could activate by flipping a big 'ol switch he installed directly onto the casing. It was baller.
I got my first spanking for swearing because of Alley Cat when I was three. Stupid Cat. Why won't you jump right?
ASimPersonAnd they will tremble againat the sound of our silence.Registered Userregular
I vaguely remember that Alley Cat game.
Like, very vaguely. We had it on our 286.
It was a Packard Bell. It had 1MB of RAM, 2 5.25" floppy drives, and a 20MB hard disk. Oh, and yeah, a Turbo button on the front that would increase the clock speed from 8Mhz to 12Mhz.
I remember years later when my brother and I opened it up. This was after we'd started building our machines. Perhaps the biggest marvel to us, at least for the moment before we realized why, is that the CPU didn't have a heatsink, much less a fan.
I think I have our old 286 processor around somewhere. It went from 10 to 16 Mhz, from memory. My dad tried to install Windows 3.0 on it, but it didn't work. It was the set with the big fat book and the mouse all in the box. That box with all the stuff in it served as my door stop for about a year and a half.
WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
edited October 2013
I was born in 1979. I can remember as a little kid seeing the local department store just starting to stock color TVs. We used to have to rent a giant VCR from the grocery store if we wanted to watch a movie. I was a little kid living in West Germany when the USSR collapsed and the village we lived in got flooded with immigrants/refugees. Clair Danes in My So Called Life was my first red-headed crush. I never got to use the internet until I joined the army and got sent to Korea. I almost died from anthrax in Korea. Now I'm 34, got discs in my spine that are empty of fluid, repeated injuries to both knees, nerve compression down my left leg(I call it my slow leg, it's harder to move and doesn't get quit the proper amount of bloodflow, and has lowered tactile sensation), I've had multiple surgeries near my right hip so the nerves there are all janky, I have trouble staying under 215lbs no matter how much I work out when ten years ago I was 170lbs and ripped, I sometimes have to yank out these weird extra long & thick hairs from my eyebrows that are black (I'm a redhead) and I have trouble sometimes telling old stories because I'll forget what year it happened in or what country or state I was living in at the time.
I'm not going bald though, I don't need bifocals yet, I'm generally happy and I'm in a great relationship. So.. hell yeah mid-30s?
signing up for new insurance and I was just on the phone for yet another time because they wanted to ask me the same questions again about my health. i have a shining medical history with one little exception
apparently being a kid who had ADHD in grade school sends up ALL SORTS OF RED FLAGS. we just had to do a conference call to track down my medical history from the last doctor i randomly went to in fucking february.
christ.
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BeastehTHAT WOULD NOTKILL DRACULARegistered Userregular
being 28 and looking about 21 has its good sides and its bad sides
but fuck im starting to get dodgy knees, tremors etc
My housemate has just had a temper tantrum via text because I asked her to "hey, could you clean the kitchen please? Thanks!" (the task she chose for the roster that she was supposed to do two days ago) because a while ago she said I need to remind her because she forgets. Apparently my being polite is really annoying. It was so close to stop telling me what to do mum!! Urgh! I hate you!
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BeastehTHAT WOULD NOTKILL DRACULARegistered Userregular
My housemate has just had a temper tantrum via text because I asked her to "hey, could you clean the kitchen please? Thanks!" (the task she chose for the roster that she was supposed to do two days ago) because a while ago she said I need to remind her because she forgets. Apparently my being polite is really annoying. It was so close to stop telling me what to do mum!! Urgh! I hate you!
My housemate has just had a temper tantrum via text because I asked her to "hey, could you clean the kitchen please? Thanks!" (the task she chose for the roster that she was supposed to do two days ago) because a while ago she said I need to remind her because she forgets. Apparently my being polite is really annoying. It was so close to stop telling me what to do mum!! Urgh! I hate you!
At this point I'd be hiding cheese in her room
Thats what my boyfriend said! He said "put all her dirty kitchen things in her room" but alas, it is locked!
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He's not perfect but I'm pretty sure he's better than I am.
It's kinda funny for me to see people reminisce about arcade games. I never lived close enough to one to really get into arcade games, yet now I have my arcade gaming coffee table. I thought I might go exploring through the MAME set on there, but I tend to get lost and slightly overwhelmed and just put Street Fighter 2 on. Any suggestions for good 2 player arcade games? Or modern stuff, there's a decent PC in there. It plays SF4 just fine.
Final Fight!
oh! my car...
Basically, this job that keeps me so physically active seems to be having a bit of a Wolverine Effect on me.
Like my dad is a neat freak. He jokes that he has OCD but I think he's just super anal. One time when I was living with my brother he came home from work and walked into the lounge where I was, and before even saying hi he noticed a wonky picture frame and crossed the room to straighten it. I found myself shouting "You've become dad!" in a kind of bemused horror and he just fled the room.
I also remember a friend giving me his (pirated) copy of Mortal Kombat 2... on 12 floppies packaged in .rar files.
I remember Sound Blaster... and how we couldn't afford it so my dad made what amounted to an extra internal speaker that just made things really loud you could activate by flipping a big 'ol switch he installed directly onto the casing. It was baller.
I got my first spanking for swearing because of Alley Cat when I was three. Stupid Cat. Why won't you jump right?
STEAM
Like, very vaguely. We had it on our 286.
It was a Packard Bell. It had 1MB of RAM, 2 5.25" floppy drives, and a 20MB hard disk. Oh, and yeah, a Turbo button on the front that would increase the clock speed from 8Mhz to 12Mhz.
I remember years later when my brother and I opened it up. This was after we'd started building our machines. Perhaps the biggest marvel to us, at least for the moment before we realized why, is that the CPU didn't have a heatsink, much less a fan.
Possibly Commander Keen.
Also I remember when the internet first became a thing.
Well, 2 days ago I did my back pulling on my wetsuit for the first dive of the season.
The other week at work I put my lunch on the veranda and my boots in my fridge
I yelled, 'ya damn kids!!' At a group of teenagers riding skateboard dangerously on the road
God help me, I'm 25
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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and I think, I've felt more mature then tha both of em since I was 18.
They're great though, in 'er own way
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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I leaned my head all the way back just now and the sound my neck made is best described as crunchy
This is hilarious. Though in Australia I would imagine refrigerated boots would be quite nice.
I have a couple of times put the milk in the cupboard and the kettle in the fridge after making my morning coffee.
My dad once lost his glasses and later my mum found them in the fridge. Which... I don't even know how that happens.
Normally yeah but it was the middle of winter! It got down to 10c!!!
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
I'm not going bald though, I don't need bifocals yet, I'm generally happy and I'm in a great relationship. So.. hell yeah mid-30s?
apparently being a kid who had ADHD in grade school sends up ALL SORTS OF RED FLAGS. we just had to do a conference call to track down my medical history from the last doctor i randomly went to in fucking february.
christ.
but fuck im starting to get dodgy knees, tremors etc
i could just be unfit but
Many of my friends have big families and late-born siblings. For example, when I met a dear friend of mine his little sister was 17.
So, I knew a bright-as-the-sun intelligent 17 year old girl, and all her amazing friends. They thought I was mature and kind.
Then they turned 18, and then 19, and so on, and now they're done with college.
And they still think I'm a good person - someone to come to for advice, and solace, and hope.
That's when I realized I was getting older, and why I love it.
I've become a good person, because people - wonderful, hopeful, world-changing people - think I'm someone to rely on.
For the young people around me, I'm glad I'm getting older and being fucking virtuous.
yeah im unoriginal
the NES didn't get a US release until 1985. The snes came out in 1990
The artillery battery I was with at Ft. Lewis in 2003, our supply ordering computer still used ancient tape cassetes
p.sad
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
Weren't you born in 1985?
That's terrible
first game i played where i actually knew what the fuck was going on was Biker Mice from Mars aww yeahhhhhhh
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
My housemate has just had a temper tantrum via text because I asked her to "hey, could you clean the kitchen please? Thanks!" (the task she chose for the roster that she was supposed to do two days ago) because a while ago she said I need to remind her because she forgets. Apparently my being polite is really annoying. It was so close to stop telling me what to do mum!! Urgh! I hate you!
yes but i was picking things up and bashing them by the end of the year
At this point I'd be hiding cheese in her room
Thats what my boyfriend said! He said "put all her dirty kitchen things in her room" but alas, it is locked!
I also skate dangerously close to the joint locking when I do that.