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Raison d'être

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  1. Merry Christmas!

  2. Waiting 20 minutes so that your virtual Windows 95 machine can install a game at an era realistic time, when all that is really happening is that files already on my hard drive are moving to somewhere else on it, is something that causes me to question what I'm doing with my life.

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      Raison d'être

      Well, the only thing to do now is build a period-accurate machine so that you can spend hours building the hardware, installing the software, tracking down the ancient driver files and troubleshooting it to play a game you could've emulated within 5 minutes on a virtual machine today.

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  3. VERY IMPORTANT:

     

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      Raison d'être

      Thanks. We still on for Friday?

  4. I fully intend to die without ever hearing a non-nightcore version of Rockefeller Street.

  5. I was trolling around Facebook marketplace and it seems I found a table from the exact same maker of this one 40-year old wicker table I own. It's pretty crazy, the wicker construction looks identical.

  6. it's just another endless monday...

  7. BREAKING - GTA 6 CONFIRMED to have the WORST soundtrack in the series - "Holy shit," said Sam Houser, "I'm so sorry."

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      Raison d'être

      Although exact details are unavailable, it has been rumored that the station lineup consists of at least six mumble rap channels, two buttrock channels, and three country channels - all of which have been carefully analyzed in order to exclude any song that might accidentally be good.

      Additionally, the advertisements that play between songs will be for real life goods and services, with seamless integration between your browser cookies and the in-game stations. Reception from current beta testers is mixed; however, one tester notes that you can spend 20 Rockstar Coins to skip the ads. "It's really not that bad," the tester reported. "You get 100 coins a day from logging in, so that's five free skips already."

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      Raison d'être

      Now that I look at it here that link does look pretty shady...

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  8. If I needed to explain to someone what the 00's era internet was like, I would link them to this ZZT World:

     

    https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/9elation/

  9. If you watch this video ten times in a row you can almost believe that old SPUF still exists.

     

     

    1. Raison d'être

      Raison d'être

      It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

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  10. It's so hot! I'm feeling parched in this heat... It's hot, even when I'm not moving at all...

  11. Turns out the machine god is real and is keeping my site's welder together.

    1. Raison d'être

      Raison d'être

      On the whole I don't know whether that's a good or bad thing but at least the welder's together.

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  12. I was fiddling around with an old mp3 player of my brother's that he had left at my parents years ago.  All the buttons on the outside are busted, but I thought maybe I could get it working.  I couldn't get it to play music, but I did get into the file structure and saw names that both resembled my humor far more than his and referenced stuff that he wouldn't have been interested in (like Big O and Aura Battler Dunbine.)

     

    I hooked it up to my computer and apparently I used it as a makeshift external hard drive backup of my first personal computer.  In addition to a gig of the first music I downloaded from the internet, there were also about 60 books in .txt format, lots of various school assignments, some old java programs I made, and Hello! style archives of the very first forum I was active on.  I only vaguely remember making the decision to transfer this stuff over to the mp3 player, and as far as I remember I never transferred them to any other device before now.

  13. Russian coup bros... we're so back

     

    1. Raison d'être

      Raison d'être

      well now "it's so over" so there's no need to worry about it anymore

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  14. Well Amazon I managed to find the product, despite your search engine and recommendations.

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      Raison d'être

      Why is there a PAL disc coming out of your warehouse, Amazon?

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  15. Well Amazon I managed to find the product, despite your search engine and recommendations.

    1. Raison d'être

      Raison d'être

      Ah valued customer, welcome! I hope you're prepared for an unforgettable product!

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  16. May the 4th be with you.

    1. Raison d'être

      Raison d'être

      Watch Episode 2 cause that came out in 2002 and 2002 kicked ass.

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  17. tfw your favorite band takes a new direction and you spend the next three albums liking what they put out less and less

    1. Raison d'être

      Raison d'être

      >he doesn't like post-quixotic smashcore with SmashStep influences

       

      Not gonna make it.

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  18. Looking at the profiles from birthday announcements just tells me that this site was already dead in 2013.

    1. Raison d'être

      Raison d'être

      Half of TIAM 2 and all of 3 were after 2013, so there was still a lot of activity.

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  19. Today I realized that if I had an HDMI to component adaptor I could record my computer on my VCR.  Thus I could record a Vtuber livestream on VHS.

     

    Such a thing would almost certainly be one of a kind and thus in ten years would be worth either a fair amount... or absolutely nothing.

    1. Raison d'être

      Raison d'être

      Depending on how many tapes you have you could just scour the 2views list on Twitch and record one stream each to widen your net as much as possible. Could probably make a net profit on it ten or so years down the line.

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  20. Today I realized that if I had an HDMI to component adaptor I could record my computer on my VCR.  Thus I could record a Vtuber livestream on VHS.

     

    Such a thing would almost certainly be one of a kind and thus in ten years would be worth either a fair amount... or absolutely nothing.

    1. Raison d'être

      Raison d'être

      Probably depends on the Vtuber, too. If somehow she gets popular in another context in the future then it might be worth a decent amount.

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  21. Apparently GOG Galaxy broke when it comes to fetching games.  I'm using the old version, though I wouldn't be surprised if this happened in the new version.

     

    I discovered this when I decided to reinstall TIE Fighter only for it not to show up, despite me knowing for a fact I had purchased it and previously played it.  But it doesn't show up at all in searches of the library in Galaxy.  On the website it does show up, and when checking this out I noticed that I had literally one hundred more games listed on the website compared to Galaxy.

     

    I'm 90% sure I've found the issue.  Anything sold in a bundle will not show up on Galaxy.  So TIE Fighter didn't show up because GOG actually bundles the original game, the CD rerelease, and the 1998 "special edition" remake using the X-Wing vs. TIE fighter engine.  Similarly none of my Space Quest games show up since they are sold in a 1-3 bundle and a 4-6 bundle.  Anything with more than one entry to the store purchase won't show up.

     

    It had to have happened recently, since I successfully installed SWAT 2 about a month ago and that comes in a bundle with SWAT 1 (and neither game shows up in my galaxy library at the moment.)  DOOM and DOOM II even vanished from the galaxy version of the library due to the enhanced editions of those games being given to people who had previously purchased them.

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      Raison d'être

      Sounds like a bundle of fun! Ha ha ha.

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