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3 days agoFuck Israel.
Come get me FBI.
kurmudgeon
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Cake day: June 12th, 2023
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0·6 days agoPickles. Or anything pickled for that matter. When I get a craving for something pickled, especially when I’m drinking beer, get out of my way!
11·8 days agoThe tactic has worked for drug dealers for decades
I was born in 1979. Growing up, I remember laying on the floor in the summer, seeing the HBO title scene come on before watching Star Wars with my father on our little CRT TV. Then later, growing up in a trailer park, being raised by a single mom, me and my brother raised hell and had tons of friends. We’d ride our bikes, play in the woods, jump off the docks into ponds, sell golf balls we found in the creek back to the golf course to buy some superman ice cream.
Some other things I remember from that time:
- Doritos bags were clear with no foil and me and my brother would try to find the “flavor cube”
- Crush Apple pop was my favorite
- Listening to Michael Jackson’s Thriller on a record player
- Renting Pitfall and River Raid for our Atari 2600 for $1 for a weekend at Believe in Music
- Atari games were like $15 for most games, $20 for some
- Playing Smurf Rescue in Gargamel’s Castle on our Colecovision or Mindstorm on our Vectrex with our friends
- Pizza Hut and the Book-it program
- The dual-sided styrofoam container from McDonalds that was used for breakfast or the McDLT
- Tato Skins chips
- My first Cherry Coke
- My first TV dinner that had to be baked in an oven - came in a foil tray
- Hi-C Juice
- Mr. T cereal
- My first Cherry 7-Up
- Jello Pudding Pops
- Bannanna Frosted Flakes
- Dialing phone numbers with a rotary dial
- Cartoons before school, such as Thundercats, GI Joe, Voltron, He-Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Pepsi A.M.
- Keebler Pizzaria Chips
- Getting my first Sony Walkman to listen to Micheal Jackson’s Bad album on casette
- Short Circuit, Flight of the Navigator, D.A.R.Y.L. movies
- Mtv music videos and seeing Michael Jackson Thriller Video for the first time
- Seeing and playing Super Mario Bros. on our new Nintendo for the very first time was such an amazing experience
- NES games were like $20-30 at the time
- Our brand new NES was $250 - my mom and step-dad almost got a divorce over my step-dad buying one
- Going to Muzzy’s or Ole Taco in West Michigan
- Muzzy’s was a burger chain that had “drippy cheese” and firedogs, which were spicy chili dogs
- Ole Taco was a fast food mexican restaurant before Taco Bell and had by far much better food. The rice there was amazing!
- The first time I saw an Apple IIe computer and coding my very first line of code
- Seeing the Karate Kid, Goonies, Ghostbusters II and Back to the Future movies in the theater
- Seeing The Wizard in the theatre and then playing Super Mario Bros. 3 for the first time
- Saturday morning cartoons
- ABC always had a marathon of cartoons from first thing in the morning until noon
- Saving money up to purchase a Super Nintendo with Super Mario World and Final Fight
- Satellite TV - having to change satellites for different channels
- Trying to see porn on the distored/scrambled cable channels
- Saving money up to purchase a Nintendo 64
- My very first Commodore 64 computer
- Clear Pepsi
- Salsa Rio Doritos
- Mr. Phipps Tater Crisps
- Sharkleberry Fin Kool-Aid
- Crunch Tators
- Viennetta Ice Cream
- Peanut Butter Boppers
- Whatchamacallit candy bars
- Shocktarts
- Skittles Bubble Gum
- Chips fried in Olean (olestra)
- Our first phone with push button numbers to dial phone numbers
- Party phone lines
- Your entire neighborhood would share a “party line”
- You would have your own unique phone number, but only one call in your neighborhood could occur at a time
- So you could listen in on other people’s conversations and you had to wait for their call to complete before you could make or receive a call
- Our first cordless phone
- Drawing the Stüssy logo on everything
- Sobe drinks
- My very first CD player
- Listening to and buying CDs from Musicland/Sam Goody
- Porn on VHS tapes
- Shopping/hanging out at the mall with friends
- Getting online for the first time with our 56k modem
- Renting games from Blockbuster
- Encino Man, Clueless, Cruel Intentions, Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead
- Drinking and playing Mario Kart 64 and Goldeneye with my friends all night long
- Watching Beavis and Butthead with my friends
- Playing Quake Arena on dial-up
- Watching porn pictures online download one line at a time
- Surge pop - so much sugar and caffiene - was practically the first energy drink
- Installing a Sony DiscMan in my car
- Black ganster movies became more popular: Menace II Society, Boyz N The Hood, South Central, Dead Presidents
- Napster and Limewire to download MP3s
- AOL Online
- ICQ messenger
- MSN messenger
- AOL messenger
- Preparing for Y2K
- I had a paranoid roommate who stocked up on bottled water, sterno, canned goods, toilet paper, etc.
- Nothing ended up happening and we didn’t have to get groceries for the next 3 months
- Burning my first music CD
- Playing Ridge Racer, Siphon Filter and Final Fantasy on Playstation
- Pagers and sending codes to my friends
- Building my very first custom PC that ran Windows 98, then later Windows 98 SE and eventually Windows ME
- Installing my Nvidia Riva TNT II graphics card
- Getting our first cable internet connection with 1Mbps speed
- Splitting up Warez rar file downloads for Windows 2000 between friends, meeting up to extract and burn the ISO, then being disappointed when the operating system didn’t even have support for sound cards or games
- Using Netscape Navigator to browse the web
- Installing a 50 CD disc changer in my car
- My first Nokia cellphone
- McDonald’s Arch Deluxe and Chicken Fajitas
- DSL internet with speed up to 5Mbps
- Using Yahoo search, then later Google for the first time
- The very first time YouTube started up
- My first Motorola flip phone
- My first Vanilla Coke
- Building my first computer that ran Windows XP
- Building my first computer that ran Windows Vista with 2 GTX 260 on SLI
- My first cable modem with speeds over 20Mbps
- Downloading my very first torrent
- My first Compaq iPaq smart phone
- Burning my first DVD
- My first HP iPaq smart phone
- Subscribing to Netflix to get DVDs by mail
- Redbox movie rentals
- My first iPhone
- Movie streaming through Netflix
Bottom line, as a kid in the 80s and 90s we actually wanted to leave the house and do stuff all the time. Staying at home was boring. Even if it was just riding our bikes around with friends. Or riding a bike to a friends. Even as a teenager, staying at home was lame. There was the mall, arcade, pizza place, other friend’s houses.
The Internet really had a huge impact on society in a way you cannot imagine. Life before the Internet was much less stressful. You had many more “real” connections with a lot more people. You may have had a computer, but you only really used it at home for homework or games and that’s it.
11·13 days agoThe world’s smallest violin is playing for that cunt.
Sony is choosing to support Marathon over Destiny 2.
31·18 days agoGood thing I live next to the Canadian border!
1·18 days agoRight-wing minds are not very bright.
Fuck Bezos and fuck Amazon. Cancel your prime. Pirate instead. You can wait 2 days for shipping if you just have to order something from Amazon.
Good. For fuck sakes, leave the man alone!!!
Good. For fuck sake, leave this man alone!
Well, it’s officially over. No D3. Instead, Bungie is going to be laying off a large number of their staff and only keeping what they need to maintain Marathon.
I honestly would be surprised if Bungie exists after a year.
We already have.
RFK Jr would just be telling people that they need to be exposed to it for herd immunity.
I had 4000 hours in D1 and over 6,000 hours in D2 even though I haven’t played either game since July of 2025. Edge of Fate just looked boring as hell, the portal and all the other changes they made totally turned me off from the game. I waited eagerly while they released Renegades but saw no relief to the things that bothered me. Not to mention the fact that renegades just made it look even more like Bungie had no concept of what the identity of Destiny should be. It once again just started copying other games or concepts. If I wanted to play a Star wars game, I’d play a Star wars game.
Marathon however does not appeal to me in any way. I don’t give a rat’s ass about extraction shooter games. Why they decided to pour so much time and energy into such a niche game makes no sense to me. We all know they’re going to add PVE as an add-on game mode. But that’s just it, it’s going to be an add-on. Unless it’s extremely robust and thought out and deep, it’s not going to retain players. It may attract some new ones temporarily, but that won’t last. If Bungie can’t keep up with the pace of development needed to support Destiny 2, what makes people think they’ll be able to do it for Marathon?
Marathon will never generate the revenue that Destiny 2 ever did simply because they chose such a niche game type. They can add whatever game modes they want but at the end of the day it’s still an extraction shooter and it’s primary focus will still be more on PVP in a world where there are plenty of other extraction shooter games out there that have far more players and are far more fleshed out and are far more inviting to new players of all skill ranges.
It’s a sad day indeed and a shitty way to end a 12-year franchise.
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4·21 days agoHey, OP. Stop talking so much shit!
What do you expect when the entire nation is a fucking corrupt institution, rotten at it’s very core. It’s being run by a man wanted by the ICC for war crimes. Fuck Israel and anyone who supports them. Also, fuck your religion, whatever it is. Religion breeds hate and is the cause of most of the world’s problems.
Every day, Israel is proving more and more what a colossal fuck up it was to allow the creation of a Jewish state in the middle of a muslim area. Those who thought it was a great idea were fucking morons. The concept of a religiously run state never works, is always corrupt and tramples on freedom and basic human rights. Every damn time. Jews can live anywhere. Live somewhere else in peace. Fuck Israel and fuck people who support them.
This is a piss poor excuse from Microsoft for letting a certificate expire. How fucking hard is it to renew a certificate? I do it every fucking day at work. This is purely just forced/planned obsolescence. They want users to use their subscription-based platform on the web.