And yet not enough.

8k is effectively dead

This doesn’t even sound like a real business. This sounds like one of those extemporaneous pitches that gets pulled out of the ass after martini 3, delivered by the sales doofus that doesn’t know how to send an email.

The red flag that caught my eye was all the cheerleading and then snuck at the bottom was (paraphrased) ‘well, people can play as much as they want but, ya know, if it’s like 10 games a month we might have to look at stuff’.

So, what? It’s subscription service but the games vanish (oh you can buy them individually) and and if you use the service for its advertised purpose, there’s going to be problems - only $7.99 ?

I should have said martini 8

It definitely sucked at the time, but it also taught me some key lessons.

Like don’t assume a game is good because it comes in a nice box. Don’t assume a licensed IP means good gameplay. Read reviews, don’t just make a snap purchase.

It was a huge loss for me at the time but I feel like these lessons actually saved me quite a bit of money/frustration over the years.

Platoon for C64. Saved up for it.

Piece of shit. And disc 2 didn’t work.

That puts over 60% of the American population on the bus.

I’m saying this based on personal experience, having gone through a really bad hygiene phase when I was extremely depressed.

It took me a long time to figure out why the stink was not coming out of my clothes despite repeated washings, vinegar/borax/alcohol/etc treatments, everything I could think of.

I ended up using cheap pet odor enzyme spray. Have since learned there are other more expensive enzymes, but I’m happy with the pet spray cuz it works.

I just have to jump in here.

The lingering B.O. in clothes is dead bacteria which still stink - you need enzymes to actually accomplish anything.

Vodka and vinegar are useless except for certain applications and for “fresh” sweat.

To cure hiccups:

Hyperventilate for about 30 seconds; breathe out until your lungs feel like they’re going to implode; Without intaking breath, smoothly chug a 12oz glass of water.

It will “reset” your spasming diaphragm and stop the hiccups.

I saw a commercial in the 70’s for Starburst. All of them were the same pattern: Person pops candy into their mouth, next scene is them taking off hang-gliding.

I thought if I ate a Starburst I’d get sent flying off a mountain like the hang gliders. Not in a fun way… eat this candy and you’re getting flung to your death off the top of a mountain. (I didn’t understand what a hang glider was either)

Agreed, and this article is written backwards.

Problem: Audio is a low power (relatively low data) signal that goes over wire. Audio data (not audio) sent via USB needs decoding into audio before it gets sent down the headphone wire. Implementation fails due to insufficient bandwidth. Graphs and textual details go into details about the bottlenecks.

Thank you

I’ll take 10 of whatever you’re smoking because it’s obviously the good shit

This is 9-dimensionally triggering for me.

Excellent post.

Jesus Christ you’re so obnoxious. I don’t like the book, deal with it.

I don’t have to justify it, I didn’t like it 🤷

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

I’m not talking about the story, I’m talking about the writing style. I could not tolerate it.

The Tubes - Talk to ya Later

Guys I discovered a hidden microphone in my headphones speaker!!!

I mean it’s not that sinister.

It’s just not impressive in the slightest. Like, we still use lookup tables for trigonometry functions