Lightweights. I bet y'all need keylights to get back into your houses, too, because you stop drinking before the sun comes up.
But anyway, am I going mad, or is that Thirsty Onos map from the new NS2 trailer looking pretty familiar? I damned near KNOW I've seen it somewhere, I just can't put my finger on where or from what.
Trailer below for reference -
EDIT - shit, I think I know - Andrew, front and center! Is that the map you were making?
My general rule of thumb is you're not drunk till your face turns numb.
I abide by the rule that you're not drunk until you are holding the grass and shouting that you're going to fall off the planet. Everything else is just a healthy buzz.
I've been doing this breakfast regimen thing since I got home. Every morning I have a pot (~4 cups) of some good tea, a 4oz glass of Kefir, and a bowl of plain oatmeal. I add a banana or 8oz of some Vitamin C-rich juice depending on how I feel, but I usually don't stray from that basic breakfast.
It tastes really nice and wholesome, and I stay hydrated and feel awesome all day. Also, since the oatmeal is really hearty and has a low glycemic index, it takes ages for me to feel hungry again. My lunches are super-light now, too!
No ethernet port makes getting wifi drivers a bitch. Apple, I don't like your software, at least make it easier to switch it out. Build your stupid EFI for AMD64 so grub won't complain and use common ports.
Funny but sad: I'm listening to the scanner, and there are officers calling for a mental evaluation team for a woman complaining that the voices in the air conditioner are telling her to kill.
Fun fact: The difference between the 80486DX and SX is that the DX had a math coprocessor whereas the SX did not. However, the difference between the 80386DX and SX was that the DX had a full 32-bit physical address space whereas the SX only had a 24-bit physical address space, limiting it to 16MB of physical RAM. Neither CPU had a math coprocessor built-in.
I could uninstall Doom and Install Doom 2 or Mechwarrior 2 so fast. That was a big deal because with only 720MB of disk space, you couldn't keep all games installed at all times. Switching games meant boot disks, deleting another game, etc.
Why would we want to simulate the frustration of making DOS game work?
It built character back in the day. Nothing was as character building as wrestling with IRQ conflicts and trying to free up just enough memory under the 640K barrier to run your favorite new game.
Actually, as someone who lived through that era, I never want to go back to it. Things are definitely much better these days. However, my "get off my lawn" side does think today's punk kids have it a little too easy.
The only thing wrong with having it easy is that kids these days don't learn anything. If you wanted to play PC games, you had to learn about computers. Every PC gamer was also a PC expert by necessity. You knew how to program because bare minimum you had to write autoexec.bat files for your boot disk. You also knew what the parts of the computer were, and what they did. You also learned all about using a file system.
Nowadays you can load up Steam and play games without learning a damn thing. Games were a great motivator for getting people to learn. Now there isn't one, and only self motivated people learn this knowledge in a time when it is even more essential to have it.
It really is a shame the world has gotten more convenient and entertainment can be enjoyed by all instead of just a select few with the spare time to learn all the related bullshit. Why can't we go back to the days where if you wanted to wear clothing, you had to know how to hunt down, butcher, skin and tan animal hide? It was so much better then.
The only thing wrong with having it easy is that kids these days don't learn anything. If you wanted to play PC games, you had to learn about computers. Every PC gamer was also a PC expert by necessity. You knew how to program because bare minimum you had to write autoexec.bat files for your boot disk. You also knew what the parts of the computer were, and what they did. You also learned all about using a file system.
Nowadays you can load up Steam and play games without learning a damn thing. Games were a great motivator for getting people to learn. Now there isn't one, and only self motivated people learn this knowledge in a time when it is even more essential to have it.
Yeah, that's exactly how my "get off my lawn" side feels. While in general, the idea of things being easier for those who aren't uber-techies isn't a bad thing per se, it does seem to result in people actually learning less, as you mentioned. Fewer people are learning these skills, although diagnosing IRQ conflicts is an obsolete skill these days. Well, at least it would be except for people designing hardware and software that autodetect and avoid these conflicts would probably need to know how to diagnose them while developing said hardware and software.
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But anyway, am I going mad, or is that Thirsty Onos map from the new NS2 trailer looking pretty familiar? I damned near KNOW I've seen it somewhere, I just can't put my finger on where or from what.
Trailer below for reference -
EDIT - shit, I think I know - Andrew, front and center! Is that the map you were making?
It tastes really nice and wholesome, and I stay hydrated and feel awesome all day. Also, since the oatmeal is really hearty and has a low glycemic index, it takes ages for me to feel hungry again. My lunches are super-light now, too!
I could uninstall Doom and Install Doom 2 or Mechwarrior 2 so fast. That was a big deal because with only 720MB of disk space, you couldn't keep all games installed at all times. Switching games meant boot disks, deleting another game, etc.
Actually, as someone who lived through that era, I never want to go back to it. Things are definitely much better these days. However, my "get off my lawn" side does think today's punk kids have it a little too easy.
Nowadays you can load up Steam and play games without learning a damn thing. Games were a great motivator for getting people to learn. Now there isn't one, and only self motivated people learn this knowledge in a time when it is even more essential to have it.