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Re: Members of Vogons, what shows do you currently watch?

Posted on 2022-07-17, 11:02

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Watched a couple of Cronenberg films lately: The Brood Crash (saw it when it was new, just as good now, and very close to the book as I recall) Probably will re-watch Shivers and Rabid some time, maybe Videodrome. Re-watched Jackie Brown, had forgotten how good it was. Not sure I can sit through …

Re: Cars now have micro-transactions!

Posted on 2022-07-16, 18:43

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Sony mirrorless cameras had downloadable apps - many of which they charge you for, and they cannot be transferred to other cameras. Really annoying to pay £2k for a camera and then find if you want to do say a timelapse you need to pay another £8 for the app for the camera. Even more for some other …

Re: When PC became soulless for you?

Posted on 2022-07-13, 12:58

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I enjoyed the 80s and early 90s but for me the peak was around windows 98 and 2000, DX8. Beyond that something happened but I'm not sure what. Feature bloat and hardware too often not operating as well as expected, or maybe I just got sick of the IT industry's failure to learn to make things "just …

Re: How did you get started on retro computing?

Posted on 2022-07-08, 00:16

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Like others, it was modern when I started. For PCs the crunch came when i upgraded from Pentium 100 with an SB16 clone to a PCI-only socket 370 and found there was no sound in DOS games. So that's when I properly became aware of hardware issues going forward. And more or less from that point I …

Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2022-07-03, 11:02

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Just swapped my old Subaru Forester (petrol, 2 litre, non-turbo) for a slightly less old Volvo XC70 (2.4 diesel, 185hp). Volvo is unsurprisingly much less agile (Subaru turns on a sixpence, has bags of grip), but more comfortable, much more powerful, gets better mpg, and has better fittings (that …

Re: Pc printers get worse and worse

Posted on 2022-06-29, 17:44

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I eventually got sick of my Epson Stylus R300 inkjet, routinely getting blocked nozzles, wasting ink to clear them, and very expensive cartridges. Paper james from time to time. Cheap 3rd party cartridges from ebay worked for a few years but the printer also reached it's preset EOL (had to reset it …

Re: Members of Vogons, what shows do you currently watch?

Posted on 2022-06-23, 12:07

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Just finished Twin Peaks season 3 (the 2019 series). Now on Web of Make Believe (netflix). Watched the Andy Warhol series too. And the Giger program on Amazon. And that program about Szukalski. Wish there would be another series of Midnight Diner. Couldn't even finish the first episodes of Stranger …

Re: It might be a good idea to open a session for Apple

Posted on 2022-06-22, 22:04

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There were some really cool games back in the days of Ambrosia that were even exclusive to the Mac. Yes, the demise of Ambrosia was a great pity - a lot of their great older stuff didn't survive the shift to OSX let alone OSX on Intel Macs - as far as I could make out, anyway. They didn't release …

Re: Reasons to hate modern games

Posted on 2022-06-22, 21:14

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Not relly. I think this is better illustrates differences between old and new: https://youtu.be/jPqwDGXxLhU i liked this one (makes me laugh anyway): https://youtu.be/W1ZtBCpo0eU These vids are fun, and they exist both ways: https://youtu.be/owYGxBtq7Io But they just make fun of a problem, not …

Re: Reasons to hate modern games

Posted on 2022-06-22, 17:44

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There's a series of Youtube vids that illustrates my main problem with modern games perfectly: If Doom was done today They're ten years old by now, but still relevant :D Not relly. I think this is better illustrates differences between old and new: https://youtu.be/jPqwDGXxLhU i liked this one ( …

Re: Reasons to hate modern games

Posted on 2022-06-22, 09:17

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Here's my 2c: Games as a Service Open World/Sandbox Filler/Bloat Lootbox/Microtransactions Season Pass (particularly before the game even launched) ETFs DRM Remake/Remasters Day 1 DLC/Patch Early Access Episodic Games Ultra Mega Super Duper Special Digital Editions 24 Hour Download Times Annual …

Re: The moment you were hooked

Posted on 2022-06-19, 21:10

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I was hooked on PCs around 1986 but because they opened various opportunities for me, not gaming. Programming, stats/OR analysis, economic/simulation models, cellula automata, Byte magazine and the computing column that used to be in Scientific American. All of which is still where my heart is in …

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