Man I miss the real Solaris. Fuck Oracle. At least IRIX never turned to shit

Are you forgetting their conservative personalities like S.E.Cup, Lou Dobbs, etc?

CNN was never lefty anyway.

It’s a rewarding achievement honestly.

Finishing Ghost and goblins (along with ghouls and ghosts) without cheats/saves is bragging rights

My ultimate gaming achievement was beating Pulstar on one quarter in the arcade (although it wasn’t really fair, I had a neogeo cabinet at home with Pulstar and I played it for hours everyday for weeks). Still, this is an accomplishment that no one I know has matched

Let me guess, your someone who makes well north of $19/hr telling the plebs to be happy they have cake?

If your buying swords off Amazon, you dun already goofed

It’s people like you that make everything suck. Fucking “Race to the bottom” cheerleaders

It’s worth pointing out the cracks in a service everyone uses - some of those cracks have been there for a long time and Amazon has been doing a poor job combating it - if they even are. Amazon seems to make knockoffs themselves of best selling items, but that’s another topic.

To your point though, depends what you buy - when I was looking for really good headphones a few years ago, there were warnings on review sites about ordering Sony brand headphones and getting fakes. Apparently there were also sites dedicated to help identify fake headphones bought from Amazon (Sony MDR-7506). One would be correct to say counterfeits were around since before Amazon, but you wouldn’t expect to get a counterfeit if you pay full price from a brand name store - which is the new problem.

Also buying SD cards, specialized batteries, etc has been a big problem on Amazon for years, and Amazon doesn’t seem able to really address it (inb4 someone says they have made it worse)

Anker is a cheap knockoff brand?

Nedit - was a great simple editor i discovered on SGI IRIX, still use it today. Also, emacs is in a class of itself, it’s more OS than text editor 🤣

Orphan black - first season was amazing, it was an amazing concept. It was pretty clear the writers didn’t know wtf to do once they got a season 2+ and they choked imho

The Grammer Nazi’s are here to

Telescopes don’t really get too crazy until one wants to get into astrophotography (assuming we want an APO at that point, not before). At that point staying in the four digits is an accomplishment in itself…

But I did learn something when I bought a binoviewer for my telescope, I had to buy double the eyepieces and that was a bit hit that I didn’t fully think out

I bought mine and own it happily - us licence holders should all get together, we could probably fill up a Chuck-E-Cheese

If I have to pick, this range and a copy of dracula X and SOTN rather than a probable disappointment from present day Konami

This is a bad take. Boomers created the internet, Unix, C, processors and other IC’s, other OS’s, created computer graphics as we know them now, etc etc etc. They are the pioneers we stand on, but each generation has a bell curve.

Millennials start with the same bell curve, I assume a bit better maybe because knowledge is easier to access for those who seek it, but don’t confuse navigating an app, and knowing how to Google troubleshooting terms as some form of technical supremacy, if the internet goes away tomorrow, how many millennials will know how to troubleshoot issues or create IC’s from rocks?

Bro stop bullshitting us. A casual would not know this much detail 🤣🤣😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

Unix Blasphemy!!

I do love X though (not the Twitter rebrand - Motif for life!!). A simple X program is/was so portable, but I guess not many people care anymore.

Educate a pleeb here, I’ve been out of the gaming loop. What’s the notable exceptions of great games this year and what two that are not state-of-the-art graphics do you mean?

Science and scientific studies help determine what is ineffective or harmful, the problem is the FDA doesn’t have authority over shit plenty of things - a person can go on YouTube and say drinking their special bottled water will cure cancer, and they don’t fall into FDA guidelines so they are free to claim whatever they want, essentially. These woo-woo type cure-alls have gotten into trouble with the FDA because of their ridiculous and unfactual, unproven claims, but that’s usually where the lawyer wordsmiths show up to change the wording just enough to not get into trouble with the FDA.

There is a whole history of pseudoscience as an industry and how it was able to bribe/lobby for its current position in public view (since you even have to ask this question)