I believe this to a degree based on my personal experiences with being thought of as either a brilliant wizard or evil hacker for unimpressive things. It even would happen at different jobs until my current job where my boss is the opposite. he thinks that anything and everything is possible and should be “easy” despite being technically illiterate. His new AI obsession has made it so much worse. I actually miss the super annoying “OMG you can do that? You’re a wizard/hacker/demigod!” days.

Nice, thanks. The Steam backlog must grow.

lol, no of course not, unless that changed later. I would have noped right out.

Not all of us. I just read what it said on the main page “A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers” and thought that sounded good. I’m sure a lot of people that were new to lemmy figured the instance run by the devs themselves would be a safe bet. There also wasn’t nearly as much drama around .ml back then, but it honestly hasn’t been enough of an issue to make me create an account on a new instance and switch.

They probably use the proprietary Face Off ™ technology.

Civ 3 was the first game in the series that didn’t feel like a big improvement (graphics aside of course). but you always love your first Civ.

I had that game for the Atari 2600 and unlike E.T, it was a great game.

I still have my copy in my own little museum in my office with some of my favorite (or in this case most notorious) games. Does that count?

Yeah, I’m a little jealous of that cool ass setup. I used to have something like it, though not as nice.

I like that “Name” was on there. You know, in case he forgets.

Gross.

It was truly wild to meet him briefly at Defcon after years of seeing “FREE KEVIN” and such.

This is true because Linux users know that daemons are something that you can rein in and perhaps restart on occasion.

I’m surprised they had to outsource that as they have been producing so much shit for decades.

Honestly, life would be improved if people brought everything on fancy wooden planks. I would replace FedEx and UPS in a heartbeat if my stuff arrived like that instead of being spiked onto the ground like a volleyball.

I have to admit, the GBA SP was pretty hot. I still have mine.

I remember that last part from the announcer and we were all like “you don’t say…”.

That would surely have made us feel better lmao! Still, that’s an interesting fact.

We watched it live in elementary school, most of the kids didn’t get what had happened right away. Our teacher was just standing there stunned until an announcement came on the intercom asking all the teachers to turn it off. They didn’t say anything to us, just tried to pretend like we didn’t just watch people blow up live.

A 33MHz DX 486was great. If you got stuck with a slower SX CPU, things were frequently not so hot.