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The cries of neoliberals losing their jobs in San Francisco.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/san-francisco ... d=96525685

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He should've just said it was performance art.
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Abused roosters kill two cunts or Armed Police Cockrider

I see these from time to time. Never gets old! Even a shameless fiend like me who eats chickens and cows by the truckload must approve. Image

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This is so insanely fucking funny.

https://youtu.be/VVhYFoAPRmE

He broke it into EIGHTHS.
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Nathan Larson is dead. Image

What a cartoonishly hideous individual. Didn't know at the time of that 2020 post that he was an unrepentant rapist, on top of being an Incel Paedo Nazi. A decent overview.

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I love how he was too libertarian for even the libertarians
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https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2023/03 ... a-landfill

All that useless plastic. It's like 80's Atari all over again.
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Udderdude wrote:https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2023/03 ... a-landfill

All that useless plastic. It's like 80's Atari all over again.
A veritable portrait of our own hubris. Far future archaeologists are going to have a field day with all dead-eyed idols our civilization is going to appear to have worshipped, and what's worse is that they won't be far wrong :roll:

Ah well. At least the schadenfreude dripping from it is a thick and gooey honey.
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I have exactly one Funko Pop. It was a gift.
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Stevens wrote:I have exactly one Funko Pop. It was a gift.
Same. Mine is Alduin from Skyrim, which is arguably slightly less terrible than average on account of being a recognizable dragon with actual geometric detailing.

Wait, fuck, I also accrued a Devil Jin from Tekken at some point. There's no escape :|
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Funko is the ultimate in brainteasing fad garbage. Unlike something like Beanie Babies, it appears the market is only like, what -- millennials and such? They're so fuckin' ugly and indistinguishable and they can't do anything. They just sit there and rot with their dead eyes and hulking frozen stature. I guess they were hot off the trail of 'loot boxes', the reigning king of momentary collectable crap for 'nerdy' adults, so their rise to power was only natural. Devilish things, those!
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As a brief interlude from the Funkopopalypse, I learned this is what the ROM on the moon lander computer looked like:

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"Core Rope Memory", it's called - binary code expressed by way of wires that pass either through or around magnetic rings. Hand-woven assembler.

Retro chic aside, man that's cool.
drauch wrote:the reigning king of momentary collectable crap for 'nerdy' adults
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Jimmy Metokur might be gone, but his spirit is eternal ;-;7

Dying at this all over again Image
Lander wrote:As a brief interlude from the Funkopopalypse, I learned this is what the ROM on the moon lander computer looked like:

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"Core Rope Memory", it's called - binary code expressed by way of wires that pass either through or around magnetic rings. Hand-woven assembler.

Retro chic aside, man that's cool.
Blows my damn mind, the whole 60s moon tech thing. :o
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BIL wrote:Abused roosters kill two cunts or Armed Police Cockrider

I see these from time to time. Never gets old! Even a shameless fiend like me who eats chickens and cows by the truckload must approve. Image
Footage of the incident:

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Ah, man. Image The kind of GIF you can hear. :mrgreen: Violent clucking and flapping intensifies...
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Nothing like some good old fashioned piss-ripping to neuter internet foolishness :mrgreen:
BIL wrote:Blows my damn mind, the whole 60s moon tech thing. :o
Same, it's wild to look back and see actual recognizable wiring and such across the gulf of time and miniaturization; non-enthusiast hardware is such a magic black-box these days that the notion of doing it on such fundamental tech is boggle material.
Though when it comes down to it, the algorithms underpinning it are dead simple in mathematician terms; p' = p + vt and such - much of what we spend all that modern computing grunt on is quite frivolous by comparison!

The computer itself is some wild arcane business too - 15(?!) bit architecture, tiny memory pool, complicated negative handling, no pointers, only two still exist and one is lost in space, a proper trove of compsci intruigue.
And of course, some smartarse wrote a playable Lunar Lander game for it :lol:
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Lander wrote:As a brief interlude from the Funkopopalypse, I learned this is what the ROM on the moon lander computer looked like:

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"Core Rope Memory", it's called - binary code expressed by way of wires that pass either through or around magnetic rings. Hand-woven assembler.
You might like this youtube channel. Marc and his friends are the custodians of much Apollo gear of old. This is their playlist on ferrite core memory: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... NJPPsQtjGy
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drauch wrote: and they can't do anything. They just sit there and rot
The one I was gifted is at work. I don't collect anything. Like anything at all for the reason you mentioned - they're just dust collectors. No use for things with no utility, especially when it just takes up space.
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vol.2 wrote:You might like this youtube channel. Marc and his friends are the custodians of much Apollo gear of old. This is their playlist on ferrite core memory: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... NJPPsQtjGy
Nice, that seems like it'll be right up my street.

Love the way they cannibalized an iPhone box to mount flip switches for hardware hacking. Beautiful anachronism :lol:
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On Quake:

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Well that comment aged well :lol:
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Ironically enough, given our author's chief gripe, that's a dynamite sequel to EDGE's classic "Can't talk to the monsters? Pfff" howler monkey. :cool:

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Room over room? Pfft, you can't fool me. This is just more levels. What a load.
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Blinge wrote:On Quake:

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Well that comment aged well :lol:
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This is a pretty fun read about a guy's recollections of working game retail in the 90's. https://huguesjohnson.com/features/loser_phase/

The part about having to literally force copies of NES SMB/DH on customers is particularly hilarious.
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Psh, this newfangled BSP thing can't even do Barrels of Fun or Lunatic Fringe. Hail to the BUILD Engine, baby Image
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URBEX Ninja Saves The Trapped Kid ;-;7

Not quite as nuts as this dude's truly moving insane Donkey Kong WR, but Chinese guy does get significant Random Bystander Bonus!
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Crazy Climber 3.
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How'd I miss that... :lol:
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