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NobodysWife's (step)father passed on last night. I put the (step) in parentheses because her parents divorced when she was 7, and her stepfather took her in and raised her as his own from then on. She really did have two dads.
I cannot express my utter gratitude and relief that the kids came with us to say goodbye to him on Saturday. We told Impus Minor (home sick today), and his immediate response was, "Wow. I'm sad. But I'm glad I got to say goodbye to him. And... dad?"
"Yes, IM?"
"You were right! His last words to you WERE, 'Thanks for the hose!'"
(Long story -- while I was there I fixed a hose for them)
So if you ever have loved ones close to death, VISIT THEM!!!!
In less sad news, I have no idea what the heck you kids were up to!
In 1974 I was playing Trek on the timeshare PDP 11's in Lawrence Hall of Science. By 1977 a neighborhood kid had an Atari. By 1978 we had an Apple II+ and my parents were already limiting us to 1 hour of video games a day.
So what's all this, "No video games in the 1980s" carp?
I'm 38. When I say lame and old school I really really mean it. :PYou're like ten years younger than me. How did you end up not playing video games until you were that old?! I was playing video games from age 12 or 13. Lame old school games, but they were games. Didn't have internet until college though. Still, you shoulda grown up on that stuff! This boggles my mind.And of course kidlet plays Minecraft. Because apparently asking if a tween plays minecraft is like asking if a bear poops in the woods.Stuff like this still weirds me out a little for some reason. When I was 11 or 12, we didn't even have internet. And I'm not even that old. I didn't even start playing video games until I was well into my teens.how old are you two?
When I got a gamecube, my first console, I could have been no younger than 8 or 9. (I'm 22 now). I always felt like I was introduced to videogames a little late because other kids my age had an N64 before they had a gamecube.
my mom is 42 and I think she had internet access of some sort since her high school years (by the way polish people start school a year later than kids born in the US if you want to do math).
Which really makes sense since she's a software developer with a masters in computer science and had always been something of a hacker since the movie War Games, which she claimed got her interested in computers in the first place.
Bah My first video game system was the Atari 2600
did you know that Atari is named after the position in Go in which a piece (or group) is one move away from being captured?
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I'm losing track of what aliases i have, i almost favorite'd one of my own posts:-D
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@Nobodyshome I'm sorry for your loss :c hope your family is doing well.
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In 1974 I was playing Trek on the timeshare PDP 11's in Lawrence Hall of Science. By 1977 a neighborhood kid had an Atari. By 1978 we had an Apple II+ and my parents were already limiting us to 1 hour of video games a day.
So what's all this, "No video games in the 1980s" carp?
Bingo. My dad built a Pong game in '76, we had text-based games on the CDC and graphics-based games on the plotting graphics terminal, and an Atarii by 1979 (along with a TRS-80).
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Sorry for your loss Nobodyshome.
Death is never easy, but at least your kids got to say goodbye, you'll be in our thoughts this weekend :-)
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Bingo. My dad built a Pong game in '76, we had text-based games on the CDC and graphics-based games on the plotting graphics terminal, and an Atarii by 1979 (along with a TRS-80).In 1974 I was playing Trek on the timeshare PDP 11's in Lawrence Hall of Science. By 1977 a neighborhood kid had an Atari. By 1978 we had an Apple II+ and my parents were already limiting us to 1 hour of video games a day.
So what's all this, "No video games in the 1980s" carp?
Woot! The Trash-80! The computer everyone loved to hate!
I did not, I was told it was japanese for receiving a gift or somethingBah My first video game system was the Atari 2600did you know that Atari is named after the position in Go in which a piece (or group) is one move away from being captured?
you're not far off. Another sense of ataru is "to receive something fortuitously".
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Woot! The Trash-80! The computer everyone loved to hate!Bingo. My dad built a Pong game in '76, we had text-based games on the CDC and graphics-based games on the plotting graphics terminal, and an Atarii by 1979 (along with a TRS-80).In 1974 I was playing Trek on the timeshare PDP 11's in Lawrence Hall of Science. By 1977 a neighborhood kid had an Atari. By 1978 we had an Apple II+ and my parents were already limiting us to 1 hour of video games a day.
So what's all this, "No video games in the 1980s" carp?
i'm laughing. that's the best pun ever.
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We had three of those, god did i hate them!
all this classic computer talk is making me want to revisit this old scifi I was working on about the president of a megacorporation who had her consciousness backed up to a supercomputer at the time she died, and continued running the corp after her death from the computer. She was the first and only person at the time of the story to have done so.
oh by the way, in the slight alternate history this story took place, she was the bill gates or steve jobs of the IT industry; as she had pioneered a popular unix-based operating system and filled that niche before either of those two people made it onto the scene.
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I'm 38. When I say lame and old school I really really mean it. :PYou're like ten years younger than me. How did you end up not playing video games until you were that old?! I was playing video games from age 12 or 13. Lame old school games, but they were games. Didn't have internet until college though. Still, you shoulda grown up on that stuff! This boggles my mind.And of course kidlet plays Minecraft. Because apparently asking if a tween plays minecraft is like asking if a bear poops in the woods.Stuff like this still weirds me out a little for some reason. When I was 11 or 12, we didn't even have internet. And I'm not even that old. I didn't even start playing video games until I was well into my teens.how old are you two?
When I got a gamecube, my first console, I could have been no younger than 8 or 9. (I'm 22 now). I always felt like I was introduced to videogames a little late because other kids my age had an N64 before they had a gamecube.
my mom is 42 and I think she had internet access of some sort since her high school years (by the way polish people start school a year later than kids born in the US if you want to do math).
Which really makes sense since she's a software developer with a masters in computer science and had always been something of a hacker since the movie War Games, which she claimed got her interested in computers in the first place.
I had internet at school in high school, but we were only allowed to use it for research projects. And the teachers always watched me like a hawk around the computers. I kept freaking them out by turning off windows (I was used to DOS) and they didn't trust me not to somehow mess up the machines. Which was silly really. I was more likely to fix them than break them. *eyeroll* There were a lot of non computer savvy people in the early nineties.
Anyways, no internet at home cause parents just don't understand. :)So I didn't actually get to play on the internet until I went to college.
And for those who had a computer in the eighties I have nothing but jealousy. We got a computer in 1990, and the main reason was because my parents had had it with me and the constant clacking and dinging of the typewriter. :D
(I was 12 and already a good typist. I needed to get the stories out of my head faster. Typing is faster than handwriting so I learned to type.)
When I was in high school I fantasized sometimes about writing my stories on a typewriter. I have never touched one. A working one anyway.
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My parents worked in a Children's Home in 1989-1991 with an NES in it, and the neighboring Home had a Sega Genesis (which we played extensively less, but just enough to know what Sonic was). Then I ended up saving up my money and purchasing an SNES around 1996... just in time for the N64 to come out.
In 97 I got a Game Boy Pocket, in 99 a Game Boy Advance. Those three systems pretty much defined my childhood; we had a computer before that with some games on it but none of them really affected me the way Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Pokemon, EarthBound, Mega Man X, Secret of Mana, and Zelda 2D did.
And after I got the video game systems, the computer became more of a place to go online and talk about console video games than a place to play games in and of itself. I didn't really spend a large volume of time playing PC games until I got into Neverwinter Nights in college.
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I'm 38. When I say lame and old school I really really mean it. :PYou're like ten years younger than me. How did you end up not playing video games until you were that old?! I was playing video games from age 12 or 13. Lame old school games, but they were games. Didn't have internet until college though. Still, you shoulda grown up on that stuff! This boggles my mind.And of course kidlet plays Minecraft. Because apparently asking if a tween plays minecraft is like asking if a bear poops in the woods.Stuff like this still weirds me out a little for some reason. When I was 11 or 12, we didn't even have internet. And I'm not even that old. I didn't even start playing video games until I was well into my teens.how old are you two?
When I got a gamecube, my first console, I could have been no younger than 8 or 9. (I'm 22 now). I always felt like I was introduced to videogames a little late because other kids my age had an N64 before they had a gamecube.
I hope you enjoy the company of younger men.
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When I was in high school I fantasized sometimes about writing my stories on a typewriter. I have never touched one. A working one anyway.
It goes something like this:
Clack clack clack clack clack clack clack clackDing! Whirr(moving the bar back)
Clack clack clack clack clack clack.....
Dammit! Where's the whiteout? I was going too fast and misspelled a word
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He's black!?
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When I was in high school I fantasized sometimes about writing my stories on a typewriter. I have never touched one. A working one anyway.It goes something like this:
Clack clack clack clack clack clack clack clack
Ding! Whirr(moving the bar back)
Clack clack clack clack clack clack.....
Dammit! Where's the whiteout? I was going too fast and misspelled a word
I had the misfortune of growing up with an immigrant mother who did not know what the hubbub over computers was and tried to raise me with the belief that one was the same as any other. This lead to a lot of problems growing up once I hit high school, but it seemed to be the worst when I was in my last years of elementary school and had to type up reports on her electronic typewriter, which she swore was the same thing as a computer. To be fair to her, it DID have an awesome automatic whiteout correcting reel installed which COOLLY erased a letter and replaced it with the right one, but overall was a headache because the "electronic" porion of it was a screen about the size of your thumb above the keyboard that held maybe 9 letters. You had to type into that screen and then tell the typewriter to type, which was again COOL, but imagine writing this entire post 9 letters at a time including spaces and then only knowing what it really looked like when you hit "submit post"? Yeah, that part wasn't cool, especially as short tempered as my mother could be when it came to me writing my papers and "borrowing" her typewriter(seriously, what else was I supposed to write it on? She wouldn't let me go down to the library to use the computers there[and rightfully so considering it was the bad part of near-Flatbush in the late 80s], and her micromanaging meant my handwriting was "atrocious"..)
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My first REAL video game experience, though, was on something nobody ever expects: a Mac!
Man, they had some good ones. Tomb Raider 2, Pathways Into Darkness, and the Marathon series. <3
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He's black!?
He isn't?
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He's black!?
He isn't?
He's straight!?
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He's straight!?He's black!?
He isn't?
He doesn't need to be straight for my manliness to be enhanced.
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He doesn't need to be straight for my manliness to be enhanced.He's straight!?He's black!?
He isn't?
He's not a Martian?
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He doesn't need to be straight for my manliness to be enhanced.He's straight!?He's black!?
He isn't?
True, but if the target is Lyn, won't it matter? ... Hmm... lessee... if he likes... and she likes... uh... Now I'm confused.
OK, he's manly?
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My sympathies, Nobody'sHome... to your wife and (step)father's whole family.
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He doesn't need to be straight for my manliness to be enhanced.He's straight!?He's black!?
He isn't?
True, but if the target is Lyn, won't it matter? ... Hmm... lessee... if he likes... and she likes... uh... Now I'm confused.
OK, he's manly?
When young (and a few not-so-young)women scream themselves into a frothing frenzy(and not just frothing at the mouth...) as he sings" "Just The Way You Are", you bet he's manly.
That voice is f+*~ing magical, only CH has a signing voice more surprising. There were a few videos on youtube where he just starts singing out of nowhere and MY GOD WHAT A VOICE
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And for those who had a computer in the eighties I have nothing but jealousy.
A computer!??!!? Heck, I could BUY BEER in the 80's!
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He doesn't need to be straight for my manliness to be enhanced.He's straight!?He's black!?
He isn't?
True, but if the target is Lyn, won't it matter? ... Hmm... lessee... if he likes... and she likes... uh... Now I'm confused.
OK, he's manly?
When young (and a few not-so-young)women scream themselves into a frothing frenzy(and not just frothing at the mouth...) as he sings" "Just The Way You Are", you bet he's manly.
That voice is f#+%ing magical, only CH has a signing voice more surprising. There were a few videos on youtube where he just starts singing out of nowhere and MY GOD WHAT A VOICE
This is true. He is also quite good looking, but what you really notice is the voice. :)
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And for those who had a computer in the eighties I have nothing but jealousy.A computer!??!!? Heck, I could BUY BEER in the 80's!
Didn't much care about that as I was in elementary school and more concerned with She-ra action figures at the time. :P
Edit: I had the biggest crush on Glimmer. Magical princess with purple hair? Yes please. :)
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My sympathies, Nobody'sHome... to your wife and (step)father's whole family.
One big +1.
He is with the ancestors now.And I am sure he will tell of his grandchildren, of whom is he very proud.
Didn't much care about that as I was in elementary school and more concerned with She-ra action figures at the time. :P
She-Ra was always the better one compared to He-man.
SHUT IT, I AM TOTALLY A MAN. >:(
(EDIT: for ninjas)
He has a great voice, yeah, and is a heck of an entertainer.
I have not been privileged to hear CH sing, to my great sadness. :(
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My sympathies, Nobody'sHome... to your wife and (step)father's whole family.One big +1.
He is with the ancestors now.And I am sure he will tell of his grandchildren, of whom is he very proud.
+2
It sounds like he will be missed.
He doesn't need to be straight for my manliness to be enhanced.He's straight!?He's black!?
He isn't?
True, but if the target is Lyn, won't it matter? ... Hmm... lessee... if he likes... and she likes... uh... Now I'm confused.
OK, he's manly?
When young (and a few not-so-young)women scream themselves into a frothing frenzy(and not just frothing at the mouth...) as he sings" "Just The Way You Are", you bet he's manly.
That voice is f#+%ing magical, only CH has a signing voice more surprising. There were a few videos on youtube where he just starts singing out of nowhere and MY GOD WHAT A VOICE
This is true. He is also quite good looking, but what you really notice is the voice. :)
Singing is one of those things that I never got the hang of. I was a band geek. But my god, even in junior high school, even TEACHERS(who should know better) treated kids who could sing so well. One even bribed a kid regularly to sing hymns for her(a HUGE no-no...), I remember that kid's voice to this day. Voice of an angel, I'm not kidding.
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Didn't much care about that as I was in elementary school and more concerned with She-ra action figures at the time. :P
She-Ra was always the better one compared to He-man.
SHUT IT, I AM TOTALLY A MAN. >:(
(EDIT: for ninjas)
Hey, it's totally true. Adam was a dumbass who would never have got anywhere without the sorceress saving his butt all the time. Adora was a kick butt take charge girl who actually knew how to get stuff done.
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the only thing I really know of he-man is that 4-non-blondes video, which I refuse to believe is not canon.
i tried watching the show once but didn't really get into it.
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He doesn't need to be straight for my manliness to be enhanced.He's straight!?He's black!?
He isn't?
True, but if the target is Lyn, won't it matter? ... Hmm... lessee... if he likes... and she likes... uh... Now I'm confused.
OK, he's manly?
When young (and a few not-so-young)women scream themselves into a frothing frenzy(and not just frothing at the mouth...) as he sings" "Just The Way You Are", you bet he's manly.
That voice is f$@%ing magical, only CH has a signing voice more surprising. There were a few videos on youtube where he just starts singing out of nowhere and MY GOD WHAT A VOICE
Great, now Uptown Funk is looping in my head.
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David Bowie with a kitten on his head.
And my first thought seeing Bowie's smile, is that he would be a great Lucifer...
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And for those who had a computer in the eighties I have nothing but jealousy.A computer!??!!? Heck, I could BUY BEER in the 80's!Didn't much care about that as I was in elementary school and more concerned with She-ra action figures at the time. :P
Edit: I had the biggest crush on Glimmer. Magical princess with purple hair? Yes please. :)
I didn't get into girls with colored hair until I got into anime.
I saw her dubbed voice actor at bronycon, as she is the singing voice of rarity. I didn't get a chance to talk to her or get her autograph...she was sold out. But I did SEE her, and I almost freaked out. Almost.
In the 80's, when it came to cartoons I was all about cheetara. And Arcee, which made me feel weird at the time.
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PragueEuropean Cities look so f!~*ing awesome at night :-)
Well, you went through Legnica instead of Kraków... Your loss.
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See I've never gotten food stuck in my beard, I thought that only happened on sitcoms and homeless crazy people.
No food remains in my beard. When the mustache starts to filter my soup it's a clear sign that trimming is needed.
And for those who had a computer in the eighties I have nothing but jealousy.A computer!??!!? Heck, I could BUY BEER in the 80's!Didn't much care about that as I was in elementary school and more concerned with She-ra action figures at the time. :P
Edit: I had the biggest crush on Glimmer. Magical princess with purple hair? Yes please. :)
I didn't get into girls with colored hair until I got into anime.
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In the 80's, when it came to cartoons I was all about cheetara. And Arcee, which made me feel weird at the time.
Yeah, cheetara never really appealed to me. The Baroness on the other hand...
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Well, you went through Legnica instead of Kraków... Your loss.PragueEuropean Cities look so f!~*ing awesome at night :-)
My bad! Next time I'll look at pictures of Polish cities instead of randomly pick one of my map of Poland :-)
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Yeah, cheetara never really appealed to me. The Baroness on the other hand...And for those who had a computer in the eighties I have nothing but jealousy.A computer!??!!? Heck, I could BUY BEER in the 80's!Didn't much care about that as I was in elementary school and more concerned with She-ra action figures at the time. :P
Edit: I had the biggest crush on Glimmer. Magical princess with purple hair? Yes please. :)
I didn't get into girls with colored hair until I got into anime.
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In the 80's, when it came to cartoons I was all about cheetara. And Arcee, which made me feel weird at the time.
In elementary school, we came to blows over which GI JOE character was your girlfriend.
The fights were horrendous.
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debating how terrible of an idea it would be to make a tribute to the he-man video with my characters
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Yeah, cheetara never really appealed to me. The Baroness on the other hand...And for those who had a computer in the eighties I have nothing but jealousy.A computer!??!!? Heck, I could BUY BEER in the 80's!Didn't much care about that as I was in elementary school and more concerned with She-ra action figures at the time. :P
Edit: I had the biggest crush on Glimmer. Magical princess with purple hair? Yes please. :)
I didn't get into girls with colored hair until I got into anime.
** spoiler omitted **
In the 80's, when it came to cartoons I was all about cheetara. And Arcee, which made me feel weird at the time.In elementary school, we came to blows over which GI JOE character was your girlfriend.
The fights were horrendous.
Lol. Yeah GI Joe inspired a lot of arguments back in the day. :)
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But did you have cartridges or five-inch floppies?
Atar 2600. It was a game console. No way to connect floppy drive as far as I can tell... (ignoring hypothetical cases of tinkering by mad enthusiasts)