[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

This is for real. I have never been so disappointed in a video game, and I had E.T for the Atari 2600 as a kid.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

It's missing probably the worst sequel ever, Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace. Holy god was that movie awful. Maybe the list didn't include it because it did so poorly that not enough people were disappointed.

I'm just glad Highlander 2 was near the top.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I'm not sure I consider myself a "veteran" since I still used Windows most of the time back then, but I used it in the late 90s. This is all anecdotal from my perspective, but the late 90s Linux experience was pretty rough on the desktop side, especially installing it. I actually rarely saw Debian in use, it was usually Red Hat for the sane people or Slackware for the lunatics. There were a few notable Linux game ports, but generally speaking, gaming wasn't something most people did or even expected to do in Linux. I think I had a small handful games that weren't terminal roguelikes: Doom, Quake, Tux Racer, and Alpha Centauri ( this one might have been early 2000s, hard to recall ). I can't say I personally saw anyone openly using it at the university level in almost any form when I attended, I saw a lot of Unix though. Everyone I knew that was using Linux was younger and did have a slightly hobbyist leaning, with the more serious people usually using OpenBSD or FreeBSD.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

It's too early to call me out like this man, I'm not caffeinated.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Malls were dying in the US well before Amazon and online shopping itself was meaningful. Big box stores did a number on them. Best Buy and Circuit City had nearly the same selection of music that mall music stores did for much lower prices. Stores like Barnes and Noble and Books-A-Million eviscerated the smaller more expensive mall book stores. Walmart, Target, and the like hit everything else.

Once that decline happened, I noticed that many malls started going after the kids that just hung around malls and weren't in constant spend mode. Teens were treated like pests that were not wanted. Guess who got the message and didn't come back a few years later when they had jobs and money?

Malls in the 80s and early 90s were pretty awesome, but malls told us to fuck off so we did. They can rot.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago

There were clearly some questionable recycling methods for used toilet paper rolls back in the day, but don't worry, the sweet orange flavor covered up the after taste.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

Fuck, I really hate to agree with Elon on anything, but that is a ridiculous argument. LeCun must also really believe that trees only fall in the woods when someone is around to see it happen.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

TIL about the artificial sweetener thing, this explains a lot. I have never been able to understand people enjoying diet soda.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago

Save scumming.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

12 hours isn't really even that long, could probably bring just about anything, but I think Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri would be a great way to spend that time.

[-] [email protected] 55 points 4 months ago

Sadly all the branches have one at the schools. I made the mistake of taking the ASVAB test in high school to get out of class, scored well and was hounded by all of these guys. The marine recruiter showed up at my house carrying a CRT TV/VHS combo to try and convince me to join lol

[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Or Dark Matter!

The full list of good shows they cancelled or cut off early is long and painful to read.

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