War craft 1 was great at the time, the 2d one is still a lot of fun.

Doctored photos were so much more impressive in print prior to photo shops becoming so popular on the internet.

Halo 3, Call of Duty Modern Warfare and Mass Effect 2 were all triple A games. Whatever this game is that they are trying to peddle, is not better than any of the previous games I listed.

I miss mIRC, maybe it is time to take a look back.

The example video of showing wearing the headset and showing the outer display:

https://valkyrie.cdn.ifixit.com/media/2024/02/03103510/Display-Stack_sm.mp4

It is off putting and reminds me of one of the Robocop 2 Prototypes.

https://www.robocoparchive.com/info/prototypes.htm

I love that game and instantly recognized the screen shot from one of the secret project videos. Thanks for sharing.

This reminds me of having a palm pilot as a teenager. It played mp3s, and had pdfs, but otherwise you could only take notes and fiddle with settings. I read all of the origonal halo books off of it.

I think all of the card games with random pulls are a bit of a ripoff.

The RPG crowd is the lead in pirating or flat out making their own rules and barely spending money. They just need rules and dice. You need a small group, and there really aren’t tournaments so you can play it however you want.

Table top war gaming in the middle is being filled with indy 3d printed miniatures and home made rules that can take over local scenes pretty easily. 40k still dominates the space, only because most people act like its the only game (it is by far the most common already) and you can buy the minis from most any hobby store. The tournaments are huge, and sometimes the biggest tournaments even dictate the rules just as much as the game seller and most people want to play “tournament legal” armies only.

MTG and other card games are the only thing keeping most hobby stores alive and prints money. it is entirely on for whatever reason, people just want to buy another booster. It is as bad as gambling if not worse, you don’t even know what you are buying. It should be even easier to pirate and print your own resources to play card games but somehow it is a huge money maker because as always, people flock to the largest group of gamers in their space.

Indy RPG and Skirmish tabletop games make boat loads of money for small groups of people and it is easy for them to run circles around larger game manufacturers. Things like 40k and MTG where there is such a huge following of people who might not necessarily care and just want to go to massive tournaments it is much harder to challenge those established followings.

Lol I saw that movie this year and it was a valiant effort, but I thought it was ridiculous to see Charlie as a crazy astronomer.

You Really Think Someone Would Do That? Just Go On the Internet and Tell Lies?

They can’t type either. I blame public schools using tablets.

I don’t think about programming at all, no offense.

I would also like to know why Dale Earnhardt is in so many maymays lately.

There will never be enough 40 year old virgin memes.

I dont add it [edit: smart tv] to the wifi or drop a cat 5 cable to it and my smart phone will still see it in the house and ask if I want the two devices to connect. I miss when TVs were a bit thicker and easier to take apart so you could easily take out the wifi and Bluetooth cards.

We don’t need to forget how great Hong Kong was up until a few years ago.

Everything after ascii art was a mistake. It feels childish to use emoticons, a lot of users here grew up on platforms that only had text and to see emoticons is jarring. Needing to use an image for emotional context is poor writing.

In the US Marines, in boot camp they taught us to wrap the muzzle device in electrical tape to keep dirt out. I still do it if we are going to the field and we aren’t shooting. I’ve never seen the plastic caps. If we had a built in cover like OPs picture, so many people would shoot right through them.

You can pay almost $100 to get your TSA pre check every year and skip lines. Or better yet not travel during the holidays when the airport is struggling to handle all the people as it is.

Second from the right is a Marine for sure, everyone in the picture has 8 point covers, but not everyone has USMC ironed onto their left breast pockets. Probably a bunch of Marines or Sailors since the Army / Air force have never worn the 8 point cover.