Quiet weekend. Work paid for dinner and a couple of drinks. Happens once a month.
Glad I’m in a different sector. All the IT places I worked for were awful and tight asses.
You deserve this happiness, you’ve worked so hard for it!
Gaming weekend then?
Did you ever give anything away thinking it’s worthless, or that you’ll never use or want it again, and then over a decade later think WHY TF DID I DO THAT I’M A COMPLETE IDIOT?!?!?!?!
Yeah that’s me.
Missing my old Macintosh 512K from 1984 with second external disk drive, in perfect working condition. That I now want to tinker with bad, especially now that there are great storage/communications options that can be built for them.
Retro-computing is EXPENSIVE now.
</nerdregret>
The one thing I wanted back from the past is my Intellivision. It may or or be in a derelict shed. Gone either way.
I’ll pour one out for it tonight.
I wish I still had my childhood Commodore 64. Been on the lookout for one for a while now, but even the fixer-uppers are worth heaps. The days of $20 garage-sale specials are long gone!
I put a commodore 64 on my hard rubbish pile 20 years ago. Not proud of that now.
Hindsight is 20/20!
I do still have 2 Nintendo game&watch😹 batteries cost more than the hardware now!
My dad bought a certain brand of keyboard for music, in the 80s, and he’s accumulated many different ones now. I cannot remember the brand/model, but he sold it before I was born and kicks himself for it because 1) it’s worth a lot now, and 2) he said it made the best sound and his current ones don’t come close.
My dream if I win the lotto, would be to buy him a moog
70s/80s audio electronics were so much better, completely agree.
I luckily DO have my dad’s old hifi setup, the sound is just -chef’s kiss-
Aw man that sound would be sick as from your dad’s setup! Jelly as
Not gonna lie it’s pretty awesome ☺️ And as a bonus, our 5 year old is becoming great at turning records over for me at the end of the side! Especially the Bluey picture discs 😄
As fun as retro computing and gaming is, I’ve found emulation to fulfill that itch for a more reasonable price.
I use Qemu/KVM with virt-manager, I’m currently playing with Windows XP and trying to get games like AOE2, Warcraft3, etc running on it. Eventually I may get an old white LCD 4:3 monitor.
Retro handhelds like the Miyoo Mini Plus, Anbernic RG35XX-H & Trimui Smart Pro are cheap and fun portable retro game handhelds, they are becoming very popular and the firmware mods are getting better.
Yeah I’m also well into emulation. VICE for commodore stuff, and omg how good is exodos! WinUAE for Amiga. I still long for the actual hardware though, I’ve got an old DOS machine and love it, though even that is still a bit too “new” (it’s a PII)
My husband had an IBM Original 286 that he still reminisces about to this day.
My first computer was an Amstrad
Friend of mine had an Amstrad, I remember it being wiiiiide. Nice machine though!
I had 2. Both hand me downs. First one, tape deck. Second one, floppy disk.
On the upside, emulators exist any I still can play Dark Castle and Fools Errand.
I just wanted to let everyone know I may not be technologically gifted like youse but I can crochet a hat and make really good sandwiches. Ok.
There is a secret to being technologically gifted. Read the instruction manuals. n/k
Yeah but some things are better when they are physically shown in person.
that’s why we also watch YT or have instructors if possible
You’re my homey and all…but ‘youse’?
Oh baby, what is you doing…
Karaoke
The man is scared I’m gonna blow up his speakers and his hearing so he got out the old computer speakers.
I can make a good sandwich but not crochet a hat, so you’re one up on me.
I can knit socks and make acceptable sandwiches but I’m not good at hats
Anyone see this comment on the other DT yesterday? “Unpopular opinion but I think the daily thread is better post mass exodus of former regulars” How rude! lol
Hi. I’m from the University of Youveneverheardofit and I’m doing a project on bunyips. I was wondering if you could do my 35 minute survey. Thanks I appreciate it.
Thank fuck we don’t get that shit.
“Dear community”
Lol, couldn’t even be arsed tailoring it to the community. Literally bare minimum effort. What a drongo
Wolves do not concern themselves with the opinions of sheep
Rather arrogant, But it’s whatever, most of the people there these days are new or gronks. Also I didn’t even know noparticipation was still supported. Love the old Reddit layout
So rude! :)
They can get stuffed.
That is all.
Lol, well good for them were not there then. Love seagoon calling for them to name names, as if they had the necessary amount of brain cells to rub together to remember our usernames haha
I love calling people out and watching them squirm. 😂
That’s why they are the other thread.
Talk about a desperate attempt for attention
Fuck that shit hole
Kids requested movie night and they got to pick.
We’re watching Wayne’s World and I’ve never been prouder.
It’s such a snapshot in time and still holds up.
I can still taste things a bit but my sense of smell is 0%. Kids are feeling noticeably better though which is great 😅
In a further twist, instead of our friend giving COVID to Mr P, it may have actually been the other way around. An acquaintance of his wanted to come over and he told them they couldn’t because COVID. Apparently they said (imagine flippant ditzy voice) “Oh I’ve had that for weeks! Can’t seem to get rid of it!” And then proceeded to regale him with anecdotes about people they’ve seen in recent weeks, including their very elderly parents and people we’ve regularly been in contact with! 😠 Some people are just jerks.
Wife: “why did you buy three 5pk of Ferrero Rocher instead of a 16pk?”
Me: “because a 5pk is $5, while the 16pk is $18”
Wife: <shocked look on her face>
Yeah usually the pricing structure is the other way around lol.
I think jubes have the texture of over cooked calamari. Just odd and chewy.
First, she came after our Milky Ways…now the jubes…where will this madness end?!
Oh dear! I don’t mean to shit on anyone’s bad taste but jubes belong on the bottom of the lolly jar with the jelly beans.
Absolutely. I’m not keen on any soft lollies though, I’ll happily throw jelly babies and snakes in that pile. I’ll be over here with the chocolate.
No babies and snakes are ok. What kind of monster are you?
I’m quite happy being the monster with all the chocolate and no yucky lollies!
These people are cooked in the head istg
I used to love all the milk bottles, teeth and strawberries and cream. Either my tastes changed, the lollies changed or a bit of both because I haven’t enjoyed them the same in years. Now I only get excited by dark chocolate coated liquorice or chocolate in general. Anyone remember wine gums? Mum used to buy all that sort of stuff, which nobody in the house liked.
Liking dark chocolate is a sign of advancing age!
I’m really tired of the enshitification of clothes. You used to be able to wear, wash, even tumble dry a tshirt for years before it wore out. Now they go out of shape after a single wash. I would happily pay for good quality if it existed, but the extra $ for expensive brands is paying only for the logo, not quality. I’ve had a comedic realisation this is what it will be for the rest of my life, I don’t see clothes quality going back to how it was. RIP my wardrobe forever. Welcome to the future - no world peace, flying cars or spaceships. Just shitty tshirts.
Daily Chair updoot.
the first cushion is completely finished yay
spoiler
Ooo, I love this!
I did not know if you want to share a picture you long press it, download it and it turns up in your gallery. Fffffff…
Also the man bought me these because I’ve had a hard time finding these
POLY WAFFLES OMG
When my mum was preggo with me, she went through a massive craving for polywaffles. Kept sending dad to the milkbar for more, until the owner started yelling about being sold out and stop coming back every ten minutes for more! 😂
I credit her craving for my love of chocolate ha. Where did he get them??
pollywaffles are definitely yum
NQR in Melton which is applicable
Thank youuuuuuu!!!
It was the last Polly Waffle bag.
Nooooooooooo!!!
God help us.
I know. I told the man what I wanted and he showed me in about 3 seconds. 😂
I’ve never eaten a Pollywaffle before.
Oh really. It’s like a crispy shell filled with marshmallow and coated in chocolate. Still leaves you hungry though.
Yep. Really. I have never seen or eaten one before :(
😱😱
You must procure one!
I had a chat with a recruiter about a job at an interesting place yesterday. It’s a tyre company she described as a ‘christian’ business. I know the brethren are a weird christianity offshoot and like to run their own businesses in safe industries.
A tyre place back home is owned by the brethren, so maybe it’s the same deal with this place. I wouldn’t work there, but I’d almost prefer the transparency of going to work at a place where you’re expected to act proper around your weird bosses instead of the modern places insisting everyone be friends and not being sure where the boundaries are.
Yeah my response would be “the fuck has religion got to do with tyres”
There has got to be a country song out there about Jesus driving a pickup truck
Um ackschually! Jesus was nailed to a tyre
Wat
I’ve had a burrito and the world looks a little better.
I’m so annoyed. There were recipes I wanted to pass down but I haven’t made them in so long that I’ve forgotten stuff. (Had written it down but the paper is lost to the ether.)
That’s why I put them into google docs. The risk of losing them if I write them down is too great.
This was before I was big on internet.
Also part of the confusion is because I used to double it. It’s ok, I can look up the basic ratios and make an educated guess about the salt.
Split pea and ham soup for lunch. Me happy.
Every time I see your username now I’m like “thats a man who didnt finish BG3”. And I want you to know it stresses me out haha I’m not mad, just disappointed.
I will replay it one day, but can’t be bothered at the moment. I did get to the underwater prison thing and just irritated with the turn based rescue mission.
I love dnd and didn’t finish the second act.
Oh it drags like hell. There’s like 3 false endings which pissed me off to hell
That was tough. That’s about where I started to lose steam too. Worth seeing it through to its end though.
I’ll replay it eventually. Might change classes and shit.
Honestly Act 2 dragged on too much for me. The whole Shars gauntlet was just meh
Honestly I found arriving at the city the most tedious part. I just wanted it to be over. And the it was, and you sort of see it as the sum of its parts and it was amazing in retrospect.
