lunarul

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lunarul,

You use toilet paper to dry off? Why not a towel?

lunarul,

And the cover was mostly to keep the phone form getting dirty when not in use, not to protect it when dropped.

lunarul,

Huh. TIL. I always wondered why libraries treat ebooks like physical books.

lunarul,

I was hitchhiking in Turkey with my now wife many years ago and we got picked up by a bunch of truckers. They passed our destination and kept going, pretending they don’t understand what we’re saying when we kept calling “stop.” Only when I pulled out my phone did they stop. Luckily they didn’t notice my phone was dead.

lunarul,

On one had, responding like that is definitely a sign that it’s not going to work. On the other hand, that’s a perfectly normal feeling for a person who doesn’t live their life on the internet.

lunarul,

It’s not. If you’re really into pop culture and you frequently make such references then someone who is not will have a hard time communicating with you.

It’s not about internet culture being bad, it’s about the communication gap between people with very different cultural references.

lunarul,

Not likely a real person, or an edit that was reverted.

lunarul,

God’s existence, by definition, cannot be proven or disproven. That’s the nature of faith and free will (in the theological sense). And that’s why there are scientists who believe in God. This American idea that religion and science are opposites makes no sense.

lunarul,

sounds like you’re contradicting yourself there

Where’s the contradiction?

not sure how that’s an “American” idea

That’s where I heard this perspective from. That you either believe in science or in God, not both. I guess it’s because of all the weird Christian denominations in the US that say crazy things and seem to have never actually read the bible, but use it to justify their anti-science ideas.

lunarul,

That’s why wikipedia feel sluggish sometimes

Images on articles are resized. The original size of the image has no bearing on how fast the article loads.

lunarul, (edited )

How is Monkey Island missing from the list? Those games were the peak of SCUMM.

lunarul, (edited )

Add one more here. Some of the greatest games came out in that period.

I made before a list of the top 10 games that impacted me the most and a large part are from that period. In no particular order:

  • Worms (particularly Worms World Party)
  • The Settlers II
  • Master of Orion II
  • Heroes of Might and Magic (particularly the first 3)
  • Phantasmagoria
  • WWF WrestleMania
  • Little Big Adventure
  • Monkey Island (especially 1-3)
  • Dizzy (all games in the series)
  • Jet Set Willy
lunarul,

I didn’t have any consoles, so couldn’t play a lot of those games. But on PC (and on 8-bit computer before that), I played hundreds of games. There were no copyright laws in my country when I was a kid and my dad got everything he could get his hands on. In the 8-bit era he collected over 40 cassette tapes (8-10 games on each). Then when we got the PC there were boxes and boxes of floppy disks (I remember Need for Speed was on over 30 disks). Then CDs came out and I remember one CD that had 200 games on it. And as my dad collected, I tried every single one of them.

That just goes to show the sheer amount of quality gaming that there was.

I made that top 10 list years ago from some silly Facebook game that was going around at the time. The hardest part was picking just 10. My initial list had about 70 games on it.

lunarul,

Yeah, I remember when I first got ZSNES and suddenly I had access hundreds of games I wasn’t able to play before. Played through Super Mario RPG, spent so much time in Harvest Moon, and finally played the first Final Fantasy games and Legend of Zelda.

lunarul,

I like how you and FQQD each censored the other’s name in your posts.

lunarul,

They also count one vote as one vote instead of this electoral college BS

lunarul, (edited )

What’s with the 3rd flag in the first picture? Just looks like an elongated falg of Romania or Chad. Or is it just a wish.com rainbow flag?

lunarul,

It’s not about cheating, it’s about making a profit. Nobody cares if you modify your save files (they do, there are ways they try to prevent that, especially in competitive multiplayer, but it’s not a legal issue). But once you start selling them, that’s when you’re officially in trouble.

lunarul,

You mean a garbage disposal unit (insinkerator is just one brand). I’ve never seen those in the side sink, I’ve only had them in the main one.

lunarul,

Isn’t that the Torah? The Bible was composed by a council using selected books from the Torah and various writings from the apostles.

lunarul, (edited )

Oh, the US. In my country all those crazy denominations were just called “sects,” and considered heresy.

Edit: but don’t they read the Bible? It says in there who wrote what.

lunarul,

I’m just saying that if someone claims the Bible has been written by God Himself then they must not have even looked inside, because the Bible itself assigns clear authorship to each book. I’m not talking about historical accuracy here.

lunarul, (edited )

Not ex-USSR, but yes

Edit: in my country when I was growing up, the common perspective was simple: there are two main religions - Christian Orthodox and Catholic. All other Christian denominations were “sectarians”. Non-Christian religions were not even considered, those were “pagans”.

lunarul,

I got it for free on gog through Prime Gaming. But that was 2 years ago. The standard edition was also free on Epic Games at least once.

Met a nice lady at the grocery store

Today at the grocery store a sweet older lady approached me and asked if I knew anything about computers. I said yes I do, and she produced a mouse saying that her son set up Linux mint for her and she was wondering if the mouse was compatible. It needed kernel version 2.6 or newer so I said that the mouse should work, guessing...

lunarul,

Changing the setting from a grocery isle to an electronics department makes for a completely different story. Goes from “yeah, sure, that happened” to “perfectly credible encounter.”

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