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Came across this series of tweets, and they sounded like they belonged here:
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/747478725084708864
Linked tweet:
https://twitter.com/wexler/status/747478271156183040https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/747479265915060225
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/747479846075371520
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Re: the Commodore 64 comment: show me any modern computer that's ready and waiting for you before you finish sitting down from flipping the power switch and I'll rejoice!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Twitter:
Re: the Commodore 64 comment: show me any modern computer that's ready and waiting for you before you finish sitting down from flipping the power switch and I'll rejoice!
You mean ready to wait for 5 minutes for the program you want to run to load?
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@boomzilla said in Twitter:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Twitter:
Re: the Commodore 64 comment: show me any modern computer that's ready and waiting for you before you finish sitting down from flipping the power switch and I'll rejoice!
You mean ready to wait for 5 minutes for the program you want to run to load?
Absolutely! At that point it's the user's fault for telling the machine to load something!
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@Tsaukpaetra So, like any version of windows since 8, with EFI bios and an ssd?
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@Tsaukpaetra So, like any version of windows since 8, with EFI bios and an ssd?
Never been my experience. If Windows isn't updating, it's trying to entertain me like a baby-year-old with it's spinning dots.
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@boomzilla Oh good, I'm so glad you were able to incorporate some gamergate bullshit into this thread right from the first post. Just what I wanted.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Twitter:
Re: the Commodore 64 comment: show me any modern computer that's ready and waiting for you before you finish sitting down from flipping the power switch and I'll rejoice!
Waiting for you to type a load command, then wait 7 minutes.
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@Tsaukpaetra For all of two seconds.
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@blakeyrat said in Twitter:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Twitter:
Re: the Commodore 64 comment: show me any modern computer that's ready and waiting for you before you finish sitting down from flipping the power switch and I'll rejoice!
Waiting for you to type a load command, then wait 7 minutes.
Hey, if you replaced it with an SSD it would be instantaneous!
@Tsaukpaetra For all of two seconds.
Windows Update completing in two seconds???
Oh? You meant the spinning dots? Yeah... Maybe I'll record my PC booting from the capture card in standalone mode one day...
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@blakeyrat said in Twitter:
@boomzilla Oh good, I'm so glad you were able to incorporate some gamergate bullshit into this thread right from the first post. Just what I wanted.
Everything is about video games with you. I didn't put any gamergate stuff in there.
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@blakeyrat technically it's about ethics in videogame journalism, not gamergate
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@boomzilla said in Twitter:
Anita Sarkeesian and watch what happens to your account.
@blakeyrat calls you names.
Not that that's different from any other day, of course.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Twitter:
If Windows isn't updating, it's trying to entertain me like a baby-year-old with it's spinning dots.
Stop using Celerons.
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@blakeyrat said in Twitter:
gamergate bullshit
Might as well trip your fuse right off the bat; it saves time.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Twitter:
Hey, if you replaced it with an SSD it would be instantaneous!
Most of us use SD card adapters, actually. Not quite instantaneous, but very fast!
Back in the day JiffyDOS was a big help on my machine, along with RAM drives and the 1581.
Before I had those, though, I would check books out from the library to read while waiting for games to load. :-)
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@FrostCat I though Anita moved on to history now?
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I would check books out from the library to read while waiting for games to load.
In fact, forget the games, we got books!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Twitter:
If Windows isn't updating,
“If Windows is updating, don't come knocking…”
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@Tsaukpaetra modern computers miss this though:
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view4/1846937/commodore-64-tape-load-o.gif
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@Tsaukpaetra modern computers miss this though:
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view4/1846937/commodore-64-tape-load-o.gif
Awe crap, it seems most of that message is failing CRC....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Twitter:
@blakeyrat said in Twitter:
Waiting for you to type a load command, then wait 7 minutes.
Hey, if you replaced it with an SSD it would be instantaneous!
Now that’d be an interesting experiment … I suspect that if it has to go through a 1541 disk drive everything will still take quite some time to load. (FWIW, I intend to get myself a C64 in the very near future, but certainly am not going to try hooking up an SSD to it.)
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Before I had those, though, I would check books out from the library to read while waiting for games to load.
I used to have a Spectrum with a DISCiPLE back in the day. I remember one time, one of my school friends who had a C64 wanted to walk away to do something else while it loaded a game we wanted to play, but was amazed that the game was up and running before he had even gotten out of the room.
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@Gurth I had a ZX Spectum +3 so loading stuff was also pretty quick (at least to my 7 year old self)
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@blakeyrat said in Twitter:
@boomzilla Oh good, I'm so glad you were able to incorporate some gamergate bullshit into this thread right from the first post. Just what I wanted.
Oh, look, someone else tries to make everything about gamergate, just like @blakeyrat:
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@boomzilla
Awesome. Shows once more that ignoring all that bullshit was the only correct action to take.
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@boomzilla
Reading this article may or may not have caused permanent damage to my brain. I'll send you the bill.
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@asdf You should've done what I did - read 2 sentences in and just decide on based on that and potential resulting lulz.
I, for example, chose to believe Nintendo is trolling and made popcorn. Because if I'm right the resulting flamewars are sure to be popcorn-worthy. If I'm wrong, I still have popcorn!
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I, for example, chose to believe Nintendo is trolling
I choose to believe that Nintendo, like everyone else who isn't neck deep in Gamergate, didn't have a fucking clue that "5 guys" is considered offensive in a tiny circle of the Internet
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@Jaloopa Yes, but:
One response I'm seeing is "Yeah but they probably didn't mean that!" I get where that comes from, but intent isn't the only arbiter of harm
— austin walker (@austin_walker) June 22, 2016Doesn't matter, Nintendo is still officially confirmed for Double Hitler.
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@Jaloopa There's an extra line of dialogue in the next screenshot which might indicate it's a troll. Unless it's a doctored screenshot and I
ed. Which is also possible, as I said, I didn't really read, I'm just here to laugh at shit.
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@blek This only goes to confirm my assumption that gamergate is some sort of brain cancer and taking a side, or even knowing too much about it, leads to madness and eventual death
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@Jaloopa Eh, some legit stuff got brought up. But some idiot decided you can run something like a genuine revolt ON TWITTER.
Idiots.
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@Jaloopa I couldn't care less about GamerGate bullshit, but shit like that makes me really dislike Zoe Quinn. She is yet another person who has made a career of being offended.
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@boomzilla said in Twitter:
@blakeyrat said in Twitter:
@boomzilla Oh good, I'm so glad you were able to incorporate some gamergate bullshit into this thread right from the first post. Just what I wanted.
Oh, look, someone else tries to make everything about gamergate, just like @blakeyrat:
Someone mentioned Alison Rapp there, wasn't she the gal that was fired from Nintendo because she moonlighted in some eroticism-related industry? There were some pics, I seem to remember, just can't recall if they were of the naked kind?
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so can we start calling mass gaslighting someone "mass lighting" now?
I have no idea what either of those mean, and why I should consider one more offensive than the other.
Is it something I should bother to learn, or can I stay happily well-adjusted?
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@fbmac, Why'd you delete that? That particular computer had some cool games.
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@Jaloopa said in More than five members talking about Twitter:
leads to madness and eventual death
Everything leads to eventual death.
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@coldandtired https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting
No harm in learning a new word every now and again, is there?
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Well, my memory is shit, I'm aware of human brain's horrible perception flaws, and do not consider myself sane in any way.
I'm immune!
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@Jaloopa said in More than five members talking about Twitter:
"5 guys" is considered offensive in a tiny circle of the Internet
I liked their burgers, though.
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@bb36e said in More than five members talking about Twitter:
No harm in learning a new word every now and again, is there?
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@Deadfast said in More than five members talking about Twitter:
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No, but Liana K is. And she's doing it way, way, way fucking better:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf9ZVzFaBzHl1HQPeOBIGLTIf7B5i42iV
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@Gurth said in More than five members talking about Twitter:
I used to have a Spectrum with a DISCiPLE back in the day. I remember one time, one of my school friends who had a C64 wanted to walk away to do something else while it loaded a game we wanted to play, but was amazed that the game was up and running before he had even gotten out of the room.
Cool stuff. It's really too bad that Commodore messed up the disk performance on the 64+1541 by wanting to keep backwards compatibility (and failing at that too). Also too bad I didn't even have a Fast Load cart in the early 80s. Once I had things like a RAMLink it was much better, but by then we also had a Tandy with a hardcard. (30 MB hard drive on an expansion card! So cool!) :)
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@bb36e That's worse than before!
"even today the word [gaslighting] is used to describe an attempt to destroy another's perception of reality."
https://twitter.com/UnburntWitch/status/745750604526530564/photo/1
What things in that picture are five days apart? What perception of reality is being destroyed (mass destroyed, whatever that means)? What's the 'shock' in changing gaslighting to lighting?
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