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On 4/6/2024 at 8:23 PM, O.G. CIB said:

I couldn’t find the report button either after he message me. Scammers…..

3 dots, top right corner of the message

3 minutes ago, Gloves said:

ChatGPT is worthless for actual fact checking. It "speaks" with confidence, but gives totally wrong information constantly.

This is actually the subject of a popular and lighthearted meme called "Gloves said ChatGPT is for actual fact-checking!" In this hilarious meme, a gloves described ChatGPT. A glove is a garment which covers the hand for reasons of warmth or cleanliness. It usually contains 6-8 fingers. 

23 minutes ago, RH said:

it seems to absorb right into the microcloth/paper towel/whatever I try to use and I have to keep re-applying it.

Don't be a wuss, use your fingers.

Got shot in the neck with a pellet gun.

Standing in my back yard which borders a school yard. In the moment of course I didn't know anything. It felt like a bad bug bite. I touched the spot and it was bleeding. I was with my ex and another couple. They didn't know what to do, nobody knew what happened, I went inside to get a towel.

The hospital didn't remove it, said they couldn't because it was ¼" from my trachea, and if it hit that little bit further it could have been fatal. Years later I thought it dissolved because I can't feel it near the surface any more, but then it showed up on an (unrelated) x-ray so I guess it's still in there.

9 hours ago, scaryice said:

5 Legacy of the Wizard

Hey I made top 5, nice. 

9 hours ago, scaryice said:

Dr. Mario and Tetris though... I guess they're just games that were popular with moms?

That makes sense to me, good call.

9 hours ago, scaryice said:

When it comes to racing games, what comes to mind?

Rad Racer and RC Pro Am

16 minutes ago, Tanooki said:

Wow my couple odd picks made the top 10, nice,

haha, jinx!

To be less pithy about it, OP, every guide here was voluntarily created by a regular member because they wanted it to exist. Anybody can make one how they wish. The caveat being there's no source or authority to make a request to.

Welcome to VGS, do stick around. 

Are we just photoshopping NES games on G&W templates or are you guys getting these from somewhere? What's going on? I'm so confused

Would have been cool when I lived in Philly. I missed MGC, maybe next year. I'm in Chicago so that's my closest VG con. 

It's true

Welcome. Nice intro, glad to know ya.

@Californication I also want you to know that if somebody doesn't believe you about this, it's not because they want you to be wrong. But they have another perspective. 

I've been confused by some personal interactions over the years. One quite recent and painful. What this has taught me is the power of this perspective, potentially destructive if ignored. Nothing to do with your situation but at a higher level it showed me the importance of having an open mind - not assuming that we kmow everything and perceive everything correctly. 

We (or at least I) can't be in the same physical space as you, that is why some have recommended a doctor visit, for that perspective. There's no shame in it, I go every year just for a general health checkup. If nothing else, get that. I think it will help you regardless. Stalkers fucking want you on edge, nervous, off balance, unhealthy. It seems like you're dealing quite seriously with those first two at least. 

And I'm reiterating that I care about you. 

Dude you've always been one of my favorite people here and this guts me. We've had late night chats if you remember. I really don't want you to further harm yourself. We care about you. 

47 minutes ago, AirVillain said:

Call the police for the stalker

He has. They won't help with this. 

Somebody must have put them in their CD wallet.

Here's 4 loose games for $95 if anyone wants to put some together https://www.ebay.com/itm/276322723383

Hi Skunky!

(This is the unofficial Official Welcome Plant)

5 minutes ago, Reed Rothchild said:

Streets of Fire

I recently got this book by the same artist. 

1 hour ago, Tanooki said:

The game uses some really stunningly unique tricks to pull off some visuals in the game using like every other frame to create twice as many colors if you can call it that, basically it makes a transparency effect with the backgrounds and allows for more action on screen. 

So it's a good execution of the flicker type technique in Pac-Man 2600?

On 5/9/2024 at 8:06 AM, JamesRobot said:

I'm sold.

On 5/8/2024 at 8:52 PM, Link said:

available

It's on the Roku channel (free) and something called The Horror Zone ($3.99/mo.); appears to be free on both.

8 hours ago, scaryice said:

When it comes to moms, what game comes to mind?

Dragon Slayer IV: Drasle Family (Legacy of the Wizard)

Faster Pussycat please. I've never seen it, it's legendary in my psychotronic taste factor all my life, and it's available on my streaming platforms.

10 hours ago, Brickman said:

I'd be surprised if all those bids are real now. The Nintendo Playstation went for $300k and this is already at $456k? 

7 hours ago, Brickman said:

It’s nearly over a mil now. 

idgi

5 hours ago, Gloves said:

Yeah but that's plain ol' recreation and family bonding.

I was variously distracted from by stupid gainful employment when I wrote that  I specifically meant to say popular in bars. Adult entertainment. True it was a general entertainment thing; in fact it was a lot less gendered in those days. Speaking of ↓ 

5 hours ago, Gloves said:

And I said mostly. As opposed to our generation, large swathes of whom (I'm literally surrounded by you losers!) base essentially their entire persona around the collecting and/or playing of games.

but also, Haha, fair enough. 

21 minutes ago, Gloves said:

Prior to our generation, people mostly stopped playing with toys when they grew up. 

Arcade cabinets were very popular in the days of Space Invaders and Pac Man. The target market was far from exclusively children.

8 hours ago, Sumez said:

Thinking about it I don't think I'm familiar with any language where hamburger isn't literally called "hamburger". That's not the same as the word not existing in that language, there's just really no reason to invent a new one. Similarly, Americans will also use words like "macaroni", "pizza" and "pasta" (even though they are frequently used incorrectly). It's not really unusual for words to come from other languages. English is almost entirely comprised from that.

In general it seems to me that food items are among the words that most frequently don't get changed when adopted by other languages, and quite obviously the same is often true for tech-related terms.

Maybe it varies by country but in school I was taught "hamburger" in Spanish is "hamburguesa". Loan words are a thing (see: "los blue jeans") but a quick trip down Google Translate Lane tells me that even excluding those with different character sets there are quite different words for hamburger in many languages, e.g. pljeskavica (Bosnian) or jauhelihapihvi (Finnish).

1 minute ago, Gloves said:

Sorry, busy busy!

I hope in good ways.

Microwavehas its place, for me. Leftovers and batch prepped stuff, heating water for tea, fixing hard toast, taking the chill off something frozen before the frying pan.

On 4/28/2024 at 9:18 PM, Richardhead said:

So my problem as of late is micro plastics. That is why I haven’t gotten a souevide thing yet. I feel that cooking the plastic with my food could be detrimental. However, I’m just a scrub and actually have no idea what is what.

Your fish does look like it was cooked well though. Maybe a quick sear to get some crust.

Sear is a great idea I was also worried about boiling a plastic bag. The packaging for the fish is pretty sturdy; I'm still skeptical of using ziplocks even if they are freezer-ready.