marlowe221
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- Comment on Hard Vacuum - a retro styled indie RTS has a stable release version 1 week ago:
This looks pretty cool!
- Comment on Atari 2600: The Atlantis of Game Consoles 1 week ago:
And is only ONE of the reasons Yar’s Revenge is awesome!
- Comment on After years of hearing about it, I finally started playing Timberborn. Great chill city builder. 1 week ago:
Thanks for posting this. I’ve been thinking about picking it up.
- Comment on After years of historical 4X games, Endless Legend 2 is a much-needed flight of fantasy for the genre 2 weeks ago:
Those games are so good
- Comment on Any babies born this week or next will have two easters before their first birthday 2 weeks ago:
Yep, my birthday is very early in April. Having two Easters in the same year of my life happens from time to time.
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 2 weeks ago:
I’ll take my Motorola Razr back from the early 00s.
Whether I do Captain Kirk impressions with it in the privacy of my own home is my business…
- Comment on When Your Threat Model Is Being a Moron 4 weeks ago:
Well, the bar was low…
- Comment on Tech Guidelines For Europeans 5 weeks ago:
I agree, but knowing it’s from Norway makes me feel more comfortable with the idea of using it than if it was made in the US…. (And I’m American…)
- Comment on What is the best looking retro console or PC? 1 month ago:
That’s awesome. Very 1960s Star Trek, in a good way.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I’m the same in that I was in elementary school when the NES was “the thing to have”… but I don’t think we could afford it at the time.
When I asked my parents for an NES for my seventh birthday in 1989, I got a 2600 and 40-ish games instead. Years later my mom told me she bought the whole thing at a yard sale for about $40.
It wasn’t the latest and greatest… but I didn’t care. I loved it. I had a great time exploring the cartridges, most of them had manuals to go with them, and playing with my dad.
An uncle would later give us an old 386 PC and I played DOS games on it.
I did get a SNES around 1992, so I did have my fair share of Nintendo as a kid. But I certainly didn’t start there and knew that there was more to video games than Nintendo.
I was still playing my 2600 and SNES when I graduated from high school, along with playing CRPGs on the family computer too.
- Comment on Master Replicas Reveals New Line of Star Trek Action Figures 2 months ago:
Show me a Montgomery Scott or Miles O’Brien and we can talk…
- Comment on The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie 2 months ago:
Right, it’s Sisko’s “It’s easy to be an angel in paradise…” from season 1. That’s the main theme of the whole show - how do the Federation’s ideals hold up in significantly less than ideal conditions? What does it mean to be “the good guys” when all of the choices in front of you are varying degrees of bad?
People always mention the later season, understandably so, but it carries through the entire series. In some ways, it’s even more prominent in the early seasons when DS9 is portrayed as being pretty remote, Federation back up is far away, the main cast is own their own, and the e Cardassian fleet is always nearby.
- Comment on Colm Meaney to Receive Irish Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award 3 months ago:
It’s about time!
- Comment on Dell kills the XPS brand 3 months ago:
Yeah, I vastly prefer HP Pro/Elitebooks and Thinkpads over anything in the Dell business line.
- Comment on Windows 11 takes a break on updates until 2025 | Digital Trends 5 months ago:
Personally, none. But my home machines all run Linux and my work machine is still on 23H2. But I’ve read a few stories about wider-spread-than-normal issues with the update.
- Comment on Windows 11 takes a break on updates until 2025 | Digital Trends 5 months ago:
It will take at least that long to fix 24H2….
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 5 months ago:
I work at a place that uses Azure to run everything (not my choice…).
Everything we have runs on Linux containers, Linux Azure functions, and a VM that runs Ubuntu.
You can run Windows on Azure but you certainly don’t have to.
- Comment on What websites still feel like the old internet? 6 months ago:
Debian’s website….
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I’m using 1080p at 144hz. It’s great!