Ugh, so gross. Also a good pick 👍

“If I Could Turn Back Time” by Cher, thus proving to her for a fraction of a nanosecond that her premise was actually possible after all, before every trace of the tune ceases to exist.

Ok, that’s pretty funny to imagine the potential reactions if I (cis male) or any of my manlier friends did that. Good answer!

And Christmas is pagan (Yule/Saturnalia) 😎

DISCORDIANISM

I like the seasonal holidays, so

• Chaoflux
• Discoflux
• Confuflux
• Bureflux
• Afflux

Each conveniently occurs on the 50th day of its respective season.

Of course some people might prefer the apostle holidays. Those folks are weird.

Calendar: https://world.clndr.org/data/uploads/discordian_calendar.jpg

Source: https://principiadiscordia.com/

Oh wow haha, I didn’t know that!

It probably would have been closer to 1990 when I first saw it though so it would’ve been PG-13 by then. Still, an interesting factoid.

Yeah Temple of Doom and T2 for me as well.

ToD was somehow approved by my parents (I think it was rated PG-13, not R) and we even owned it on VHS but I definitely lost some sleep over the heart scene and also the monkey brains.

T2 was definitely not approved, but I watched it at a friend’s house.

That’s called a compressor and you could run your stereo through one or use a mobile app to do the processing on your phone.

Oh ok, thanks. Does it do homescreen icons and widgets? Last I tried it there was something I didn’t like but I can’t remember what.

I don’t understand why someone would want a “search-focused” launcher. You mean I have to bring up the on-screen keyboard and type out the name of an app instead of just scrolling & tapping an icon with 1-2 simple motions? Yuck. What am I missing?

Back in the day when I found a user hosting good music I would go browse their other files. I discovered a lot of great shit that way.

I think the people of 1999 would be overwhelmed by the staggering number of different heavy metal subgenres we have in 2024. And very few of them would download any of it. So not much would change.

Hm, it still looks a bit annoying that you have to go to their website and get Motorola’s blessing via a special unlock key, rather than doing it 100% on your own. But that looks more automated than in the past so maybe that’s an improvement. Thanks.

Those are some positive changes.

Is the battery easily replaceable? Have they stopped making it a pain in the ass to unlock the bootloader? Those are the things that matter for longevity of a device.

Really? I completed it (PC w/Xbox360 gamepad) and I’m not particularly stellar.

I played Dirt 2 & 3 and enjoyed them. 2 leaned more into actual rally racing (non-looping course with a copilot) and I was a bit slow to warm up to that but ended up quite liking it. 3 added a lot more Gymkhana which seemed a bit familiar from drift racing but ended up being even more challenging and fun IMO. Both are a far cry from traditional racing (and the games include plenty of that too) but I love the variety.

"My mother … would give us a hard time sometimes, and she would say to us, ‘I don’t know what’s wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?’ " Harris said with a laugh. “You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.”

That’s actually kinda nice. I can appreciate that. We’re all the middle children of history, in a way.

Where’s the Codemasters love? For me, the GRID and DiRT series both strike the best balance between realism and arcadey fun. Huge shame they were bought out by EA.

Also, don’t hate me but Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed is kind of a better Mario Kart. Though I haven’t played MK8.

LGIO is so damn good. Cracks me up every time.

Windows 7 Ultimate for me. I still kept it as a boot option on my main PC until about a year ago because I thought I still needed it for a couple windows apps and games.

I tried Win8 at one point and hated the changes. I also tried Win10 and one of those “forced bloody updates” bricked my machine so I said ‘fuck that’ for good.

I’ve dabbled in Linux for 20 years, and run Ubuntu on my living room HTPC for at least a dozen. My main PC runs EndeavourOS now and even gaming has been pretty great.