On the other side of this, you have company’s that are in tangential fields looking to grab up a piece of that pie. Electricians, low voltage companies, fucking furniture companies (oh, we totally do audiovisual, that’s similar enough), the C-suite is trying to force their way into this new golden goose and expecting their staff to be able to handle this without training, time, or real hands on experience. And, no, a 2 day workshop from a manufacturer isn’t really “training”, at least not the only training needed…

Or free… If you waste an extra hour and change.

I tried to get a job at LCBO, but apparently “taste tester” isn’t an actual job there, but they were incredibly apologetic that it didn’t exist, and said they would call me if anything changed.

I can sing all the lyrics to Dicke Titten. Does that count?

If Tarkin was the right hand, would that make Vader the left hand? Ironic …

Also… I assume quite a few of their best and brightest were on the first death star. That was a large station…

And that the Wikipedia article discussing it is in fact wrong as well…

Sorry, there isn’t a lot of contemporaneous discussion referencing microtransactions on an arcade game that came out in the mid-90s… Back then, we paid up and complained about it to your friends or the person who had their coin on the table.

Basically, the gist is during game play, at specific breaks, you could have the opportunity to buy things like characters, combat abilities, infinit resources, etc.

Here you can even watch someone play the game. Miracle of the internet age, you can just open up a browser, type in “double dragon 3 arcade gameplay” and watch someone play the game and live the experience of being 10 years old in the 90s vicariously through someone else.

Or you could even download the PC port, or play it in emulation on your device of choice so you can truly see if those nasty first-hand accounts are telling the truth and you don’t have to question whether those people posting were knowledgeable, astroturfing, etc.

I thought it was going to be hard to find, since this was an arcade game from my childhood… But here’s one article from Neogaf.

If you Google “Double dragon 3 arcade insert coins”, there are reddit articles, forums talking about this, and even the Wikipedia article talks about this being one of the first commercial games to have in-game micro transactions.

"The U.S. version also features item shops where players could use additional credits to purchase in-game items such as weapons, a

dditional moves and new playable characters in one of the earliest forms of microtransactions in a video game, although this system would end up being removed in the later-released Japanese version…"

Also, not defending Bethesda’s practice, but Horse armor also wasn’t their first microtransaction for oblivion…

They also had themes and stuff on the Xbox store, and literally told people that these types of things were going to be released.

To be fair - I didn’t buy oblivion, a friend of mine had it for Xbox, and I went and sailed the kazaa seas and downloaded the base game + all the DLCs without having to pay micro$oft’s ransom. Only pointing out that we knew well before horse armor that gamers will open their wallets for this.

Double dragon 3. You had to put coins into the arcade machine to literally buy items from an in-game store…

Also, second life came out before Oblivion.

There’s also a billionaire commune in South Dakota…

Vivos xPoint

So if I turn the car battery upside down, a 12v DC battery should run a 120v AC appliance?? Brilliant! I have an idea for how we can use this with two fans to create infinite energy!

Do all of them, the. Put 10 in the fridge for when you’re hungry later.

My favorite thing about this is something I didn’t know until embarrassingly later in life.

Hamster dance is a sped up version of “whistle stop” from the Disney Robin Hood animated movie.

You should be very VERY vocal about how your account, insensitive name, was asked to own part of Reddit and how willing you are to do that, in order to make sure that the world knows that reddit is owned in part by insensitive name…

• Photograph
• Prince - Batdance.
• OPM - Heaven is a halfpipe
• NWA - Fuck the Police (radio edit)
• Incubus - Aqueous Transmission
• The Mandalorian Theme song
• Aphex Twin - Bucephalus Boubcing Ball
• Dre - Next Episode
• The Broadside Band -Gathering Peascods
• The Gourds - Gin and Juice
• Steely Dan - Rikki don’t lose that number
• Slipknot - before I forget (or slayer raining blood - take your pick)
• Lingus - Snarky Puppy
• Nonpoint - in the air tonight
• Cunninlynguists - the Light
• Rush - la villa strangiato
• Jethro Tull - cross-eyed mary
• Photograph.

All are on Spotify, which you can link to Touch tunes. Load it up as a playlist, then select “smart shuffle”.

Find a booth. Grab a pint. Enjoy the clusterfuck.

Also a dishrag that belongs in a kitchen: 28th Virginia Battle Flag

In the past, rainbow flags were used as a sign to students that you as a teacher were available for anyone to come talk if they needed support, and that your classroom was a safe space. This was especially important for some of the most stigmatized and marginalized groups in the US.

So there is a bit of history behind it.

This may only be anecdotal, and I can’t quote statistics on how effective or important pride flags are to that type of support now, but a close friend of mine who came out in high school first came out to a trusted teacher. They ONLY did this because the pride flag to them meant someone who might understand. It was a year or so later when this person came out to our friend group, and only because of the guidance of that individual who help them through some serious shit, and got them the support infrastructure they needed.

Do you know what BSOD is?

And then donate to the devs directly?