50,000 people used to live here, now it’s a ghost town…

5 Nov 2007

Didn’t have skins except for on the weapons, and you had to earn those. One of the first games ever with selectable perks. It was such a breath of fresh air after years of World War 2 games. World at War afterwards was the first one with zombies though, and it had tanks in the big multi player maps. It was only 17 years ago… video games were amazing. I stopped playing after the first black ops. It is just like any other EA sports franchise.

I am hoping modern games get so bad people finally start having halo 2 lan parties again.

Agreed, another reason why Morrowind is still the best elder scrolls game.

In the US, funeral homes try to get as much money out of you as possible because they know you are emotionally vulnerable. There are exposes on funeral homes having predatory services.

I am wildly speculating it is to collect all the workflows from remote workers in the hopes they can sell the data to other companies for future automation. Just another way of squeezing money out of users who already paid for the software just to have more information stolen from them.

Fixing reddit search? Just insert a 2021 google search bar on old.reddit. I just saved you millions you dingus. Thank goodness Aaron Swartz doesn’t have to see what happened to his joint venture.

Singapore is also beautiful, they slap you with a cane for littering.

Have you never raked a yard?

I went to Digg yesterday, it looks like the MSN start page full of terrible probably automatically generated articles. Shame reddit didn’t have the same amount of people jump ship like when everyone left Digg 4.0.

War craft 1 was great at the time, the 2d one is still a lot of fun.

Doctored photos were so much more impressive in print prior to photo shops becoming so popular on the internet.

Halo 3, Call of Duty Modern Warfare and Mass Effect 2 were all triple A games. Whatever this game is that they are trying to peddle, is not better than any of the previous games I listed.

I miss mIRC, maybe it is time to take a look back.

The example video of showing wearing the headset and showing the outer display:

https://valkyrie.cdn.ifixit.com/media/2024/02/03103510/Display-Stack_sm.mp4

It is off putting and reminds me of one of the Robocop 2 Prototypes.

https://www.robocoparchive.com/info/prototypes.htm

I love that game and instantly recognized the screen shot from one of the secret project videos. Thanks for sharing.

I think all of the card games with random pulls are a bit of a ripoff.

The RPG crowd is the lead in pirating or flat out making their own rules and barely spending money. They just need rules and dice. You need a small group, and there really aren’t tournaments so you can play it however you want.

Table top war gaming in the middle is being filled with indy 3d printed miniatures and home made rules that can take over local scenes pretty easily. 40k still dominates the space, only because most people act like its the only game (it is by far the most common already) and you can buy the minis from most any hobby store. The tournaments are huge, and sometimes the biggest tournaments even dictate the rules just as much as the game seller and most people want to play “tournament legal” armies only.

MTG and other card games are the only thing keeping most hobby stores alive and prints money. it is entirely on for whatever reason, people just want to buy another booster. It is as bad as gambling if not worse, you don’t even know what you are buying. It should be even easier to pirate and print your own resources to play card games but somehow it is a huge money maker because as always, people flock to the largest group of gamers in their space.

Indy RPG and Skirmish tabletop games make boat loads of money for small groups of people and it is easy for them to run circles around larger game manufacturers. Things like 40k and MTG where there is such a huge following of people who might not necessarily care and just want to go to massive tournaments it is much harder to challenge those established followings.

You Really Think Someone Would Do That? Just Go On the Internet and Tell Lies?

They can’t type either. I blame public schools using tablets.

I don’t think about programming at all, no offense.

That was an incredible phone, it even had a little d-pad so your could tab one character around at a time when texting. Physical keyboards felt so good, but it made the phone a lot thicker.