Ballpark of games played 1+ hour. Some of this was triggered recently by watching Youtube "Best games of 19xx" videos.
NES games. 30. We didn't have a lot of money so I only ever owned a couple of games. I used to rent games from Blockbuster.
SNES games. 20.
N64 games. 5
PS2 games. 20
Gamecube games. 10
Wii games. 15
Switch games. 10
DS / Gameboy / etc: 30
Dreamcast games. 5
DOS games. Big question mark here. 100-150? (Lots of Sierra games, Sim games, Ultimas, 7th guest, AD&D games, random games from local BBS).
BBS games. Legend of the Red Dragon. Land of Devastation. Wow, that was a long time ago. 10+
Flash games. 50+?
Phone games. 50
Warcraft. 8 million hours.
"Modern" PC games. 100+?
These counts are also kind of misleading, because I must have hundreds of hours of Starcraft, hundrds of hours of World of Warcraft, hundreds or more of hours of Civilization, etc.
I guess conservatively I'm around 500 games. Largely a function of how old one is!
Lethn is the world's biggest Beamdog fanboy.
Is he? I didn't know that Beamdog HAD fanboys? I say that as someone who briefly hung out on their forums when BG1EE was first released and owns most of the "EE" releases.
My impression was the general community feeling was thankfulness for Beamdog refreshing the engines, making them easier to run on modern PCs, tablets, etc. The most positive things I've ever heard said about their new content is that it wasn't bad and that most of it was optional.
Please tell me you've played more than a hundred games in your life. Think about it. A hundred. Should seem like a small number, compared to probably over a million games out there. But, be honest. You haven't, have you?
Not Lethn, but that's an interesting question. How many games have I played?
And what does played mean? I might be tempted to break it out into categories so that "played" means one of:
- Completed multiple times
- Completed once
- Didn't complete but played 5+ hours
- Played more than 1 hour
That avoids playing some game for 5 minutes and it goes on the list.
For me it would be old DOS games, old Mac games, NES, SNES, (etc), PS2+ (etc), "modern" games, phone games, flash games, etc.
I would guess it would have to be 300+, but I have no idea. I could be way off.
My vidya time really tailed off in my 30s.
Edit: My Steam and Gog collections are ~150, but I have definitely not played them all! I might revise my guess to 400+.
That’s kind of meaningless statement since for the entire history of Islam Christians have vastly outnumbered Jews. There have been plenty of massacres of Jews in Islamic countries (and battles in the Koran), but take the example of the Ottoman Empire that controlled roughly from Morocco to Saudi Arabia through Iraq, Turkey, Greece, and up almost to Vienna.
Christians were possibly the majority (rural peasants) in Egypt until maybe as late as the 1700s.
Christians were huge in Turkey, Istanbul, etc., until the 1920s.
Christians were the majority in Greece, most of the Balkans, large parts of the Levant (Lebanon areas), etc.
Christians and Jews were classified together as “people of the book” — monotheists who would be allowed to live under Islamic rule, but with limited rights and you get taxed to hell and oh yeah you can be made into slaves too. (If you're polytheists in an Islamic society, you are fucked. The last succesful jihad against polytheists was in the 1890s in Afghanistan against a polytheistic people who lived in a province called Kafiristian, the land of unbelievers. After the jihad and forced conversion of survivors, the province was renamed to Nuristan, the land of enlightenment).
Generally, if you played by the rules, so to speak, as a native Jew or Christian and didn’t shake the boat, you were ok.
Two events increased hostility against Christians specifically. The first was the crusades (the first major fightback from Christians powers—it’s easy to not care about Christians if they’re easily conquered and servile citizens). The second was with growing power of the Spanish, French, English, Russians, etc., and supporting Christian peoples inside the Ottoman Empire, Christians were in a similar boats to Japanese in the US during WW2.
tl;dr, Islam is expanionistic and aggressive, and while you can be a Jew or a Christian in an Islamic society, it sucks.
Confirmed. I had never heard of this shit, but I asked my middle school aged kid about it. He said oh yeah, tons of kids at school have it, and people are selling it at lunch, and some kids are paying $5 for it!
I’m going to go beyond saying “The Internet was a mistake” and say MASS MEDIA was a mistake.The vast majority of people are just too susceptible to peer pressure and manipulation.
Wow, 10 comments in and no one is freaking out because she’s Jewish. I honestly figured this post was just bait to get Imp and the stormies in another slap fight.
Wow, I didn’t know that was a thing. Childbirth is serious business! Likewise glad you’re good now.
Damn, they don't do that any more? I watched anime from the very late 90s to the mid-2000s. Most of it was crap VHS or VHS quality video, but I remember many shows that had those types of subs. There wasn't particularly a debate, that was clearly the best and most popular style. Fansubs were clearly the way to go. There WAS a debate over subs vs dubs, but that was basically just geeks vs normies.
Similar thing happened--though not allergies--to my wife. After one of her pregnancies she started getting digestive issues when eating red meat. It was linked to her gallbladder. She's not quite vegan now, but she doesn't eat much meat.
Merry Christmas!
Interesting, Gay is yet another example of a race and grievance obsessed black woman whose career is based entirely on talking about white power AND who is…married to a white dude.
https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2022/12/16/meet-claudine-gays-husband-dr-christopher-afendulis/
The examples are almost too numerous to count.
I was thinking most people were probably not 13 during Tiny Toons, but more like the shit people saw on New Grounds.
True, I was 11.
That Adam Lanza source is incredibly sketchy. Lanza is an Italian name, so nothing there. Maybe his mom, but nothing to indicate that.
To be fair, I didn't know Klebold, Holmes, or Cruz were Jews, and yes, you're right that that is criminally under reported.
Here's what I could find in a few minutes of googling (since I couldn't figure this out).
Left to right, asterisk means Jewish confirmed.
- *Nikolas Cruz. Part Jewish.
- Elliot Rodger. Can't find anything claiming he was Jewish.
- *James Holmes. Probably Jewish.
- I don't know who this is.
- Jared Loughner. Not Jewish (https://www.jta.org/2011/01/12/obituaries/loughners-jewish-mother-not-so-much)
- Adam Lanza. Not Jewish.
- *Dylan Klebold. Jewish.
- Not sure who this is.
So, at least 3 out of 6 not Jewish.
Payton Gendron. Doesn't seem to be Jewish.
In other words, conspriacy theory shit.
"Always has been"
Quote: "The staffer has not been named but was identified by Semafor as a former senior House staffer of Republican U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse of Washington"
Degenerates all the way around, and they always have been.
Roy Cohn. etc
Check out this hoe…
Its Dong Long Gone as always. Mad that he doesn't have any family for Christmas and that his front fact Keffals betrayed him.
I missed what happened with Keffals and Liz Fong-Jones -- the one who had a "consent accident." Nice phrase for rape!
Askhenazi Jews are highly intelligent and have strong familial bonds and in-group preference. Jews were historically limited in parts of both the US and Europe in professions and ownership of land, property, etc. Intelligent, a religion focused on reading and legality (as opposed to Islam which has a much greater emphasis on repition and memorization), and blocked from many professions, so academia, medicine, legal profession were naturally open to Jews.
(In America you can also see many early Jews taking the types of jobs that didn't require pre-existiing wealth or land -- junkyards. merchants. actors. etc)
In-group preference is huge.
Jews are a diaspora people and a minority people. This is built into their psyche. Same for Armenians and others. Before Israel the only places where Jews were in the majority were in Jewish ghettos and neighborhoods and perhaps a small handful of cities. Again, this is core to Ashkenazi identity.
As a religious and ethnic minority living largely in Christian nations, it's natural that Jews consciously or subconsciously act against Christian mores and values.
You have a group of smart, highly educated, (and today) wealthy, people who default to opposition to the majority. It's not a huge surprise that Jews dominated the "anti" mainstream movements from socialism and communism to feminism to transgenderism.
Whining about (((muh jews))) is useless and makes the vast majority of EVEN SYMPATHETIC people ignore you immediately.
What we should be doing is non-stop calling out of Jewish privilege.
How many members of the Biden cabinet are Jewish? How deputies are Jewish? How many Jews are in the house and senate as compared to their percentage of the population? How many CEOs? How many banksters?
Call out the privilege. Don't let this be about white privilege. Use leftists' own game against them.
ChatGPT.... The concept of single biome planets, such as a "desert planet" or an "ice planet," has its roots in the early days of science fiction literature and has been a popular trope for many decades. This idea likely stems from the desire to create exotic and easily understandable settings for science fiction stories. Here's a brief overview of its development:
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Early 20th Century: While it's difficult to pinpoint the exact origin, the concept of single biome planets was popularized in early 20th-century science fiction. Writers like Edgar Rice Burroughs, in his Barsoom series (starting with "A Princess of Mars" in 1912), depicted Mars as a predominantly desert-like world.
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Golden Age of Science Fiction (1938-1946): During this era, authors like Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury began to explore and solidify many science fiction tropes, including unique planetary environments. Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles" (1950) often depicted Mars as a desolate, arid landscape, reinforcing the desert planet trope.
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Post-War Science Fiction: After World War II, there was a surge in science fiction literature, with writers increasingly exploring the possibilities of life and environments on other planets. This period saw the creation of many more vividly imagined single-biome worlds.
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Modern Popularity: The most iconic example of a single biome planet is arguably the desert planet of Tatooine in George Lucas's "Star Wars" (1977). This and other similar portrayals in film and television helped cement the concept in popular culture.
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Influence of Real Astronomy: As our understanding of exoplanets grew, especially with the advent of space telescopes like Kepler, the idea of planets with singular biomes became more plausible, further fueling the trope in recent science fiction.
In summary, while it's challenging to determine the exact moment when the concept of single biome planets started in science fiction, it's clear that it has been a prominent and evolving element of the genre since at least the early 20th century.
Makes sense.
Dune is one of my favorite science fiction books--but only the first one.
Now I'm wondering when the trope of "ice planet" or "desert planet" or whatever started. Dune certainly really popularized the concept (and Star Wars really drove that home), but I would imagine it goes back to pulp fiction and the early days.
Not Somalia’s flag, but the flag of one of the states inside Somalia.
Ugly and boring either way.
Regardless of anything external, good job on losing weight. Getting healthier is its own reward in how you look and feel.
I read the whole series once. I generally quite enjoyed it, though it got worse the longer it went on. The book you're on was about the weakest, IIRC. I would wholeheartedly recommend anyone read at least Book 1.
There's a non-binary space captain later.
I thought the diversity stuff was handled pretty decently as it just was there. Nothing was lingered on. Besides, given today's demographics, you can guess what the future of humanity is going to look like in 200-300 years.
The author, "James S.A. Corey" is actually two people. Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. Ty was George RR Martin's assistant. Just as GRRM, whose writing I very much enjoy, is an activist SJW leftist, so Ty and Daniel.
(Did anyone else remember that in Ender's Game, the famous general, Mazer Rackham, was a Maori from New Zealand?)
There's an old and persistent strand of science fiction writing that is obsessed with religion. I see these books as just more of that.
Holy shit, man in politics fucks woman (or is it woman in politics fucks man). You got ‘em this time!