response 34 of 70:

Feb 19 01:09 UTC 2022

#33 That's what I'm saying. 

If we extended the "humans were always great builders of civilizations",
 we could then go down some roads. One road that you cited is 
flood/ice/uninhabitable earth. With that we can say that humans may have
 had a limited ability to convene and learn from each other to evolve 
their civilization.

There's another intriguing road: great civilizations have come and gone 
but were lost. Spooky and cool. Did they escape earth with rocket ships 
and evolve elsewhere? Are *they* the aliens visiting earth? Or did they 
just die out and or were their cities now under water? So many 
questions. Were they more or less advanced than we are? Did they have 
intriguing customs, languages, myths, inventions, etc?

What we do know is that we find ancient homo sapiens buried with simple 
tools and that there is cave art, which by the way experts claim the 
oldest is 35,400 years old. What were the ancient men portraying? 
FUCKING ALIENS. Space ships, aliens, weird shit and of course, animals 
and hand prints. 
 

response 36 of 70:

Feb 23 18:25 UTC 2022

re #35
The Polish 1600s uprising?

response 38 of 70:

Feb 24 23:47 UTC 2022

Ruine, si tu veux, quand nous sommes morts et partis

response 40 of 70:

Feb 27 13:22 UTC 2022

re #39
Sunwheel?  How about UFO?  It has a hold in the middle so they could
mimick the spinning.
Charred...Burned Beyond.....Recognition
Yea, if I see something burned then my first thought is going to be
Frankenstein

response 42 of 70:

Feb 28 17:49 UTC 2022

Thor Heyerdahl would be proud of all this.  And yes, I agree.
Zorastrians temple has a big fire in its center.  I know a few and
they have a house they've turned into a temple.  It's pretty interesting
stuff.  What's even more fascinating is that Iranians consider Mazda
a national symbol and wear the necklace but if you get down to it most
of them are Muslim...the majority of Zorastrians are Parsi (Not Farsi)
and came to Iran many centuries ago from India.
Old civilizations...

response 44 of 70:

Mar 6 17:39 UTC 2022

This Japanese Sega arcade game from 1985 called, "I'm Sorry" features 3 
bad guys: A CIA "man in black", O.J. Simpson, and Michael Jackson. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LoNPS2vDPE

I'm not kidding. It's actually a fun and challenging game but the stage 
two villains are racist as f. I never got to the 3rd level. I wonder who
 the villains are. 

response 46 of 70:

Mar 7 12:23 UTC 2022

Ha ha ha ha yes indeed
I remember the arcade strategically located next to the High School had 
a slice of pizza and a coke for $1. That's almost unimaginable now. And 
so many quarters in the Star Wars, Pac-Man, Tron, Crystal Castles, 
Mappy, Q*Bert... all the burnouts playing Stargate/Defender. I would die
 almost instantly with that game. I ended up owning that cabinet
(someone  *gave* it to me around 2000 if you can believe it). I'm pretty
ace at  that game now. (pretty sad really) LOL

For some strange reason, my brain just jumped to those Russian clones of
 the British ZX Spectrum. I wonder how video games were played in Soviet
 territory. Maybe one day I'll visit the "Museum of Soviet Arcade
Games"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Soviet_Arcade_Machines

My brain just jumped again to bootleg VCR players in North Korea and 
episodes of "Friends" being smuggled in. See, Americans don't really eat
 their babies. They eat take-out Chinese food and drink expensive
coffee. 

response 48 of 70:

Mar 29 23:33 UTC 2022

If you ever wanted to load a Commodore Vic 20 cartridge image from a 
floppy disk on a real machine, I wrote a guide on how to do this:
https://distantdark.com/2022/02/06/commodore-vic-20-2-rom-cartridge-
files-launch-from-a-d64-image/

It's actually a really difficult problem because most of the cartridges 
are split images and the images are assigned to different memory blocks.
These games should be preserved and so far, it's quite difficult to play
 them, even with emulators. With this method, you can create a disk
image  with the rom images and run them on either a real machine or an 
emulator.

#vic20rabbithole #jupiterlanderrocks
There were many more interesting Vic 20 games than even I was aware of, 
especially those created by Sierra.

http://sierrachest.com/index.php?a=platforms&id=15

response 50 of 70:

Apr 1 23:26 UTC 2022

"What is a floppy disk?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp02cUD9mAU

response 52 of 70:

Apr 2 15:02 UTC 2022

Nothing like a "dodgy SID to SID" setup. 

That guy...it's like someone plucked Al Jourgenson (from Ministry) from 
1985 and placed him into 2007. He's committed to the role too which I 
fully respect.

The intro music is total shoot-em-up video game territory. Nice. 

 

response 54 of 70:

Apr 4 12:54 UTC 2022

When I think about how advanced the Amiga was when it came out (1985) - 
so much more advanced than the PC or Mac, it's almost astounding that it
 was left behind. It had higher resolution, color (!), incredible 
software & sound capabilities and expand-ability (like RAM).  People
like to glamorize the Mac's impact on history while ignoring the  Amiga
as if it never existed. It's really interesting and sad.

It's like that with all Apple products. People like to say that Steve 
Jobs invented the smartphone. The obvious reality is that he was just a 
CEO and didn't invent anything. But beyond that, there were smartphones 
on the market years before the iPhone came out. What did a 2007 iPhone 
do that a pre-existing Blackberry or Palm Phone not do? 

This is all cult territory. The establishment and the left cult used to 
be separate entities. Now they are merged together. The left cult and 
the establishment loves to LOVE anything apple and apparently they can 
write and rewrite history.
 

response 56 of 70:

Apr 20 00:59 UTC 2022

Do you have squeaky compact cassettes? 
Is your tape stopping at certain intervals? 
Your tape might need lubrication:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov9frNzqrhU

A lubricated tape is a happy tape.