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walkman
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response 39 of 70:
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Feb 26 20:06 UTC 2022 |
This is outstanding:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHpC85p0ZM0
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tod
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response 40 of 70:
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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
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walkman
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response 41 of 70:
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Feb 28 12:01 UTC 2022 |
#40 Those entities depicted were NOT Chinese. Ears, nose, eyes very
different. Humans don't have giant wrap around eyes...
The way they were depicted, the scale of the depictions...only to
deliberately bury them and set them on fire...those people were deathly
afraid of the "gods". 3,000 years ago. Just incredible. And yeah, that
wheel. Out of context it could represent anything but given the context
of those entities, it seems pretty obvious to me.
It really could be a sun wheel but it could also be a mag wheel from a
Olds 442. When we step back and look at artwork from the Sumerians, to
the Greeks, Romans, Mayans, Persians and so on we see flying discs.
The Zoroastrian god Ahura Mazda wasn't the only one depicted with wings
and a round disc juxtapositioned. The Mayans put their gods in space
ships!
Oh - did you notice some of the 3,000 year old art work from China had a
very strong resemblance to the Mayan art?
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tod
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response 42 of 70:
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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...
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walkman
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response 43 of 70:
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Mar 3 19:15 UTC 2022 |
Here's a good one. Why is the Book of Enoch (great-grandfather of Noah)
rejected by Jews and Christians? It's central to many biblical stories,
yet non-cannon.
I would think that fallen angels, giants, "the watchers" and UFO's would
be good reading! (sarcasm) Many of these ideas are making Disney (under
Marvel) hundreds of millions of dollars.
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walkman
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response 44 of 70:
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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.
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tod
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response 45 of 70:
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Mar 6 19:39 UTC 2022 |
re #44
I don't know what the point of that game was but I felt like I was
skipping school and losing money just by watching/listening to it.
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walkman
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response 46 of 70:
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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.
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tod
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response 47 of 70:
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Mar 10 02:51 UTC 2022 |
re #46
If you were playing Sea Battle in Jordache jeans in USSR then you were
the son/daughter of somebody at the top of The Party. That just didn't
happen, comrade.
I can't remember how many kopecs I put on the Kblo6epT (QBert) machine
in between tending the field and studying for the chess championships.
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walkman
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response 48 of 70:
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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
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tod
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response 49 of 70:
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Mar 30 23:25 UTC 2022 |
What is a floppy disk?
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walkman
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response 50 of 70:
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Apr 1 23:26 UTC 2022 |
"What is a floppy disk?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp02cUD9mAU
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tod
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response 51 of 70:
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Apr 2 13:38 UTC 2022 |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfDuZ2vHkUQ
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walkman
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response 52 of 70:
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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.
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tod
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response 53 of 70:
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Apr 4 03:44 UTC 2022 |
re #52
Reminds me of some of the Dutch guys in the 90's who were churning
out techno on their Amigas
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walkman
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response 54 of 70:
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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.
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tod
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response 55 of 70:
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Apr 6 15:31 UTC 2022 |
I remember making phone calls over GPRS with a blackberry in 2003. You
had to plug your earbuds into the blackberry because it didn't have a
mic and speakers - they were intended to be the evolution after the
smart pager - not the evolution after the Nokia cell phone.
When all of NYC CDMA was jammed and out of service, you could do direct
comms to other Blackberries over GPRS.
iPhone? Mac? Most folks had to be above a certain income to attain
Apple products.
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walkman
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response 56 of 70:
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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.
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tod
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response 57 of 70:
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Apr 20 12:10 UTC 2022 |
I dunk mine in 3in1 Wrench Oil then juggle it with a kitten for 24 hours
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walkman
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response 58 of 70:
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Apr 21 00:19 UTC 2022 |
Klaus says, "During the fourth industrial revolution, kittens will be
served on special occasions and you will be happy."
New Order is the new subculture.
A view without a room
Unveils the truth so soon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzYeDm1Vpxs
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tod
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response 59 of 70:
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Apr 21 18:34 UTC 2022 |
Buscemi and the lipstick....I dunno man....
Wernher claimed in 1975 that the Moon would have a baby born on it by
Y2k and that 2 ships would be build in Earth's orbit using shuttles
for a Mars expedition. There is a 16mile high volcano on Mars and
a canyon the size of Miami to Seattle where ET could live.
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walkman
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response 60 of 70:
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Apr 21 23:50 UTC 2022 |
There are several camps on moon conspiracy theories. One that I know of
believes there's a mature space force that has been developing moon
bases for many years. They likely believe there are many, many babies
born there all the time.
Others believe man never crossed the Van Allen radiation belt aka never
landed on the moon.
Some say there's a portal on earth where people travel from the earth to
a moon base instantly. There are some that claim to be part of this
program. It's ridiculous to me but anything's possible I suppose. When I
hear "portholes" or "wormholes" or "vortexes" on earth, I cringe.
Oh and there are others who think the Nazi's had a moonbase. As if.
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tod
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response 61 of 70:
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Apr 24 05:09 UTC 2022 |
Hermann Goering's butt was the moon base.
It's possible man hasn't crossed the Van Allen radiation belt.
It would make Malcovich's portrayal of Kubrick that much more
zany.
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walkman
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response 62 of 70:
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Apr 24 18:52 UTC 2022 |
#61 Yeah, that's the one that I could subscribe to "van allen belt" aka
they circled around the earth, and then landed. I don't want to be a
moon nutter but there are too many questions and contradictions. When I
was a kid I wondered, "how did they have enough fuel in that small
capsule to leave the moon and return to earth" and also, "how did they
pack all of their equipment into that tiny capsule?".
It's just "one of those things" that I try to just play along with
because I don't want to admit even to myself that the whole thing
doesn't pass the smell test. There are things that to this day seem
absurd to me, like the moon buggy "lunar roving vehicle" being necessary
or plausible. Aside from all of that, there are the infamous
air-brushed moon-walk photos and other interesting tidbits (no stars in
the photos) that require skepticism. I value skepticism even when
things seem to be airtight.
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papa
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response 63 of 70:
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Apr 25 17:28 UTC 2022 |
resp:61
Are you referring to the movie "Color Me Kubrick"? Malkovich wasn't portraying
Kubrick, but a con-man pretending to be Kubrick.
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