Albbi

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[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Just played the NES Contra yesterday for the first time in probably over a decade. Still can beat it first try although I did have to use a couple of continuous on stage 4. I'm so used to not dying that I forgot where to find the good weapons. But for stages 5-8 I still had all the muscle memory of where to shoot and when that I developed as a kid.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

I drank the first half, you can drink the rest.

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[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'll vote for you if this is your platform!

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

I'm very interested in this and will try it out. There was another connection manager that the author posts on Lemmy, but the memory usage was very high due to the amount of docker containers used. A quick glance showed no requirement for docker. The ssh port forwarding could be a very useful feature for my work right now.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

If I knew in grade school that Penner = Bum in German I would have been merciless to so many kids.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 weeks ago

The exercise bit is so important. I'm mid 40s recently started working out with weights again after about 6 years of being somewhat sedentary other than running/walking dogs. Almost instantly I had worked out some pain my shoulder had been giving me that had been preventing me from sleeping well, and I don't grunt when getting up from a crouched position anymore. Also just feeling better and more capable all around.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

This is a really neat and well written list of games. It's so interesting how different these games were from the console games at the time. So many live acted sequences with pre rendered backgrounds. The only game I knew of beforehand was Phantasmagoria, but Dark Seed was ringing a bell. Perhaps a friend had that one. I might have to try some of these games.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago

Sounds like a $1.6 million dollar refund would be appropriate.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Human population is 9.4T? Yup, I'll trust this website completely. /s

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

The other Stephen King short story turned into a movie recently (Long Walk) also

Spoilercompletely changed the ending, although I heard a rumour that the original ending will be on the home release. So maybe this movie will have an alternate ending as well. The change after following the book pretty well up til that point made it feel like a weird alternate reality all of a sudden. Very jarring. Not that I think the changes were bad, but changed how I was experiencing the movie.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Probably because older phones are in maintance mode for the OS. Adding new features always carries some complexity and testing all models takes time. Limit the models to test to only the more recent ones and you save money.

That said, it would be so nice to have a more open system where I can decide that if that goes on my phone myself.

 

This is my favourite podcast. It features two contestants who are minor celebrities and asks them for three topics outside their field of work in which they are experts in, and then crafts a trivia quiz for them. Finally they bring in an expert to evaluate their responses, and the show is able to get some amazing experts who are a joy to listen to and usually the response from the contestent meeting the expert is incredibly wholesome.

This episode features Tim Russ so I thought the TenForward community might like it. There also some additional Star Trek trivia and personalities even during the part of the episode that features the other contestant Amber Nelson.

Tim Russ's three topics are - Astronomy, Alien invasion movies of the 1950s and 60s, and World War II. You can find out more about why Tim was intereted in these topics.

Also noteable quote from the episide: "I think Tim might be the center of the universe!"

 

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/artax

I saw the thumbnail and thought "Oh no, I can't handle this!"

 

Discovered that one of my lights was getting dimmer because halogen bulbs were burning out. This is a new house and I thought it was already an LED fixture. Got 3 new LED bulbs to make that area nice and bright.

Also discovered the house has metal studs when I went to mount the TV. bought some metal anchors. Never worked with metal studs before. Hope it turns out.

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