Yeah!!! Damned fine use of that wall space and a great demonstration of your hard-won mad skillz 👍
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The likelihood that you were going to post this today was quite low.
I like super obscure achievements that aren't documented at all. Like, your weapon and armor just broke but you're in an easy area so you just keep grinding, trying to find that rare loot (or whatever). Suddenly, you get an achievement, "Naked Brawler" 😁
You check the wiki and that one's not in the list 👌
I remember getting an achievement for something like, "Last Light" in some game where I ran out of torches in an area where you take severe damage from darkness. I got the achievement when I lit that last torch, very close to the end of the area.
It wasn't documented anywhere! I posted about it to the game forum (this was back when forums were the primary place to talk about such things) and no one had seen it before.
Like a year later, the community finally figured out the sequence of events necessary to get that achievement and it only gets awarded to characters who are too far in to make it out before the torch goes out and those that read a very specific, obscure book in a starter area.
"You read the book‽"
"I... Uh... Read all the books. Doesn't everyone read all the books at least once?"
🤣
Like someone else stated, it was an EPIC pussy magnet that demonstrated your car audio prowess. Only a special few knew the secrets...
She didn’t dial anywhere near enough numbers
Not necessarily! This particular phone had a feature that let you set shortcut numbers. It was an advanced form of the "long press a single number to dial a particular contact" feature that came before it. So you could go into your contacts and—via a series of absurdly complicated menus for such a simple device—you could set "7752" as the shortcut number to dial say, your bank of fax machines that somehow deliver the equivalent of 100Base-T Ethernet speeds.
"Tell me how old you are without telling me how old you are" 😢
I recently stayed at a rental property that had this (actual photo):
I tried to get it working but none of the remote panels worked. They were all disconnected somehow (owner probably cut the wires to prevent shenanigans by guests cranking the volume then leaving it like that). The CD player worked (central panel only) but oddly, it couldn't pick up any FM stations. It would tune to them ("scan" feature worked) but they only ever produced static. I suspect the capacitors used in the amplification circuit dried out or something got corroded after being in a "regular ocean salt spray" area (it was on a beach) for such a long time 🤷
Wow! This brings back memories... It was a Soul Crusher: A primitive technology used to commune with the dead over long distances. I'll explain...
These devices used the "Afterlife Toll" (AT) command set, invented by someone named "Hayes" which I believe was just a nickname or mistranslation of Hades. With the correct invocation, you could whisper into the great beyond. Here's an example:
ATDT 6665551234
Translated: "Afterlife Toll, Death Touch ". After this invocation, the user would hear the pleasant sound of souls being crushed in order to make the afterlife connection.
Of course—due to the popularity of such devices—crushing souls over long distances could get expensive so a number of Incorporeal Service Providers (ISP) sprang up to make it cheaper and easier than ever to crush souls from anywhere.
Cool fact: This is where the term, "soul crushing machines" comes from! These days, soul crushing is fully automated and far beyond the measure of Beings Per Seance (BPS). Nearly every computer is shipped with an ethernet connection and practically everyone is walking around with devices that can commune over WIFI (Wailing Incorporeal Fidelity).
In fact, our Incorporeal Technology (IT) is so advanced, you can have a soul crushing experience from anywhere in the world at all hours of the day, every day!
Tortoise scammer wants people to shell out.
No. It's because of the Epstein files.
Did she actually do the bare minimum of what she was legally required to do? No. Those lawsuits are pending because it's so fucking obvious she didn't release stuff (Congresscritters who had access to much of it came out and said so).
Did she intentionally try to hide Trump and his cronies presence in the Epstein files? Yes.
If she took all these steps, and put herself in legal jeopardy, just to protect Trump and his cronies, why is he still mad at her?
It's because she released them at all. I'm sure he was expecting her to delay the release forever. Or at least until all the lawsuits played out (which could complete after his term).
The underlying truth here is actually just the usual Trump stuff: He doesn't surround himself with competent people. He only chooses people based on perceived loyalty and whims.
This is what happens to nearly every business Microsoft buys or invest in. They're the enshittiers.
Sony is a close second, BTW 😁
My question exactly: The computers should be purpose-built, including the operating system.
Why TF aren't they using something like NASA Linux‽
If they made it open source you bet your ass they'd get shittons of free support from the global community! If they're running my software I'd be willing to hop on a call with the command center on any day at any hour!
"Yes, I know it's Christmas but NASA is having some trouble with a systemd script on a space ship that's currently in space..."
Who cares? Those who can laugh at themselves are the human equivalent of self-powered fusion reactors, fonts of happy energy.
Sometimes the happiness spreads, sometimes it doesn't. Either way, someone is entertained 😁👍