>> ^direpickle:

I like video games and all, but I think we need more people, today, that are willing to say, "No. The thing I have is good enough."


Yep, I am one of them. I still have my 20" Sharp CRT TV from 1996, VCR, Casio Databank 150 calculator watch, etc

spam television was why I cut cable in the mid 90's and turned to piracy of television.

in the early and mid 90's I worked for DirecTV and we had entire scripts to explain to complainers about commercials and also spam ranked by channel, at the time espn ranked #1 in spam. with like 10 mins of content to 20 mins of spam ratio.

We'd have these groups come in from the networks to explain to us and give us talks on marketing and such with commercials, and I finally woke up.

After I left the job to move onto working in network operations admin for ISP, I turned off pay for tv, and have been a television pirate ever since.

no commercials, no annoyances, ever. And it doesn't affect ratings, as I was on the inside and worked closely with nielson families at one point in my career. Which the ratings system is a joke anyhow. Which is why half the scifi stuff gets cancelled when it has huge support, most nielson families the ratings box is ran by the older father or mother who don't really care for the scifi stuff in the first place and would rather watch Andy Griffith reruns.


the networks of course hate me from 1996 to today non stop pirating, and thanks to companies like Western Digital who make set top box for pirates by pirates is their unofficial motto in the forums.

The WD TV live box supports all codecs normally used by pirates, it's like the vlc player of set top boxes, costs 100 bucks and will stream any downloaded video files off a shared folder on your pc or you can plug in a usb thumbdrive or hard drive. Or with added app you can install a torrent program that lets you stream while torrenting all in 1080p HD.

Yeah, in Canada!

In reply to this comment by Issykitty:
Hey! But didn't you know that the '80s didn't technically end until 1996?




In reply to this comment by brycewi19:
*nochannel
*1sttube
*happy

Show ran from 1990-1991 (unfortunately not long enough for me).

Hey! But didn't you know that the '80s didn't technically end until 1996?




In reply to this comment by brycewi19:
*nochannel
*1sttube
*happy

Show ran from 1990-1991 (unfortunately not long enough for me).

OMG I de-reverbed it and was able to connect to this with my modem and download some cat porn...

> so I can feel like it's 1996 again...

This takes me back to 1983 with a 300 baud Volksmodem

Should set that as my startup sound so I can feel like it's 1996 again...

*history *music

FYI from the video's description:

List of films used:
00:06 - A Fistful of Dynamite (aka 'Duck, You Sucker!') (1971)
00:26 - The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
00:32 - The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954)
00:33 - The Bridge on the River Kwai ("Madness") (1957)
00:35 - True Lies (1994)

00:43 - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
00:45 - Hogan's Heroes (1965)
00:47 - The Wild Bunch (1969)
00:52 - Monsters vs Aliens (2009)
00:56 - The Core (2003)
00:58 - Tropic Thunder (2008)

01:06 - Mission: Impossible III (2006)
01:11 - I Am Legend (2007)
01:18 - A Bridge Too Far (1977)
01:21 - The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

Music:
Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture, Op. 49 (by Bernard Haitink, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra)"

Ah, so you never released your works. Bummer.

>> ^KnivesOut:

I never built any that were distributed to the community. Mostly I just fooled around with making stupidly overpowered weapons for me and my friends.
Seeking missles, mirv grenades, spike mirv grenades, seeking missles that spawned spike mirv grenades... You get the idea.>> ^ant:
>> ^KnivesOut:
IMO, QuakeC is what made Quake something really special. The modding community took it to the next level.
I learned C programming making mods for Quake, before I was even interested in programming professionally.

Which mods? I made two mods for DOOM 2: http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/doom2/j2doom/j2doom.html ...

I never built any that were distributed to the community. Mostly I just fooled around with making stupidly overpowered weapons for me and my friends.

Seeking missles, mirv grenades, spike mirv grenades, seeking missles that spawned spike mirv grenades... You get the idea.>> ^ant:

>> ^KnivesOut:
IMO, QuakeC is what made Quake something really special. The modding community took it to the next level.
I learned C programming making mods for Quake, before I was even interested in programming professionally.

Which mods? I made two mods for DOOM 2: http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/doom2/j2doom/j2doom.html ...

>> ^EMPIRE:

Doesn't look like her. Not hot enough.
Let me remind you how she looked back then: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianmack/2808498280/

>> ^ant:
>> ^EMPIRE:
i loled at the guy playing Quake with a damn joystick! people were idiots in the 90's

Yeah, I wonder how good he was. Who was that blonde gal? Killcreek?



Both are attractive to me.

Doesn't look like her. Not hot enough.

Let me remind you how she looked back then: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianmack/2808498280/


>> ^ant:

>> ^EMPIRE:
i loled at the guy playing Quake with a damn joystick! people were idiots in the 90's

Yeah, I wonder how good he was. Who was that blonde gal? Killcreek?

>> ^KnivesOut:

IMO, QuakeC is what made Quake something really special. The modding community took it to the next level.
I learned C programming making mods for Quake, before I was even interested in programming professionally.


Which mods? I made two mods for DOOM 2: http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/doom2/j2doom/j2doom.html ...

>> ^EMPIRE:

i loled at the guy playing Quake with a damn joystick! people were idiots in the 90's


Yeah, I wonder how good he was. Who was that blonde gal? Killcreek?

>> ^FishBulb:

I know it changes geographically but the 80's were rad and the 90's were wicked, where I come from anyway.
..also Quakeworld rocks. Still have it installed.


Ditto for 1980s compared to 1990s. Do you still play QW?

I heard the game play is supposed to be a bit open-ended? I bet it'll be cool - I didn't really have the patience for Prey's whole shtick and wished they would have done Prey with the initial concept they had in 1996.