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Back when people read books this would be called Orwellian.
Today it’s called Tuesday.
Sadly, a huge segment of the population has accepted being lied to as normal, even preferable….otherwise no one would be stupid enough to get their “information” from random social media sources….but as we know some do.

This makes me want to go back and play HL2 Episodes 1 & 2. I know I bought them, but don't remember ever finishing them. HL2 was so technically impressive. Portal 2 was also great, especially the co-op multiplayer. Alyx is a good VR title- it's close to a "killer app" for VR, but not quite there. 1 of the few VR titles compelling enough to keep headset on for more than 1 hour.

Not half-life related, but "old but cool" PC tech from that era: I had a DVD/MPEG2 decoder card that did VGA passthrough, and would replace black pixels with the movie content - so I could watch the Matrix in the background of playing Quake or other FPS (this was a dual PIII-450Mhz). I later installed an ATSC tuner card - one of the first channels that broadcast in HD was Fox, and one of my favorite shows, 24, started to broadcast in HD - and the early days all the makeup artists took advantage of low-res, so as soon as the show went to HD, you could see how fake all the blood, makeup, and other effects were. Hollywood ramped up quickly once the first HDTVs started shipping.
That computer also ran BeOS quite well.

Since HL2 will be/is 20 yrs. old and we're all getting nostalgia! Let's talk about those days!

IIRC during the first week of its release, I bought its retail from a local Best Buy with a $10/10% sale or something back then. According to my detailed https://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/toys.html history, I recently upgraded my Windows gaming PC with these parts: "... ATI Radeon 9800 Pro video card, an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.2GHz 512KB Socket 754 single core CPU, ASUS K8V SE Deluxe (VIA K8T800 Socket 754 ATX; VIA VT8237 South Bridge; Revision 2; onboard sound disabled; onboard NIC not used/connected (using 3COM NIC for network) and can't be disabled or else Promise Raid won't be activate), a 3 fan HDD Peeze cooler, 1 GB of PC3200 Kingston RAM (CAS 3), and Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS." I think I also got Windows XP OS too.

Anyways, I remember playing this game over my long Thanksgiving weekend. It was amazing! Very smooth, pretty, and fun! I don't remember how long it took me to finish it. It was a great sequel. Of course years later, episodes 1 and 2 (The Orange Box -- will talk about that in three years). I don't have and want a VR to play Alyx.

What about the rest of you? Also, remember PlanetHalfLife.com web site? RIP, & GameSpy's web sites.

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I have a good story for that comment.
My wife and I went to Iceland (I went to a formula offroad event while there!) a while back, and one B&B host told us that for years they sent videos of Formula Offroad to SkyTV (the European version of ESPN) with no response. Eventually they got through to someone to ask why, and were told “SkyTV doesn’t broadcast remote control cars”….yes, for over a decade they assumed no human would drive like that and it must be RC cars! When they proved it was real full size cars with real live drivers, it was immediately put on air and has been popular ever since.
Good stuff.

Side note…these events are one main way Iceland funds most of its rescue teams that save stupid tourists that go off trail and get lost.

You should watch-
https://videosift.com/video/Ben-Stein-Ferris-Buellers-Day-Off

Also….another one-
The 29-year-old worship director from Oakwood Church in Augusta Township, Michigan, Zachary Joseph Radcliffe, faces 11 felony counts with charges dating back a decade. He was arraigned two weeks ago on two counts of aggravated child, sexually abusive activity, two counts of child sexually abusive activity, and six counts of using the internet to communicate with another to commit a crime, he could face up to 25 years in prison if convicted. The charges stem from incidents as early as 2014, according to court records.
Odd that it always seems to be the maga pastors and leaders with child rape and kiddie porn cases sticking, don’t you think? Even odder how often it turns out their “Conservative Christian” groups are found to have covered it up for years or decades (like here, the crimes being investigated have been happening consistently since 2014).
Maybe because the leader is partners in crime with Epstein and approves?
This guy is a huge maggot, on stage with the big guy and his family in his red hat over and over, performed at C-PAC….of course they’ll try to say they don’t know him just like all the others, ignore all the pictures and events they did together, he’s just some guy, probably a liberal…yeah-yeah…that’s it.

“They will know you by the company you keep”…lots and lots of convicted child rapists and convicted felons (convicted of crimes of moral turpitude) in Trump’s company.

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You are partly correct, when he gets into office, the numbers will have already plummeted….
…plummeted because businesses are reeling from the implications of his stated plans (like up to 200% tariffs, and killing the ACA and putting all healthcare costs back on employers and the resulting loss of work) and have started cutting workforces drastically, stopped hiring, and are halting bonuses and promotions so they can afford to buy all of next years stock before Jan 21 when it will cost significantly more. Others are preparing to close because they work in multiple countries, shipping back and forth during production, and tariffs of any size are going to kill their businesses, so better to get out before they’re forced out and broke.

The major economic downturn started Nov 5th. and is accelerating.

Lol! Nick Fuentes was doxed by women he taunted and had to move back into his mommy’s basement.
Hope nobody doxxes her…that would be awful.
Enjoy 4b! It’s going to be a frustrating incel 4 years for you.

To be fair, it's not spelled wrong, it's spelled w r o n g.

If I asked you how to spell 'parallel', would you just repeat the word back at me, or would you list the letters?

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