Octopus Overlords

It's all fun and games until you get snagged on the ribcage.

Giblets... giggity.

Sure it's funny, until you realize that it was written by the guy stocking shelves in your supermarket.

Heres a pic of my first PC's card that was on it when we bought it for me from Circuit City in 1994. I just happened to find the card in my drawer when I was cleaning it out.

My first was a Gateway (remember those?) 386/16 with 2mb of RAM.

I'll never forget talking to a guy at Radio Shack about PCs before I bought it and asking about 4mb RAM models and he said, "4mb of RAM? You don't need that much power unless you're running a business!"

Crazy how when you bought a PC back then, it could be obsolete within a year, and definitely within two.

Our first real PC purchase was a Packard Bell 486DX2/66 that I think my parents got around 1994. It was a pretty high-powered PC at the time, with 8MB RAM, 840MB hard drive, 28.8 modem and a whopping 1MB of video RAM. My stepfather bought the best thing he could find because he wanted to play the original Papyrus Nascar Racing sim, which required a pretty hefty system to run well. I think he eventually paid about $200 to upgrade the RAM to 16MB just to make the game run better. We also had a CH Products Virtual Pilot Pro yoke and Pro Pedals...made for pretty good racing and flight sim rig at the time

Max to the Future

I think better would be Abercrombie.

Relatable...

Especially true given that Indiana Jones and The Great Circle has been the game keeping me up at night. Damn open world and seamless transitions from one task to the next...always one more thing to do...

disarm wrote: Sun Jan 12, 2025 2:34 pm Especially true given that Indiana Jones and The Great Circle has been the game keeping me up at night. Damn open world and seamless transitions from one task to the next...always one more thing to do...

I always mentally put "Jerk" at the end of that game. /juvenile

The Thunder Lizard?

Max Peck wrote: Sun Jan 12, 2025 1:25 pm Relatable...

Live video from my desk...

Now that we don't have to click image tags anymore, the freedom is driving me crazy.