Jabbawacky

joined 2 years ago
[–] Jabbawacky@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Loading games from big floppy disks, hearing the CLINK CLUNK CLUNK WRRRRR noises, on the BBC Micro computers at school in the early 90s. There were boxes of awesome games like Chuckie egg that we had to work out how to load during lunch breaks.

Then getting our first home computer with win 3.11 which was a huge deal then

[–] Jabbawacky@feddit.uk 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

F Zero X remake please. original was already 60fps, so upgraded graphics and the original soundtrack in full stereo and full 30 player online. Sounds good to me.

[–] Jabbawacky@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yep, people here seem to be totally misunderstanding and overestimating how much the average person knows about tech.

I work in a role where I have to help clients sometimes access their reports via a portal. The clients ages range from 20s to their 80s, some very successful, some less, all intelligent at least. The amount of times I have had to explain what a browser is....or how to type in a URL ("but I just type the address in the Google thing!', searching for a fucking URL), and the absolute fucking basics. It is infuriating, and it is not restricted to one type of person or age group. Most people simply do not give a fuck about tech.

My daughter is 12 and has just moved into secondary school. She's commented that a lot of her class in IT cannot use a computer. They do not know how to use a filesystem, how to use a mouse or even a keyboard as they've grown up with iPads/phones and being able to bash in what they want into the first screen they see.

I have no issues with the judge. He asked for clarification, got it, and moved on. That's not being inept, that's being a normal person. Now if he keeps doing it past this point, and it starts affecting the case because he's incapable of understanding, then yeah that might be different.

[–] Jabbawacky@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not European, I'm a British cunt

[–] Jabbawacky@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

?

I've been to quite a few cities here in Europe that aren't car dependent.

[–] Jabbawacky@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago

Local co op games never left, as long as you have a Nintendo console or a pc to emulate up to and including Switch.

[–] Jabbawacky@feddit.uk 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, I saw politics@lemmy.world was US only. So I blocked it.

That's pretty much the extent of my involvement in moaning/bothering about politics here.

[–] Jabbawacky@feddit.uk 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Making mix tapes and later mix-cds too. Best way of sharing music back then.

Wish I still had all of mine

[–] Jabbawacky@feddit.uk 9 points 2 years ago
[–] Jabbawacky@feddit.uk 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

People forgot about the similar pandemic in 1919 or so. Everything repeated, including the anti-vaxxers.

So yes it will happen again and again. As will war, and everything else shit yet inherent in human nature.

[–] Jabbawacky@feddit.uk 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Damn I remember when this came out, used to listen to it when playing Perfect Dark on the N64 with my mates

Good memories

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