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| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 22-07-02, 01:27
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Posted by tomman That's amazing. My favorite is the Masters of the Universe box. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| desudesu |
Posted on 22-07-02, 02:07 (revision 1)
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Post: #44 of 62
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Posted by tomman This is honestly a pretty original concept, not gonna lie. 2nd one is my favourite, reminds me of the PS3 Mega Drive compilation box art :P |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 22-07-02, 07:16
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Post: #1090 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 9 hours |
Posted by desudesu It reminds me of the original Transformers boxes. Because that's what it's homaging, and I tore more than one of 'em open in my day. Though grid patterns were also a staple of Sega package design in the 80s and early 90s. I did love the change of the original catchphrase from "more than meets the eye" to "exactly what it seems". ... There's an interesting discussion to be had around the fact that it is specifically a Decepticon box. They DO say money is the root of all evil... --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| desudesu |
Posted on 22-07-02, 09:28 (revision 1)
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Post: #46 of 62
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Yeah, the Master System and Mega Drive box art both had that grid-like backdrop on them ^-^ I'm not too well versed in pop culture from that time, probably because it's not high on my radar of things to be interested in (only really games, PCs, internet culture, anime and music, sorry!) so yeah... |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 22-07-02, 12:24 (revision 1)
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Post: #1091 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 9 hours |
Posted by desudesuThey're (almost) all quite good replicas of vintage toy cards. Clockwise from top-left: Star Wars, Transformers, X-Men, Masters of the Universe(popularly known simply as "He-Man"), and GI Joe. Center is a tiredly-modern Funko. Now you know. And knowing is half the battle! ... I'm suddenly sad he didn't do Ninja Turtles, for no good reason. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| KoiMaxx |
Posted on 22-07-04, 20:45
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Posted by CaptainJistuce G.. I.. JOEEEE!!! Lol Anytime anyone mentions that line, I'm always compelled to finish it with their signature yell :D Related to ye olde cartoons: The First Transformers Theme Was WILDLY Confusing Not a music person myself, but I found the breakdown of it was pretty educational. Some comments remarked it was probably just an editor being pressed for time and had to fit the intro/outro to the time slot :P I still have no idea what I'm talking about. |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 22-07-05, 02:37
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Post: #1093 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 9 hours |
Posted by KoiMaxx Intentional in this case. I think humans just don't understand cybertronian music. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-08, 00:17
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Lennart Poettering joins Microsoft HATEBONERS AT FULL BLAAAAAAST!!!! NEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRDDDDDDDRAAAAAAAAAAAAAGEEEEEEE!!!! Time to get off the Internet, turn off the modem, and go walk outside. Those comment threads must be more radioactive than Chernobyl's core. On the flip side, Microsoft SystemD For Workgroups coming soon™ No, I'm still NOT touching a *BSD in this lifetime. I'm too old for the nerdrage. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 22-07-08, 01:38
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Post: #1097 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 9 hours |
Presumably Microsoft will keep him on a shorter leash than Red Hat, but the damage is done already. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| desudesu |
Posted on 22-07-08, 16:20 (revision 4)
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Post: #57 of 62
Since: 01-29-22 Last post: 865 days Last view: 865 days |
Well, I can't tell if that's a sigh of relief, or a sign of evil. cue E1M8 music Then again, Red Hat isn't exactly a piece of shit company, their employees have contributed a lot to Linux over the years (the excellent virt-manager front end for QEMU comes to mind), he just stained it the whole time he was there. Given his ideologies, he'll fit right in with the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish philosophy of Microshaft :D (Yeah I know, I use Discord... if only I could avoid it somehow, though I doubt anyone in there would be particularly willing to move elsewhere, most of the people in there aren't particularly 'technical' if that makes sense) |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-09, 00:26 (revision 1)
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Post: #1151 of 1315 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 58 days Last view: 18 hours |
Canada just had its "oh shit, we've got upgraded to CANTV-tier service!" moment today: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/rogers-communications-services-down-thousands-users-downdetector-2022-07-08/ How does it feel to be a Venezuelan for a day, where not only your fancy bank cards and hipster buttcoins are completely useless because there is a oligopoly of shitty telcos ruling your country networks? And no, cash won't save you either if ATMs and bank branches are offline too. Maybe we should go back to bartering for buying groceries. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| KoiMaxx |
Posted on 22-07-09, 03:04
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Post: #158 of 159 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 206 days Last view: 1 day |
Posted by tomman Yeah woke up this morning to a flood of messages on Teams. I'm on Shaw though so wasn't affected. But yeah a good number of colleagues were forced to tether to their phones for the day. Rogers still down at the moment and no eta on when service will be resuming. :/ I still have no idea what I'm talking about. |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 22-07-09, 09:13
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Post: #1098 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 9 hours |
Canada just got Roger'ed. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| desudesu |
Posted on 22-07-09, 15:34
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Since: 01-29-22 Last post: 865 days Last view: 865 days |
Speaking of 'North Americans getting fucked' I gotta love when the US whine about fuel prices when we're paying more than double what they have to pay in the first place. Or when a game gets unreleased in the US but does in Europe (or is delayed in the US) and they whine about it, I always just think to how many times we got screwed over back in the days. On a related note, I now own a Model 1 Master System (PAL). :D |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-12, 14:16 (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1155 of 1315 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 58 days Last view: 18 hours |
Pepsi: BREATHTAKING Design Strategy (PDF) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32064324 Apparently this advertising nutcase charged PepsiCo $1M for that big load of BULLSHIT... that even failed to sell more sugary water to the masses! Instead, the 27-page design document obviously tells that someone was having some coke instead. "Golden Number" "Gravitational Pull of Pepsi" "Pepsi Universe" ...WTF. But then, this is the same Peter Arnell that also nearly wiped out Tropicana from the market with his $35M pointless empty rebranding that basically told consumers that their beloved orange juice didn't existed anymore. Fortunately this asswipe was fired from his own company not long after that, and he even recognizes his work is full of shit. Unfortunately the virus is still at large: for example a certain Colombian soda (Postobon) I drink from time to time just unveiled it's cellphone-esque minimalist label redesign, and IT FUCKING SUCKS - it went from a design that I could clearly identify from old '90s magazine ads (when noone imported that stuff to Venezuela) to... some bland webby minimalist crapola. Dear advertising/marketing asswipes: my beverages are NOT iPhone crapps!!! KNOCK IT OFF!!! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| creaothceann |
Posted on 22-07-30, 18:44
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CRT vs. HD CRT vs. OLED My current setup: Super Famicom ("2/1/3" SNS-CPU-1CHIP-02) → SCART → OSSC → StarTech USB3HDCAP → AmaRecTV 3.10 |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-30, 19:59
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Post: #1165 of 1315 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 58 days Last view: 18 hours |
Rebranding gone very right! How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass I'm well aware that Spanish for ass is "culo" (I should know it, being my mother tongue and all that), but didn't knew that French for ass is almost the same ("cul"). Too bad it's yet another overpriced Software-as-a-Service crap I'll never touch... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| creaothceann |
Posted on 22-08-03, 18:59
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Post: #412 of 456 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 44 days Last view: 1 day |
https://reddit.com/r/EmuDev/comments/wf7zmc/want_to_share_my_enthusiasm_3_months_of_work_pure/ https://github.com/raddad772/jsmoo Someone actually did it... a bsnes-level accurate SNES emulator in Javascript. My current setup: Super Famicom ("2/1/3" SNS-CPU-1CHIP-02) → SCART → OSSC → StarTech USB3HDCAP → AmaRecTV 3.10 |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-08-10, 21:07 (revision 1)
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Post: #1168 of 1315 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 58 days Last view: 18 hours |
Soviet Venezuelan Meme Money, Class of '21*: If you were a normal Venezuelan living in the land of "nobody wants bolivars anymore", here is how hard are to find those newfangled pieces of not-digital money: - 5, 10: Available since Launch Day (October 1st, 2021), easy to find unless you want then uncirculated. - 20: Limited availability since March 2022, hard to find in any condition. - 50, 100: Limited availability since June 2022, unobtanium (I just got the 100-note today!). *Coins available separately, but nobody cares Oh, wanna know how much money is there? Assume an average exchange rate (between official and black market) of USD 1 = VES 6: - VES 5 = ~$0.83 - VES 10 = ~$1.66 - VES 20 = ~$3.33 - VES 50 = ~$8.33 - VES 100 = ~$16.66 (For reference, minimum wage is VES 130 = ~$21.66) For those tracking the count at home, this is the FOURTH time since 1989 since those denominations have been re-issued... the last 3 times after the trend of shedding zeroes began in 2007. At least we're no longer in freefall, right? RIGHT?! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 22-08-11, 13:08 (revision 1)
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Post: #1103 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 9 hours |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcPrm5Tb-SA The train station that only has boats. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
