Yeah, that was the one, and I couldn’t agree more about it being the best joypad. Logitech was the best for PC, but fell far short of a PS joystick quality.

The company did have to stop selling them at the request of Sony. A friend, the one who told us all about it, tried to order one too late. The order stalled for a week before getting cancelled if I remember right.

You were probably one of a lucky few that got theirs in that slim window of availability. Congrats.

There was a company that offered them for $12.00 back in the late 90’s. Sony shut them down before anyone I knew could even get one.

I think our technology is primitive at a level that we can’t comprehend. Like an ant that has wandered into a steel mill. We see things, but can’t possibly understand them. In fact, what we see is in the past. The further away it is, the more distant a time it is. Even your own vision is not suited for space observation.

Humans are creatures of mind, body and spirit. Neglect even one of them and you suffer. We will require food, water, heat, cooling, oxygen, light and other creature comforts required to maintain. Obtaining them, lugging them about the cosmos, storing them and preserving them. Quite a tall task.

One day, locomotion about the solar system might be a thing. It will be nowhere near like we imagine it though. I suspect it will be practically instantaneous travel similar to what we think of a wormhole. There is no possible other way to do it with a finite lifespan and mortality. Speed kills. Gravity kills. Toxic gas kills. Radiation kills. Cold kills. Dust kills. Any major problem with the ship kills. Any major problem with you kills. Anything we just didn’t think of will probably kill too. What if lunar screw worms awaken only once every 500 years, and we just don’t know about them yet. What if they like to molest their dinner before eating it?

We get no plan B. We should focus our efforts in the here and now. Failure to do so is extinction.

Stop it! You’ll go blind.

I remember it from the 2000’s. The internet was up and we could all share our own pet names for things or just make up a new word. mIRC and newsgroups were big on that. Weird times but cool for sure. Some of it stuck. I still use the exclamation ‘Blargh’ occasionally.

The first time I remember it was someone from California asked me to ‘code summin’ for their daughter. I had to make sure what they were asking of me before I agreed. 2002 maybe.

I really don’t think the moon is going to be in our long term future nor Mars or any other body in our solar system. Robots and computers, maybe, but not humans. Too hostile of an environment.

We are too fragile for space. We are not meant to travel the stars, as cool as that would be. We should have used that money to undo the damage we’ve done down here. Maybe explore the oceans even. It was neat, but i’m totally unimpressed by the mission itself. Good will come from it, but I’m not sure it’s worth the risk or money while things on Earth are the way they are.

Came to say it. Was an hour late. Don’t forget all the advertising. It makes your day go WHEEEEE!

Hey now. We had W in the early 2000’s. Was just as racist as X. Maybe more.

This is not enshittification. This is supply and demand like it’s always been played out with far more demand than there is supply, and no real good supply relief in the foreseeable future. Gonna get way worse as people scalp/panic buy in bulk.

I’m betting this move loses them even more marketshare, and rightfully so. Garbage in, garbage out.

I don’t put much value on the things gamers nexus covers. I feel like they tend to create drama where none really exists, and it’s all for ratings. Much better sources of information out there.

I’m guessing there is an bit of truth in what they found. I’m guessing nvidia isn’t shit stain free either. But I’d bet money that if Nvidia releases another high end card tomorrow, everyone gonna line right up to hand them their money, including gamers nexus.

And for the record, the Kraken Z7 I bought 6 years ago and mounted vertically is still running quite strong, despite gamers nexus all but telling me I was an asshole for mounting it that way because it was going to die within 2 years and I’ll have only myself to blame.

Twisted Metal 2 was insanely fun and if you had it for the PC, it was even better. I had 6 different computers set up in various rooms in my house for TM2 parties since you could LAN everyone together. Couldn’t cheat off of other peoples screens either.

It’s still out there I believe, though it’s not the best port.

That’s a sharp looking game sir. I think since it’s open source and procedurally generated that there will be a lot of interest.

As a hobbyist, I’ve tried for decades to get a 0.0.0.0 of my game. It’s so tough to do on limited resources and time. I’m glad you made it. Congrats.

Obligatory as related. This is a total repeat from the two thousands which saw the napster/metallica feud and was documented via Camp Chaos Flash Videos (linked below) by Bob Cesca. Maturity is recommended as they may contain adult language, adult situations, Cheryl Crow but they do paint a pretty accurate picture.

Napster Bad

Metallicops

Metallica Wants To Be A Millionaire

MP3 Music: Good or Goblin?

Napster Dead

Bizarro Napster Bad!

Such good memories. If you get to watch these for the first time, I extend to you my jealousy.

I can honestly say that I’ve never had any issues with the winkey+shift+s on win 10, though occasionally I do wonder why they never added more shapes to the toolbar palette. I’m a designer by trade and I used it a lot when working on drawings to keep specs straight. One of the more useful windows utilities in my opinion.

Just inadequate vibration. Really take your time with it. What’s your set time?

2 minutes would not be near enough to jog out all of the air bubbles. Ideally, vibrating the slurry and not the mold would be best. You can rent something from a concrete tool rental company. Dunno how far you are from something. Also, in the same vein that anything is a dildo if you are brave enough, any rotary motor that spins off balance is a vibrator if its off enough.

The grain size is small enough. and you appear to be pouring upside down (thumbs up). I think all along it was only the vibration. You may have a breakout. Hard to use last pour for a volumetric comparison if the mix ratio changed. Yeah, I hope it went well.

Weighing and adjusting for temp/ph is also key. These control the chemical reaction and thus the end result.

They also make vibrators that can attach directly to a plate.

we used a custom mix that was affectionately nicknamed ‘the grog’, but it was mostly wd-40 and white lightning lithium grease.