*I just wanted to rave and dance-

Having to go to old people parties.

It’s rather go to diy underground shows, but I’m dad aged now.

I rust wasn’t too rave and dance, but I feel like most of the kids would be creeped out.

Probably an anthropomorphized plank that lines getting stepped on.

I just threw up a bit at the thought.

I paint with knives/scrapers almost exclusively. I think that makes it a bit manly.

I was briefly a star at work when all of the terminals updated to Win 11. I was the only dude that knew how to move the start button back to the lower left corner.

As someone who spent the majority of the '10s with a similar rig as you described, make sure you work nights and have an SO that tolerates whatever nonsense you are blathering about when she gets home.

It would take a demented, orange painted, pants shitting clown to devalue the dollar.

Azure is the cloud backbone of many businesses and services, so if Windows went away, MS would still have their fingers in a number of pies.

Cthonic just means from the underworld. Not always evil or horrifying, at least as I understand it.

I gave that a shot a few months ago, no dice, the Wi-Fi chip on my motherboard is too new.

I’ll flash it again with current FW and see if that helps.

I’ll give that a try, mine didn’t come with a dongle.

Yegods. My first foray into VR was at a high end arcade at North Pier in Chicago. I think the game was Dactyl. The headset was super heavy and none of the goals of the game were explained to me. I basically wandered around for five minutes, shooting green polygons in the sky, then time was up.

Dad was pissed that he’d blown $20 on it.

Edit: For historical reference, in the mid 90s $5 could keep your kids occupied at a regular arcade for a couple hours. $20 could have gotten us a couple of movie tickets and some Twizzlers.

I’d of been angry too.

So, I’ve been wanting to buy a controller to play classic games.

After doing some research I got an 8bit Do classic 2, which looked and felt great, but I guess couldn’t work with my Bluetooth.

Should I just get an Xbox controller, or hold out for this new Nintendo tech (I only game on PC and Switch, currently).

I’ve bought three controllers for my PC over the years, and none of them have been universally usable.

Edit! I’m a 90s kid, and I’m really disappointed that VR hasn’t taken off the way scifi suggested it would. Back then, being absorbed in pure information sounded awesome, but now it is just going the way of 24/7 misinformation advertisements and micro transactions.

I’ll hold off on VR until there is a decent open source unit that isnt $800.

There’s a reason we don’t see any big Let’s Players do more than a couple episodes of VR games.

For most of my life VR has been, ‘VR is a great way to experience shitty games and you just have to pay a grand or more for this interactive tummy ache, and your unit may not be supported next year! Buy!’

I’m going to hold out until I can pick up one of these at the pawn shop for a bill.

I’m waiting for my sweet 200 in tax returns and rolling it into scratch tickets.

Bizarro! I love you! Bizarro!

I thought this too, but yeah, dairy can accelerate puberty, but it’s not the hormones, it’s just that kids that consume more dairy are often fatter which triggers early menache.