My cousin rented Megaman 2 and I spent at least an hour in awe of the fact that he could get hit more than twice because he had an energy bar. Then he switched weapons and threw a saw blade and I had to go sit down and think about it for a while.
Yeah, I bought one in my 20s.
Holy cow I thought I was the only person that played that. Excellent game.
In a similar vein, Ghost Master. Some of the levels are fiddly but it’s a ton of fun.
Next steps: remove roof, re-submit as “Red convertible (compact).”
I can hear this picture.
“I’m a specialized clerk interested in mathematics” if you don’t wanna get burned.
releasing a new kernel, re-written entirely in Golang using Copilot
I just got so mad.
Oh wow. The box is long gone and I'd rather keep it, but that's awesome.
Yeah it's ridiculous how many ranges of movement they fit in. And I have no idea how I got it. I'm guessing it was a drunken stumble to the mall.
Ninja 5-0 for the GBA. I got out my collection recently and had no idea I owned it. It's Elevator Action, but you're a ninja.
That's the first game I bought for my GBC. I didn't have enough money for a playstation and was jealous of all my friends playing MGS. It's super well done. I just got an analog pocket and I think I'll dig MGS out again after I finish my Castlevania games.
Yeah, they’re pipes / jars / whatever. You have to find a potion, throw it so the pipe is available when you go through the door, and then go down the pipe.
Yep, world 5-3. I dimly remember being able to Luigi superjump onto the birds in 7-1 and short-circuit a bunch of that level.
I was interning at a power company at the time and they were mostly worried about weirdos and militia trying to pull a stunt. I walked into Operations one day and there was the scariest man I’ve ever seen, in a black suit with a shoulder holster. He said his job was to keep an eye on things and get to know everyone. He looked like a Dashiell Hammett character and smiled all the time, especially when nothing was funny.
IT came around, pulled everyone’s computer apart, and then sealed them back up with tamper-evident tape. And of course everyone asked me if their power would be ok and I legally couldn’t answer. Clock hit midnight and nothing happened except Scarface wasn’t around when I got back from holiday vacation.
We’d handled everything like a year beforehand but it was a weird couple of months.
I love this story. Also, TIL Avatar is still around. We had a build (or something really similar) running on one of our college servers and it got hacked into the ground / used as a staging area to hack other things.
I do most things on the command-line and for me, the trick is not having a lot of scripts laying around. If it’s a common action I do a lot (like running the local test bed), I rely on shell history. Beyond that I just start chaining stuff together on the fly. It forces me to keep knowledge of the utilities fresh, and also keeps me from having a ~/bin folder full of outdated crap that almost does what I want.
Wow, this brought back a bunch of memories.
“I ran out of mouse pad.” “That’s ok grandma just pick the mouse up and put it down where you want it.” Picks up mouse, puts it down in the same place “Ok now what?”
Lawyers all dragging screenshots of excitebike into court and counting the wheels.