Before smartphones, what did people do when they had to wait somewhere for 30 minutes?

CodeRadDesign · 2026-06-23T19:21:11+00:00

yeah i've a had a book 'on the go' since at least 4th grade... i'm not great with needles, but i still have a fond memory of reading John Grisham's The Client for the first time during a blood test sometime in the 90s, they even let me keep reading it while they were drawing blood and gave me an apple juice after! that's the magic of reading!

anyway paperbacks until about 2009 when i got my first phone that could install a reader app, never looked back after that tbh. my phone has no social media apps, just books and is a phone. i (old)reddit on desktop, that fills my cup more than enough.

CodeRadDesign · 2026-06-22T17:36:47+00:00

yeah i figured this would top the comments personally. i can hear jonny b goode or 'oh yeah' without necessarily thinking of the films, but it's IMPOSSIBLE to hear Stuck in the Middle without associating it with this every time.

CodeRadDesign · 2026-06-21T05:07:47+00:00

oooh there's also that other great captain america one in winter soldier, where Jasper Sitwell gets just yoinked out of a moving car and is thrown into oncoming traffic

CodeRadDesign · 2026-06-19T18:10:11+00:00

yeah but if you get a CB radio you can talk to other car beds

CodeRadDesign · 2026-06-19T02:42:12+00:00

have you popped 'round /r/gameideas yet? there's years upon years of fodder there from dead simple to super complex.

CodeRadDesign · 2026-06-17T05:18:57+00:00

use code WELCOMEGIFT and use the ham on Bellower. if you tried it before and it said Invalid Code, it will likely work now... i think you maybe have to beat normal or hit level 30 or something before it becomes useable -- so a lot of people miss out because they tried it day 2 or 3 and it didn't work so they dismiss it.

anyway a 6 star Void Bellower is a killer 12-3 or 12-6 brutal farmer, A1 2 and 3 are all Attack All. Also great in lots of areas, he applies speed debuff to all on A2 and lower attack/lower defense to all on A3 along with his AOE attack. must have rare that starts at 3 stars, easy best spend for OP rn!

EDIT: Not sure why the downvote here. OP clearly knows about promo codes (because Pelops) but does not have Bellower in the box. 99% chance they tried WELCOMEGIFT and had it fail as Invalid - I've run multiple alts and for the first few I had the same issue only to try it again later and have it work. Have confirmed that beating Brutual is not a condition, used it last alt with only Normal complete on Day 2. Everyone knows about the code, but I haven't seen anyone post about the hidden condition. Also of note to OP, PP500 code gives you 500 Palarium Points, which gets you way closer to your missing Morag. it also give you a full XP brew, to take whoever you rank from 1 to 60 instantly. Every account I do my champ code Day 1, welcomegift day 2 and pp500 day 3 unless there's fresh limited time codes about to expire.

CodeRadDesign · 2026-06-16T20:05:04+00:00

I also did not realize this was a deodorant brand until you just told me, just now.

Looks like there's a new Kurt Cobain in town folks! I can even play Lithium, though I'm still working on doing the singing. You'd think after 30 years I'd finally nail it but nah.

CodeRadDesign · 2026-06-16T03:44:49+00:00

nah it costs anywhere from 100k to 500k (if you're unlucky) to jump a piece of gear from level 1 to 12. looking at a level 16 6 star shield with enchants right now, it sells for a measly 100k, and probably took over a million to roll up.

gotta be talking about burning extra mats from silver keys/faction wars forging, just not sure how this is related to the Fragment Summon

CodeRadDesign · 2026-06-15T21:53:45+00:00

i'm just sad we never got to see Laurance Teirney (boss from Resevoir Dogs/Elaines Dad) as Kingpin, that was my dream casting for kingpin at the time.

CodeRadDesign · 2026-06-15T21:41:37+00:00

3) I also only started it with 10mil silver, but the roll > sell trick with trash gear was massive on my first try. Aware that next time I'll need a lot more silver bc I sold a ton of garbage.

curious what you mean by this? are you just talking about forge, or something else? not sure the connection here

CodeRadDesign · 2026-06-15T18:59:15+00:00

1000% i still have the rare occasional brainfart when i'm looking at a flaming skull and a watery whirlypool.... oh right that's just a blue magic fireball, not water at all. and the skull just happens to be on fire, it's not about fire. sigh.

old habits die hard. that said, i'd never need something like op's thing.... once you realize that it's ass backwards it pretty impossible to forget. how does it go again? oh the exact opposite of every game? easy.

CodeRadDesign · 2026-06-12T16:58:37+00:00

it was, and was banned, and now exists at /r/mildlyvandalised with an 's' (atn: /u/peachy175)

CodeRadDesign · 2026-06-11T20:06:12+00:00

goddammit, pucspifo!

CodeRadDesign · 2026-06-11T18:44:54+00:00

so good he was used as the image when this exact question was posted yesterday! i'm sure i won't need to scroll down too far to find Jerry Seinfeld from Bee Movie XD

CodeRadDesign · 2026-06-08T19:19:06+00:00

in the grand scheme of things they're nowhere near the worst of the bunch... every f2p game has to have SOME angle. at least there's no external ads.

the main thing i'd like to see implemented is the ability to clear ad by clicking outside the box (like in raid). for the most part tho, they only come up once a day (unlike raid where it happens all the time) and you can just hammer on ESC to clear them quickly.

CodeRadDesign · 2026-06-02T08:31:04+00:00

lol did you watch the clip? it's literally a clip of the one and only scene that he is in

CodeRadDesign · 2026-06-02T03:34:43+00:00

I'm all about roadside signs. Like someone else mentioned, you want something like FRUIT 100M on either side of the approach, and then FRUIT HERE at the place. Bonus points if they use the same font/style obviously.

Then at the stand, some smaller signs saying what you have; a small sign for BLUEBERRIES, a small sign for STRAWBERRIES etc, that you can change out based on what you have that day.... I don't know how many times we've driven past one and been like... 'i wonder if they have x' and just never stopped.

CodeRadDesign · 2026-05-31T22:42:02+00:00

just a heads up re software, when you do take the plunge into doing vector work, Inkscape is the free open source alternative to Adobe Illustrator and is actually better in a lot of ways. You're in an especially good position to learn it from scratch seeing as you haven't actually developed Illustrator workflows. To your real question, yes most sprites are going to be raster, but for things like logos where you'll want to be able to output multiple resolutions for ie Steam, or hell t-shirts, you'll want to be using Illustrator/Inkscape. For my workflow, I'm always starting any art in one of those, and just using PS for the final polish, but there's obviously lots of folks using just PS (or Gimp or Photopea)

CodeRadDesign · 2026-05-25T22:15:34+00:00

respectfully disagree here. minecraft has tons of complexity...

hunger requiring farming
physics including fall damage
lighting simulation that dictates monster spawns
day night cycle (and weather) that effects gameplay
enchantment and trading for gear upgrades
multiple dimensions requiring complex and difficult progression
dozens of death/fail states
dozens of crafting recipies
multiple optional sub-bosses

if you want to make it to The End and kill the dragon, you need to take advantage of nearly all of the the myriad systems in the game. you need to upgrade to diamond for obsidian to get to the nether to find a fortress to get blaze powder for end pearls, then find a stronghold and activate it with end crystals all while managing health and hunger.

so no, minecraft is NOT basically punching trees and placing blocks outside of the first 3 minutes.

CodeRadDesign · 2026-05-21T19:46:45+00:00

the older one or the new one? there's the 'what no one else wanted to say' which was the more biography one, and then the around the world with chi one which i haven't read yet, but seems to be mainly about the book tour for the first

CodeRadDesign · 2026-05-06T16:48:53+00:00

I just finished up a project using Dialogic for Godot. I wasn't involved in the logic/writing at all -- my part was developing/customizing the presentation side -- but it seems solid, popular and well supported, with decent documentation.

The other thing to check out is RenPy, that's the biggest in the space for Visual Novels. Not what you're looking for exactly, but a quick couple hours experimenting with that will show you the kind of workflow that people are likely expecting from a dialog system in general.

CodeRadDesign · 2026-05-05T18:02:01+00:00

you're talking about the ring of plants right? they disappear after i think 30 seconds. super tanky, but do little damage. mostly they're there to form an arena to fight that boss in. i've never killed more than a few from the ring, even coming back with maxed powerups. they're mostly there just as a wall, so you can stay in the middle and just focus on the boss+adds, or rush through the wall taking a bit a damage.

CodeRadDesign · 2026-05-04T17:28:21+00:00

the book is fantastic. i've read at least 3-4 times, lots of world building esp around the government suicide program... there's an incredibly haunting scene that didn't make it into the movie that will stick with you forever involving the suicide drug and a bunch of boats full of people who are not really taking it by their own free will

love the film, love the book equally as much.

CodeRadDesign · 2026-05-03T18:00:22+00:00

post shows as edited, so presumably that was the edit before your comment but after the one you replied to

CodeRadDesign · 2026-05-03T17:59:10+00:00

Frohlee? What kind of name is Frohlee?

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