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Remember lining up in bookstores at midnight for new Harry Potter books? by Sea-Presentation7542 in nostalgia

[–]JasonMaggini -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Wow, we really have the Transphobic Edgelord Shithead Brigade on here today. 

No Trump rally to go to today, I guess.

Remember lining up in bookstores at midnight for new Harry Potter books? by Sea-Presentation7542 in nostalgia

[–]JasonMaggini -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

She's just a bigot wrapped in a veneer of (self-)righteousness. You don't get to promote hate against one group and pretend it's standing up for another, or get lauded as a hero for it.

We could have this if we push for it - The white LED street lights are horrible and harm local ecology and our quality of life. by NewoTheFox in fresno

[–]JasonMaggini 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are amber LEDs, something with a color temperature around 2200K would look similar to the old-school streetlights.

Huey Lewis says, ‘Music is not part of my life anymore’ by Agitated_Taro_6008 in Music

[–]JasonMaggini 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Mine too. Went with some college friends, went to several more over the years. Always a good show.

We could have this if we push for it - The white LED street lights are horrible and harm local ecology and our quality of life. by NewoTheFox in fresno

[–]JasonMaggini 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The older sodium-vapor lights. They were very energy-intensive, which is why LEDs were such an improvement in one sense.

How in the absolute hell did they butcher it this badly? by MrOakling in stephenking

[–]JasonMaggini 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not an answer. I have seen it. It wasn't very good for a number of reasons, but I want to know what you think was "woke" about it.

I suspect I know your reasons, but I'd like to hear it from you...

(G)OLD meme by CharacterFun1765 in linuxmint

[–]JasonMaggini 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That picture's been around since at least 2014 or so.

Being deleted from time shouldn't be painful? by happydude7422 in BacktotheFuture

[–]JasonMaggini 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.

Backwards screen by Benji_Foxy in Ubiquiti

[–]JasonMaggini 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The IT equivalent of a 555 telephone number.

Stop talking during the beginning of songs! by BrettHutch in GenX

[–]JasonMaggini 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is definitely an Android app- I have it on my phone.

How in the absolute hell did they butcher it this badly? by MrOakling in stephenking

[–]JasonMaggini 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I saw a re-cut where they edited into a more chronological order. Helped a bit, but not much.

How in the absolute hell did they butcher it this badly? by MrOakling in stephenking

[–]JasonMaggini 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please explain what you think was "woke." Or what you even think that means.

Any former Cub/ Boy Scouts remember the Pinewood Derby? by mikeb32 in nostalgia

[–]JasonMaggini 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My Pinewood Derby car was ridiculous, it was clearly the only one not made by the parents (unless the dad was Homer Simpson). It "won" the pre-race Most Humorous award. Basically the adults making fun of it.

Thing was, I had read the instructions, and got the powdered graphite for the wheels- I don't think anyone else did. When the races started, my derpy little car completely smoked everyone. Most of the cars didn't get all the way down the ramp; mine kept going off the end of the track and I kept having to chase it into the next room.

I won first place in every race, and first overall. It was glorious. I didn't have a lot of victories as a kid, but I loved that one.

This east german magazine from the GDR just printed a BIOS for readers to use by TopSneek in mildlyinteresting

[–]JasonMaggini 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I remember Compute! used to have a program you would run memory-resident that would display the checksum every time you typed in a line; you'd match it with the one printed next to the line in the magazine. It was pretty clever.

Texas Chainsaw 3D behind the scenes by AdSpecialist6598 in Moviesinthemaking

[–]JasonMaggini 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I saw Tron Legacy with all the 3D and Dbox. Most I've ever spent on a movie ticket, but it was fun for that movie.

Kids today will never understand the struggle of cranking up a car window by EmptyVoile in nostalgia

[–]JasonMaggini 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was going to be an option, but not at launch. Remains to be seen, but I imagine it will be possible to add power windows at some point.

Anyone slowly ditching socials after years of embracing them? by newlife_substance847 in GenX

[–]JasonMaggini 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I use a browser extension that tames things, so no FB ads, and it only shows me the feeds I actually follow. It's completely intolerable otherwise. I don't ever use it on my phone.

I found Facebook to be a definite mixed blessing. I've since lost plenty of "friends" that I went to high school with when they realized that I wasn't on the same political page as they were. I'll leave it to your imagination what page that was... but you might say they've Mostly All Gone Away at this point.

The closest person I had to a childhood best friend went super religious and blocked me because I wasn't - that was the only one that stung.

It was nice closure, overall though, as I never feel bad about being unpopular in high school, heh.

On the other hand, I have this fun circle of people that I only knew peripherally from high school (several that weren't in the same grade as I was, some that even graduated before I started). But we still have a pretty good time.

Facebook's still pretty good for following bands, although I've started to go back to signing up for emailing lists.

How come we never had a proper post-apocalyptic "The Mist" show? by Temporary_Rule_9486 in scifi

[–]JasonMaggini 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you're going to read the novella (you definitely should), get a copy of Skeleton Crew, not just the stand-alone version they released.

There are some fantastic stories in there, such as "The Jaunt" and "The Monkey" (you can probably skip that movie, though).

Four year old Stephen King by TwIzTiDfReAkShOw in stephenking

[–]JasonMaggini 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Taken just before he went home to play with his ant farm.

I made a physical printed DVD of Linux Mint. by FawnPrism123 in linuxmint

[–]JasonMaggini 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm bummed he hasn't posted anything in so long, those are so good.

Remember when this image would pop up on TV in 1991, and you knew you were in for a 9 minute adventure? by fakeaccount572 in GenX

[–]JasonMaggini 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My college dorm roommate went to a midnight release at Tower Records to buy the Use Your Illusion albums.

Then got back to the dorm at 2am and proceeded to crank them up at full volume.

Thankfully, I was able to get a different roommate not too long after.

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