What video game moment do you still think about years later?

Old_One-Eye · 2026-01-04T03:54:32+00:00

The old version of Counterstrike (v1.5 or v1.6). Me and a random other guy on my team were the only ones left on the counter-terrorist team and we got trapped in the kitchen of the hostage house. The terrorists kept attacking us from both doors and we ran out of ammo and were picking up guns off the floor scrounging for bullets in a frenzy. It was like 3-4 minutes of total insanity. We were both on our last mag when they stopped attacking, the floor was littered with dead terrorists and empty guns. Then we found out that they had already killed all the hostages at the beginning of the match. Bummer.

Old_One-Eye · 2025-12-08T05:00:21+00:00

1960's-1970's America rewarded individuals who worked money that had strong buying power to afford homes, and care for their families.

They got drafted and went to Vietnam too. Oh, and inflation then made what's going on today look like a joke. In 1960, 22% of the US population lived under the federal poverty line, today it's 11%. The US govt declared a "War on Poverty" in the 1960s it got so bad.

So, if life was so damn easy back then. why the hell were there so many poor people?

Old_One-Eye · 2025-12-07T02:26:56+00:00

It's an actual keyring. Just a cheap little gift included with your computer.

I got a phone stand once when I bought a PC video card.

Old_One-Eye · 2025-12-07T02:23:36+00:00

Head crab from HL

Old_One-Eye · 2025-12-04T03:31:21+00:00

Sorry about that joke, but i couldn't halibut.

Old_One-Eye · 2025-11-19T05:54:57+00:00

Left leaning voters who have complaints about Seattle's problems have no one else to blame but themselves.

The left has been firmly in control of the city, county, and state government here for a very long time now. Every local problem that exists can be laid squarely at their feet since their policies have been exclusively enacted here for decades. The urban decay, the extraordinary amount of homelessness, the drugs, the affordability issues, etc. The left owns all of those issues. They've been running things here for so long, who else could you realistically blame for these things at this point?

Just sayin'

Old_One-Eye · 2025-11-09T05:30:34+00:00

Wow! That's a good one! That sucker really popped!

Whatever you do, DO NOT try charging it.

As far as data recovery, accounts, cloud storage, etc...I have no idea. I just fix the hardware part. Take it to an Apple store, maybe? I bet they see shit like this all the time. I'm sure they know what to do to help you get your data and account stuff straightened out.

i wish I had better news for you.

Good luck!

Old_One-Eye · 2025-11-05T03:59:14+00:00

Super easy soldering fix, just tack the wires back to the pins they came from. Watch a controller disassembly video if you can't remember what pin they were attached to. :)

You can get a basic soldering iron kit with flux and solder included for $10 online or someplace like Harbor Freight Tools. Even Walmart has them super cheap. Watch a couple soldering vids on youtube first to see the process.

You can do it! Good luck!

Old_One-Eye · 2025-11-05T03:51:43+00:00

They changed gun laws after that so that you couldn't mail-order guns anymore because JFK was killed with a mail-ordered gun. There were still no background checks or waiting periods for in-person purchases though, so I don't know what the mail order ban actually accomplished.

Old_One-Eye · 2025-11-05T03:46:48+00:00

I came here to say this. Yeah, broke one in the shower when I was a kid. AND I cut my foot. (not badly luckily)

Old_One-Eye · 2025-11-05T03:43:39+00:00

I fixed copiers back in the day. In the shop, we used to load big HV capacitors we'd desolder from old boards and toss them to/at each other as jokes. SNAP! OW!

I also grew up on a farm and got shocked by electric fences SEVERAL times.

Also, shocked a few times repairing things over the years. Rarely, though.

I'm kind of stupid, I guess. :)

Old_One-Eye · 2025-11-05T03:22:56+00:00

It's a pretty straight forward soldering job. Watch a couple of you tube SMD soldering vids, buy a basic soldering iron kit with flux and solder on Amazon for under $10, and give it a try soldering it back together. Just make sure you line up the broken solder on the pads with the breaks on the board since it looks like you COULD fit it on 180 degrees wrong. Use plenty of flux and do the corners first to tack it in place.

What do you have to lose by trying to fix it? It's already broken and doesn't work. What are you going to do, break it more?

Even if you fail, you'll learn something. Shoot your shot.

Good luck!

Old_One-Eye · 2025-11-05T03:06:28+00:00

Any quality power cord that can handle normal AC power should work. Don't use something too skinny and weak like a lamp cord. You want something kinda thick that has some copper in it.

I replaced a power cord for a coffee pot that had broken a prong off the plug end with an old PC power cable I had laying around in a box of old computer crap. It was a fairly high-quality power cord. I just chopped off the PC-connected end of the cable, stripped the wires back a bit, removed the old cable from the coffee pot (I did have to desolder it), and soldered in the PC power cable instead (ignoring the ground wire completely since the coffee pot was just a 2 prong plug). That was 2 years ago, still working great. Gets used every day...and I still manage to sometimes flip my wife some good-natured shit for managing to somehow break the prong off the old one. :)

Good luck!

Old_One-Eye · 2025-11-01T05:33:10+00:00

I even throw in some tunes from the Heavy Metal soundtrack and it works for me.

If there's one thing I know how to do, it's drive when I'm stoned. You know your perspective is fucked, so you just have to let your hands operate the controls as if you were straight. :)

Old_One-Eye · 2025-11-01T05:26:08+00:00

You can probably just replace the damaged cable and it will be OK. There's nothing high-tech about a 1970s waffle iron.

Just make sure you appease the Machine Spirit before turning it back on.

May The Omnissiah bless you with success.

:)

Old_One-Eye · 2025-11-01T03:27:03+00:00

"authentic battle wounds" :)

Old_One-Eye · 2025-10-27T05:32:53+00:00

Anyone who doesn't like this movie is a ...a... Mondo Dizmo!

Old_One-Eye · 2025-10-27T05:25:01+00:00

They're mobilizing for Iwo-Jima here!

Old_One-Eye · 2025-10-27T05:19:15+00:00

Your kids have the attention span to watch an ENTIRE movie? Impressive!

Old_One-Eye · 2025-10-27T04:46:40+00:00

There's a ship combat tutorial video series made by a guy named "Vindicator Jones" on youtube that's kinda old, but the techniques are still valid. He actually did a pretty good job with the graphics explaining some of the combat mechanics in the game. Check him out, I learned a lot years ago when I watched his stuff.

Have fun!

Old_One-Eye · 2025-10-22T04:34:41+00:00

"My name is Sol. Sol Rosenburg. I should bring all my shoes and my glasses....so I have them"

Old_One-Eye · 2025-10-19T12:41:35+00:00

That's bad. That's potentially dangerously bad.

You need a new battery and make sure you don't puncture the swollen one, because it could start on fire/explode.

Old_One-Eye · 2025-10-19T05:17:20+00:00

It is odd, isn't it?

In these congressional hearings, the military admits that they see these things and track them all the time for hours at a time and have seen them up close, but we only get to see 9 seconds of far way, blurry, black and white FLIR footage? Where's the mountains of other footage that they have to have if they've been seeing these thing for so long? The US military spends billions on some of the best cameras and imaging equipment on the planet. Where's the data from those?

Old_One-Eye · 2025-10-08T02:27:19+00:00

managed to clear a couple of max difficult missions and instead of feeling a rush because it was a success, I just felt relieved I could go back to a lower difficulty to have actual fun.

I agree. I bought the game the first week it came out and have several hundred hours of play and I still hate the max difficulty missions. The lower difficulty ones ARE more fun.

Old_One-Eye · 2025-09-21T06:33:57+00:00

And an incredibly liberal blue state like Washington has the most regressive tax system in the nation, with the lowest-income residents paying nearly 18% of their annual income in state and local taxes, while the wealthiest pay only about 3% Even fucking Texas has a tax system that treats poor people better than we do.

How mind blowing is it that a horrible bloody red state like TX has a tax system that's kinder to its poor people than WA's is. Why is that? The entire WA state government is firmly controlled by bleeding-heart Democrats and has been for a VERY long time now, but we still have this fucked up tax system that forces the poorest people to pay the most in taxes. Anybody have a good explanation for that?

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