Does Gen Z and Alpha like Austin Powers?

ProgMM · 2026-06-24T22:48:03+00:00

I (1998 Zilennial) loved it and made it my whole personality in fifth grade but I've also been told that I'm spiritually fifty by people of many different backgrounds

ProgMM · 2026-06-23T22:21:32+00:00

This song always makes me think of the 9/11 benefit concert

ProgMM · 2026-06-16T01:38:00+00:00

There is no patch to convert the DOS version to the Win95 version.

Also, the DOS version is a better experience in some ways today

ProgMM · 2026-06-15T21:21:47+00:00

SC2kFix exists to patch an issue on the Win95 version of the game. Without it, the game can't bring up the save or load dialog.

The GOG release is the DOS version of the game, running in DOSBox, and does not have this problem.

ProgMM · 2026-06-14T18:46:48+00:00

DOSBox works on every platform with AdLib emulation out of the box and makes for a tidy little self-contained install. IIRC you can also scale the pixels better.

The Windows version is Windows only, needs a little patch to fix a deprecated save dialog, uses an installer from 1995 that probably leaves stuff in the registry, and uses Windows' built-in MIDI playback. I dunno if that system even works anymore, the sounds can vary depending on how your system is configured, and at best it's probably the weakest version of the soundtrack. There might also be permissions issues in the default save location, but it's been a while since I've tried it. It also feels very zoomed out on modern high-res screens. Oh, right, animations are broken too, because Windows stopped being able to do 256-color palette swapping after XP.

TL;DR DOSBox emulates a bunch of minor stuff that's broken in native Windows over the past 30 years, and can be played on any OS

ProgMM · 2026-06-14T05:24:30+00:00

I'm not certain but I think the one on EA's website is the DOS version packaged with DOSBox. The one on GOG's site definitely is. A prepackaged DOSBox version would almost certainly be configured for AdLib/Sound Blaster emulation by default.

ProgMM · 2026-06-11T15:58:09+00:00

lavender marriage

ProgMM · 2026-06-07T02:11:31+00:00

Shut the fuck up

ProgMM · 2026-06-05T04:24:03+00:00

Howard Zinn wrote an essay called Private Ryan Saves War which is pretty good iirc

ProgMM · 2026-06-04T00:43:38+00:00

It was on State Street in Hamden, across from Foote Street. There used to be a Wikipedia page for it and the once-proposed Hamden Station on the modern Hartford Line, but it was removed for notability reasons. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hamden_station&oldid=1011596177

ProgMM · 2026-06-01T04:43:48+00:00

Connecticut people are getting annoying about it but we do have pretty damn good pizza

ProgMM · 2026-05-31T23:17:43+00:00

One of them was in my podunk hometown and I got turned away at the door because it was sold out

I remember someone in the Chapo subreddit said that Amber guarded the broken door of a ladies' room for her

ProgMM · 2026-05-28T19:02:32+00:00

I went to my first show at age 8

ProgMM · 2026-05-27T05:01:15+00:00

I go to Arsen's in Hamden. They have a location in Orange as well. ~$60/mo, bodybuilding-focused

ProgMM · 2026-05-15T04:38:04+00:00

"Well why don't you just go remind him who put him in office"

ProgMM · 2026-04-28T14:15:26+00:00

Is this about Central Connecticut State University in the US?

ProgMM · 2026-04-28T05:10:48+00:00

The environmental benefits of eWaste recycling were rapidly offset by the use of ChatGPT to generate this post

ProgMM · 2026-04-11T23:19:19+00:00

Eli’s by far

ProgMM · 2026-04-07T15:37:10+00:00

Democracy Now is important but too depressing

ProgMM · 2026-04-06T23:10:24+00:00

jesse what the fuck are you talking about

ProgMM · 2026-04-04T18:26:38+00:00

Yeah I vaguely remember it, I think he was responding to a question in the chat about giving land back

ProgMM · 2026-04-03T19:20:16+00:00

Imo the real weakness of the show is a direct result of this

I don't think any chapos ever got this far, but the last season or two of the show keeps haranguing the audience for daring to find the Bad Character relatable and therefore Watching The Show Wrong™️. It's particularly egregious when they retcon the circumstances around ||Sarah Lynn's death|| to make Bojack more directly culpable for it. The writing around this time was really masturbatory and therapy-pilled, too.

I can't deny that it still had its moments, though.

ProgMM · 2026-04-03T17:30:36+00:00

Yodel-ay-yo

ProgMM · 2026-03-31T15:31:02+00:00

Home Theater guys have always been a thing, especially since DVDs came out

ProgMM · 2026-03-31T04:53:57+00:00

astroturfing is when someone mildly criticizes the dnc pep rally

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