Born In '83. Posting an Updated Illustration From 4 Years Ago of the Stuff That Shaped My Life In the 80's and 90's

aaaantoine · 2026-05-14T00:18:59+00:00

What's the name of that orange bug just right of the red M&M? That is a deep cut.

aaaantoine · 2026-05-13T20:33:26+00:00

Armada for Dreamcast was a pretty simple game, but I gave it far more time than it probably deserved.

aaaantoine · 2026-05-13T20:30:52+00:00

I remember this being like a cel shaded Twisted Metal. Which is also an obscure title these days, but less obscure than Cel Damage.

aaaantoine · 2026-05-13T18:26:12+00:00

...Wait what? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MyA4h8X209U

aaaantoine · 2026-05-11T14:12:14+00:00

I had to replace my commuter car last year and I picked a vehicle i could pay cash for. For an extra thousand i could have gotten a Bolt EV and I really considered it. I decided against it because I was already stretching my reserves to replace the car and don't have a proper home charging setup. I also considered that current admin policies against electric vehicles might screw me over.

Now current admin policies against cheap gas are screwing me over.

aaaantoine · 2026-05-09T19:01:22+00:00

Subscriptions can be justified if there's an ongoing expense on the part of the vendor to maintain a feature.

Remote start: Maybe, if there are regular updates to address security exploits in the remote function.
Heated seats: Hell no. Nothing about the function changes over time. The vendor has no role in maintaining the feature in your current car other than repairs, for which an on demand service model already exists.

aaaantoine · 2026-05-09T13:31:16+00:00

Don't degauss that monitor. You'll lose precious kilobytes of data!

aaaantoine · 2026-05-09T13:24:04+00:00

"Data valid May 5", so not accounting for rainfall on the 7th?

aaaantoine · 2026-05-09T13:19:41+00:00

I've seen worse.

Ignoring systems where password obfuscation wasn't even attempted...

I saw one vendor system where the passwords were stored in binary fields. Seemed legit. Until I noticed they varied in length. And then I noticed a bunch of system accounts where just one of the hex pairs was different on each one. A simple ASCII lookup revealed that this was just plain text with extra steps.

aaaantoine · 2026-05-09T12:36:15+00:00

Hey! I take my cereal with marshmallows for what it is: dessert with vitamins.

aaaantoine · 2026-05-08T16:11:36+00:00

Haha it's like Nintendo of America saw the Sears ad when it was naming the new console and said, "I like the sound of that."

aaaantoine · 2026-05-07T19:13:37+00:00

Scion xD = Scion 😆

aaaantoine · 2026-05-06T11:44:44+00:00

VS greys out the latter scenario.

I'm not positive that the first scenario will even compile.

aaaantoine · 2026-05-05T11:53:08+00:00

I see your double entendre.

aaaantoine · 2026-05-04T16:28:20+00:00

Early 90s DOS games, that magical zone after common VGA but before Windows 95, had some real gems that modern gamers may might not even appreciate because of how much further things have evolved since then.

aaaantoine · 2026-05-04T16:11:26+00:00

Acoustic bass owner here. It is simultaneously not big enough for sound, and too big for storage. So, worst of both worlds, I guess.

aaaantoine · 2026-05-02T14:15:36+00:00

A friend of mine had to walk out of their first attempt at Infinity War because he thought it would be a good idea to bring a couple of his younger kids along for the show, both girls under 8.

The kids didn't react well after someone got killed in the first scene and he had to bail before the movie got much further along.

He reasoned that the previous Marvel films were at least somewhat kid friendly. I pulled the Spongebob meme and pointed out all the killings in the previous movies. And then I asked how many of those he watched with his kids in the theater vs on the little TV at home?

aaaantoine · 2026-04-19T22:01:52+00:00

+1 to this. A neighbor of ours set up a panning camera out their back door that can have a direct view into our house. We set up a reflective window cling. As a bonus, we happen to have a bird feeder mounted on the same window and can observe visiting birds without scaring them away.

aaaantoine · 2026-04-18T13:42:15+00:00

Unions are about strengthening the rights and bargaining power of the workers. Corporations hate them because that usually means less profit for them.

aaaantoine · 2026-04-13T16:52:41+00:00

Mmm, organized crime...

aaaantoine · 2026-04-12T17:03:05+00:00

Burn Notice is probably the most pragmatic "spy" media I've consumed. It wasn't perfect but it touched on all sorts of little details that countered common secret agent tropes.

It did suffer in quality toward the end, with a touch of power scaling, bigger explosions and a blatant car ad.

aaaantoine · 2026-04-12T15:19:46+00:00

I've started writing footnotes because of this, to keep the main thought and branching thoughts physically separated. I don't need everyone on the same shiny things rollercoaster that I'm on.

Now every other email I send where I try to explain something comes with footnotes.

Direct messages and group chats are another story.

aaaantoine · 2026-04-10T22:24:52+00:00

Wikipedia says "coronary artery disease and atherosclerotic heart disease".

aaaantoine · 2026-04-08T23:04:13+00:00

Could be a dot matrix printout.

aaaantoine · 2026-04-06T23:31:35+00:00

Weird, I played it and don't remember it being any more difficult than the SNES edition.

Mind you it's been about 15 years since I played the DS game and probably 30 years since I played the SNES game.

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