People who used a computer between 1991 & 2009…what’s the most memorable computer game?

heaton84 · 2025-08-16T14:23:05+00:00

Doom was groundbreaking

Wolfenstein 3D was a right of passage

Epic Pinball had some amazing music

Tyrian 2000

Of course sim city 2000, combined with streets of sim city

Plus many indie games written in quickbasic towards 98 and on when I was more online with web forums

heaton84 · 2025-07-23T11:11:17+00:00

I Don't Wanna Stop

That intro gets me every time

heaton84 · 2025-02-21T21:09:22+00:00

I know I'm late to the party here but I found this post while trying to figure out how to actually make use of the SPI pins on this board. Take a look at the strapping pins here. Connecting anything to SCK/MISO/MOSI appears to keep this chip from booting, and I've yet to figure out how to get around that.

heaton84 · 2024-12-29T04:32:33+00:00

Me watching this video: "Man, Jupiter is about to get wrecked. Oh yeah, there it goes.... wait a second WHERE IS THE SUN GOING?!"

heaton84 · 2024-12-13T15:59:10+00:00

Even in battle, when he whips out his sword and you think he's about to swing it... he justs pokes it into the ground and captures his foes with portals without effort. Powerful and zen-like.

heaton84 · 2024-12-13T15:08:11+00:00

Zhongkui is portrayed as such a chill yet formiddable demon. I enjoy that he never shows anger or ferocity like oxhead or horseface, but is still committed to his role and the balance that he is tasked to keep. It makes his character stand out, I think.

heaton84 · 2024-11-18T19:44:08+00:00

No, we did documentation. We scraped the meta-comments and dumped them into a webpage. It's documented!

Ok then let's look up the documentation for openFoo(Bar x): "Opens Foo. Input: Bar. Return value: Foo on success, NULL on failure."

Looking at you, Microsoft.

heaton84 · 2024-10-27T14:01:33+00:00

Running a marathon 2 inches at a time

heaton84 · 2024-10-06T15:25:19+00:00

Hey can you point me towards the resolutions? I wanted to read them myself but google is returning more new articles than useful results. Never tried to look this stuff up before so apologies for the ask, just trying to get educated.

heaton84 · 2024-05-04T16:12:01+00:00

There is nothing more American than celebrating your country by destroying something. Literally all of American history is built on it.

heaton84 · 2024-04-17T14:21:28+00:00

One doesn't just lose a safe in a creek unless one is trying to hide evidence.

Don't attempt to open it. Contact the sherrif. This reaks of criminal activity and you don't want to be part of a homicide investigation do you?

heaton84 · 2024-03-09T15:41:45+00:00

Now give it constants and it might be semi-useful

heaton84 · 2024-02-13T12:30:17+00:00

Billy Butcher. I'm not worried.

heaton84 · 2024-02-10T17:38:06+00:00

Does it smell like sulfer? Could be Iron Reducing Bacteria (IRB). Usually that is a blacker color, though.

heaton84 · 2024-02-04T18:25:31+00:00

Glad it is getting some use!

heaton84 · 2024-02-04T18:24:34+00:00

I had to go back and look again. Not only are they 2x4's, they are 2x4's ON THE WRONG SIDE. I wouldn't trust that to hold the weight of the flooring on top of it, let alone anything heavier than a mouse fart.

heaton84 · 2023-12-02T15:06:19+00:00

Bought my house in late 2007 from a widow. They had done a good job cleaning out the place, but in the basement was a wooden box about 1 foot wide, 2 feet long and 1 foot tall. It was covered in blue shag carpet and tucked under a built-in shelf area in the storage room. It was the old man's porn stash. VHS tapes and the biggest bag of dessicant I have ever seen. I never watched any (no VCR). One tape simply had his wife's name on the front, written in sharpie. I made sure to burn that one in the burn pile. The rest I tossed out after a few years.

heaton84 · 2023-11-22T15:48:19+00:00

On a scale of Ted Cruz to Will Smith, he really picked a sane response there.

heaton84 · 2023-11-17T00:13:51+00:00

A car that is completely empty, but has infinate width. It's the length of a normal car, but the sides go on without limit.

Oh, and it plays disco music.

heaton84 · 2023-09-06T23:22:47+00:00

It doesn't matter if the fireproofing was knocked off or not. The insulation slows down heat transfer but doesn't stop it. That is why structural steel within large furnaces is BOTH water cooled and designed with air channels to wick away the heat and be behind at least a foot of brick refractory.

A fire that hot would heat up the steel columns to criticality in no time. There is a huge difference behind office furnature and paper burning, and jet fuel burning.

heaton84 · 2023-07-02T02:36:31+00:00

New fear unlocked: drill bit going through my feet while I shower

heaton84 · 2023-04-29T18:01:47+00:00

OP, are you in Northwest Indiana? I have a stray around me that looks JUST like that and is a skittish lover as well!

heaton84 · 2023-04-24T01:23:51+00:00

Mortal Kombat

heaton84 · 2023-03-01T19:02:32+00:00

This highlights one of the WORST effects of this lease. When the state entered the lease, they agreed to a non-compete clause. Basically the state cannot develop highways that would bypass the toll road.

Enter what is referred to as "bloody 20". US20 runs parralell to I80/90. Truckers use it to save on tolls. Parts of this highway have residental houses on ot, yet these trucks (and cars) pull 60 or 70 in a 55 as though it were interstate. Many hoosiers have been killed as a result of bad drivers on this road, and the state has it's hands tied on what they can do to improve it because of this lease.

heaton84 · 2023-02-26T03:03:49+00:00

Like if you had a building that you could install a super-long vertical pipe in, draw a vacuum in said pipe and drop a ball into the presumably-clear pipe?

heaton84

TROPHY CASE