EchoCranium

Commodore basic on the PET computer, back around 1981-1983. My grade school had three of them in the library, and since my mom was a teacher, she would sign one out for summer break and bring it home if any were available.

I’d probably sit and play Unreal, or maybe Riven if I was feeling more chill. Could easily burn through 12 hours like that. Just need to be able to take a case of Jolt, a few bags of chips, and some Skittles along and I’d be set.

Yes her hair was green as seaweed, Her skin was blue and pale, Her legs they are a work of art, I loved that girl with all my heart, And I don’t give a damn about the upper part, Cause that’s how I get my tail! (The Mermaid by Great Big Sea)

If so, I wanna see what happens if you plug in a usb mouse jiggler.

Is that what a horseshoe is supposed to look like?

Bro Hymn by Pennywise is playing right now. Listening to the punk channel on XM.

The NRA has a bloody hand in promoting this culture. Decades of escalating fearmongering brought them members, money, and political influence. It also took them far off course from their original goals promoting safety and responsibility. They now exist solely to promote more firearms sales at any cost, and actively push legislation against any attempts to regulate ownership. I enjoy going to the range once in a while to do some target shooting, and used to hunt years ago, but will never be a NRA member. I have no respect for this organization and what they’ve become.

Looks just like our dog. We were told he’s a lab and chihuahua mix by the original owner.

Didn’t realize that. But yeah, looks great, going to try it out.

Probably Satisfactory. Made by the same folks doing Valheim, which I’ve really loved playing. Also thinking about getting High on Life. Supposed to be a good game but the full-price tag has made me hold off until now.

I’ll have to look at Ublock. I used AdGuard for a while but can’t get it to function with a VPN (except for the one they offer, which was terrible).

My spoon is too big!

I’d played Doom with people on networked computers in college, but that wasn’t really “internet”. But right at the end of the 90’s when we started getting online game servers was great. Being able to play Unreal or Battlefield 1942 with random people from anywhere was amazing, and very addicting. Servers would have like 8 or maybe 16 player slots. More than that and lag would make the games unplayable. You’d keep refreshing the server lists looking for an open slot with a low ping, and join in. Actual early internet wasn’t terribly exciting. Pretty much just text only, maybe some tiny graphics, since download speeds were unbearably slow.

The Motorola model looks to be the standard, but it’s not flawless. I was thinking about doing the same thing, just got a Pixel 7 myself. My Pixel 5 started having problems with the USB port from being plugged into my vehicle a couple times a day, so want a wireless option.

Yeah, Mosaic! I was trying to remember the name of the software recently. I knew it was something pre-Netscape from the early to mid 90’s. My college computer lab had it set up on a few sysems. It linked to just a couple things on campus, as well as documents at a couple other universities. Text colored blue were links to other pages. Not a whole lot to see on it back then. I vaguely remember Pine for email. Actually, a friend at another university taught me how to send emails directly through the Unix mail daemon. You could spoof the “From” line to make it look like email was coming from anywhere. I really could have abused that knowledge far more than I did. Pretty much just sent bullshit emails to a few friends for laughs.