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“Stick with the prod.”

…ye gads, i adore aerial but most of her ouvre pre-ninth wave does nothing for me…

…i was going to say flashback or mean streets, but no, it was definitely the original tron arcade game; that pre-dated even war games…

…before a certain point in the early eighties, the line between cyberpunk and science fiction gets pretty blurry, so i don’t think anything i played in the seventies counts…

…i think we explored this place in our call of cthulhu campaign; poor henry was reduced to black ooze…

…y’all roughly correlates with coke, although there are some deep pockets of soda-water in the back country…

…but you do need to be rich-enough to afford time not spent preparing for work, working, nor recovering from work…

shyeeah. right.

…lap dog’s going to do whatever his handler commands…

…you should mock anyone who links to xitter; it only succeeds on the basis of their patronage…

…i get his correspondence via email…

…not super-obscure in its day but very much a product of the mid-eighties, i doubt many folks are familiar with it fourty years later: michael crichton, tom selleck, gene simmons, peak kirstie alley…

(set in the near future-shock of 1991!)

…i should clarify: upgrades from windows 7/8 were free…

…windows 10 was free to a lot of people; it’s a pretty solid OS and i’d be happy to pay a fair price for ongoing support…

…times have changed: i used to be kicked out of stores for bringing my own bag…

…my game gear did fine with the external rechargeable battery pack, which was admittedly cumbersome but wasn’t to extend battery life so much as it was to save the expense of buying batteries, but even using AAs i never had a problem with them not lasting through a full play session…

…well, depending upon how you take retcons, there’s the t’au: i think they work best as a force for good doomed to fail in an uncaring universe, personifying tragic loss of innocence…

…that’s the POWER model: the unit posted above is the consumer version with the SX chip, no math coprocessor and fewer function keys…

…every once in awhile i listen to top fourty countdowns from the mid-eighties, not necessarily because i enjoy the music, but because i’m mesmerised by the time-warp effect of revisiting period radio programs…

…i disliked a lot of the music then but i appreciated the shared cultural experience of legitimately popular broadcast media, and retrospectively it’s a window into a world which no longer exists…

…IGN goes from 6.5 to 9.5…

…i mean, people pay restaurant money for ramen these days, too: every peasant food gets its day in due time…