It could just be that I first watched it when I was pretty young, but The Changeling from 1980 with George C. Scott is a pretty good atmospheric horror. No real gore or even deaths to speak of, but a good creepy ghost story nonetheless.
100%. If they happen to build a working car, plane, tank, etc. well that’s a bonus.
The current LLVs are made by Grumman and the new ones are made by OshKosh, so defense contractors have been building the postal delivery trucks for the last 40 years.
I like ColecoVision best, but it had an unfair advantage, coming out a full 5 years after the 2600 and 3 years after the Inty. It’s really generation 2.5, competing with the 5200. But man, those arcade ports were so impressive, and the expansion module to play 2600 games made it the best of both worlds.
Gout, probably
Oof. WaPo wants an email address to access an article a subscriber gifted access to. Here is the archived version instead https://archive.is/3jOgi
I loved how in Carnival if you could time it just right you could keep shooting the lowest bear in the bonus level and just keep him going back and forth like 20 times. Also the elusive diamond that would appear in a dropped apple in Mr. Do. I think I only had it happen twice ever in what seemed like thousands of games.
Pepsi Frito Lay is big enough not to care about the profits from one market globally. In Canada a couple years back they had a pricing dispute with the country’s largest grocer which resulted in all of their snack products being unavailable nationwide for that grocery chain. Pepsico increased prices during the heart of the pandemic and the grocer refused to pay the higher price so Pepsico just stopped shipping product to them. It lasted for 2 months, and in the end the dispute resolved with no benefit to the customer whatsoever. Lays, Doritos, etc. remain the highest priced chips in the store by a long shot.
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This actually really happened in Michigan, and the woman was convicted, partly owing to the bird. It’s super creepy to hear the bird say “don’t fucking shoot!”
I do Semantle. It’s sort of like a hot or cold kind of game where there is a word of the day and you guess words and they are scored as to how close they are semantically. You have an unlimited number of guesses and also a seemingly unlimited number of hints. Even with the hints it sometimes takes me 60 guesses, but sometimes it’s 5 or 6. There is a link to the paper where they discuss the relativity model they use. I find it challenging.
You’re right, and also, fuck this timeline.
Even Media Matters admitted that the circumstances under which the antisemitic content appeared next to the named advertisers would be very hard to replicate - they basically followed only the advertisers and the antisemitic accounts to see how long it would take to link the two, but still, it’s not like they hid what they were doing. It’s not quite the gotcha that Media Matters held it out to be, but is still only a factual account - they were able to get hateful content to show up beside an advertisers name, and that’s why I’m sure X gets their ass handed to them in this lawsuit they’ve filed. It wasn’t fraudulent, or in bad faith, it was simply an exposition of what the platform can do.
I’m not sure if this is just another way of saying what others have said, but I also upvote if something accomplished the theme of the community. The example that comes to mind is from the other site, but if something on r/mademesmile actually made me smile, I upvoted. As for downvotes, I usually save them for posts that I want to be less visible for whatever reason. Sometimes that is because I disagree sometimes it is because they are reposts, or low effort trolling, etc. Right or wrong, that’s how I do it.
Happy to spread the joy. Another book that doesn’t have quite the same focus but I still love is Artcade, which deals with cabinet side art and marquee art from the classic arcade era of the 70s and 80s.
That’s awesome! Thanks for the great work that you (and Tim) did on that book. It’s one of my fave gaming books.
Art of Atari is a great book for getting into this. I love the way the marketers and the artists had to spin up these great stories and art to get people interested in the rudimentary graphics and gameplay that were actually on the screen.
Kind of like a KitKat, but the filling between the wafers is a bit thicker and sweet coffee flavoured.
It’s even more comprehensive than that. They don’t even want you to have it, even though it’s data about your use of your vehicle. If you want to use a third party telematics system or just hook up a laptop with software to pull the data, the manufacturers ironically cite data privacy risks as the reason they want to lock down the data so nobody but them can provide access.
I believe that Waffle House is named after Wafflos, the god of perseverance in the face of extreme weather and drunken brawling with.