No, then my question will look stupid!

Oh wow... Squirtle, Ekans, Nidoqueen, Alakazam, Rhyhorn, electrode…

What the hell is going on with Oddish!

Hypno wearing a hi-vis vest, holding a stop sign.

Goddamnit, Hitmonlee is just straight up potato.

Shutting down porn sites? Is that a thing they wanted to achieve? Like free video sites like PH or production companies like Brazzers?

Yeah I was confused too. I clicked to see if people were talking about films, short form videos, or what. I didn’t expect games.

When you see someone write it on the back of their jacket and saying “it’s cool, we’re taking it back” whenever someone calls it out.

This is exactly what I was thinking although in more simple of a “I bet this is because of that retroarch dickbag” way

Just because he looks like a bad ass motherfucker

Doomsday Device?

Definitely not the superbowl community

Sounds like bootlicker talk to me.

We call them slugs where I work.

Sometimes when I get out of bed and I can hear my partner and kids doing stuff, I’ll walk out playing Sirius or Gonna Fly Now loudly on my phone.

Usually my 3 year old daughter will be like “Dad, we’re doing THIS now!”

Limited edition, just like every other product Analogue releases.

They don’t change it. It’s just re-printing to keep popular storylines available.

That copy of Separation Anxiety was probably published in 2016.

There are an almost infinite amount of stories. Especially in the early-mid 90s. The editors liked to make sure there was some level of continuity and those little asterisks ( *read about this in xxxxx) are mainly a way for people to understand there’s more to read.

It’s not necessarily essential, you typically will just assume what has happened elsewhere, and comic subtext was NOT subtle (especially in the 80s and 90s!), sometimes the character will just completely summarise that plot from elsewhere in a thought bubble.

But it can lead you down a rabbit hole of linking a bunch of different books and stories together.

You could try to rebase to the universal blue Aurora version. I believe the ublue images are generally a bit more focused on end user and driver support.

Aurora - kde

Bluefin - gnome

Bazzite - gaming

So, the Dragon is from one of the Wily stages. The fish is from Bubble Man’s stage. The castle on top of the hill is Wily’s base.

But what the hell is that face to the right of Mega Man’s shoulder?

My memories of the original are that it was called Dead Angle.

I’ve read some of Crichton’s other books, not all but a few, and I get it. I wouldn’t rate them so high. But I don’t consider these two to be that kind of book.

Only classics? Geez. OP, forget my recommendations.

Correct answer:

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/g39358054/best-sci-fi-books/

https://thegreatestbooks.org/lists/359

In my head, you’ve walked up to a random shelf stocker, asked about it, they’ve said “oh, you’ll hear from our head office”, and you’ve walked out feeling validated.

I love it. Please tell me this is it.

The best science fiction has to offer:

Metro 2033

Sphere

Jurassic Park

Roadside Picnic

Metamorphosis

Add from Stephen King:

Night Shift

4 Minutes to Midnight

(Both are novellas/story collections)

And also:

The Call of Cthulhu and other weird tales

I have 5 minutes to have a shower if I’m lucky, so this morning it goes like this.

Head under the hot water.

Lather some soap, just the bar of soap in the shower - rub it all over my head.

Grab the Sledgehammer with last weeks permasharp still in, hope that I remembered to dry it last time…

No blood and cuts, feels smooth, and I’m already running late for work.

Get dressed, bop on a couple fingers of Noble Otter Space post shave and go wake the kids up before I leave.

It’s Friday and there were only two people in the office today anyway.

I like the NNRG series. I played a lot of these games on my 64 back in the day, and it’s fun/frustrating to see the perspective of someone who didn’t have those games.

Absolutely. Look at Aeon. I turn it on and do what I need to do.

Later I might see a quick pop up that says system has been updated. It didn’t require intervention. It didn’t even tell me it was happening, it just informed me after the fact.

If anything broke, I would never know because on the next boot if something failed it just uses the previous snapshot to boot. As far as I am concerned the system is working just like it always has.

But even as recently as this week I see people saying: immutable? No don’t make it a bad experience for them! Just recommend Ubuntu for newcomers! >:/

Absolutely. A few months after this I went directly to the person above my boss and explained the situation- mental health, physical health, turned into dependence on weekly psychologist sessions.

Basically told me to get over it.

This was a non profit organisation dedicated to helping homeless, refugees, victims of domestic violence, and elderly people who are unable to afford aged care. The people on the ground doing the work were amazing people. But the people in charge were all cosplaying as big business shitheads.

Shit job from 10 years ago. Getting too drunk at the office Christmas party and talking so much shit about my horrible fucking boss to a couple of influential senior managers who are close to the CFO. Freaked out all weekend about it, severe anxiety attacks. That mixed with the hangover I was just vomiting all weekend.

And then: Run into one of those senior managers early in the office on Monday morning, apologised for being inappropriate. Get a response “oh, we all know how bad she is, can’t believe you haven’t quit yet”.

Joe’s doing great. It’s awesome that he hasn’t let the quality of the show fall away.

Dave. I liked Dave more as well.

Not sure what you mean? I tried and they said they wouldn’t issue a cheque for such a small amount. They weren’t going to send me 30c in the post.

Nobody would risk that fucker coming back for anything.

I was owed 30 cents or something by a TelCo about 20 years ago. So they sent me an invoice stating the debt every month. I asked them if they can just cut me a cheque or something and they said they wouldn’t for such a small amount.

So I received a -30c payable invoice monthly for years until the company went out of business.

I use the Steam controller, (obviously not helpful since they don’t make it anymore) most of the time.

I also have the remake of the old Xbox “duke” from a few years back. The largeness of it in my smaller hands always felt surprisingly comfortable. It’s wired and recognised as generic xbox one controller - BUT only when running steam. If steam isn’t open, then the controller continuously turns off and back on every 20 seconds.

I have a few DS4 controllers sitting here that still work. Eh. Not much use but they work fairly well. I don’t really like the PlayStation control design.

I have never tried a Switch / Switch-compatible controller on yet. My partner has a couple for.. the Switch! But I’m hoping they do well because I just bought my daughter a Sonic-themed, Gamecube-style wired controller for her upcoming birthday (she obsessed with Sonic and saying she wants to play a game one day instead of just watching). It would be good if she can just take it between playing Switch with her mum or PC with me.

Final comments -it’s wired or replaceable batteries for me. So many dead DS3 and DS4 controllers sitting around from years back that won’t charge, or last about 15 minutes. But wires never get in the way anyway, and I always have eneloop AAs ready to go.

Trick or treating isn’t so much of a thing in Australia, even though the idea of Halloween and dressing up has become more popular.

Anyway, no one has ever done it in our neighbourhood, but just in case I buy a bag of chupa chups in October in case anyone knocks on the door.

Excellent games that really needed to ditch the touch screen gimmicks.

RIP Millennium Man

Couldn’t say enough good things about his wrestling run in the 90s.

Made late WCW way better. I was big on his feud with Goldberg, and the sudden swerve where they teamed up was one of my favourite WCW moments.

Similar with ETA Prime. The channel is now just ads for random drop-shipped retro devices.

My Hero is their best song though.

I loved this on ps3. I thought I had it on GOG, but apparently I have it on steam instead. Before this I’d only played Tower Defence games on a flash website that had been clearly drawn using paint, so seeing one professionally made was very nice.

The character is named Nights. Right? I thought that was the point of the title.