Oh to go back...
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Even better, being a delivery driver trying to find McRando's house without GPS, map quest, etc. Just a street address and a city street map from the municipal Chamber of Commerce.
Especially fun when half of your deliveries were out of the city limits and you had to ask for/write down directions, and no cell phone to call if you took a wrong turn or they gave you bad directions.
I don't miss those days.
You forgot the part where your boss yells at you for being out too long because the house you were supposed to go to had a mile long driveway and no numbers on the road.
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Even better, being a delivery driver trying to find McRando's house without GPS, map quest, etc. Just a street address and a city street map from the municipal Chamber of Commerce.
Especially fun when half of your deliveries were out of the city limits and you had to ask for/write down directions, and no cell phone to call if you took a wrong turn or they gave you bad directions.
I don't miss those days.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]By 'city street map' do you mean something that folds out into a single sheet of paper or something more detailed?
We used to do pretty alright in Australia with these thick road map books you could pick up from any petrol station or newsagency shop. Imagine you had google maps in book form where each page was a section of a bigger map (basically a whole city) with a grid reference system, adjoining page references on each side and a vast index.
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By 'city street map' do you mean something that folds out into a single sheet of paper or something more detailed?
We used to do pretty alright in Australia with these thick road map books you could pick up from any petrol station or newsagency shop. Imagine you had google maps in book form where each page was a section of a bigger map (basically a whole city) with a grid reference system, adjoining page references on each side and a vast index.
Single sheet of paper, yes.
But for small out of the way towns (population 2k-10k) you'd want one specific to the town otherwise you'd be looking at a tiny speck on a state sized map. And the big maps might not have all of the small city side streets or not be up to date.
For reference, the town I did delivery in currently has a population of ~3,000 people and occupies 2.7 square miles out of the 268,596 square miles of the Texas map. Doesn't make sense to use a map where you're only looking at about 0.0001% of it.
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Can you guess the movie ?
I've asked this before online to no avail: Movie set in late 80s maybe early 90s.
Thriller, tech/hacker focused
Possibly extremely bad, Btier or worse
There's only this line I knew where the bad "entity" gets into a kid's game and the kid says something to the effect of "there's a guy in our game" (I watched it in French in like 2006 possibly)
Any ideas? I don't think it was a French movie, I think it was dubbed from an originally English movie.
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Can you guess the movie ?
I've asked this before online to no avail: Movie set in late 80s maybe early 90s.
Thriller, tech/hacker focused
Possibly extremely bad, Btier or worse
There's only this line I knew where the bad "entity" gets into a kid's game and the kid says something to the effect of "there's a guy in our game" (I watched it in French in like 2006 possibly)
Any ideas? I don't think it was a French movie, I think it was dubbed from an originally English movie.
Lawnmower Man?
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If nothing else, at least the new Iran war will make all us Millennials feel a bit young again. Time to relisten to American Idiot, at the very least.
Or maybe I'll just feel even older, as I can't believe we're still doing this shit.
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Lawnmower Man?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I quickly looked at the trailer then skimmed through 1 & 2 (free on YouTube) and it seems very close although I didn't see the scene in thinking of.
I may be remembering it wrong but it was a kid and their friend playing a game and "the guy" shows up in it.
Very close! As in, this might be it but I skimmed past the scene I'm thinking of.
Also... what a nonsensical movie but hugely creative, makes me miss the 90s.
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I quickly looked at the trailer then skimmed through 1 & 2 (free on YouTube) and it seems very close although I didn't see the scene in thinking of.
I may be remembering it wrong but it was a kid and their friend playing a game and "the guy" shows up in it.
Very close! As in, this might be it but I skimmed past the scene I'm thinking of.
Also... what a nonsensical movie but hugely creative, makes me miss the 90s.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Spy Kids 3D has “the guy” in it, and you find out later on it’s Elijah Wood
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Spy Kids 3D has “the guy” in it, and you find out later on it’s Elijah Wood
I've watched spy kids, not a thriller.
Very silly movies though.
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If nothing else, at least the new Iran war will make all us Millennials feel a bit young again. Time to relisten to American Idiot, at the very least.
Or maybe I'll just feel even older, as I can't believe we're still doing this shit.
I've never stopped listening to "Cali punk" so I'm good to go (I don't care if green day is really from California or not, that's what I call the happy poppy punk that's not crusty enough to be called punk without a qualifier: NOFX, Offspring, Blink 182, Millencollin, etc etc).
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let's not forget the vb gui back trace gold mine of multiple hands on the keyboard to uhh hack faster. (CSI)
Two people one keyboard was NCIS
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I remember that scene lol. I was like, no way! How?!
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Can you guess the movie ?
I've asked this before online to no avail: Movie set in late 80s maybe early 90s.
Thriller, tech/hacker focused
Possibly extremely bad, Btier or worse
There's only this line I knew where the bad "entity" gets into a kid's game and the kid says something to the effect of "there's a guy in our game" (I watched it in French in like 2006 possibly)
Any ideas? I don't think it was a French movie, I think it was dubbed from an originally English movie.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Arcade selon chatGPT...
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HACK THE PLANET!
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"Chicken jockey"
-Jack black
Whole theater starts going crazy over two words
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"Chicken jockey"
-Jack black
Whole theater starts going crazy over two words
A lot of people cheered when the Technoblade pig tribute came up.
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Hacking scenes in old movies are ridiculous to look back on. Always some crazy GUI-heavy pseudo-video game with people clattering away madly on keyboards and tense music playing. So unlike hacking scenes of today, which are obviously much more realistic to appeal to a refined modern audience. We've truly come a long way.
my favourite was the 3D "file system" in Jurassic Park. At the time I was just using DOS and had no clue about Unix and was like "oh that's bullshit" but it wasn't. the thing actually exists and I have it on one of my machines right now that I like to use every now and again and in my head I always think "it's a unix system, I know this."
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God that was awesome. The internet felt like something different. Now it’s just…there I guess. It has almost none of the excitement anymore.
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HACK THE PLANET!
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Draws floppy disks from pants
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Or like on jurassic park. Where the little girl saves the day by playing a video game on the security system
