I did not, though admittedly there’s a world where Rian Johnson takes pointers from some of R1’s action sequences and TLJ is even more clearly the best SW movie of the last thirty years.

The Last Jedi, especially if you don’t take into account The Rise of Skywalker’s sloppy reaction to it, is the best Star Wars movie since ROTJ, and maybe since Empire.

This would have been an insane delight to have heard Bowie roll into a set you were at, but as a recording I’m not hearing him do enough different with the vocals or arrangement to keep me away from Zevon’s original.

Yes, but the 400 had it on a spillproof membrane like you’d see on a fast-food cash register. The later models improved the layout but most had much worse switches than the 800.

That would probably be a Saladin or or Hermes class. Created for a reference book, but canonized when the book’s drawings were digitized (or maybe more likely traced) to go on an illuminated display in the background of ST2 and 3.

For other single-nacelle ships, TNG had the Freedom class, the JJ movies the Kelvin class, and SNW the Archer class.

That Starfleet HQ I don’t think was ever canonized (anybody know better?), though it has a few very vague conceptual similarities to Spacedock One and implied narrative similarities to Discovery’s combined HQ station.

800. You can tell because the keyboard doesn’t actively make you want to kill and/or die.

My kid just got me to try Beat Saber on her VR headset.

Nobody told me there would be crouching.

Either he had some perfectly color-matched work done later in life, which seems pretty unlikely since they’re all “I’m a 60-year-old large-animal veterinarian with decent teeth, who the fuck needs whitening”, or my guy just had some really bad luck with his baby molars coming out late but all at once.

I love many spectator sports, and pretty mainstream ones at that… but, ummm, have you met many of my fellow sports fans? The reaction described by this meme is, shall we say, understandable.

As a kid, I was burned by the 7800 and the XEGS (though if my parents had just realized what a disk drive would have done, I might have held off asking for a PC for several years), but I was still kind of a sucker for Atari stuff and got a clearance Jaguar for $40 or $50. I had AvP, and one of either Doom or Wolfenstein 3D (I played both on PC, so my memory is fuzzy here). AvP was flawed but the twist it put on the formula was pretty cool, and it was half-decently made.

1. For my fellow olds, Fort Moore used to be Fort Benning, and if American Cold War adventurism is often questionable in motive and frequently despicable in practice, at least Moore didn’t literally, explicitly fight for the preservation of slavery.

2. The bigger issue here is about base security and/or corruption, because…

3. Thirty-one extra 9mm pistols in southwestern Georgia is less than a nothingburger. That’s, like, 2.37 Papaws’ houses worth of firepower.

Christ, what a disaster the Jaguar was.

Atari’s reasoning that the 32-bit Tom and Jerry chips work in tandem to add up to a 64-bit system was ridiculed in a mini-editorial by Electronic Gaming Monthly, which commented that “If Sega did the math for the Sega Saturn the way Atari did the math for their 64-bit Jaguar system, the Sega Saturn would be a 112-bit monster of a machine.”

The system was notoriously difficult to program for, because its multi-processor design is complex, development tools were released in an unfinished state, and the hardware had crippling bugs.

In 2006, IGN editor Craig Harris rated the original Jaguar controller as the worst game controller ever, criticizing the unwarranted recycling of the 1980s “phone keypad” format and the small number of action buttons, which he found particularly unwise given that Atari was actively trying to court fighting game fans to the system.

In fifth grade, our new puppy (RIP Freeway) chewed a giant corner off of one of my school notebooks. He didn’t get any answers that needed to be turned in, but you better believe my dorky ass told everybody, including, now, Lemmy.

https://archive.is/8gvVp

I remember being fond of the first season, but it was definitely “wet star trek,” complete with a Tiger Beat suitable version of Wesley (RIP Jonathan Brandis, who got chewed up and spit out by Hollywood), especially by the end of season 2 when I stopped watching, apparently along with everyone else.

“Bullet votes” completely jibe with the narrative that a small but significant percentage of Trump voters are willfully low-information, so un-invested in the democratic process that they can’t be bothered to take the time even to vote a straight party ticket, and think that voting for a single strong-man will fix all their problems. The non-electoral factors behind all this are deeply troubling, and many of them are criminal, but for the actual voting there’s no need to invent a conspiracy when simple shittiness will do.

I made a “Soarers” converter for my two. One was a terminal board, so it has about a dozen remaps and is semi-permanently wired in, but the other is a little black box that will take any PS/2 keyboard and make it a USB keyboard that changes the right Control key into a Win key.

These are always good videos to roll out when the “it was always just for kids” arguments pop up.

Jax Beach isn’t bad at all, but it’s not world famous for a reason. It’s the “Eric Foreman’s basement” of beaches. :-)

I haven’t been back to town in a while, and anyway I grew up south of Duval County and west of the river, so there was more fresh water and Saint Augustine Beach in my childhood, but I’m fond of Jax Beach too.