MajorHavoc @ MajorHavoc @lemmy.world

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I do need to see Picard snap Q's neck in cold blood.

Also it could be fun seeing Riker spend a whole film trying to kill Picard for no adequately explored reason.

Troi would be the saving grace of the film and end up with a separate stand-alone series of films that completely ignore all existing Trek canon.

The rest of the cast would also get solo movies, but ones forgotten either months after, or at worst, months before, their release dates.

It's perfect!

I've wanted to see someone make this since the first time I heard "engage the tractor beam".

Of course, I was probably like 5. Then again, my humor hasn't progressed that much since then anyway.

In addition to other great information here about THACO, it's worth highlighting that it was upside-down.

Lower rolls were better.

This led to magic items giving both pluses and (good) minuses in order to remain consistent in world. Also some curses and ailments gave (bad) pluses to certain rolls.

It was wildly unintuitive.

You're right on all points.

I hope we at least get lots of lazy news reporting that refers to the lead actor as playing the part of "Zelda" - ideally live streamed and in-person, in front of the actress who plays "Zelda".

Yeah. Cherry pick was the killer feature for CLI back when I was forming habits. Seems like it's built into most tools now, which is really nice.

"Well sorrrrryyyy, Princess."

I do have a huge ego, but I'll claim it's a total coincidence that I use CLI git.

My main reason to use mostly CLI is the better error messages I get when something goes wrong.

My secondary reason is that my preferred GUI tools for git didn't used to have support for operations I do often such as 'cherry-pick' and 'rebase'. I think that is mostly solved now, but my habits change slow and I'm used to the CLI.

That would be awesome.

I will sign up on day one to the "every ducking sports team" block list.

I love sportball as much as the next person (I don't), but how can Paris, Illinois possibly have this many different sportball teams?

Some amusing context (as a big Mercurial fan, myself):

According to the 2022 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, Mercurial is the 4th most popular response, beaten only by Git, Subversion, and "I don't use version control".

Git was roughly 94x as popular as Mercurial.

"I don't use version control." was a bit more than 4x as popular as Mercurial.

Stamets, his memes unfurled.

Lol. That's why we comment with "why", rather than "what". The answer to "what the duck where we even thinking?" usually doesn't need updated until the commented code goes away.

I had the same problem, then one day a scary privacy news article hit one of their radar, and they all switched overnight.

Great story. I love: "That's how they communicate. They flap their meat at eachother."

I'm a fan of the MyArcade series, but would look for a Atari Flashback Classics with an SD card port rather than this new item.

Certain versions of the Flashback Classic will play additional games added via SD Card, if you happen to have them. Yo ho ho.

I love the old Atari games, but 200 Atari 2600 games isn't a lot of games, in the context of how quick these games are to master and finish.

Many arcade games from the same era are worthy of hundreds or thousands of hours of play. But the Atari 2600 was working with an incredibly limited set of hardware, and even it's arcade ports are usually very limited.

That said, $80 will also buy a Raspberry Pi, which will play everything from the Atari 2600 up through the PlayStation One. If you don't already have a RetroPie, and aren't afraid of doing some research, I would start there. Total cost is closer to $130 after buying some controllers and heatsinks and a CPU fan.

Also, for $50, the HyperMegaTech portable is coming out soon which plays Evercade cartridges (500 available games, on various $20 multi-gane carts). Or the Evercade VS for $150 if you're looking for multiplayer.

Everything you can play on Evercade you can pirate onto a RetroPi, but paying for Evercade cartridges saves a lot of work setting up and configuring and tuning each game on the RetroPi.

All that said, this looks like a lot of fun for $80!

TL;DR: This thing looks really cool to add to an existing collection, but it's not where I would start, or even likely to be my favorite way to play Atari games.

Yep. It still holds. I've worked with all of these people, and most of them within the last year.

The language names, and trendy names for the tech are really the only bit that would need updated for today.

Yeah. Losing a beauty/style contest to David Bowie shouldn't really count.

Now that's a plan!

I can't quite make the math work, but now I want a Captain Worf series that somehow features Colm Meaney in more episodes than Michael Dorn...

Oh, nice. I'll check it out.

Good question.

I choose PowerShell over Python when I need to call out to an existing command line utility, because I find the Python subprocess module is a huge pain in the ass.

PowerShell has about 80% of the power and readability of Python, while actually being a native shell.