The AI-generated cat pictures thread
09-22-2011, 01:25 PM
#4346
Descent used to push the limits of my parents' Acer.
Oh my god! The playset!!! What happened to those? I had the two above. Every one I had was the scene of countless battles.
Some of the other playsets I had:
and my three favs:
two or three of these were before my time so I got them from secondhand from the kids up the street
Oh my god! The playset!!! What happened to those? I had the two above. Every one I had was the scene of countless battles.
Some of the other playsets I had:
and my three favs:
two or three of these were before my time so I got them from secondhand from the kids up the street
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09-22-2011, 01:31 PM
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Apple was probably the first one to market with a completely box-free, wire-free general purpose desktop computer:
But they're not the only ones. Sony's entry into the market supports 3d and also functions as a regular television:
Even the "budget" manufacturers are in the game today:
No boxes, no wires. I mean, that's what you're talking about, right? They've got 'em at Best Buy.
have a cell phone powerful enough to simply work as the muscle for a home setup, monitor, speakers, keyboard and mouse, all wirelessly, all with instant connection with proximity of the cell device.
This is child's play, literally. When was the last time you saw a videogame controller with a wire on it? My six year old niece has never lived in a world where you have to be physically tethered to a box with wires. (And she kicks everyone's *** at Wii Tennis.)
Of course, there are some practical minimum standards for how far down you can take things like the screen size and the user interface before it becomes unusable. It's quite likely that "computers" 10 years from now will have become segregated into even more distinct classes than they are now. Actually, it's started happening already. For casual use (social media, email, web browsing, and even gaming to some extent) I would posit that things like smartphones and tablets have already become the dominant expression for anyone under 20 years of age. They'll obviously continue to want a physical keyboard and a large display for things like writing term papers, but that's likely the extent of it.
On the other hand, you've got professionals who probably will never embrace this technology. If you're an office worker who creates spreadsheets all day, or an engineer who designs mechanical parts with AutoCAD / Solidworks, or a video editor who works with film and television, you're probably not going to want to deviate from the box-on-a-desk form factor. You don't really need portability, and there's really no substitute for mechanical buttons and a large display in terms of user ergonomics for prolonged operation. In 2040, the accounting department is still going to have something that looks a hell of a lot like a 1970's vintage PC sitting on its desks.
I can just remember feeling on top of the world in 95 playing Flight Simulator, the thought that I would be able to play games 10 times as big and graphically intensive on a portable device that fits in my pocket, only 15 years down the road would have blown my mind. Just as technology 15 years from now will probably blow my mind.
But under the lid, there's nothing going on there which the hacker crowd at MIT wasn't doing back in the early 60's on their PDP. It's just faster, cheaper, smaller, and with more of it.
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09-22-2011, 01:33 PM
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I played adventure games on my 386. Gold Rush, Black Cauldren, Police Quest, Heros Quest, Quest for Glory, Space Quest. First computer games I owned.
Strategy wasnt ever my thing, strategy games were so boring to me, but I often played Civilzation which was sorta like Empire. I played a lot of war flying games like A-10 Tank Killer. Then wolfenstien and doom came out, kinda ruined games.
Strategy wasnt ever my thing, strategy games were so boring to me, but I often played Civilzation which was sorta like Empire. I played a lot of war flying games like A-10 Tank Killer. Then wolfenstien and doom came out, kinda ruined games.
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09-22-2011, 01:54 PM
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In all honesty, Im tired of those commercials. Especially the one where they show the all-in-one to the white woman and shes all like "wheres the tower" and ****. Welcome to 1998. Enjoy your iMac clone.
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09-22-2011, 01:55 PM
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i used to have some line of toys where they were like part machine part plant maybe? i rember having the "bad guy" one that had like a big circular saw wheel in the front.
that **** was badass.
that **** was badass.
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09-22-2011, 02:07 PM
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lol no, Macross. Two different concepts. Well, unless you count what Transformers was taken from, in which case they did have drivers. But once you start digging it all gets so mixed up and messy. Oh, Microman.
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09-22-2011, 02:16 PM
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Oh man. The original Mega Man games are such classics! Modern works of art. I miss my NES. I kick myself for selling it.
Last edited by UrbanFuturistic; 09-22-2011 at 02:19 PM. Reason: Edited to add Megaman goodness.
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