Nuclear armageddon almost never seems to happen at night in movies and TV shows. It’s always during the daylight.
The only exception I can think of is Threads, where the missiles start flying when it’s like 3 in the morning in Washington DC, and even that happens off screen.
And the few that do won’t go very far beyond that and say the problem is “crony capitalism,” “not true capitalism” or go straight to JQ-ing.
Most of them are usually some bootable Linux distro/emulator/frontend suite, such as Batocera or Lakka. Unfortunately I can’t speak for which ones are good or shit. There’s also the possibility of the cheaper ones having some kind of malware payload on them; definitely don’t plug one in to a desktop/notebook that you care about.
If you’re tech savvy and already have the game ROMs, you could actually build a Batocera USB stick yourself and load the ROMs to it. There are lots of tutorials on YouTube etc.
Steven Ogg is sick of GTA and hates Trevor fans.
That’s what I was thinking. Could be that or a tray for an internal ATA drive.
I “love” when a show like Law and Order has a scene where the cops go to arrest somebody who is later proven to be innocent, and it’s always at their workplace, or a busy family function, or a restaurant. The cops proceed to loudly accuse the person of the heinous crime right in front of their friends/family/neighbors/coworkers.
Then later on, the actual perp is arrested and no mention is made again of the innocent person they practically eviscerated in public or in front of their loved ones.
It’s like these shows exist to subliminally train you to passively accept cops treating you like shit, even if you’re innocent.
Maybe something like this but fatal?
I’m guessing it was some kind of astrology thing. People used to blame deaths on planets and stars being in certain areas of the sky.
I need to get back into OSM. Pokemon Go was the reason I initially started contributing. The game uses (used?) OSM map data, and certain Pokemons will spawn near certain biomes (water, woods, etc).
My little cousin played the hell out of PG around 2017-2018, and they mostly played it around the big park in our town. At the time, the park appeared on OSM (and by extension PG) as a featureless green polygon with a few roads and footpaths. In reality it has a bunch of woods, streams, a pond, playground, public pool etc. So I did a quick readup on how to add stuff to OSM and I gave the park a digital makeover. I even walked around the footpaths with my phone and marked them out with the GPS so that they would appear in the map more accurately.
Unfortunately it was quite a while before Pokemon Go updated its OSM database, and my cousin lost interest in the game by then. But I kept at contributing for quite a few years, adding random stuff in spurts and stopping for a month or two
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I have Batocera (Linux-based emulator platform) on a 2011 Mac Mini.
The only caveat is its weak integrated graphics chip that struggles to emulate fifth generation (PSX, N64, etc) and newer consoles, but since I pretty much only play 16 bit and older it’s been a solid machine.
I remember when Apple first switched to using Intel processors, people talked about being able to install Linux and other operating systems easily. I guess Apple didn’t like that.
There are still cars that come with incandescent bulbs. I own a 3 year old base model Civic and it still has regular light bulbs in the headlights and tail lights.
My city has a rail station right in front of the stadium and barely anyone uses it, not even during big games/events.
I played Empires of the Undergrowth but it seems development has stalled a bit.
I still remember the way my science teacher explained a hypothetical warp drive (like how it is in Star Trek). He took a black towel, representing space, and laid it flat on a table. He set down a miniature model of the Enterprise on one end of the towel, then accordion-folded the towel up so that the other end was close to the ship. He moved the Enterprise over to that end of the towel, and unfolded it so that it was flat again. The Enterprise was now on the other end of the table.
An overly simplified visualization, but it really illustrated the idea to my ten year old brain how space-time could hypothetically be bent to make fast interstellar travel a possibility. Also it made me realize that warp speed on the Enterprise wasn’t just a super powerful rocket or something.
This is in a lot of shows and not just sitcoms, but I hate contrived argumentative dialogue that’s set up so that the protagonist always gets the last word with “witty” responses/comebacks. It’s like watching a “I’m the attractive Chad and you are the ugly NPC” meme in real time.
You mean plutonium doesn’t look like a vial of cherry flavored cough syrup suspended in a larger vial of water?