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i bought an original cartridge and played it on the vcs i iherited from dad

overactors trying to out-overact each other. Love it!

i still enjoyed the crap out of it. Sometimes zoning out and just running around collecting stuff is just what I need.

localhost is "this device".

connecting to localhost means connecting to something running on the same machine.

Browsers generally block connections to other domains (ex if you're on google.com, the browser won't simply let the site contact amazon.com willy-nilly).

But localhost is your own machine, so it is usually "trusted". Facebook exploited this fact to exfiltrate data from the browser to the other apps running on your own phone, which would, in turn be free to do with it as they please, because they're not the browser

he was forced to release it quickly to coincide with the film's release. For comparison, it used to take a team of devs a couple of months to make a game. He had 6 weeks.

Also, if you read the manual, this essentially never happened to you. It was easy to avoid.

You also needed to read the manual. The game did stuff that other games at the time didn't, for example, a contextual button. You couldn't know what would happen unless you read the manual to learn what the icons meant. A lot of people never did and so decided that the game was bad.

I don't see a ball in any of the nets. So there are zero goals in that image

when climbing out of the pit, it was very easy to immediately fall back down (due to the pixel-perfect collision detection).

And here is an excerpt from the manual: "Even experienced extraterrestrials sometimes have difficulty levitating out of wells. Start to levitate E.T. by first pressing the controller button and then pushing your Joystick forward. E.T.'s neck will stretch as he rises to the top of the well (see E.T. levitating in Figure 1). Just when he reaches the top of the well and the scene changes to the planet surface (see Figure 2), STOP! Do not try to keep moving up. Instead, move your Joystick right, left, or to the bottom. Do not try to move up, or E.T. might fall back into the well."

it was actually way ahead of its time, for a game. One small bug (the workaround for which was in the manual) ruined its reputation. But I genuinely think it was a good game.

Also written in 6 weeks by one guy. Freaking impressive

I was 14 years old, and I got the 128meg stick for free. Beggars can't be choosers haha

i started using linux on a single core pentium 4 with 384M of ram

I'm partial to this one

because the over 70 different binaries of systemd are "not modular" because they are designed to work together. What makes a monolith is, apparently, the name of the overarching project, not it being a single binary (which again, it's not)