Yeah, I had a Sinclair spectrum, then a BBC B before I got my first PC (386, 33mhz!). The BBC was a cool machine, a great version of basic to learn on, and you could compile assembly on it too. The spectrum had better games though.

Sticky communion wafer.

It’s so the microphones can’t catch the stuff they’re praying to be forgiven for.

I’m pretty sure that was the year I was mostly playing Populous, on the Amiga IIRC, or maybe spectrum. I think my little brother may have had a copy of this though. There were some good games back then, the late 80s were when they really started to branch out into genres that we still see today.

I kinda feel like I should finish the games that I start, but I often don’t. I don’t get a lot of screen time so if a game becomes hard work or I lose interest - I move on to something else. Feel a bit bad about leaving it unfinished tho.

The RoboCop game is actually supposed to be quite good. I recently picked it up on sale, haven’t played it yet.

Aren’t there already laws against making child porn?

WTF did I just read? Fuckin weirdos. That is uncomfortable on so many levels. Poor kid. I remain traumatised from the time I had to remove all the malware from my dad’s computer. That was twenty years ago, he’s dead now, but I still carry the abominable image of him in his wheelchair, pulling his decrepit knob to Thai ladyboys, with the dogs lined up on the sofa watching. Ignorance is bliss. Ho hum, conservatives eh?

They’re definitely bigger!

Shame I’m a fat old guy now. A few decades back I looked great in a Laura Ashley summer dress.

Looks like I’m unaware of something horrible. . ?

^ That’s antisemitic!

Yeah, the boy who cried “WOLF!” all the time eventually got eaten by wolves.

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TBF they sometimes hide it from public view by putting it in the bin - trashcan in the US - on bin collection day. Genius.

I wanna know what he was doing with that bottle of hot sauce in the privacy of his bedroom. Possibly it subsequently failed a sniff test and that was what led to the argument.

I’m wondering if advertisers are starting to notice - that’s the only thing that’ll make these fuckers try to clean house. It’s maybe two years since I left reddit and even then it was absolutely infested with bots. They didn’t give a fuck, only cared about the IPO. But advertisers are going to care when they get lots of engagement but no customers because all the engagement is bots.

I think that was kinda the idea - war production meant steel was in great demand, and this seemed like a really cheap way to make ships. I wouldn’t want to try sailing one round the Caribbean, but they might have been okay in the north sea, for example. They didn’t work out though, can’t recall why but it’s not impossible that melting may have been a factor!

Lol okay, I do try to listen to recommendations like that - I’ll put it on my list. It’s a pretty long list tho!

IIRC this type of thing isn’t new - there was research into the possibility of making ships out of ice mixed with sawdust in WWII.