u/Scoth42

You don't. Arcade games at the time didn't have an ending. You played until you died, and competed for high score. Typically they looped through the levels or hit a ceiling of difficulty.

It's just some people got so good at them that the game died first, which I guess counts as "beating" the game but not "finishing" it.

It wasn't really until home consoles became a thing that games started shifting to have actual endings, because they no longer needed to eat quarters. Since then there's been some arcade games that actually do have full endings too, but they tend to be very unfair and difficult to get to since again the goal is to eat as many quarters as possible.

I mean, that was just sort of how 80s and into the 90s cartoon themes worked. Nearly all of them consisted of the name repeated in one way or another.

It wasn't a choice, it was a quirk of how the program worked when the developers didn't expect people to get that far and things broke for various reasons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSlPHLAGWHA talks about the Donkey Kong one.

You get what you pay for with converters/scalers. It takes a decent amount of computing power to do it well, which is why they tend to start at moderately expensive and work their way up to hundreds of dollars. The super-cheap Amazon Specials are almost all going to be terrible. I recently picked up the new RetroTink 6X CE and have been very happy with it.

I don't know whether the AX3 vs. AX3s are much different but this auction has bunch of pictures of one:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/186163532007

Liquor stores have been the classic place to get boxes for a long time. They typically have a fairly constant supply coming in, they're usually pretty sturdy and may even come with handy dividers, and sometimes they'll even be grateful for you taking them so they don't have to flatten them/deal with them.

I remember years ago the church I was going to got a new pastor and he moved into his new office with a bunch of liquor boxes, and it looked kind of hilarious.

I don't think there's necessarily anything wrong with it, it just tends to be poorly done in Mary Sue/Marty Stu sort of ways, or maybe barely disguised writer's kinks that are shoehorned in in ways that don't make sense.

I wish we could ban this source. Every single one of them are these stupid meaningless clickbait things.

I think Goldship is the name of the shop rather than the case, i've seen several variations on it including some pretty much identical ones with different names. Some links like this one suggest they were custom, but it's hadr to be sure. https://www.instagram.com/p/DerpryVFODc

OG Kirk wasn't really reckless or a cowboy at all. He was described as by-the-book and even a bit of a stick in the mud several times. It wasn't really until the mid and later movies that we saw Kirk really do much remotely cowboyish, and it was still not especially reckless and for the greater good. Spock was the one criticized for his "Cowboy Diplomacy."

Abramsverse Kirk, yeah, sure, but ya know.

To answer your question - I think Jake Sisko would have grown into a good captain had he pursued Starfleet. He handled a few times of crises well, did decently under pressure, and would have had the guidance of his father's upbringing to mold him. Along with the experience of interacting with lots of different people and cultures on the station, seeing war and what it does, and all that.

I think it's a little tricky to judge Harry Kim from what we saw. Voyager was his first assignment as a new and untested Ensign. We saw him grow over a few years, but basically everyone else on the ship had more experience than him.

He also was valedictorian of his class, requested Voyager, and was assigned as senior staff operations officer right out of the academy on what would have been among the newest and shiniest ships, so clearly he's not a nobody.

It varies by area and specifics, but in a lot developing countries and areas it's way easier and more reliable to throw up a cell tower than it is to build out land-based internet connections. Places like the remote parts of Africa, maybe India for example.

There's only a couple straightforward ways to do it - one is to use something like an old version of WindowBlinds that supports Win98 and hope there's a Win3.x skin. This should be able to fully skin it. Alternatively, you can replace the shell= line is system.ini with progman.exe to get Program Manager back, but it's still not going to quite work and look like Win3.x since all that's embedded deeply in the core system files.

I suppose you could perhaps hack the resources of the shell files to replace the bits and locations with more 3.x-style stuff but that's a pretty big undertaking.

Memory test. If you had a monitor hooked up you'd see it counting up the memory. The initial part is the first 640k, then the higher-pitched part is the rest of it. Then it beeps.

If it has one of the dreaded Varta batteries make sure to get rid of it or it might not be that clean for long. Hopefully it's something less damaging, but also not a soldered Dallas chip.

The "funny" thing is the same people bemoaning kids not going outside anymore will be the ones that call the police on an unaccompanied kid riding a bike or playing in a park.

Like the other commenter said unless you live in an area with centralized play area and a lot of kids, it's hard for a couple or four kids just to wander and play and Do Stuff like ride bikes, poke around in random woods nearby, etc.

And that's even assuming you don't live on a major road or something. A nontrivial amount of my childhood (even in the late 80s/early 90s as it was) was living right on a highway with the closest cross-street being another fairly major road, and about four houses in a row. There happened to be a kid about mine and my sister's age next door and we actually did manage to ride our bikes around our yards a bit, but we couldn't go very far.

Neutopia is a great Zelda clone for Turbografx 16/PCE. I wouldn't necessarily say it's better than the NES Zelda and definitely no Link to the Past but it's a decent Zelda-like. There's also a Neutopia II but I haven't played it.

I'm blanking on specifics but there's several shmups where the Saturn version is considered the best. It also had some lightgun games that were great if you're into that kind of thing.

Doom on Jaguar is a pretty good port by console standards, lack of music aside. Arguably the best from a graphical and gameplay standpoint.

A lot of arcade conversions were done very well on Atari Lynx, of all things, they just tend to fly under the radar since the whole system wasn't especially successful. Hard to say whether they're actually better than other options on other platforms (or just MAME and the real things if you're going that route) but they can be fun little curiosities

Kind of wild seeing companies releasing games for competing platforms. I know there's been some recent crossover with Microsoft releasing games for Switch and Playstation, but mostly things from their acquired studios rather than their big franchises.

Although it would have been a hell of a flex for, say, Nintendo to release a SMB game on Genesis/MD or Sega to put a Sonic game on SNES. 

Maybe, but there's more to it than that. A data center/server farm/etc needs much more cooling than a typical office space since they tend to be between 64-68 (in freedom units) which is cooler than most people want their homes. That usually means bigger cooling, plus more insulation, and generally you'd also want a bit more redundancy than you might have for residential. All that removed heat (servers generate much more than your average family or even office full of people) has to go somewhere, so you need more exhaust too. Plus fire suppression (which is usually special foam and not water), tons more wiring/fiber with redundant connections, larger redundant electrical systems... pretty much everything that already exists would need to be much beefier and largely rebuilt anyway.

So converting them large scale to datacenters would still need a lot of work, maybe even as much or more than converting to residential or something like completely gutting it down to the frame and rebuilding it (or even tearing it down and building new).

Bit of a wild take but I don't know that it should bother you. Everyone has their thoughts and preferences and ideas on how they'd handle hypotheticals.

Personally I'd rather have a bucket and a bullhorn for hands.

I wonder how well an ass-prosthetic would work...

(Relevant XKCD)

I think there's a difference between not having something specific you're attracted to while also recognizing physical attractiveness.

I also think that there's a difference between recognizing that physical attraction is very real and potentially important while also knowing that a long term, healthy relationship has to have more to it than just that, especially given age, body changes, etc.

At any rate, I think a lot of the comments like that are from performative people trying to sound profound/enlightened. I'm sure there are exceptions but the vast majority of people respond to physical attractiveness (which may vary with different cultures, trends, and such) and that's not really a bad or negative thing in and of itself. It can become a bad thing if people treat it like the single solitary thing that makes a partner valuable, or treating someone less attractive poorly or with prejudice, but that goes for basically any trait of a person vs. looking at their whole person.

Plus it's just an unfortunate part of reality that attractiveness privilege is very real where people generally considered more attractive do better with job interviews, are paid more, tend to get more sympathy and lower sentences when convicted of crimes (remember the "Hot Felon" guy? Would a moderately or unattractive guy have gotten the same chances? Not that I'm unhappy he's turned his life around and done well for himself, but his attractiveness was a big part of it.), given more leeway and consideration in conflicts, etc. So people can claim all they want they they don't judge people by their looks but on the whole that doesn't really track.

At the moment, a lot of big companies are pushing for return-to-office for at least part time if not completely removing remote work. Remote work is definitely still out there, and while we may not *need* the large buildings for a lot of those jobs, I think we're awhile away from more widespread acceptance of remote work.

Plumbing also tends to be a big problem. For example, bathrooms tend to be in a central area and may not even be on every floor depending on the building, and not enough space for every unit even if they can somewhat work it out. There may be sinks elsewhere in the space for breakrooms and things, but typically toilets are a problem when needing to revamp a whole skyscraper for residential.