I own a couple actual vintage arcade machines and paid less for them than this. If you shop around you can find deals.

I also have one of these 1up cabs and it is definitely not like vintage. Software may be the same but it is using a modern monitor not a CRT. I think I paid around 300 for it several years ago. Not full size.

Thank you, Nima!

Its all yo momma’s fault!

Boycott!

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I LOVED TA back in the day. I recently bought it again off Steam.

If the meat is not ground then there is no question about shady practices.

Do you have a better way to know when ordering food at a restaurant?

Honestly, anyone selling ground meat is kinda sus to me. There are reasons steak burgers are uncommon and it is not because they taste worse.

Why grind meat?

Do you put the ground beef into the blender? No? Mix the blended stuff into the ground beef (in a bowl)?

Sounds interesting but I think I need to understand better before I try it.

Did you mean to link to a creative commons license?

Atari 2600 gamez! Very cool. I still have my 2600 and the TV I used when I was a kid. Both still work.

Also, so glad someone put arcade games on their list.

Ultima IV !!! Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.

I played that on my Commodore 64 and waited a loooong time for the (actually floppy) disk drive to spin up.

I bet most people here don’t know any of the Ultima games.

Fuckin SHUT UP!

We don’t want to give those MS assholes ANY ideas.

Degoogle instead.

IDK much about it, but this exists:

https://github.com/Alovoa/alovoa

Beautiful.

How to get more absolute shit from Goog?

If you consider hardware functionality, IDK why people buy consoles at all. The sky is the limit for what I can do on even a low end PC and there are significant limits to functionality on consoles. Not to mentioned the walled garden you’re forced into with consoles.

Make money from software, there’s little profit in hardware.

The interwebs existed long before Google. They will continue to exist long after Google.

Cool, thanks. $5 -$6 / month is cheap.

This is pretty complicated, I think much more so than what you’ve said reflects.

First, if you can stop DO IT NOW. Any benefit you think you’re getting is a rationalized illusion and the risks FAR outweigh any possible benefits. It is irrational, foolish, and truly dangerous to continue smoking, especially if you can stop. If you need to remind yourself of the downsides and risks of tobacco use google some images and read some first hand accounts. It is NOT a joke that tobacco KILLS. STOP playing Russian roulette if you can.

I smoked and/or chewed tobacco for most of my adult life and feel fortunate that I was able to quit a little over 10 years ago. It was not easy for me to quit. I had tried to quit many times over the years. I took a class about quitting and finally did. I hope for good.

I do believe that some people are more affected and/or addicted to nicotine than others. I had girlfriends that would smoke at the bar and nowhere else, which really pissed me off because I COULD NOT do that. BUT, there is no good understanding about this. Maybe these people are not far enough into the habit to be addicted. It seems unclear if some are really resistant to nicotine addiction and I have NO doubt that it is not worth trying to find out.

I’ll stop here. But anyone can feel free to ask questions.