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a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 17:30 asciilifeform: was frightening
thing.
mircea_popescu: it got my mom off gaming for life ; at first she was kinda into it, but
then lost
track and burned a steak. got so pissed off she swore off gaminf forever! and stuck
to it.
a111: Logged on 2014-02-19 15:51 asciilifeform: brother and i played
this on our 'Iskra' (xt clone) and combed
three different dictionaries
to learn what
the fuck an osha is
phf: there's actually a bunch of games
that i only have a vague awareness of
that i only spent an hour or
two playing at various research facilities and construction sites
phf: mircea_popescu: alley cat
triggers some ~really~ old memories, i.e. i played it before i even have conscious awareness of
things
mircea_popescu: aha!
that was my 2nd i
think ; after
the jumping jack one
mircea_popescu: phf i recently mastered captain comic with my sister. we used
to play it (she shot) when she was like...5 ;
then we ACTUALLY managed
to finish it, for
the first
time ever. she was more like 25.
mircea_popescu: that game actually owned any possible videogame store item,
they had
those quarter operated console
things ?
phf: i've actually
tried playing it quite recently, i couldn't get more
than 2 screens forward. i've gotten soft with
these modern "video games"
phf: could be played on my dad's computer at
the NII
though :p
mircea_popescu: molst of
the better ones did.
they
towards
the end managed even VOICE
mircea_popescu: gah i wish i remembered wtf it was called. it actually had equalizers and shit. 640px vga
too
phf: well, winamp had a visualizer plugin for it, written by a democoder guy who went into gaming (he did, for example,
the visualizer for
the original xbox). it was a kind of visuals construction kit
mircea_popescu: no soundblaster or anything, used
the speaker. i imagine it cheated and clipped
to 16 bit.
phf: there was for example
the game of life editor/simulator and at
the same
time winamp with a bunch of plugins bundled
mircea_popescu: "O WOW
TECHNOLOGY!" ~that~ was
the
technology. somehow.
mircea_popescu: there was a mp3 player
that ran on
the 286, i played clayderman on it while
the dots moved. i guess it was kinda cool, or at least
teh girls liked it lots.\
phf: that was basically what it was. i
think
there was maybe 3
total "cyberdrug" programs, but
the rest was basically visualizers and sound generators lifted from all over
mircea_popescu: wtf is
the "psychedelic" supposed
to do, i never could figure out. all sort and manner of kids were into all sorta manner of "psychedleic" bullcrap, from special light-things
to "interpret"
the music (installed eg under car seats! made
the whole experience fucking nauseous)
to what have you. but... why ?
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 17:30 phf: asciilifeform: i actually bought, at some point, at "garbushka" bazaar, a cd with a psychedelic design,
that had an entire collection of all kinds of "computernarcotic" softwares
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform lift discussion notwithstanding, ~best possible
thing
that can happen
to a girl is
to spend her 6
to 16 decade going up and down 12 flights of stairs 12+
times each day.
diana_coman: at least
that: in ploiesti you could get it ...probably even directly from
the air I suppose
mircea_popescu: you could have i dun recall, maybe 10 galons/mo ? and
the queues looked almost like modern
traffic jams.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman but cluj wasn't slatina. it had... computers and chocolate factory and panties and you know... large campus for all
the arab friends.
phf: oh yeah,
the electricity
thing…
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, myeah; worked as long as
there was electricity; and if you lived in a
town with any big industry,there would be random blackouts meaning you'd get stuck in
the lift between floors
phf: i don't
think i've ever seen a non-working lift in moscow! certainly never
two (and
there's always
two in
those 15s) at
the same
time
mircea_popescu: ALL SORTS of bs
the sovtards were doing other places never happened here.
mircea_popescu: transylvania had
this great advantage over run of
the mill russo-kirghizstan, in
that it was old crown land.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
there isn't ; chiefly because
the old folk didn't want
to
think about it and
the kids such as me had no idea it even existed. "suspicious of
trad houses" hides a lot of meaning.
phf: i suspect downtown, where
they had "early 1900s flat"s, it was a bit different, but on
the periphery of
the city, where
they had "sleeping neighborhoods" it was pretty much
the same as described. (we had 15 storied buildings with a slightly more space in between instead)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the happy female is plain and direct.
the poorly quartered female is neurotic and generally obnoxious.
mircea_popescu: possibly
the lowest precious cuntlet factor i ever encountered in my life ; and i personally credit
the active male population and high density.
mircea_popescu: there's a lot of idle and stupid pompousness "traditional" society still clinged
to after ww2 in europe.
mircea_popescu: such as having
to explain why she's supposed
to strip.
mircea_popescu: honeslty i much preferred
the density. made all sorts of буржуй bullshit untenable and plain-evidently not desirable.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it was almost entirely built late 60s and
throughout 70s, and populated as it was built.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
this item ran for maybe 10 or 20 sqm, in which
there were however many
thousands of
the blocks
they could fit.
mircea_popescu: taller item on down right is a hospital actually.
the rest,
typical ro 4+1 double-sided apt buildings, 3 rooms and 4 rooms, for 2 parents + 2 kids.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i lived (with 10`000 other kids all my exact age) in a purely hruscheba neighbourhood ;
to
the point i was SUSPICIOUS of
traditional houses.
mircea_popescu: this bookended by full jars of jam on either side carried me well into
two digit age.
mircea_popescu: as a kid what i did with my
time was
that i ran up
three flights of stairs
to drink (straight from
the faucet, who
the everloving fuck has
the
time or
the patience for glasses!) a stomachfull of water,
then run back down and keep fucking running.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 17:29 phf: apropos, i was always curious if
that old school binaural sound generator program from
the late 90s could be used
to pacify children, but never had a chance
to
try
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-13#1750661 a better question is why exactly does one want
to pacify
them. god knows
the erect penis is
the only item in short supply, why fuck with it. how about instead of spedning a dime
to "pacify", spend
the dime
to buy more acreage ; get
them a dog and don't let
them back in
the house until
the dog's not so exhausted it can't stand up.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: at an inner city clinic, you may
think you're an independent contractor, but you're really working for
The Man (but with no pension.)
That's
the system. Cut SSI payments and
those docs-- and nurses and etc-- don't get paid." on steroids.
mircea_popescu: affiliate. "Hi,
this is Bill from Cleveland, and I blame liberals." Son of a bitch, why didn't I
think of
that.
The system not only pays poor people, it employs lots and lots of almost poor people. I'm not saying
this is a good
thing, or a desirable
thing, I am simply stating a fact. Some of
these are direct government jobs (e.g. staff down at
the SSI office) and some are pretend private sector jobs. If you're a psychiatrist
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 17:29 ben_vulpes: some yes! monetization algorithms get
the humans
to do a lot of
the work as well, which helps
the whole 'ecosystem' escape local minima
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-13#1750659 << word!
the WHOLE schtick with
the "monetization" nonsense is 100% "hey kid... wanna
take a job with no security, no insurance and subminimum wage ?" ; ie "This is
the system. If you
think you can effect a huge social overhaul
then feel free
to vote for Hope And Change and ongoing Afghanistan deployments, otherwise understand how it works before you spew nonsense
to your local Fox
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 17:27 ben_vulpes: dude
the horror
that is youtube's autoselected content for wee ones is unplumbable.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 17:23 phf: clearly, it meditates on
the child's behalf
mircea_popescu: doesn't pay as much as... BingoBoingo you know
that line, "it doesn't profit a man nothing
to lose his soul for
the whole world... but for Wales ??!"
mircea_popescu: why louis antoine and not henri
thomas ? LIFE IS SO UNFARE