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Here's how the scam works with retro games.

(1. Go to all the stores and conventions. Buy up all the old original boxed Super Mario Bros games for the NES. Also buy a ton of other retro games but make sure you own all copies of the Super Mario Bros. Do this quietly for several months.

(2. Once this is done, plant a bunch of paid articles and TV spots on the local news about how boxed Mario Bros is going for thousands of dollars. Pretend that you are a multimillionaire who collects games and also owns a collection worth millions. You can rent an apartment in LA and take pictures in front of a phony private plane.

(3. Put an unboxed Super Mario Bros up for auction at an auction house. Make sure no one knows that the appraiser who appraised it as being worth a million dollars works for you. Hire another accomplice to buy the game for a million of your dollars.

(4. Plant paid news stories and TV spots about how a Super Mario Bros game went for a million dollars. Reiterate that games are big business collectibles you can get rich on.

(5. Promote your appraisal business and sell your cornered surplus of video game carts for three times the amount with the promise that if you hold onto it, it will go up in value and you can become rich.

(6. Hope that you sell your inventory before the suckers realize the games they bought are worth nothing and that everyone involved actually works for you.

An escort mission through a swamp where you have to search for several generators strewn across a huge map. You then have to protect the engineer against an enemy Zerg rush as they slowly repair each generator. If they reach the engineer, you have to start all over again and all the generators spawn in new random locations.

Guide posted...

Beanie Babies saw the 80s comics inflation and was like "what a foolproof plan"

The comic book boom was originally a pump and dump scam masterminded by three con artists. These same conmen are now doing the same thing with retro videogames. It's destroying the hobby for actual retro gamers who have to deal with artificial scarcity and artificially inflated prices. An unopened Super Mario Bros cartridge is not worth a million dollars.

Great, great grandfather, 103 years old. He died four years after I was born and he was born in the early 1880s. His own mother was born enslaved while his father was an Italian immigrant.

"Blaxploitation" was actually a slur created by Cicely Tyson and the NAACP because they thought the movies coming out of black Hollywood painted the black community in a bad light in front of white audiences. It's the reason why Melvin Van Peebles and other 70s black stars hated her guts.

If she was trying to impress the nazis in her party then someone should have reminded her that Hitler loved dogs.

Cemith posted...

Do not fall for this. Jones made a fortune being a psychopath, him being right twice a day ala broken clock changes nothing about the shitheel that he is.

Even Satan could quote the Bible to Jesus.

pokedude900 posted...

You know, there are a couple of games named Sex that are listed in the database. Just saying.

Interesting considering social boards were created to stop the practice of turning game message boards into social boards. Looks like we are heading back to the late 90s and "hidden boards."

In the bad old days before the 90s, cheap fly-by-nights American companies like ADVision would own distribution rights and so handle dubbing on the cheap. They would do this by hiring scabs with no experience to voice act. Most often these were just friends of theirs or employees from other departments.

I heard one story about a distributor who would get laid by trawling Brucie-cons and offering fan girls voice acting jobs.

archizzy posted...

Its going to happen at a certain point.

Shit, point me to someone under the age of 80 who knows that Foghorn Leghorn is a parody of a radio character called "Senator Claghorn." Here's one of his rare movies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6-JddDUnyY

Caramel goes great with either banana or carrot. Personally, I'd use the honey for the cake and then pair it with the salted caramel buttercream.

Anyway, these are the flavors I found that go well with caramel:

Banana
Carrot
Pumpkin, Sweet Potato, Yams, Butternut Squash
Ginger
Orange (as in Crepe Suzette)
Lemon
Apples
Peach
Apricot
Pears
Pineapple
Blackberry
Cornbread, Popped Corn
Chocolate (Chocolate + Caramel = Fudge)
Coffee (Caramel Macchiato)
White Chocolate
Hazelnut (Hazelnut Praline), Almond (Almond Rocca Praline), Pecan (New Orleans Praline)
Peanut (Peanut Brittle - I got the flavor by mixing caramel with peanut butter)
Pistachio
Coconut
Oatmeal
Rum
Bourbon Whiskey

ssjevot posted...

but the reality is it's wealthy people from other countries that can afford the higher tuition rates they get to charge foreign students.

There are "universities" that are just excuses for the children of rich foreigners to stay in the United States on student visas. The "students" never attend classes and the actual campuses are just office buildings behind a gate.

deoxxys posted...

Hey at least crabs are tasty

Supposedly roasted tarantula tastes very similar to soft shell crab.

Posting just to say I was a part of this thread.

CARRRNE_ASADA posted...

Thats what the armorer is for. I think anybody thats not a gun enthusiast would feel the same way, cause I wouldnt event know what to do or look for.

IIRC Baldwin as a producer had the ability to shut down the set after all the union guys had quit over the set being unsafe. He chose to keep things going and this is the end result.

You could say he was the Vince McMahon to this Owen Hart style shit show. Only Vince didn't personally help Owen into the rigging that got Owen killed.

Revelation34 posted...

I can't find this. I can only find one about a guy being assaulted because somebody else took the handicapped spot,

It's been a long time, so I admit I could be misremembering. I just remember the guy who beat him up was arrested by the cops.

How do they determine who is disabled? That should be determined by a doctor, not an over-worked minimum wage employee. Certainly they should at least ask for paperwork.

This reminds me of the guy with a disability who was beaten up for taking a handicapped parking spot. The guy who beat him up thought he was faking it after the victim stood up out of his wheelchair. The victim had a respiratory problem that made it difficult to walk a few steps without getting badly winded which was why his doctor provided a wheelchair.

Euripides posted...

There are lots of out of shape men who wear tank tops and polo shirts and cargo shorts but that doesn't stop them eiter

The United States branch of my company stopped having Fourth of July pool side parties because of our German counterparts attending. These 40 year old German men would show up in only speedos while every other adult was wearing summer casual.

nekrodev posted...

bro, they were straight up killing themselves for no reason well on through the 1900s.

I remember hearing that most historical seppukus were just an execution disguised as ritual suicide. The samurai only pushed their blade into their abdomen enough to make the lightest of flesh wounds to show that they were going to disembowel themselves, but then the "assistant" steps in and beheads them.

furb posted...

Today's Special is up there with Pinewheel

That reminds me that the woman who played Jodie from Today's Special died back in January. :-(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerene_Virgin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ2XnKO4aM0

psideresider posted...

Pinwheel.

To be fair with Pinwheel, this was literally Nickelodeon's first show going back to the late 70s. The entire channel was built around it by extending the show to a children's block, and then from a children's block to a full blown channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLCg1kb1sA0

Pinwheel was very much patterned after Sesame Street down to the shorts and the live action actors interacting with puppets. I remember this French short called Chapi Chapo they'd show a lot of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDpQfZqHD3A

For the longest time back in the 80s they would show long blocks of Pinwheel before the afternoon shows came on.

You Can't Do That On Television

That show and Double Dare carried the network all through the 80s. Nickelodeon shamelessly stole the foot logo and green slime from YCDTOT. Even "All That" was created because Canada stopped making new episodes and Nickelodeon wanted their own version.

Called my friend in Taiwan about that. He felt the earthquake while getting dialysis at the hospital, but he had no idea how severe it was. He says it doesn't seem to affect him right now since he's in Taipei while the epicenter was in Hualien. The only two things he is concerned about is a possible tsunami and the trains being down.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

China will not invade Taiwan.

I have a friend now living in Taiwan and he's convinced China would never invade Taiwan.

He says China has already invested too much in Taiwan behind the scenes to risk destroying in an invasion. Furthermore, Taiwan is a financial haven for China's oligarchs who hide their money there from the government. China freezes all Chinese nationals foreign bank accounts except for Taiwan based on the reasoning that they consider Taiwan to be a part of China.

Frosted_Midna posted...

That is pretty dead on!

I didn't get the comic's punchline until I realized the other girl is supposed to be Jolene. Jolene in the song had auburn hair and green eyes.

philsov posted...

yeah, moon/equinox stuff aside it doesn't really make sense for Christmas to be a fixed date and Easter to be variable. If Christmas was also somehow tied to moon phase and the winter solstice, I wouldn't be mad.

Christmas is tied to this pagan Greco-Roman belief that all great men die nine months before their birthday. Since it was well known that Jesus died during Passover, the Church fathers reasoned that he had to have been born in December or January. The Orthodox Church went with January 7th while the Roman Church went with December 25th.

Why Easter follows the lunar calendar, I cannot say. I have a theory that Gentile Christians did it to spite the Jewish Christians who still celebrated Passover.

The founder of Panda Express Andrew Cherng was a Chinese immigrant from Jiangsu. He was smart enough not to try to sell authentic Chinese food as fast food to Americans.

His son is the celebrity chef Ming Tsai (Cherng).

Jimi Hendrix was a pick-me token who deserved the cold shoulder he got from the black community when he played Harlem.

metralo posted...

no one cares about the slap and many many 90s (and as younger people get older) people accept that his early music goes hard

My good sir, I was but a black child, a member of his target audience, when "Parents Just Don't Understand" was released. Even back then none of my friends thought he ever went hard. His raps were funny novelty works, and that was that. He was the 80s Ray Stevens of rap.

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That sign was placed up in response to a well known amateur diver who disappeared in the caves. They never recovered his body, though there are some conspiracy theories that he was never in the caves in the first place. There are a couple of YouTube documentaries about it.

If you want to dive there, you have to ask the caretaker for a key. He won't give it to you if you are planning to go alone even if you are an accredited diver.

Dancing baby which even made it to the TV show Ally McBeal.

The villain's name Hopper is literally a reference to Dennis Hopper who starred in the quintessential Boomer bike movie "Easy Rider". Make of that as you will.

WalkingPlague posted...

she was one sexy ass caucasian woman. i had crush on her for a looooong time.

My elder cousin actually had that poster on his wall back when he was a teen. It's giving me a serious flashback.

Dark_Arbron posted...

Given how many problems that among the developed world only the US seems to have, while claiming nothing can be done, yes, I can confidently call the country stupid.

Ignorance and stupidity are just excuses. These people are resolutely evil. They're merely taking advantage of the fact that Americans are more willing to forgive stupidity.

In the United States, the old saying should be reversed: "never assume stupidity what can be reasonably explained by maliciousness."

OriginalPlain2 posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/d8f02b67.jpg

Didn't that short end with the both of them committing suicide together on some train tracks?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM0JdVobHjQ

modena posted...

I had a discussion at the bar about this. We all came up with sand worms and spice. I thought I was alone too, but none of us could explain the plot.

Fun fact:
The first Dune adaptation back in the 80s came with a spoiler-free pamphlet handed to you upon purchasing a ticket. It explained parts of the movie that the director never got to but were considered important for understanding the plot. That's the sign of a bad adaptation and makes you appreciate the LOTR trilogy for what it accomplished considering LOTR was also once deemed unfilmable.

IIRC the name "New Mexico" existed before the nation of "Mexico".

DrizztLink posted...

It's got that weird Soap Opera effect that I can't describe with words but is incredibly off-putting.

IIRC soap operas film at 60fps on digital cameras while films and television are around 24fps.

Secret of Mana - A Bell Is Tolling (Ice Palace Theme)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5DLUvPf5Y0

I take this as an opportunity to post some 90s electronica:

Jam & Spoon - Stella (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLy--cFj6W0

Fila Brazilia - Heat Death of the Universe (1997)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrgsWV03Jx0

Photek - Ni Ten Ichi Ryu (1997)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qJKxaWb0_A

From my understanding, AI art falls to pieces when it's sample basis comes from its own art and not actual works by humans. It kind of is already happening. One of the believed reasons AI had a shit time drawing hands was because the artist's it sampled from also find drawing hands to be difficult. It copies the mistakes that humans make.

Hejiru posted...

Their choice to use the word balance was probably a mistake because it often leads to this misunderstanding, but this is what Lucas intended the lore to be.

IIRC it's due to the EU novels and how writers (influenced by fandom) treated the force like the Eastern concept of Yin and Yang by introducing grey jedi.

Lucas rarely dealt with the EU, but when he learned about why grey jedi existed, he forced subsequent writers to retcon the Yin-Yang Force as being wrong. Nearly every grey jedi introduced in the EU has fallen to the Dark Side to drive that point home. It pissed off several EU fans who liked the concept of the Dark Side not being inherently evil.

It's interesting that Disney seems to be going with the Yin-Yang Force idea. It must drive Lucas crazy.

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And I am unrepentant about that. Then again, I only ever have cornbread for New Years alongside black-eyed peas, rice, greens with hamhocks, and fried chicken.

If you want amazingly soft, rich cornbread from a box of Jiffy mix, add a 1/3 cup of sour cream to the 1/3 cup of milk. Then add 1/2 cup of packed light brown sugar and a teaspoon of vanilla extract.