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Bleuets posted...

GameCube was my favorite new for a game console.

I'm going with The Dreamcast.

Well, considering modern Politics are really just a Clown Show, I think they picked the wrong thing to ban.

__starsnostars posted...

Was that the opening joke in the book?

__starsnostars posted...

Was that the opening joke in the book?

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

Yep.

You should have, Yes

....It was the first step.

Has your Father taught you nothing?

Hehe, your Dad sounds pretty cool!!
You can tell him I said that.

Well, Duhhh??

Why would a board titled Current Events talk about Politics during an Election year?

Sounds more like an Atari thing.
Or maybe a Commador thing as well.

WTF are their faces blurred out?

Yes!!

Or that's what they are saying.
It is odd to get only this far into the season and realize that.

Either way god speed to him.
I really did like his cooky calls.

I know some people think he's just a bit , I still always got a kick out of his calls.

TheLiarParadox posted...

I've been looking through temperatures for the last few summers in various places in New England and I haven't seen anything close to what we get down here, not in severity or duration. I've actually gotten pretty heat tolerant in recent years and I have little issue spending time outside up to 100F, even when it's humid, so those summer highs in the 90s still look great to me. I had mosquitos in my house in January, so bugs aren't much of a deterrent either <_<

The cooler months there are infinitely less appealing but that tradeoff is still an interesting prospect that I want to experience for myself. I know I could be absolutely wrong and hate it but I hate it here too so

Oh I do love New England. Don't get me wrong, but you have to be rather hardy to make it though the tougher months....or just a crazy skier.

I've spent many of days in Vermont and it is as charming as it is made out to be. Not without issues, but the ideal isn't a fake vibe.
I am in New York, but I only live like an hour from Arlington, where Norman Rockwell did some of his work.

Welp, that was different.
Is that even sanctioned?

Music_Rock_Cat posted...

I always thought it was about Bosnia 1992-1995 for some reason

They do have a song about Bosnia.
As well as the song War Child.

archizzy posted...

I wasn't a fan by any means but it was impossible not to run into that "Girl You Know It's True" song or even "Blame it on the Rain" I'll probably always remember those two songs.

I probably heard them at a Jamesway or Kmart, or on after school MTV, but honestly today, they really don't sound familar.

Hayame_Zero posted...

I mean, at least auto tune is the alterations of the singers' voices. In Milli Vanilli's case, that wasn't even them at all.

Hehe, Go Big or Go Home.

archizzy posted...

Yes it was the summer right before I started High School. I lived and breathed music and this was a pretty big story.

Ya, I probably couldn't tell you one of their songs if you put a gun to my head though.

At that point I was coming off of what was an amazing run for rap music.

Hot Italian.

Edit: I should also say, uncased.
If they come in a casing I just push it out.

Yes, I remember people getting refund if they had their stuff...or 'their stuff'
My todays standards they were probably as honest as Auto Tune.

archizzy posted...

It's probably helped by the fact it was closing in on damn near 40 years without won so people were STARVED for a triple crown winner.

Ya, all of this topic aside, I am not even a huge fan on the notion of The Triple Crown, but with a few other reason, I think The Kentucky Derby is very over rated. And I don't like The Company Church Hill Downs.
The Twin Spires are nice, but it falls off real quick after that.

Also, I talked with Tom Durkin who is the track announcer I grew up with and he agreed with me, which was hugely vindicating.

YoBlazer posted...

Every line from the second half of that playcall is legendary. One of my favorites is "Secretariat is now in a position where he's impossible to catch!"

Ya, that is cool. Even more so because Sham really was good compotition for Secretariat.
Probably would have been horse of the year had Secretariat not be so damn good. Sham actually set the pace of the race for all three main races and all the way deep into the backstretch for this one, and then Secretariat just put on the afterburners. He's one of the few horses known for actually lowering his time as a race went on.

Antifar posted...

You're right, it is an A+ call.

Separately, I think the call of American Pharaoh's Triple Crown win lived up to the moment
https://youtu.be/w0I4Z8priHQ?si=UkkOfAx-0k64yEa7

That was good, but it was a bit more of a straight up race. A good clean one though.
Also it is amazing that all these years later Secretariat still beat that time by over 2 seconds, and upwards of 26 lenghts.

Having said all of that, I was there when he did not win The Tavers later on that year. The Travers often being called the Fourth Jewel in The Triple Crown. Or the Mid Summer Derby. But it happen at was also called The Grave Yard of Champions.

I pretty much know they exact step where he lost that little bit of momentum. It was at the top of the stretch. One hoof got a tiny bit to close to the rail, and that was all it took. That and Keen Ice having a smart ride.

This was my ticket, which was very difficult to get. That final pass happened effectively right in front of me.
https://imgur.com/a/QYCRjcb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJPx0IJHSXw

Sonic_Cannon posted...

I had never heard of Secretariat at all until watching Bojack Horseman in 2016

Cool he got a shout out!
It's pretty much up in the air as to whether he or Man 0' War was the better horse.
Certainly two of the best in the last 100 years.

archizzy posted...

I really enjoyed the movie they made with Diane Lane. I thought it was pretty good. Side note, even though it isn't Secretariat I also really enjoyed the movie SeaBiscuit. I admittedly didn't know that story when I watched it and ended up looking up a lot of stuff about it but as a kid it really wasn't that far removed from Secretariats prime so we still heard about that ALL the time. In fact he didn't even die until the late 80's so he was still alive the first 13 years of my life.

Secretariats, actually one The Hopefull here the year before. ((Big props to Sham though for really making him earn all of his races))
I haven't seen either of those but I would like to. I think some of Seabiscuit was filmed where I'm at.
There is actually and old school Seabicuit that I used to pass by not to far from me, in The Adirondacks.
I never stopped in though.
https://imgur.com/IZGhOuG

KanWan posted...

Kinda crazy how their legs look like moving at those speeds

Seems to have taken a toll on the horse eventually though Ive never heard of laminitis. Is that usually common for race horses?

also, are you gonna get on Jackbox later? >___>
I just got hip to that new guitar hero-esque style game lol.

To see them in person at this level or racing is amazing, a TV doesn't do it justice.
Top performing horses with the right jockeys in a Grade 1 Stakes race look like they are being pulled along on a string. They just go! And I am talking only the best of the best. Not the over crowded races.

Laminitis is a heath concern for many hoofed quadrupeds.

Also, yes I intend to be joining jackbox night. Though I suck at that game unless I get the drums.
And that is because I can play instruments and those types of game can be completely counter intuitive if you do play.

hockeybabe89 posted...

Batter is a bit lame for not calling out Hernandez's shit.

Maybe, but it seems like he knew the fix was in.

Damn_Underscore posted...

POV: CEgal getting moderated 100 years ago

Hehe, Ohhh, Joe Star would know that feeling.
I still think she was treated like shit for no good reason.

luigi33 posted...

9th post and still no pics smh

https://imgur.com/NwCsivo

TheLiarParadox posted...

That's how it is here too though. I don't think it's comparatively a paradise or anything but I'm up for anywhere that doesn't have like three straight months around 100F. Like I said, they just seem like different kinds of hell.

That's possible. But think of nearly or more then 6 months of 17 to 35 degree weather, with some ligit -degree Temps scattered in and effectively no sun. And then turning around from that to all sorts of high temps and cracy humidity, and a shit ton of bugs.

You really do have to be ready for everything.

a-c-a-b posted...

Some places will card everyone regardless of how old you look. If you don't have ID, you're not getting in even if you have grey hairs.

Ya, I worked a beer store that did that.
Sometimes someone who probably fought in WWII would come in and I would still have ID him.
Half of the time, they had trouble even getting their ID out, and the line would get backed up.
Though I will say, at that place someone left their ID behind and it wasn't uncommon, for even my supervisor to just scan that ID. That was all during peak Covid days. And as a side note: I think we were the only ones taking returnables in the county, so we all just assumed we were going to die anyway.

Nintendo_Porn posted...

How often do minors get in?

At the casino not very often, and it's like a $2000 fine or something.

TheLiarParadox posted...

Several months of actual winter and much milder summers

The North East is fucking brutal at times.
Yes, it has it's good moments, but you do pay for them.
You will see every extreme.

Like kids with paper airplanes, or dudes making breakfest?
...Asking for a friend...

Honestly, this should become an anti-drug commercial topic, and bet there are some glorious ones.

Ya, I worked at a Casino and and a Wine store, some people are ridiculous at who they card.

One thing that was kinda fucked up was at the Casino I worked at you could use a Benefits card to get in.
And one thing that was fucked up at the wine store was the mother fucking PTA was tax exempt.

There were three ravens sat on a tree,
Downe a downe, hay downe, a downe,
They were as black as they might be.
With a downe, downe, downe
Then one of them said to his mate,
Where shall we now our breakfast take?

I forget what battle this song references, but it's a cool song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIHhPrUBdI8

A lot of people seem to like the line..

"Secretariat is moving like a TREMENDOUS MACHINE!"

But I like the line, "Secretariat is all alone!!" the best.

An amazing performance by one of the best racehorses ever.

https://youtu.be/vfCMtaNiMDM?t=46

Where is the off the back porch option?

EyeWontBeFooled posted...

SEGA did everything it could to make SEGA USA's life difficult in the mid 90s. Unforced errors that did them in.

Ya, it's really an odd study on just not what to do.

FortuneCookie posted...

The Sega 32-X was basically Sega of Japan throwing a stick in the spokes of Sega of America's bicycle.

StealThisSheen posted...

Sega did that a lot, yeah. The Dreamcast was amazing for what it was, at the time, for example. Great games, a built in modem for actual online play, etc. and so on, but their marketing absolutely sucked in like, 90% of the world. Sega just didn't know what to do with a good idea once they actually had it.

Ya, it is stunning how their marketing was like a 10/10 in the late 80's early 90's.
But I guess that was internal stuff between Sega of America and Sega Japan.
Either way, they really did push the whole industry.

StealThisSheen posted...

Oh, right. I was being silly with my "dark times" comment. I'm saying it from the perspective of now. Trust me, while I was rather young at the time (I was born in '87), I had a brother who was into video games at the time, and I have memories from that alone, so I get it. I should have made it more clear that I was being facetious.

Listen, we had an NES with Mario Bros/Duck Hunt, Rad Racer, Ice Hockey, and TMNT, and then we went to a Genesis with Sonic 1, Sonic 2, Streets of Rage, and Bonanza Brothers. I fully get the "You barely ever gets games" feeling.

Oh, you are totally cool, your convo has been okay.

It just really was an interesting time.

Honestly, I first heard about The Genesis on 1-800-USA-Sega, as well as Sonic.
Nintendo had 1-800-Nintendo.
It's what us kids might call in the middle of the night for shits and giggles.

I do really - really miss arcades though.
And ya, Sega kinda shot themselves in the foot with that one.
I do truly think Sega was a victim of their own success in that regard.

StealThisSheen posted...

Ehhh, that may be true, but the games were not exactly life long winners. Things drastically improved once Sonic came out. Sonic, Streets of Rage, Comix Zone, etc. and so on. Sonic 1 is an infinitely better bundle game than Altered Beast.

Ya, and that was how things were back then? That was nothing.
Half the time you weren't getting new-nonrented games until Christmas.
The Atari was still still a close memory.

Evening_Dragon posted...

Let the wars go, old man.

Hehe, I haven't lost sleep over it, ever.
But it is the way it played out.
It was kinda interesting to watch in real time though.
I mean, this is a video game message board after all.

StealThisSheen posted...

Those were dark times.

Not really, it was arguably the first time games that could compete with arcades came home.

It made Nintendo Shit itself.
Nintendo did everything it could do hold back progress.

It kinda fucked over Sega though, as Sega was dominant in the arcades.

StealThisSheen posted...

It's apparently so uncommon that you didn't even spell it right.

I think I am getting to the point where I will misspell someone just so I can identify the douchebag in the room more easily.
Did I spell douchebag correct?
Because I wouldn't want to mislabel you.

There was no disappointment in Sonic 1.
And the MC Escher style special stage was hardly considered wash out.

Really if anything you could make the comparison between Altered Beast and Sonic 1, as the free game bundled with the system.

And yes, I had the Genesis before Sonic was introduced.

No option for Birtch Beer?

We live in a country that doesn't give a fuck about mental health.