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Rob: This one goes out to all those that can't be arsed with walls of text or those that have frustratingly got stuck in a game by not being able to open a door, use a lift or activate a portal due to not paying attention; and maybe, in some cases, unclear game design. We salute you! Oh... that's just me, isn't it?
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Your Covid jab may not give you superpowers but it’ll stop the spread of Covid. So please get your Covid jab from your local stockist as soon as it's available. Commentary
Rich does drive like this (in games, of course - his libel order against me prevents me from saying otherwise). Commentary
Seriously, a computer with 128KB of RAM could manage split screen driving. There is no excuse for any modern driving game not offering this option on machines running on 8GB of RAM or more. Just reduce the texture detail for split screen! We have fond memories of our old gaming machines. If you fancy yourself as a bit of a retro lover, check out the Retro Hour Podcast for some cool dives into old tech: Retro Hour Podcast. Commentary Rich: Would you like to learn more about great machines like the Speccy, or the Acorn Electron (which is the one that really sucked)? Then you should definitely check out our friends over at the Retro Hour Podcast. Rob: As you can see from the vile slur above, loyalties last aeons (Rich is ancient). Sides were chosen (sometimes inadvertantly by our parents) and battle-lines were drawn. You had your machine and you fought its case, oftentimes blindly (and almost certainly in my case). As an Electron user, I often felt like a second-class citizen. Whilst it was a joyous experience having an "educational" machine in the house, it was pretty clear when it came down to the bone that as a gaming machine it struggled to compare to the Speccy or C64 on pretty much any level (colour-clashing graphics aside). It brought gaming into the house though and I fondly remember playing a whole host of not-quite official versions of popular arcade games (Zany Kong Junior was and will remain awesome in my mind) and for that I'm very grateful. So thank you Acorn, for shovelling your unwanted stock to D-D-D-Dixons!
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Anyone would think printer manufacturers were trying to make further profits through the sale of overpriced ink cartridges. Surely they wouldn’t also go to extreme anti tampering measures to protect their profit margins, would they? Commentary
Art and Phil are dumbassess - role models in imbecility for our own amusement. Don't be like them - be considerate, sensible and be safe out there. Daddy, what's a Penetron?
Mighty Penetron! Invader of privacy, violator of airspace, scourge of the skies. Marvel as it takes down airports with ease. Also crashes with ease. Commentary
"Synchronicity: the coincidental occurrence of events and especially psychic events (such as similar thoughts in widely separated persons or a mental image of an unexpected event before it happens) that seem related but are not explained by conventional mechanisms of causality - used especially in the psychology of C. G. Jung" (Merriam Webster Online) Commentary
We are already seeing people assuming their robot cars will do everything for them and finding themselves leaving the road in unexpected and dramatic ways. Even Satnavs have proved challenging, with people nearly driving off cliffs just following what the computer says. Clearly more work is needed on robot human interfaces. Commentary
If the roads are going to be filled with robot cars then surely the logical extension of this is that we will also need robot pedestrians. After all, we are already building robots to fight our wars for us and to keep soldiers safe. So why not create robot doppelgangers to cross the road for us too, so that we can be safe from all the robot cars. Commentary
There is much debate between scientists, philosophers and lawmakers around who is going to be held responsible when the first fully automated ‘robot’ car injures a human. Who will be considered the guilty party in the eyes of the law? The human ‘passenger’ who wasn’t driving the car, the manufacturer of the car, or the car itself? Perhaps we will have to build new prisons to house all the guilty robot cars? |