Very cool, but is anything as cool as that Space Wars Computer Space cabinet in the same scene?

I doubt I’m saying anything novel here, but good lord Kilmer stole that movie for himself, and he’s therefore a big part of the reason nobody gives a shit about the Costner one, the rest being that anything “epic” that Costner did after Dances with Wolves was a self-indulgent and overlong toboggan-ride over the top-most surface of whatever theme he claimed to be exploring.

Not that the rest of the Tombstone cast didn’t have their moments, but they were all dancing to Doc’s tune. Without him, it’s a B-movie that punches slightly above its weight and gets filed away with the likes of Young Guns 2.

Yeah, not the best angle. The PS/2 port is that little silver box. The USB-C port is on the PCB. This was assembled to go inside a vintage keyboard to semi-permanently convert it, but I’ve been using it to test other boards. If a board is fully intact, I’ll just use an external converter, but there used to be a practice of snipping the cables on hardware that businesses retired for accounting purposes if they were written off, which can be a good, if risky, way to get an eBay buy for cheap.

You’ve been warned.

Well, I fell pretty deep into that rabbit hole, where I’ve even designed a couple of primitive circuit boards and hand-wired a bunch of keyboards. I also mess around with vintage stuff a bit.

This particular converter is programmable and meant to be used with a not mechanical 122-key terminal keyboard made by the company that took over IBM’s US keyboard factory, but it’s been hanging out with several DuPont wires shoved into it to connect it to a molex connector to test a different old board.

I would really appreciate it if nobody looked at the PS/2 to USB adapter currently on my workbench, kplzandthx.

LOOSEN UP!

We’re too close!

Are those OG '83 Return of the Jedi sheets, or a re-release?

I like that, though I might consider that rhyme, alliteration, and especially repetition also aid retention by requiring less data to be committed to memory as-is. References to other works are also very much a shorthand for cramming pre-existing memes (in the Dawkins sense) into less “word-doing.”

I dunno. The whole thing breaks down pretty quickly, as most analogies between mental and computational process do, but it’s fun to think about.

Adults also make a face with how much it’s a copy of Frozen’s premise.

Definitely very similar, but it’s different enough, I’d say. It sort of makes explicit that there are cultural repercussions to imposing Elsa’s burden on everyone, that embracing individuality can ironically create a stronger sense of community, and then, in splitting Elsa into Rumi and Jinu, it allows for parallel redemptive tracks, one who never had a “Let it Go” first act moment at all and suffered because of it, and one who really thoroughly bought into the anti-social aspects of it but is then gaslit into thinking they can never be anything better.

If we can do the Hero’s Journey a thousand times, we can do Elsa’s every few years, especially when the rest of it is changed up and fun. I do think there’s a world where K-Pop Demon Hunters comes and goes without making any waves, but the songs are all earworms and it hit at just the right moment, apparently.

It’s still out there. For one that’s specifically what you describe try Keep the Wolves at Bay by Uncle Lucius.

LOL, are you trying to keep me from derailing a shitpost thread where I’m rehashing the boring online debate that inspired it! How dare you!!! What are you? Some kind of Michael?

TWSBIs for everybody!

Filled fountain pens might make parents madder than Vapes would, though.

Me: Why are they talking about cartridges? Those look like piston-fill demonstrator fountain pens to me!

Huh. Not much a part of my identity these days, but in a yes/no sense, yeah I guess so, LOL. Of course, these days most gym bros are doing some gaming too.

You provide physical inputs, which are sensitive to timing and agility, to a rule-based competition. It’s at least as much a sport as golf or curling or bowling. And I say that as someone who doesn’t find eSports particularly compelling. It requires a sophisticated technal infrastructure and doesn’t require superhuman levels of strength or endurance (though the latter in particular could be helpful), but those are merely “sliders on the configuration screen” for whether a certain sport is to your interest.

Michael probably agrees.

Sounds like he’s made peace with its living on in forks as well. Nice to see he’s doing okay.

Pardon me, but that is clearly the forest moon of Endor, not to be confused with the weird lakeshore moon of Endor. Be careful of tempting deer-butts hanging from trees, OP.

HTC had quite a run there. I still miss my HTC One X, back when it was actually interesting to get a new phone. These days I routinely forget which iPhone it is that I have.