Bink videos were the hot shit for games for a while, and RAD Game Tools started a whole era of standardization for multimedia processes that culminated in DirectX. With computing power increasing along with the market share of PCs, using standardized libraries for audio & video drivers became the sensible thing to do. Previously you had games programmers eking out every iota of performance by fine tuning that stuff at an assembly level (the Origin games with their memory managers and Chris Sawyer’s amazing if kind of insane feat in creating Transport Tycoon come to mind).

It’s probably going to be cold hamberders again anyway.

God, the first music files I downloaded were MIDI and Soundtracker .MOD files using a 14,400k modem & BBS. That was after upgrading from my PC/XT to a 486/SX 25…those were the days.

Time to finally get off the “stuff” and go into rehab. And get some flowers to apologize to your aunt.

Break Gas? Never heard that expression before. I always thought it was “break wind”. 😆💨

Be sure to take that gun with you on your transatlantic flights so you can shoot your way out of the airport when the American Gestapo come for you. 👍

You’re not supposed to place your laptop directly in the lap of your fur suit. Always leave an air gap for ventilation, smh.

Think of it as an initiation rite.

Now you are one of us.

So… a female Joe Rogan, essentially?

They really should have learned from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restaurants

Third degree burns are NO JOKE, particularly in such a sensitive area. If you google around a little you can see the burns on the leg of Simone Evans, another plaintiff vs. Starbucks in a similar, ongoing case (NSFW!)

Good guy HAL, making sure you learn your craft.

I never did get her actual name on account of the extra bursting into laughter. What was it again?

I think the expression is more about the gluteus maximus area but you probably know that.

That’s what I always do since there are decent options available nowadays.

Homemade pizza. Making the dough creates a mess and requires delicate manual labor in several steps at precise times over more than 24 hours. Looks great on YouTube but that’s just not me.

Edit: thanks for the suggestions, guys. Who knows, maybe one day… 😉

It’s bad for your metabolism.

Of course he would. Pigs of a leather grunt together.

Oh, I’m a racist now for not wanting to be invaded? Get the fuck outta here.

Our politicians didn’t start a war during the entirety of the Cold War, either. You might have succumbed to the fallacy of thinking that when a weapon is purchased it needs to be used to kill people.

Where we’re going we don’t need brakes.