The way we begin 2025, both the Fallout and Judge Dredd universes come to mind.

For me the drop-down for Mouth/Nose has a lot of empty spaces, that show up when you select them.

As a emoji noob it could be nice with some text naming the specific selection.

They were too weird for me in my early teens, I first got them years later.

Dexter’s Laboratory, Cow and Chicken, Power Puff Girls

Started a friendship with a classmate, he was bit of a know-it-all, we were discussing some esoteric stuff and he laid out his theory I said “ah that’s BS”, and gave my reasons. Then he got very uptight and ended our friendship there and then, and escorted me out of his apartment.

Very strange experience.

Edit: It’s one of those cases you recall and think “Was it me that were the stupid one there?”

RIP friendship 😔

Or they couldn’t agree if almonds or pistachios were the best nut.

We need to see how the run and fight animations look like!

Speaking of the 80s I got a C64 and a friend let me copy a few 90 minute tapes with a bunch of games.

Wow multi-terabyte in minutes! There are not many ISPs delivering 100Gbps and even fewer are delivering 1000Gbps.

Unless you live on top of a data center.

Cauldron 2 for C64 you start playing and find out you have no clue how to progress the game.

In grade 5-6 we had a course on typing, it was boring so instead I played NIBBLES.BAS and GORILLA.BAS started modifying the Basic code to give me more lives.

Some time later I got hold of Visual Basic 3.0 and made some small programs, after that I was told that the cool kids were programming in C++ so i got hold of Borland C++ Builder 1.0 and played with it.

The latest language I learned was Python, this was when Oracle brought Sun (2009) I was fond of Java but wanted a language that was not in the clutches of a corporation, and Python was already on the rise back in 2009.

I think starting with Python is a good idea, when you get better at the language you can then add more languages like C/C++ or whatever you feel for, because when you know one programming language its easier to learn another one.

Better avoid the whole of Europe to be safe.

The Dutch!

Ah yes now I remember, they were very annoying.

As I remember Vista had some areas that were hard or unintuitive to configure, Win7 cleaned up those parts.

Win7 also made the disk hungry background processes play nice, Vista would occasionally lock up with 100% CPU and disk usage while the os scanned something.

And I agree Win7 is just a reskinned Vista.

Is that a PC in your pocket or are you happy to see me.

In 50 years I hope we can set up a LAN and play some CS, TF and Quake in the nursing home.

Is Black Friday happening on the other side of that isle?

You must be in the B group or something, do you use a Microsoft account to login with or a local user?