UKFilmNerd

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[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 103 points 6 months ago (4 children)
[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Living with a friend, in the first place after moving out of our parents places. He smoked weed but that didn't bother me. However, one night he invited in the local weed dealer and I was really concerned but he assured me it was ok.

We both worked at the same company, so came home at the same time a day or so later to find the front door was open. They smashed the small decorative window which allowed them to reach in and unlock and open the door.

I can't remember what they stole from my friend but I lost my GameCube, controllers and all the games. Also, my first portable minidisc player and a pair of cheap earphones I used with them which I absolutely loved. The wire was like string and rarely tangled.

I had a few imported US games and I thought they might give me the edge. I rang all the local game shops to see if anyone had tried to bulk sell the lot but I was unlucky.

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 3 points 6 months ago

Reading these replies , I'm going to have to watch some videos on Burnout 3. I played it back in the day but I'd forgotten things like aftertouch to wreck more vehicles.

I played through games 1 & 2 a few years back and I loved the Crash Junctions.

Having been playing Burnout: Paradise recently, I now see what's missing. Its a fun racer but stripped of a lot of what came before.

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 21 points 6 months ago

Remember the meme. "This is the coldest summer for the rest of your life."

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

When I used to work in a supermarket, I hated the stupid customers. This is a classic example. One of the soft drink companies fairly regularly gave away 50% free.

Therefore, for the same price, the bottle would be 3 litres in size rather than 2.

The amount of people who didn't like that.

"Excuse me, where's the 2 litre bottle?" "Oh, it's the same price miss, you get an extra litre for free." "But I don't want 3 litres, I only want two!" Sigh!

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 4 points 6 months ago

I remember three of us lugging our PCs and big heavy CRT monitors to our friends house where we spent 12 hours playing through the original Rainbow Six. I think it had lan co-op, if not it was at least the whole night in multiplayer.

On the opposite side of the scale, I once connected my 486DX 33 to my friends Pentium to play Descent over a serial connection.

As his was the fastest machine, the game played normal for him. All I saw was a game updating the screen once every 5 seconds. That wasn't much fun. 😄

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 7 points 6 months ago

I don't understand it, but going through various githubs, the problem has been discovered. Here it is:

YouTube changed their code to make it more difficult to extract the throttling parameter decryption function.

There was some coding demonstrating the problem but it was way over my head. Hopefully fixes are coming soon as the issue was marked as urgent. It looks like they know what needs changing.

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Back in the early 90s, here in the UK, a company called Cheetah produced licensed joysticks based on Batman, Terminator, Alien³ and The Simpsons. They looked great but they were terrible to use, especially the Alien³ model which I really liked but was incredibly uncomfortable. I never bought one, just tried then on the shops, awful things.

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 6 points 7 months ago

Back in the day, I bought the official Xbox360 steering wheel. It made me laugh because it was called wireless. It was only wireless between itself and the Xbox. It still needed a power brick to drive the motor and another wire to connect it to the pedals.

When I sold it, I almost made my money back because it was in high demand. MS had replaced it with that awful U shaped steering wheel that you held in the air like a Wii controller. It used sensors to tell when it was tilted. I never used one but the reviews weren't favourable as I remember.

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 60 points 7 months ago (8 children)

The 8 bit guy. I loved his retro computing channel and then one day, he acquired a rare IBM computer and promptly destroyed the power supply by sticking a screwdriver into it (if I remember correctly).

For some reason, I googled about this and discovered he's a gun nut. They're videos of him going grocery shopping with his rifle on his back which apparently he does this knowing it will annoy people.

Unsubscribed from the channel and never looked back.

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I normally listen to heavy metal, rock maybe nerdcore rap. The other night, I was alternating between the albums of Natalie Imbruglia and Melanie Chisholm. There's some good stuff in there.

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 3 points 7 months ago

I saw such a device on Instagram. I think it was a Bluetooth connection from the computer diagnostic port to the phone.

The app takes this data and makes the right noise based on engine revs. The app was full of different engine sounds both real and fictional along with silly noises such as farting.

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