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[Rolan7]

The answer 20 years ago would be Yahoo Finance, maybe it still works for that.  You could just tell it what stocks you'd invested in, and how much, and it would track your progress.

Yahoo's still a thing, somehow, so maybe that's still a thing too.

[Caz]

hmmmmmm

So I'm looking for people's opinions of the best way to try to 'mock' invest in the stock market.  I don't have a particular market in mind, just 'the market'.  Something I can dip my toe into, or just track a few stocks to build up some confidence in my choices when I do invest.

Any ideas?  The internet seems to not be of too much use - just provides me with information over-saturation.

The investopedia stock simulator?

[Enemy post]

I used an old tool to help make the necessary modifications to the Civilopedia for a Civ 3 scenario I'm working on. I got everything done, but when I attempted to save the work, my antivirus detected the program's attempt to edit the file and blocked it, erasing most of two hours of work.

[methylatedspirit]

This is a pet peeve of mine, but a lot of chiptunes are labeled as "8-bit" only, rather than the system/sound chip it's emulating/composed on.

There's a lot of 8-bit systems out there. You have the NES, with its 2A03, the Atari 2600, with its TIA, the ZX Spectrum 48K and 128K with their beeper and AY-3-8910 respectively, and so on. Those are PSGs. Then you have the Commodore 64, which despite being an 8-bit machine, I'd argue that its sound capabilities (provided by the SID chip) are on par with a (3-channel) synthesizer.

Like, 8-bit does not narrow it down! Which one is it?! It tells me nothing, apart from the fact that it should follow the constraints associated with such hardware (limited number of channels, few waveforms, limited memory, few if any samples, BPM of 150...). I've learned to associate "8-bit" alone with NES/2A03(-style), and I think it's a shame that's about the only sound chip people tend to know. I don't think it shows a lack of respect for these systems, necessarily. It shows ignorance, and that's a shame.

[wierd]

I sympathize, but the problem stems from needing something generic for the 'generation' of chiptune, that unites all the chips used to make tunes, from that era.

Otherwise, you would have people lumping in MODs from the Amiga and SCP files from the SNES in, which are much more sophisticated than say, a sound program for a TMS9919.

[King Zultan]

I have a external disk player that I was going to use to play STALKER Call of Pripyat because the DVD drive on my laptop is dead, but I couldn't find the cords for it and ended up spending days looking for them only to never find them and have to buy one, only to get it all set up, put the disk in, and nothing to happen, after investigating the cause I found that the external disk drive was a CD drive and not a DVD like I needed. So I ended up wasting loads of time for nothing.

[Caz]

This is a pet peeve of mine, but a lot of chiptunes are labeled as "8-bit" only, rather than the system/sound chip it's emulating/composed on.

There's a lot of 8-bit systems out there. You have the NES, with its 2A03, the Atari 2600, with its TIA, the ZX Spectrum 48K and 128K with their beeper and AY-3-8910 respectively, and so on. Those are PSGs. Then you have the Commodore 64, which despite being an 8-bit machine, I'd argue that its sound capabilities (provided by the SID chip) are on par with a (3-channel) synthesizer.

Like, 8-bit does not narrow it down! Which one is it?! It tells me nothing, apart from the fact that it should follow the constraints associated with such hardware (limited number of channels, few waveforms, limited memory, few if any samples, BPM of 150...). I've learned to associate "8-bit" alone with NES/2A03(-style), and I think it's a shame that's about the only sound chip people tend to know. I don't think it shows a lack of respect for these systems, necessarily. It shows ignorance, and that's a shame.

'8-bit' is just a synonym for chiptune genre, a lot are just '8-bit style' anyway. Just look up the specific machine and you should find what you want.

I prefer the ZX spectrum ones. Some of my earliest memories are loading the tape and waiting for the demonic screeching to pass so I can play some game

[wierd]

I have a external disk player that I was going to use to play STALKER Call of Pripyat because the DVD drive on my laptop is dead, but I couldn't find the cords for it and ended up spending days looking for them only to never find them and have to buy one, only to get it all set up, put the disk in, and nothing to happen, after investigating the cause I found that the external disk drive was a CD drive and not a DVD like I needed. So I ended up wasting loads of time for nothing.

Invest in a disk image, and either wincdemu or daemon tools

That way an optical disk drive is just a legacy afterthought.

[King Zultan]

But wouldn't I need a drive to read the disk in order to make use of that, thus removing the need to do that because I'd have a drive to play the disc, or is it for backing up the disc?

[Caz]

Get a cheap dvd drive? I've got about half a dozen lying around just from dismantling ye olde pcs so they can't be that expensive. For 10yrs or so every basic pc came with one. Check the attics of relatives.

If you can't find a 2nd hand one it might be cheaper just to buy it again on GOG though.

[dragdeler]

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[TD1]

Week five
Of
Zero speech

Yay.

[Vector]

Week five
Of
Zero speech

Yay.

fuck. Uh . . . I can't remember if you'd seen a doctor yet.

[TD1]

I saw her once three or four weeks ago for like five minutes.

But for covid reasons all she could do was feel my neck.

[ChairmanPoo]

Did you get a pcr?