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[Neonivek]

I think all the computers in my life had at least a sound blaster.  Although Sim Farm had straight up PC speaker beep music.

Yep back in DOS era that occurs... It even startles me when I do find a game that uses it like Super Solvers outnumbers and Midnight Rescue.

Oddly enough even as an adult I like Outnumbered... If the ingame calculator worked I'd still play.

[Rolan7]

Someone remembered Super Solvers.
That's it, that's the WTF.  ;_;

[Flying Dice]

so today i watched the new star wars movie
and wtf!?
on the middle of the movie they are on a planet called JEDAAH or something like it the place is clearly an alusion to the middle west confront
it even has evil people on turbans!

what the hell??
why put something so racist on a sw movie?

You might want to refocus. Saw's partisans are more morally ambiguous compared to the Rebellion proper, but they definitely aren't more evil than the Empire. If anything it's an anti-American message, since the Empire exterminates them.

+Jedha fits the SW lore surrounding kyber crystals pretty well.

I'd also question the logic of labeling "rebels and oppressive state are fighting over a desert city and some of the rebels wear head-scarfs" as racist. Both of those things (people killing each other over their differences, people wearing sensible clothing) tend to be pretty universal.

And yeah, y'know, if you're going to bash SW movies for racism, the prequels line all the ducks up in a row for you.

[spümpkin]

I call Sprite lemonade, simply because it's what I've grown up with.

But I'm aware that Sprite isn't real lemonade, because Lemonade is the drink with actual lemons in it.

I don't think that it's really that big of a deal, because they're both fairly distinct, it's just in certain areas, Sprite's called lemonade. We don't really have Lemonade around here (unless you count MelloYello, but that's just a lemony soft drink), so I imagine it'd be confusing for a lot of people.


The more WTF thing for me is that people are that surprised by continental differences

[Mech#4]

I think all the computers in my life had at least a sound blaster.  Although Sim Farm had straight up PC speaker beep music.

Yep back in DOS era that occurs... It even startles me when I do find a game that uses it like Super Solvers outnumbers and Midnight Rescue.

Oddly enough even as an adult I like Outnumbered... If the ingame calculator worked I'd still play.

All the different sound cards installers gave you to choose from. Sound Blaster 16, Sound Blaster Pro, AdLib, AWE 32, Pro Audio Spectrum. Thankfully games had leeway as I never knew what to choose.

Listening to some other PC speaker, Monkey Island 2 is rather impressive.

[EnigmaticHat]

so today i watched the new star wars movie
and wtf!?
on the middle of the movie they are on a planet called JEDAAH or something like it the place is clearly an alusion to the middle west confront
it even has evil people on turbans!

what the hell??
why put something so racist on a sw movie?

You might want to refocus. Saw's partisans are more morally ambiguous compared to the Rebellion proper, but they definitely aren't more evil than the Empire. If anything it's an anti-American message, since the Empire exterminates them.

+Jedha fits the SW lore surrounding kyber crystals pretty well.

I'd also question the logic of labeling "rebels and oppressive state are fighting over a desert city and some of the rebels wear head-scarfs" as racist. Both of those things (people killing each other over their differences, people wearing sensible clothing) tend to be pretty universal.

And yeah, y'know, if you're going to bash SW movies for racism, the prequels line all the ducks up in a row for you.

I thought it was weird.  I'm not opposed to the idea of SW drawing comparisons to real life events, but.  If they were going to go there they shoulda, you know, gone there.  The plot outline of it is fine but the execution is half baked and vague, bad news for dealing with a heavy issue.  And in terms of cinematography the splinter group was definitely portrayed as evil, they had a LOT of villainy moments for secondary characters with ~10 minutes screen time.  They would have been totally at home as muslim terrorists in a generic military thriller.

Remember, these guys get almost no screen time and one of them still tried to throw a grenade at a 10 year old.  (yeah he probably didn't know, still counts, audience saw it.  Why do you think batman never runs anyone over driving a motorcycle indoors?  Cause he's a good guy)

The whole Jedha segment in general felt unearned.  It has a lot of big moments:

Spoiler: Actual spoilers, the rest of this post contains indirect spoilers too (click to show/hide)

Audibly comparing Saw to Darth Vader, his "redeeming" sacrifice, the aformentioned rebel splinter group, the reveal the main character used to be part of said group.

all kinda spoiled by the fact that it hinges on the character of a guy who doesn't do anything ever.  All he does is

Spoiler: still spoilers (click to show/hide)

take a long time making a very simple and obvious choice and then tell the heroes "yeah go whatever I don't care" after his army is already running away, the heroes have already escaped, and his fortress is crumbling.  He likely couldn't have stopped them anyway.  The movie plays it up as a big change of heart but basically its just very passive character continuing to be passive.  When he was played up as this real dangerous badass.

I feel like that segment should have been replaced with something else or fleshed out.  The characters and plot advancements introduced there could have been easily included somewhere else much quicker and the movie's main fault (I actually really like Rogue One) is that the beginning throws a bunch of planet and character names at you that all vanish 1/3rd of the way in.

[ein]

working in a kitchen like that will fuck you up

i would not be surprised if when i finally move on with my life, i leave with some kind of permanent trauma

[Shadowlord]

> We don't really have Lemonade around here

You can't not have lemonade around there. It's literally just lemon juice + sugar, preferably cold. Anyone can make it themselves with minimal effort.

[ChairmanPoo]

PC Speaker had only one square wave channel. I have mine connected since it is used by the PC to beep error codes in cases of things like overheating and the like.
It was used to play music, I think the best of which is the theme for "Ski Or Die" by Rob Hubbard.

You can use them to play more motivational songa.

Such as this beautiful church hymn by I. Ron  Butterfly https://youtu.be/MT1GmcdXaYo

[Shadowlord]

PC Speaker was a huge step down from the SID chip in the C64/128.

SB16 was pretty cool though. My dad got one of those for his 486 which we played DOS games on.

[spümpkin]

> We don't really have Lemonade around here

You can't not have lemonade around there. It's literally just lemon juice + sugar, preferably cold. Anyone can make it themselves with minimal effort.

I meant as in, nobody really makes Lemonade. People could, yes, but nobody seems to, and it's not in stores or anything.

[Teneb]

Due to quirks of language differences, a lemon in portuguese is what you'd call a lime. So lemonade is lime juice. Actually pretty good stuff.

[Sirus]

Due to quirks of language differences, a lemon in portuguese is what you'd call a lime. So lemonade is lime juice. Actually pretty good stuff.

Does it also include some sugar water to cut the sourness a bit? Because here in the States we call that "limeade"
It *is* really good though.

[Teneb]

Due to quirks of language differences, a lemon in portuguese is what you'd call a lime. So lemonade is lime juice. Actually pretty good stuff.

Does it also include some sugar water to cut the sourness a bit? Because here in the States we call that "limeade"
It *is* really good though.

Sometimes. It is often up to the person consuming it.

[Flying Dice]

so today i watched the new star wars movie
and wtf!?
on the middle of the movie they are on a planet called JEDAAH or something like it the place is clearly an alusion to the middle west confront
it even has evil people on turbans!

what the hell??
why put something so racist on a sw movie?

You might want to refocus. Saw's partisans are more morally ambiguous compared to the Rebellion proper, but they definitely aren't more evil than the Empire. If anything it's an anti-American message, since the Empire exterminates them.

+Jedha fits the SW lore surrounding kyber crystals pretty well.

I'd also question the logic of labeling "rebels and oppressive state are fighting over a desert city and some of the rebels wear head-scarfs" as racist. Both of those things (people killing each other over their differences, people wearing sensible clothing) tend to be pretty universal.

And yeah, y'know, if you're going to bash SW movies for racism, the prequels line all the ducks up in a row for you.

I thought it was weird.  I'm not opposed to the idea of SW drawing comparisons to real life events, but.  If they were going to go there they shoulda, you know, gone there.  The plot outline of it is fine but the execution is half baked and vague, bad news for dealing with a heavy issue.  And in terms of cinematography the splinter group was definitely portrayed as evil, they had a LOT of villainy moments for secondary characters with ~10 minutes screen time.  They would have been totally at home as muslim terrorists in a generic military thriller.

Remember, these guys get almost no screen time and one of them still tried to throw a grenade at a 10 year old.  (yeah he probably didn't know, still counts, audience saw it.  Why do you think batman never runs anyone over driving a motorcycle indoors?  Cause he's a good guy)

The whole Jedha segment in general felt unearned.  It has a lot of big moments:

Spoiler: Actual spoilers, the rest of this post contains indirect spoilers too (click to show/hide)

Audibly comparing Saw to Darth Vader, his "redeeming" sacrifice, the aformentioned rebel splinter group, the reveal the main character used to be part of said group.

all kinda spoiled by the fact that it hinges on the character of a guy who doesn't do anything ever.  All he does is

Spoiler: still spoilers (click to show/hide)

take a long time making a very simple and obvious choice and then tell the heroes "yeah go whatever I don't care" after his army is already running away, the heroes have already escaped, and his fortress is crumbling.  He likely couldn't have stopped them anyway.  The movie plays it up as a big change of heart but basically its just very passive character continuing to be passive.  When he was played up as this real dangerous badass.

I feel like that segment should have been replaced with something else or fleshed out.  The characters and plot advancements introduced there could have been easily included somewhere else much quicker and the movie's main fault (I actually really like Rogue One) is that the beginning throws a bunch of planet and character names at you that all vanish 1/3rd of the way in.

Oh, don't get me wrong, that whole section of the movie was pretty shit and poorly strung together. It just wasn't bad-'cuz-raysis.