Early PC video cards had a composite video output, and clever programmers have learned to control the artifacts to produce more colors than intended. 8088 MPH by Hornet, CRTC, and DESiRE gets 1024 colors out of a 1981 IBM Color Graphics Adapter… that the 16-color CGA standard was named after. 😂

PAL consoles can often output RGB just because SCART existed, with NTSC versions of the same consoles only having S-video as the best connection without modification.

Edit: S-video has fewer artifacts than composite, but that ruins some effects like turning the “transparency” of water in Sonic the Hedgehog into a checkerboard. The checkerboard was always there, but the blurring of composite made it appear to just be darker shades of the colors behind it (dithering). The illusion of more colors was important for Sega’s 512-color Mega Drive when Nintendo’s SNES had a full 16-bit palette of over 32,000 colors and “real transparency” (selectively replacing pixels with a lighter/darker shade).

Billions? Fuck, they might need to get bailed out with taxpayers’ money!

I’m a large but not huge guy… and if it’s a “normal” (not “elongated”) toilet bowl, I have to stuff my junk down there, trying to avoid touching the bowl where random others probably have; and then the splashback may be personally affecting me.

Tiny, low-flow toilets also don’t save water when I have to use the plunger and flush four times.

they really know their beverage’s core brand is just “disgusting, but with alcohol.”

Definitely going for the shock factor. They have advertising posters in bars that read, “Malört, because these pants won’t shit themselves!”

Baller!

MFW I think I heard a can open off in the distance.

RSS and/or Gemini protocol

Danny DeVito is still “pitifully” entertaining 50 years later, with his studio producing the longest-running American live-action sitcom.

Lynx was as much “the Epyx console” as it was “the Atari portable”. Epyx had so many high-quality games on Commodore 64; I have not played all of the Lynx ports but I can tell you that Electrocop was a sequel to Impossible Mission, in spirit. All of “The Games” (unlicensed Olympics) series were pretty great on C64.

Early on, one of Epyx’s founders got sick of just reusing the Apshai engine over and over and left to found Free Fall, who created Archon - one of Electronic Arts’ first games.

They take their twisted logic and antics to such extremes that it resembles a live-action version of some mid-20th century American cartoons. Same level of slapstick cruelty but the plotlines make it all more premeditated and sociopathic.

(I laugh hysterically at it, but I totally understand anyone who thinks it’s depraved!)

Israel Hayom, Miriam Adelson

Three years later…

American high-school athletes in conservative states: Log in with genital verification.

Be careful. Facts, logic, and common sense will only get you on a gov’t watchlist these days.

GTX980Ti places their hand gently on your shoulder

I played this on Commodore 64 as a kid and have one of these cabinets that needs to be resurrected. No original wire harness or PCB but that may be a blessing in disguise. Usually, I like running the original hardware, but this game is difficult to keep in working order.

New printers only come with a sample cartridge, not a full one.

Well, I thought it was funny!

Warp 13, engage! 😆

OLD joke:

Q: What’s worse than a “tax-and-spend” Democrat?

A: A “spend-and-spend” Republican.