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I didn't like Black Mesa as much as most. I thought a lot of the charm was lost with the "modernizing" decisions. It just doesn't look like half life and the enemies don't behave like half life enemies to me. It looks and plays like a really, really good fan remake. Cuz it is. I still think the original has loads of merit though and would never suggest black mesa before playing the original.

Can i make a ufo out of this?

I've only met one person in my entire life who has liked these.

Etymology of ascii characters is something I never even considered. New hobby unlocked

Cooooollllllll! It's like computer morse code

I've been using them for nearly 2 years no and have no experience other than saving money and getting reimbursed for bad products without needing to send them back. I appreciate your anecdote, but since brick and mortar stores are dead and I don't make much money paying Amazon to import the same products for me at a premium just makes no sense. Temu is fine.

I read your comment 3 full times and I still don't understand how anything explains why they wished for a white Christmas.

Edit: after thinking about this more, this reads like one of those stories that gets passed around without much evidence. It doesn't really make much sense when compared to the lyrics of the song. 3 weeks is not long enough to establish "just like the ones i used to know", and if they were jewish and wanted to write a song about remembering their late nights infant child....why be confusing and reference a holiday you don't even celebrate?

Here is a sample lyric: "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white"

This is a regular Christmas song. If anything, it's simply a coincidence his child died on christmas, and had very little to do with the creation of the song in any way, but gets passed around as for some reason probably just cuz infant death is dramatic. It might sound harsh in 2024, but 100 years ago losing a child at 3 weeks was sadly much more common and likely not as traumatic as we consider it today.

Edit2: i looked it up on Wikipedia:

"Accounts vary as to when and where Berlin wrote the song.[7] One story is that he wrote it in 1940, in warm La Quinta, California, while staying at the La Quinta Hotel, a frequent Hollywood retreat also favored by writer-director-producer Frank Capra, although the Arizona Biltmore also claims the song was written there.[8] He often stayed up all night writing. One day he told his secretary, "I want you to take down a song I wrote over the weekend. Not only is it the best song I ever wrote, it's the best song anybody ever wrote."[9]"

The Wikipedia states they had a son who died in infancy, but makes no claims anywhere about it being on Christmas day so who knows about that even.

Yup.

If i know China, it's the same as Bluetooth but with code tweaked enough to be distinct, while also funneling data into shady servers.

Wait, we had networking like that in the 70s? I've never heard that, do you have any other specific information I can look up? A computer at a school talking to another school remotely to use its processing power in the 70s sounds like alternate reality. That's literally just the internet. What were they pushing the data over? Surely not phone lines?

Temu is rocking, too

I loved irc 20 years ago....i have no clue how to get back into it. How do you even find a cool server in 2024??