We just called businesses instead, during lunch time at school, since they don’t block unknown numbers. We were starting on algebra and they showed us how to calculate the radius the area etc. So to us it was the funniest thing to call a pizza place and order a 4-2x(12π) sized pizza or something like that. That and calling completely unrelated businesses and ordering a pizza also
As someone who managed a ridiculously busy pizza place. Fuck you from the bottom of my heart. I’m convinced that job took years off my life from stress and the constant prank calls totally fucked up production.
Really though you were just a kid and couldn’t have known. But I cussed some kids out in ways they’d never heard.
You’d be shocked how crazy it actually is that human arms work the way they do.
Primate arm structure is what gives us the ability to throw with predictable accuracy and it’s something that just does not exist anywhere else in the animal kingdom.
It’s so exclusive that Goji Center used it as a part of their “improved” Indominus Rex to give it primitive tool use and also to add a bit of very disturbing world building about what exactly is in that thing’s genetic components.
The point here is that it is down to a very unique musculoskeletal pattern of our “front legs” that we can throw good, and make use of all that training to possibly throw gooder, and that other animals being able to do the same at the same level as the primate family would have made this planet exponentially more dangerous than it already is.
Imagine a mountain lion being able to chuck a spear. That shit would make living in the Rockies almost dangerous enough to justify how crazy half the people that come out of there are!
Going to stick with portable systems, because a box is a box is a box, even if some are cooler than others (PS2 slim with attached screen, and N64).
#3 Gameboy Advance SP
Loved the compactness of the clamshell design. So much more portable than other systems at the time.
#2 Steam Deck
Windows games on a Linux handheld, plus it runs old games that Win 10 can’t.
#1 PlayStation Portable
This was and will always remain my favorite gaming system. So many great games, movies, a cool disc/cartridge hybrid media format, SD card support for all sorts of stuff, custom firmwares… man, such an amazing system.
I personally would recommend this n100 to get a real psu which can add many drives, 6 Sata ports and a standard form factor.
Edit: Also a PCIE Slot to add 10 Gbit Networking Card if dual 2.5gbit is too slow. And if you need more power there is also and i3 n305 variant of these mainboards.
When I was a kid, we would spell out “dirty word” in people’s phone numbers and call saying we were from the “Telephone Number Decency League”. We’d say the naughty word thier number could spell and encourage them to call the phone company to ask for a new phone number.
Love it. We used soundboards. The Schwarzenegger one was a blast. You get them paying attention with the lines from kindergarten cop then start going wild on them with lines from predator, etc. My personal favorite was “I hope you left enough room for my fist, because I’m gonna ram it into your stomach!” One memorable woman tried to save Arnold’s soul with gospel music. I think she enjoyed the whole thing.
Ocarina of Time was the first third-person 3D game that I thought actually had decent controls. I didn’t play it too much because I didn’t have an N64, but after trying it on a friend’s system I spent years seeking out things like Soul Reaver, Beyond Good & Evil and the Dark Cloud games to get a similar experience.
FFVII was just the existing JRPG formula with Little Big Adventure-style graphics.
My solution to this question a year or so ago was to take my gaming desktop, which was collecting dust after I moved to my gaming laptop, and gut it down to a 4U server rack case. Best decision I’ve ever made. 12 core Ryzen and 128gb memory. Got a 10g adapter in the pci express, 8xHDD for data and then 2 mirrored nvme for the OS itself. Only thing I kept out was the video card since I had no use for it (yet)
An equivalent “server” on the market would probably cost a fortune and cost you a ridiculous amount of electricity.
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