/retro/ - Y2K

>>4203
https://trashchan.xyz/retro/logs/04-02-2024.html

hey, i host TV night every wednesday night. right now our lineup is aeon flux, x files, buzz lightyear of star command, miami vice, and babylon 5. starts in an hour if any of you are interested.
https://cytu.be/r/ZZZTV

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>>4076
>if you kill your enemies
Are you sure about that? Aside from Matrix's foolhardy "you're not worth killing" at the end of S3 (and which should have just ended as did, with Megs getting dragged into the Warp, I mean the Web), the cast seemed more than happy to kill things and people. Even had some morbid cheeky with Hex and cookies.

I don't have any complaint about her before S4.

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>>4285
Like I said, it was a point of character tension in these shows.  Rattrap and Dinobot (being otherwise at odds) find common ground yelling at Optimus over this.  Same with Matrix vs Bob in S4, at which point I think even Dot is ambivalent.  It's not just an assumption of the writers, but a question that the narrative attempts to answer.

It doesn't try very hard, of course.  I think the last big note on the theme, so far as the series went, was Bob casually trying to "reprogram" Megabyte: to deny a self-willed man his autonomy to avoid the indignity of killing him.

<Just a scan.  I don't believe in deletion.
>You can't go against your code.
<And neither can you.  That's the problem.
<It's not your fault; you're programmed to be this way. 
<We've just got to work out a plan to reprogram you.
>So I won't be a virus?
<That's the plan.
>Ah.  So a fate worse than deletion.  And they call me a monster.

And they wonder why Megabyte hates them so much.  It's like if Mouse wouldn't stop being a quasi-villain so Bob tries a little corrective rape to settle her down, lol.

>>4290
Oh yeah, I forgot that beauty of an exchange. Megabyte as an unrepentant monster is great. Makes him a classic kind of villain. Making the whole plot of Reboot by retcon into Bob's great experiment in rehabilitation turns out hero into a heel and gives Megabyte a sympathetic motive for fighting back as hard as he does: He doesn't just want to conquer, he wants to get away from him.  Those aren't bad ideas in their own right, but when put against what came before, they're a trainwreck. See also Dot's S4 idiocy.   In fact, S4 really should have been rewritten.

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>>4293
>He doesn't just want to conquer, he wants to get away from him.
Well, akchually what he says is...
>There is no grand scheme here.  This is about revenge.  Prepare yourselves [to be hunted down like animals.]
That's the cliffhanger that the series ends upon, with Megabyte having infiltrated the Principal Office.  He had returned to Mainframe in the guise of "original Bob" to seduce Dot, because such had become the horizon of his ambition, for some reason.

That's right: he got out of Mainframe (via the web, which was not according to plan) but apparently found an open port somewhere, but instead of infecting the net or the supercomputer like he had always intended, he goes back into Mainframe to cause petty melodrama to his enemies and retread the same old shit.

The charm of the character was partly in his cunning like in S3 when he used propaganda to undermine his enemies so that Mainframers wouldn't work with Enzo and they'd all die in a game.  Then in S4 he's like "lmao fake wedding."

How many lobotomies were needed to achieve this level of garbosity, I can't even fathom.

>>4275
The Amazing Digital Circus, despite being cringe bait for the FNAF/Undertale generation, is extremely well-animated and obviously had a lot of effort and love put into it, which I respect immensely. The entire thing was mostly modelled and animated by one dude, so that kind of explains why the script is so loose and slow: he has probably never looked at his writing from an editor's perspective and cut out things, or realized how plodding certain scenes were.

I have more detailled notes somewhere but that would be getting off-topic.

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Anyway, another artist: VinegarDude
https://twitter.com/vinegardude [most active]
https://vinegardude.newgrounds.com/
https://iv.nboeck.de/channel/UCom2Xbvnk1l7l3FihUwR9Ww
https://www.tumblr.com/vinegardude

A game dev working on something in RPGMaker with a lot of customization and art overlaid on top of the standard combat system. Appears to be very early in development with characters such as a snail(?) girl healer who heals party members by slapping sense into them and a one-eyed cat guy who bashes dudes in the head with a lead pipe. Currently only updates on Twitter.

The rest of his art is really cool too, and the style reminds me of the Newgrounds/Flash aesthetic that was everywhere on the 00s internet.

>>4279
>a snail(?) girl healer 
Ah, I forgot to update that. She is apparently a manta ray.

>>4279
Looks neat, but I'd like to see how he can make a system like RPG Maker exciting.

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>>4292
I don't think he's going to reinvent the wheel, but he seems to be putting plenty of polish on the kinetic impact of the attacks and neat status effects.

Cute girls, too. He's been churning out concept art and character designs going back years on Tumblr and Newgrounds.

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>>4193
>testing if PCI SATA card works or not
>no direct SATA power cables from old PSU
>plug in molex to SATA power adapter to SATA drive
>put ear by HDD to hear if it spins up
>turn on PC
>hear funny pop noise
>huh that weird
>smoke from HDD
>mfw
>back away
>HDD smoking
>yellow wire on cable glows bright red then bursts into flames
>FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK
>rip HDD out, turn off PC

>>4194
That is scary, you're super lucky the parts survived!

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>doing some research on ATI's mascot, Ruby
>wonder if there are any figurines of her, might look cool on my desk
>there are some official limited edition ones that were given away, fairly cheap on ebay too
>oh these look pretty co-
>that face
fug

>>4282
That's a "my coworker just farted" expression if I've ever seen one.

>>4283
Heads up I just let out an Agent Ruby

>>4281
Being creative has to be for yourself first and foremost anon, getting hung up on how others might receive it is only going to hinder your motivation and stop you from enjoying the process. Come on over to >>>/agdg/ if you're looking for help.

>>4281
>my disgust is immeasurable
I had a similar experience not too long ago in a restaurant. I thought I was hearing "Better Off Alone" by Alice Deejay, but after a few seconds it turned out to be a different song entirely that literally copied the BOA melody verbatim then added nu-EDM sounds noise after it... That "song" now has 1B+ views on YT. Absolutely disgusting what modern EDM has come to.
>I haven't done jackshit
You still can. You're still alive, are you not?
Start making your game right now. Take your time and enjoy the process, forget about these expectations of having certain accomplishments at a certain age, that's not how real life works.

>>4281
>The guy was 24 when he released this seven years ago, and here I am at the same age and I haven't done jackshit.
Van Gogh only started painting when he was 27.
>but what I'm worried about most is
STOP THINKING
JUST ACT
THOUGHTS ARE POISON
WORK IS THE CURE

>>4287
>Van Gogh only started painting when he was 27.
and he only sold one painting, then he died and only then did everyone realize he was a master
>STOP THINKING JUST ACT THOUGHTS ARE POISON WORK IS THE CURE
I AM TRYING

>>4288
I once knew a writer who reached acclaim only in his 50s. It's alright to have a Julius Caesar moment, but let it spur you on.

Just use >>536

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Nice selection. A lot of these look really cool.

>>4263
Nah. This is specifically for high-resolution images that would look good with desktop clutter spread all over them.

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Bliss, from a 600DPI scan of the film. Don't waste your time with 16:9 versions. the WTC wallpaper is one of my personal favorites.

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>>5 (OP) 
>you ever feel a sense of nostalgia for hentai you enjoyed from back in the day?
I'm ambivalent about it. I was growing up in the 00s so even a mediocre internet connection could get a young boy infinite pornography if he knew where to look. When I discovered SadPanda my life changed significantly and not in a good way. If we're just reminiscing about stuff that had strong impacts, then I think Asanagi's Victim Girls 3 defined most of my tastes.

One thing I do recall from my early years exploring erotic illustration is that the Japanese artists I saw tended to be a lot better at creating stuff with actual depth in it. Western comics seemed to be a lot more flat and dull by comparison, and I'm not sure if that was the result of worse art due to comics being mostly dead in the West or just due to different cultural values.

>>4250
>not in a good way
I know that feeling. It's a hard habit to break, but not impossible. Just scoured the tabs from my browser bar a few artbooks and a pair of (non-pornographic) stories. Think I'll keep it that way.

>>4250
>>4264
>It's a hard habit to break, but not impossible.
For what it's worth, I did so ~5 years ago, and the raciest thing I ever seek out now is
>a bunch of women with enormous tits running around on a beach

>>4265
Inspirational. Been doing that for a year and a quarter at this point, hope I can manage as long as you have.

>>4265
>>4266
I have made progress; when I was in high school and university I was spending at least an hour jerking off every day and these days I can go several days at a time without having much or any desire to do so as long as I keep myself busy. I just wish that I could have enough self-control to stop myself when I get into these deranged benders that take up an entire afternoon.

One thing I have noticed is that my tastes have seemed to become gradually less and less extreme, especially over the last couple of years, and my fantasies are now mostly focused on a single woman or myself and a single woman.

Anon has some thoughts about Word 98: http://www.planix.com/~woods/ms-word.sucks.html

>>24 (OP) 
timecube.com (points to a landing page now. Shame.)

Mr. T ate my balls, AYBABTU.

rotten.com had a section for celebrity muckraking pages.  You'd notice they have one for Fred Rogers, but you click it and it's a biography of the man explaining that he never had any muck to rake.

BBSes like TOTSE and Frostcloud.

WinMX, a Napster-style filesharing program.  Had a set of chatrooms full of weirdos.  One guy talked about electrocuting his nuts by hooking them up to a radio station, because he had some kind of romantic fixation on it.  The building or... I don't even know.

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Anyone here neocities pilled?

my site: erikhoudini.com

>>4069
I thought about making one before but don't know what I'd post.

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Holyshit this site is a fucking legend, and it's still alive. I remember how simple the design of this relic site. Back then I was still running on 56k modem. I used to download bunch of anime music from gendou. What's funny about it that I can still remember the password of my gendou account.

I just ordered a Panasonic cordless telephone. It should be here within a week, plus a new battery for it and some hardware that will allow me to use the set despite not having POTS. I'll post about it when it gets here.

>>4214
Cisco and some other companies have converter boxes that basically let you turn an analog RJ-11 phone into a pseudo-IP phone, you can look into that if you actually want to use it

>>4217
I might try that at some point but right now I have purchased a Cell2Jack device which is smaller than a deck of cards and has an RJ11 port for a telephone and it routes calls over a cellular network by connecting to a cell phone which you can then just plug in and hide out of sight. I'm just trying it out for now so hopefully it works.

Today I just received the adapter in the mail as well as a pair of spare batteries for the telephone, which is still in the mail. I used to have this Southwestern Bell telephone but it's at my parents' place now so I thought it would be fun to get a cordless one for fun.

>>4231
>>4217
Update: it works great. Hopefully it keeps working. I can recommend it to you guys here.

>>108 (OP) 
I just found out about FujiNet which is this thing you buy and plug it in to your Apple or Atari computer that lets it use TCP/IP and stuff. I only have a C64, but the fujinet device for commodore isn't out yet. But, once I get my c64 up and running again, hopefully this fujinet thing will be out and I can give it a try.

https://fujinet.online/

bros I got a 13" CRT after I lost my old one. it's in good condition and I found the proper remote for it on eBay and I also got rabbit ear antennas and a digital converter box for it. I'm so excited

I use forums/messageboards or at least imageboards instead of social media

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Hi guys, OP here. In the past week I sourced a 17" CRT monitor in working condition. It's sharp enough though some adjustment would help. I think if I adjust the focus it'll be pretty sharp usable at 1600x1200. For now, I'm using it at 1400x1050. 

I also got a device that lets me use a landline phone over a cell connection. This way, if I'm at home, my calls come in on my cordless telephone. (pic related)

>>4245
Very nice anon, I like the functional over flashy design of your cordless.

>>4246
thanks! It's not my photo but it's a Panasonic Easaphone. Same model. Range is decent, I can walk around the house with it, and of course it works well right next to the base station. No answering machine, which would be cool. I might try setting up an answering machine later.
If I get a call on my cellphone while I'm at home it'll ring on my cordless like regular landline. And placing calls from it works as well.

I need to rearrange my desk for my new CRT monitor. I'll probably keep using my 1600x1200 Viewsonic LCD as my main monitor since it's better for text clarity.