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Everyone likes to forget this episode just because it's terrible, but we were really sleeping on inherent comedy in a unfreezing an investor 300 years in the future and having them discover we've transitioned to a moneyless post-scarcity utopia.

 it's like a classic twilight zone episode.
in fact, it IS a twilight zone episode.
The Rip Van Winkle Caper, Season 2, episode 24.
Four criminals steal a million dollars of gold bars, then put themselves in suspended animation for a hundred years to hide from the law.
they wake up, then start killing each other from mistrust, then the last one dies in the desert, as he offers a gold bar to the driver of a passing car, asking for water and a ride into town
the confused driver walks back to his car with the bar, and his wife asks what the gold bar is.
he says something like "It's gold... they used to use this for money, before we figured out a way to manufacture it."
He tosses it away, and drives off.
TNG's The Neutral Zone is that, but with the entire concept of money itself.
Future humans: *unfreezes investor*
Investor: MWAHAHAH! I LIVE! I must be rich now.
Future humans: Well, you were dead, so your will probably distributed all your money, so... no
Investor: Noooo!!!!
Future humans: But don't worry: We don't have money anymore
Investor: NOOOOOOOOO
Inventor: But how can I be rich now!?
Future humans: What is this thing you call "rich"? Like a good chocolate? You want some chocolate? This machine can make it. HEY COMPUTER, GIVE ME CHOCOLATE
Replicator: *Buzzes, Chocolate appears*
Investor: No, "rich" is when you have a bunch of things!
Future human: Oh, I see. Good news then: You're rich.
Investor: Yes!!!
Future human: We're all rich. We can have as many things as we want. This machine can make them.
Investor: Noooooo!
Future humans: What's wrong? You're "rich", isn't that what you wanted?
Investor: It's not fun being rich unless there are people who aren't rich to compare yourself to!
Future humans: Ahhh, so what you really wanted was to be be better than other people?
Investor: YES!
Future humans: well that's ok then, we still have that.
Investor: Oh?
Future humans: Yeah, you can just, you know, work harder, discover new things, write the best stories, create new theories, design better starships, create the best music.
Investor: oh...
Future humans: Yeah, isn't that what you were telling everyone back in your time? You can be better, you just have to pull yourself up by your bootstraps, devote yourself, work harder, get up early, skip the coffees?
Investor: Uhh... kinda?
Future humans: Well, good news, you can still do that, just without the cheating complexities of "money" to get in the way!
Investor: *softly* but that's what I was good at...
Future humans: And it can work better now. Because back in your time, you'd have complications like people inheriting money, or getting money because of systems that priviledged them over others. Now it's an even playing field!
Future humans: It's a much purer form of that meritocracy you were talking about. "From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs" and all that. And that's not even the best part!
Investor: Is there a best part?
Future human: "Mocha Frappuccino, extra mocha."
Replicator: *bzzzzzzz*
Future human: You don't even have to skip the coffee this time.
I'm just saying that there's a lot of inherent comedy in the idea taking someone devoted specifically to making money, and bringing them into a future where WHOOPS while they were gone, we got rid of money and made the world a paradise.
GOOD NEWS, you know that one thing you devoted your life to? We don't need that anymore, it doesn't matter. But now you can devote your life to creating and exploring and self-improvement! Isn't that great? ISN'T IT?

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These are turn-based wargames for windows 3.x, sharing the same engine.
Battles in a Distant Desert is from 1992, and is based on the first Iraq war (Desert Storm)


and Battles on Distant Planets is from 1991, and takes place in SPACE!
I'm pretty sure this is the one I played as a kid.


They've got 3 options to play with:
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* Player vs. Computer
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So it's a 0-2 player game!


They also did a DOS strategy game called "STARDATE 2140.2: GALACTIC CONQUEST" in 1990, but it seems to be lost.
All the games share an experimental AI system based on neural networks.
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I don't know why twitter is refusing to insert a card for this one. In any case, It's the @LockPickingLwyr, and it's a floppy-drive-lock.


so I've been meaning to do a video or thread on these sorts of locks myself. I have several, of different designs.

generally they're all designed vaguely like this one: it's a plastic insert that goes into the floppy drive, then it has some bit that rotates with the key to hold itself inside.

and they pretty much universally use super-cheap low-security tubular locks like this. You can probably pick most of them with a ballpoint pen
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I like how mediawiki exports pages because there's nothing I enjoy more than parsing a 1 gigabyte XML file

and I'm doing simple-english-wiki! it's way smaller than english wikipedia
I can only imagine how impossibly unparsable that nightmare is

fun fact: when programmers need to write code to extract data from an XML file, the process usually goes like this:
1. find XML file
2. open it in a text editor, see what the structure is
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do you really want to open a 1 gigabyte XML file in your text editor?

do you want to fucking die?

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does bubble memory count as solid state?
I guess? I mean, it has no moving parts. but it requires preheating and involves movement of magnetic fields across a surface...

it's kinda like a traditional hard drive where you don't spin the disc, you just trick all the bits to migrate off the edge

who called it "bubble memory" and not "lemming bits"

(obligatory "lemmings don't throw themselves off cliffs, that's an urban legend")

(obligatory "the idea that disney invented that urban legend it itself an urban legend, they just helped popularize it")
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love to see a youtube video that references a script that's linked in the comments and it's an obfuscated link to a one-click hoster.

THAT'S DEFINITELY STILL GONNA WORK IN FOUR YEARS

it does still work, but that's because it's only been 2 years.

also, wow, this is horrible.

the script is to generate random kanji/han characters and insert them into minecraft books.
but the video references there being two hotkeys to generate two distinct books, which seemed odd. so I thought I'd check.

it turns out by "random" they mean "pre-randomized and is hardcoded into the 45 kilobyte autohotkey scripot"


I mean, I get it. I don't want to write AutoHotKey scripts either. it's a horrible, horrible language.

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