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now that's a title screen

foolish people like to quote that "science says there are only two genders". This is incorrect.

Science instead says that in addition to the regular genders, there are 25 Science Genders, shown here. (tag yourself I'm Skull)

I have no idea how to continue with this game.
I clicked a bunch of things and the game just pauses for a second, except when I clicked electron it animated and then was replaced by... something

Quarky & Quaysoo's Turbo Science!

Turbo Science is like regular Science, but FASTER

oh I see

is this Gizmos and Gadgets but by Sierra?

those sure are names

race map!

I clicked on myself which said I could "earn $" but it gave me this screen which I don't understand

so I instead tried to go to the first part of the race, but... I don't have enough money.

what

ahh, if I click "next question", it gives me SCIENCE questions

https://t.co/8jxzKE9uQA

I like the "press your luck" animations that play when you get a question right

next checkpoint.
that bear is too cool

next checkpoint

I have many questions

Paco de Suave

https://t.co/ftQtzdUgZ3

there's profile pages for each of the opponents

ahh, now I'm studying the science of ROCK

one of your walls is missing, ants

oh I see this game is bullshit propaganda

next checkpoint

Turbo Science News!
I've moved from Squid to Wonker!

oh god I'm at the Clown Bakery

now that's Science

sadly the blimp keeps advertising Turbo Math, and never tells me that Ice Cube's a Pimp.

Power! Industry! Big men inserting screwdrivers into things, turning them, and adjusting them!

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foone
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An interesting set of games that I've been vaguely interested in since I was a kid, after seeing one at a friend's house and never being able to find it again, was the BATTLES IN A DISTANT DESERT/BATTLES ON DISTANT PLANETS series.

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:
* Player vs. Player
* Player vs. Computer
* Computer vs. Computer

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.

foone
@Foone

So there's a class of puzzles called "river crossing puzzles" which involve having to cross a river on a boat/bridge containing some set of individuals/items with restrictions on which ones can be on the boat/left on each shore, right?

and the most common subclass of these problems is the one where you have 3 items/animals to cross with.
This is alternatively called the "fox, goose, and bag of beans" or "wolf, goat, and cabbage" puzzle.

the idea is that your boat can only carry one item at a time, but if you leave the wolf/fox unattended with the goat/goose, the wolf/fox will eat the goat/goose.
and similarly, the goose/goat will eat the beans/cabbage if left alone

so you have to set up a set of actions that never leaves either side of the river in one of the lose-states.

the solution to this variant being:
1. take the goat/goose over
2. return empty
3. take the wolf/fox over
4. return with the goat/goose
5. take the cabbage/beans over
6. return empty
7. take the goat/goose over

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foone
@Foone

maybe it's just leftover urges from being a toddler putting round pegs in square holes but every time I see a video card like this on ebay I want to buy it and also some RAM chips to fill it with

when I win the lottery I'm gonna buy all of these and a bunch of RAM chips, put them together, and then relist them right back onto ebay

I have a dream that one day all the super VGA cards on ebay will have full ram expansion sockets

that's a nice VLB video card you have there
be a real shame if someone were to UPGRADE ITS RAM

huh, I don't think I've ever seen RAM in that package
QFP DRAMs?

foone
@Foone

Something that I didn't realize but hurt my brain to learn:
John Norman (aka John Frederick Lange Jr.), of the Gor series of sci-fi/BDSM novels, is still alive.
He released two books (one of them a Gor book, #35), in 2019.

I guess with the fact that the series started in 1966 and feels like it's always a historical thing... I assumed he had to have quit writing and/or died back in like 1986.

Nope. Still alive, he's 89, and was apparently still writing as of 2 years ago.

also, my brain being what it is, I totally just googled for the book's cover image by entering "trans man of gor" which is NOT the title.

in my defense, how many book serieses look like this WITH THE SAMEAUTHOR FROM BOOK #1 to BOOK #35?

Anyway if you look at any this and think it's a suggestion that you should try reading any of these novels or learning anything about them, you are quite mistaken.

Gor is bad sci-fi and bad BDSM, and you should skip it for either reason.

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So the cryptocurrency industry has basically two products, one which is relatively benign and doesn't have product market fit, and one which is malignant and does. The industry has a weird superposition of understanding this fact and (strategically?) not understanding it.

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