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Westwind wrote:

I certainly appreciate the good intentions, don't get me wrong. Human nature being what it is though, it's better not to feed pouchies more attention. :)

NS itself is certainly Retro. Text-based games of the 70's and 80's were common. There was just no Internet to make a global multi-player game. Instead, your mates all sat or stood around and behind you and watched while you played. They called out suggestions, "Go West!" "No, go North!" "Check out that # sign!", and waited their turn to show you how they could do better than you. Or not. "But I was sure that would work!" Although the original Need For Speed ran fine on my 8088 PC. Everyone hated that it didn't have a crash scene when you ran off the side of the cliff in all it's three color CGA graphics glory.

I used Gopher to hop from University to University on the Internet, before the Web. Connecting instantly with a University on the other side of the world was a very big deal in a time when it would take months to get research loaned and shipped to you from that same University. You couldn't 'Google it'. Doing your own research meant going to the Library and browsing the card catalogs and hoping you were looking in the right place. Or writing letters to request information from universities, organizations and government entities. We've got it so easy now. *chuckles* That's the kind of Retro I can do without.

Punching the cards for your computer job, dropping them, trying to put them back in order, feeding them into a compiler, bad job card...

To say nothing of taking examinations with a slide rule, because it was faster than punching numbers into a calculator, with proper answers using significant digits.

Yy4u wrote:

Retro?

Intellivision

Also the 1N34 and the 2N2222 or 2SB107 ... CK722?

Intellivision football and baseball!
Alpiner on the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A.

Useanip wrote:

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Hello! Welcome to the West Pacific, I had to suppress your post because it seemed like a roleplaying message. I would advise reading our New Player Guide and RMB etiquette.

Railroad crossing wrote:

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You're still banned from here, and already breaking our etiquette (by quoting a suppressed message) during the short time you came back doesn't help. I guess I have to re-ban you due to how the ban list works.

Woolfbetia wrote:

man, i just love it when the world census show my weakest category

It's random, so that may happen sometimes. But soon it could choose one of your strongest ones too! Keep answering issues and soon you could have lots of top 10%, 5% or even 1% badges for a few stats depending on your choices.

Good night TWP!

Hello Friends!

Giovanniland wrote:

Hello! Good morning everyone.

Good morning!

Is this Flag bad?

*brews a fresh pot of that West Pacific blend*

Morning coffee really gets my bowels working. It's my G.I. Joe

*coffee*

Slin hifen wrote:

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What? Please don't spam the message board with nonsensical messages, I would suggest reading our RMB etiquette.

Murder at Costco!

Tired of constantly being broke and stuck in an unhappy marriage, a young husband decided to solve both problems by taking out a large insurance policy on his wife with himself as the beneficiary and then arranging to have her killed.

A 'friend of a friend' put him in touch with a nefarious dark-side underworld figure who went by the name of 'Artie.' Artie explained to the husband that his going price for snuffing out a spouse was $10,000.

The Husband said he was willing to pay that amount but that he wouldn't have any cash on hand until he could collect his wife's insurance money. Artie insisted on being paid at least something up front, so the man opened his wallet, displaying the single dollar bill that rested inside.

Artie sighed, rolled his eyes and reluctantly agreed to accept the dollar as down payment for the dirty deed.

A few days later, Artie followed the man's wife to the local Costco Supermarket. There, he surprised her in the produce department and proceeded to strangle her with his gloved hands. As the poor unsuspecting woman drew her last breath and slumped to the floor, the manager of the produce department stumbled unexpectedly onto the murder scene. Unwilling to leave any living witnesses behind, ol' Artie had no choice but to strangle the produce manager as well.

However, unknown to Artie, the entire proceedings were captured by the hidden security cameras and observed by the shop's security guard, who immediately called the police. Artie was caught and arrested before he could even leave the premises.

Under intense questioning at the police station, Artie revealed the whole sordid plan, including his unusual financial arrangements with the hapless husband who was also quickly arrested.

The next day in the newspaper, the headline declared...

"ARTIE CHOKES 2 for $1 @ Costco"

The Holy Principality of Saint Mark wrote:

Murder at Costco!

Tired of constantly being broke and stuck in an unhappy marriage, a young husband decided to solve both problems by taking out a large insurance policy on his wife with himself as the beneficiary and then arranging to have her killed.

A 'friend of a friend' put him in touch with a nefarious dark-side underworld figure who went by the name of 'Artie.' Artie explained to the husband that his going price for snuffing out a spouse was $10,000.

The Husband said he was willing to pay that amount but that he wouldn't have any cash on hand until he could collect his wife's insurance money. Artie insisted on being paid at least something up front, so the man opened his wallet, displaying the single dollar bill that rested inside.

Artie sighed, rolled his eyes and reluctantly agreed to accept the dollar as down payment for the dirty deed.

A few days later, Artie followed the man's wife to the local Costco Supermarket. There, he surprised her in the produce department and proceeded to strangle her with his gloved hands. As the poor unsuspecting woman drew her last breath and slumped to the floor, the manager of the produce department stumbled unexpectedly onto the murder scene. Unwilling to leave any living witnesses behind, ol' Artie had no choice but to strangle the produce manager as well.

However, unknown to Artie, the entire proceedings were captured by the hidden security cameras and observed by the shop's security guard, who immediately called the police. Artie was caught and arrested before he could even leave the premises.

Under intense questioning at the police station, Artie revealed the whole sordid plan, including his unusual financial arrangements with the hapless husband who was also quickly arrested.

The next day in the newspaper, the headline declared...

"ARTIE CHOKES 2 for $1 @ Costco"

Everyone should keep posting puns today, but I regret to inform you that it'll be an exhibition because this did it for me.

This message is regarding the regional rank of black market. we are ranked within the top 9% I feel we should work to lower this