How’d you like their presentation?

You say that until you’re hit by a hot can of iron

A horse would seduce his entire family

It’s like that saying goes: “The law is the same for everyone, neither the king nor the beggar may sleep under a bridge.”

Anything clearly expensive = fucking idiot

Cthulhu is just tryin to get away from Brazil and will need the OOP

Everyone defines themselves by their role

I don’t and I bet many people don’t as well. I define myself by what I know, who I know, what I believe, like and dislike, have done and can do. Roles can be assigned, but they only serve as oversimplifications of what’s expected of people. The role of “mother” only means that a woman has one or more children. Whether said children are blood related, adopted, whether she’s a “good” or “bad” mother, whether she’s married, widow, single, etc etc, is up in the air.

Your second argument there doesn’t need roles to be answered either, or do you think only specific roles can help people? Life isn’t an RPG with clear-cut classes

For those like me that don’t know HyperCard, it’s a visual programming tool for Apple II. Ars Technica has a good rundown with more technical and historical details

Chuck’s Challenge 3D is a spiritual sequel of Chip’s Challenge, with the same puzzle designer

Most of the stuff was whatever demos came with those magazine CDs. Half wouldn’t run on the family computer - none of LucasArts’ adventure games did. Some that did run and I remember playing were:

• Diablo (only the 1st level of the dungeon available, the Butcher would also show up and kill you after you cleared it, got out and went back)
• Age of Empires (3 small scenario maps, which I played to death)
• Stargunner (only 3 levels and most of the equipment wasn’t available)
  
• Raptor (some weapons were locked but, weirdly enough, one time the game “registered itself” and all weapons were unlocked. No idea wtf happened)
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• (EDIT) Capture the flag (yes, the game’s name was just that. A turn based capture the flag that really left me wanting that level editor! Also, that’s a link for the developer’s site, he’s still selling his games)

One of the few things we had was Lion King’s Activity Center (Brazilian version, Centro de Atividades). I distinctly remember that, for whatever reason, the VA for Rafiki was different from the movie

At my dad, I played a lot of Lemmings and some of those Arthur interactive books. To my then non-english-speaking ass, the story reading was mostly pointless, but most scenes would let you click around to see what happened, characters would either say something or do something funny (I personally loved one where you clicked DW and she’d ride her bike over a small hill, crashing then coming back)

Also this one, which I don’t think I enjoyed as much as Arthur for whatever reason

(That picture immediately made me “smell” crayons. Is there a word for when a picture reminds you of a smell?)

Define “being useless”. It certainly seems that “being useless”, to you, it is either “not working” or “not creating monetary value”, which would be super ironic given that there are many jobs around the world that make the person feel useless or worse

I’d say that anyone that feels the need to define themselves “by their role” has no clue on who they are or can be, needing the rest of society to direct them

Nothing like comparing a technology that took more than 10 years to get “released in the wild” and had several “killer apps” built using it very early on (email, instant messaging, web pages, online games) and many companies had no idea how to get money with it, vs. a “content generator” that is run almost entirely on promises of increased productivity and profit.

You have a very limited view of what life should, or even can be.

'Round my parts, robbers just target the armoured trucks that move money to ATMs.

Brazilian under a similar situation. Gambling and casinos are illegal within the entire country, but in 2018 online gambling/casinos were allowed to run ads everywhere. Every other week there’d be a new betting site throwing ads on every TV channel and tiktok/instagram influencer. Some regulation started showing up last year, people on Bolsa Familia (govt money for people in extreme poverty) were dumping that money straight into the gambling sites, but it’s too little, too late. A significant portion of the political right is now being bribed lobbied to legalize casinos again, “It’z gun generert jerbs and tworism!!!”

If you make it illegal, they’ll just run back to a tax haven like so many are already doing, but at least people will be less likely to find them. If you tax them to hell, they’ll also run to a tax haven and do money laundering+tax evasion. Gambling companies are lose-lose-win for people-govts-themselves.

Same energy

Only if my work pays for the electricity and water bills, because keeping a warm shower running for an hour will skyrocket those costs

I suspect they’ll just stop bothering with the surveillance and go straight for reality tv and internet porn, much more telling of us as a whole

I actually have time, but I often spend it doing other stuff. Once in a while, I will play some of my videogames, but I also play boardgames, which are great for my needs to socialize and interact with people