I think you also have to factor in the cost of living. And then, the penny being devalued is only kind of recent. Even 50 years ago, state college was $300 a year and minimum wage was around $2. Stores sold penny candy and a coffee for a quarter.

Anybody else have race track autism? I do! I have an entire fucking map of most current and former asphalt race tracks across the US.

Sketches from today's Raffle Sketch stream! For Solratic, Kilinah, Flake, and Axhell!

It totally makes sense, the "bulletin board" part shows up in the names of a number of early web forum systems. So the difference between a "bulletin board" and a "BBS" isn't really super clear if you didn't personally use the latter

Seeing someone refer to a web forum as a “BBS" is another one of those fascinating little reminders that a lot of people are pretty fuzzy about the distinctions between the different overlapping early networked services

Hi Barbie! Come to dance comp ;3

nobody takes the strategy board seriously and i think that's beautiful

Fun fact: Pennies have almost always been considered worthless to businesses and even remotely well off people. They were only worth it when annual wages were under $100. The moment they became 4 digits or more, their existence was trivialized.

A lot of men seem really upset that the new governor of Virginia is a woman and already vigorously cleaning house after the shitshow that preceded her.

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Sky News Journalist reports on Minnesotans fight back against the Gestapo (= ICE Border Patrol) Seems Gestapo goons don’t care about the obvious fact they are despised by the American People www.facebook.com/share/v/1DgK...

dude what do you MEAN this was an hour's bus ride away this whole time.

i still have a couple of comm slots open! info below V

dudes rock

If you want to put people back on the moon, don’t gut the agency in charge of getting them there.

Tales of Graces f Remastered feat. music by Motoi Sakuraba released worldwide 1 year ago today. Sakuraba-san is available for your #gamedev at www.scarletmoonartists.com #gamemusic #vgm #TalesOf #JRPG

just got out of an uber. the driver was telling me how he has to work 16 hour days, seven days a week, at two different jobs to afford rent. he doesn't have healthcare and he worries about retirement. "i would feel a lot better if we owned greenland," he told me. then he cried.

A neo nazi being saved by a black guy .

The same color people he rants about saved his sorry ass. I think maybe a couple plants in the crowd to keep it as civil as possible. Absolutely no visible police presence during Lang's Quran burning

Jake Lang is lucky the guy in the black jacket helped him get away from the crowd before things could potentially escalate. Right-wingers will no doubt twist it regardless.

THANK YOU! I will make this into a jpg so I can add the extra info - that would go past the character count lol

Wear nitrile gloves to avoid leaving fingerprints.

See also: 1) Buy empty condiment (ketchup, mustard) bottles @ the dollar store. 2) Make a snip in the top to SLIGHTLY widen the opening. 3) Fill with vegetable oil. 4) Recover with cap. 5) Carry in pants with deep pockets. 6) Deploy on windshields, face shields, body shields. 7) THROW AWAY BOTTLE.

Well done, Minneapolis, well fucking done ✊✊✊

TIL that in Bubsy 3D (Accolade, 1996), when you pause the game it says PAWS! on the screen. Bubsy 3D has a dedicated PAWS! button. That's it.

Here’s a short of the process youtube.com/shorts/pX_u9...

And with the help of The Board Folk the system board was reverse engineered and a brand new one produced to bring it back to life.

This is how it arrived

That Commie looks outstanding 🤩

Four exhibits being enjoyed at @retrocollective.co.uk today

Yeah I was confused because there are normal game manuals for the Japanese release, so I thought the search engine was messing with me and giving me collectors market results

I mean, I guess it would be silly when it just always comes with it. Also, most strategy guides I can think of from that era had manual-adjacent info in the first few pages, anyways. Damn game took up way too much shelf space, though.

Apparently the strategy guide *was* the manual, according to stuff I'm finding from the gamefaqs era of the internet.

It is, all US copies came with the player's guide

Yah, that is true, but this is a full game guide that tables 127 pages lol

it wasn't uncommon for old games' manuals to include a fair amount of info about getting through the game iirc

Is there an English manual for Earthbound that is *not* a player's guide or am I stupid and that *is* the normal English manual that was packed in with the game. Ive never owned the game in-box, so idk.

Ah yes, the group of people who unironically used terms like "furfags" and "furtroons" as insults are now weighing in on who is a danger to furries. Lovely. They should delete their accounts.

I can only really conclude that the transmedicalist clique wants young trans people like I was to suffer and never transition. I can't imagine any other motivation they might have to publicly treat someone who came out like I did in this way.

My mesage was that most trans people nowadays would welcome them and consider them trans, if they felt like I did about their gender. And the transmedicalist clique has declared that I'm public enemy number one, over this.

I used myself as the example, cautioning young people about waiting on this, and saying that you didn't want to turn out like me, having hangups and anxieties in their older age that made them feel unable to transition.

The most fucked up thing about this entire hate campaign is that I originally came out as trans online SPECIFICALLY to reach out to younger people who are questioning how they felt about gender, as I was, and give them a gentle push towards considering themselves trans, and an earlier transition.

These people are just projecting, once again. They prey on young, vulnerable trans people desperate for social validation with their little cult and have been for a long time. Their entire problem with furries is that they wouldn’t comply with their demands to mulch me lmao.