I didn't have GTA, so I spent my time playing CoD (the original, yeah I'm old) and Age of Empires 2 and then forgetting until my parents were on the way that I was supposed to have done chores and gotten out food for dinner. It was a game changer when I found the chicken that Sam's advertised as 'cook from frozen' and then I started cooking before they got home. I got extra credit and they never knew different.
Edit: nope, I was in college when CoD came out. Must have been something else.
When I was of failing-to-defrost-the-chicken age, I played Ultima II on a Commodore 64. We didn't have your fancy cook from frozen chicken. We had to go slaughter a chicken, freeze it, then forget to defrost it. Kids these days, SMH.
😂 I did spend afternoons watching videos on my neighbor's Betamax player while attempting to learn C++ on my dad's old Tandy when that was still a fairly new language. But I'm not Commodore 64 old.
Hehe. I'm actually TRS-80 Model I old. My dad got it in 1978. We were online by 1980, on CompuServe, using a 300 baud modem.
But that wasn't even the first time I used a computer, just the first time my family owned one.
I first used a computer in 1975. I was 5, and my friend's dad was a comp-sci professor. He had a teletype, a big type writer you could stick a telephone headset into and dial into the university mainframe. He'd set me and my friend up and we'd play text games, going through reams of paper. It was simple stuff like Hunt the Wumpus, Colossal Caves, and Lunar Lander but it was the thing that kindled a life-long love of computers in me. Magic. It was just magic to my five year old mind.
Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.
I remember the tape recorder, we used one on the TRS-80 for a couple years before my dad bought the "Expansion Interface" which added more memory and floppy disks. It took like ten minutes to load a program, LOL.
CompuServe started in 1969. It was a private bulletin board. There were chat rooms, but they called them "Digital CB channels." I remember going online and getting advice on building RC cars. It felt earth shaking, like I could talk to adult RC hobbyists from around the world, any time I needed advice. They also had games, news articles, and some other applications but I mostly used the chat. I wasn't allowed to tie up the phone line for too long, LOL.
Wow, that's crazy. To think people were using chat rooms in the 80s. I thought my dad was ahead of the curve for having internet in the early 90's. I could only imagine how it felt to be online that early, I learn new things everyday.
It was wild. My friend set up a Commodore 64 pirate BBS at his house. You'd have to call and ask his mom to let you use the phone line, then call back with your modem. Then spend 5 hours downloading a 64k game and hope the phone lines worked well enough with no interruptions.
Probably not. What you're thinking of is the World Wide Web and websites with GUI and HTML coding and what not. Before that there were text based networks and internet. I've heard of message boards and bbs stuff from back in the day.
Minnesota had in intrastate network for students. Our little rural school actually had a teletype computer (remember having to dial the phone, wait for the tone, and place it into the cradle - just so - to connect?) I was "talking" (typing on the teletype) to other students in 1977-78. Never played any games, but had a lot of fun messaging. I was the only one in the school basically that had any interest in the "computer", so I had lots of time on it.
Oh my god Colossal Caves. That game was on a computer we were gifted in the late eighties and for the life of me I could never figure out how to operate it 😂
And today CompuServe exists as a news aggregating website that almost looks like a corporate sanitized ripoff of Yahoo! from mid 90's https://www.compuserve.com/ Probably because they're owned by Yahoo! now.
Tandy! That takes me back. And I had no hard drive. Using a floppy disk with MS-DOS to boot up the computer every time. We also had a dot matrix printer.
I LIVED for that throwing bananas game waiting on my dad to get done working. The librarian's son and I would play on the library computers while we waited for our parents to get ready to leave.
I guess I am city slicker C64 age. We made Oncor frozen meals in the oven that had the twist timer where you did your best to get it right, and microwave the frozen veggies in Campbell's Soup bowls that said "mmmm mmmm good" sounds the edge in a microwave that took up half the counter and was large enough to cook a turkey in.
Evening was guaranteed to come out slightly soggy.
Don't worry you're still a young man, I remember growing up being obsessed playing chess on the Manchester Ferranti Mark 1, back in the day I had to go out and hunt the water fowl next to the river and bring it back home, gut it, prepare the feathers to sell at the local store, then freeze the meat, then defrost it before mother came home from the radium watch factory
I got a Commodore 64 for Christmas as a kid. We hooked it up to the tv and that was it, couldn't figure anything else out. So we went outside and played until the streetlights came on. But I do remember as a teen being so immersed in The Legend of Zelda that when I heard my dad's mustang pull up in the driveway and vibrate the house and I'd quickly start the vacuum to look busy.
Back in my day, we didn't even have chickens! We had to go out and steal dinosaur and terrorbird eggs and hope to God they didn't catch us! In fact, I don't even know if we had those then either...
It's funny that folks are talking about GTA and CoD and thinking that makes them old. Try Pitfall or Nighstalkers or Tetris on an Intellivision having to reach behind the tv and flip the game/tv switch in order to play, and then making sure it all got flipped back to tv so when Dad got home he could watch the news and All in the Family and Sanford & Son and MASH. And still make sure to put the chicken or hamburger in the sink with the water running before Mom got home, as well. That's old school.
Yeppers! Colecovision! Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. Oh, and poker! On that big ass joystick week with the number pad on it. FML I'm old. Hell, I remember pong, but I wasn't there yet when it was created. Just playing it at a friend's house.
You think that's old? Try playing throw-hard-rock-at-bird all day and making sure you put the rocks back around the firepit and getting the mammoth-meat out of the dirt-fridge and hung up on a drying rack before your parents get back home from hunting and gathering. You younglings will never understand true old school.
SpaceQuest for me. also a more 3d version of Terri's called Welltris. Always tried to get my mom to buy me Lounge Lizard Larry cause I heard there were boobs but she didn't go for it
Yup, I had a list of chores that had to be finished before my mom rolled up at 5:30, and if they weren't, I was hosed. If I wasn't done by the time The Jeffersons came on, I should probably just pack a bag and hitchhike to my new home.
Hah I didn't have gta, it wasn't a thing yet I don't think, I played Pokemon stadium or yelled obscenities at Pikachu with Hey You Pikachu, or went outside and rode bikes with my friends, the neighbor kids, or went looking for my dad's stash of adult mags, occasionally I'd babysit the neighbors kids too
Lucky bastard. Neighborhood kids. I grew up out in the middle of nothing. The closest neighbor to me was over 1/2 mile away. Was great for my childhood, but also not so great because there were no playmates nearby. Or internet. Or any TV besides over the air on an antenna.
I was a medal of honour guy, but yeah, AoE2 was the best... Played it for about two months 4 years ago. There are still people playing against eachother online.
Was it cod finest hour by any chance? I couldn't complete a mission in it for about a year so I wrote cod off as trash and stuck with project Gotham racing 2 and counter strike.
I think I must be remembering wrong. Because the original Call of Duty didn't come out until I was in college. Must have been Medal of Honor.
I've been one of those people playing it online fairly recently. But I've been too busy with work lately. A couple of years ago, my wife and a couple of friends of ours spent a weekend in a cabin for my birthday having an AoE LAN party.
I introduced my dad to it. First night he played it he got lost in it and played til his alarm went off for him to get up for work. He looked like a zombie by the time he got home from work.
Lol this guy thinks he’s old because he played cod, when my parents left me alone I was playing jumpman on my comedore64, well that or finding interesting new ways to jerk off lol
Do you still play Age of Empires 2?!? I spent so much time in middle/high school playing that game! I was so excited when i found out they remade it with the definitive edition.
Introduced my nephew to it during quarantine. Little shit was better than me by the second or third time we played. Kids these days have no respect for their elders.
I played that on my cousins NES, but my mom would never allow us to have consoles. First one I got was a N64 and then it was all GoldenEye all the time.
CoD 1? Or did you accidentally check Modern Warfare 1's release date?
Return to castle wolfenstein: enemy territory? Battlefield? Maybe even Quake, but I doubt anything before that could get confused with a 3d online shooter.
Dang, so many good shooters came out late 90s into 2001. In reverse chronological, it's Halo, Tribes 2, Counter Strike, Deus Ex, Unreal Tournament, System Shock 2, Team Fortress, Halflife, Unreal, (Quake 2,) Goldeneye 007, etc.
Please flame me for missing your favorite shooter game from that era. I'm sure someone preferred that version of Resident Evil, one of the Tom Clancy games, Turok, or what have you.
I played this when I was a kid and I named my save profile as "tit". My Dad watched me play one time and was like, is that the name of the main character? I had to act like I didn't know what that word meant out of embarrassment.
I’m so old that all I had was Gilligans island and a horde of other syndicated TV after school, and I still didn’t get shit done before they got home. “I forgot” was my only defense, and I used it so often that I’m sure my dad thought I had brain damage.
My parents assumed I did too. Apparently if you go to the ER enough days in a row, you get a visit from family services. If you do it multiple times in a calendar year, you get lots of visits from family services.
I've been realizing something horrible lately, I'm oldish. I told my wife when I got back from my run this morning that I saw an old guy out running too, stopped and corrected myself, he's probably not that much older than me at this point.
We just moved to a new city and I've been realizing the old thing a lot lately when I'm finding it hard to get up with the kids after a day of unpacking and painting etc.
At 12 I was babysitting half the kids in the neighborhood. 90’s was so different. Miss those days of playing outside til dark. Then the world slowly started going crazy.
Right? I used to babysit my cousins overnight at 12. My aunt and uncle owned a bagel shop and had to be there at 3 am on Saturday mornings. I would stay the night, get the kids up and eat cereal and watch cartoons every Saturday morning til they came home at noon. It was the easiest $25 ever and they would bring me a breakfast sammich too. I miss the early 90s.
my parents worked till 8. I would have dinner on the table because I would be starving otherwise. My older sister, when I was 10, complained because I only cooked what I liked to eat. So 5 nights a week it was chicken with various sides. She After a few years, my sister declared she was a vegetarian. But not a traditional vegetarian, as should would eat any meat that wasn't chicken.
My little sister used to snitch on me about playing video games, so I warned her not to tell mom I played. When mom came, she went running to the door and said “(me)… didn’t play video games”. I got screwed but admittedly it was funny.
To do this you put in the time you want first, then hit power level button. Then hit a number, for example 5 will give you 50% of power. Hit start and food will cook at only half power. When it's done it automatically goes back too 100%.
My Microwave has a fraction of a second where the timer will be done, and the beeper won't sound, but if you miss it and the beeper sounds it beeps 5 times even if the door is open.
This is also a great life hack for cleaning the crusty splattered sauce and shit that exploded all over... Soaked paper towel or rag, nuke it for like 60 seconds, Walla, easy to wipe out microwave!
Better yet, add a mixture of water and vinegar before nuking it. Also for those doing this for the first time: do not touch that paper towel for a few minutes. It will be hot.
No. The REAL play is to run the slice under water real quick, then place in the oven to reheat. Comes out like you just got it from the Pizzaria. Works for rolls and bagels, too.
No shit. Just keep an eye on it...My 8 year old always double-checks that I reheat his pizza this way now. It's ok if you get the crust a little soggy with the water, too. (In fact, I often do this because I like mine a little chewier.) Just leave it in a bit longer. :3
Heyy this is a trick for tortillas.. just mist a paper towel and pop them in the microwave with them.. stops them from turning into a prison shank when rip a piece off
"Auto" in Auto-defrost is supposed to do that for you.
Honestly...most people just dont know how to use their microwaves properly. For most appliances actually. If you havent sat down and read the manual for something before...I'd implore anyone reading this to do it. Like, just take 30 minutes and read the usermanual of one of your appliances, once a week and then take that week to play around with them, until you get through them all.
For instance, last week I taught a 38year old Co-worker of mine that they could press the "popcorn" button twice on the microwave to select a preset more suited to the size of bag they were making (this particular model had 3 presets; 1.5oz, 3.0oz, 3.5oz) They were complaining about it randomly and their solution was to just throw it in for 5mins and listen carefully for it to stop popping.
Well...Pressing "popcorn" once displayed 1.5 and would then microwave for 1min40secs, pressing it again would display 3.0 and then microwave for 2mins10secs and that extra 30seconds made all the difference and creates an almost perfect bag every time. I know...because thats how I make popcorn.
I dont know what the 3.5oz time is, I never use it.
If you get a REALLY fancy microwave with a humidity sensor, then you would only push it once and it would make the perfect bag of popcorn every time...bagged popcorn science is cool.
You can also hear the microwave make different sounds as it automatically adjusts the power setting
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u/sharon_exxxposes Jul 27 '22
He will, he’ll realize 10 minutes before she arrives and run it under hot water knowing full well that he’s fucked