OT: I Remember When

[Puke]

well then, now that thats all square:

I remember when you could get a bag of chips (or other salty snacks) and it would actually contain the product as advertised. These days, you pay a large sum of money for fancy packaging and pLastic canisters that are concave in the middle (so they hold less), are filled 60% with air, and the remaining 40% contains either air-puffed snacks or ones that are circular or otherwise hollow in the center so that they fill a spacious volume with a small ammount of 'edible' material.

the same applies to those bic pen-erasers with the hole down the center of them.

[ October 01, 2002, 00:12: Message edited by: Puke ]

[Puke]

hows this:

i remember when i read the first review of SEIV, and when i first installed the demo. When that crummy envelope first arived in the mail, with that flimsy paper CD holder. The first stellar construction, the first game i finished, the first game i played Online. The first PBW game.

i remember the summer i spent playing CIV-1, maybe two years after its release. I remember my only multiplayer game of SMAC. (it was fun!)

i remember when playing games Online meant playing your daily turn, and waiting for everyone else in the game to dial in to the BBS and play their turn. As in TradeWars 2002, Operation Overkill, and other greats.

i remember when playing multiplayer games meant sitting next to a friend infront of an Atari 400 (upgraded to 8K RAM) and trying to time your button clicks to grab land faster than the guy next to you (M.U.L.E.). Or when it meant hotseat text-based games on an IBM-XT, or hotseat Romance of the Three Kingdoms, in its first incarnation. I remember that it was easiest to play Escape from Castle Wolfenstein with two players, because it took one to move and another to aim / do actions.

Now mulitplayer games mean glassing the planet of someone you have never met, or silly click-fest / frag-fests that have more to do with how much money you have spent on your computer and internet connection that how good you are at the game.

Originally posted by Puke:
well then, now that thats all square:

I remember when you could get a bag of chips (or other salty snacks) and it would actually contain the product as advertised. These days, you pay a large sum of money for fancy packaging and pLastic canisters that are concave in the middle (so they hold less), are filled 60% with air, and the remaining 50% contains either air-puffed snacks or ones that are circular or otherwise hollow in the center so that they fill a spacious volume with a small ammount of 'edible' material.

the same applies to those bic pen-erasers with the hole down the center of them.

I remember the days when things could only add up to 100%. Of course even then, nobody liked a smartarse...

[mottlee]

How's this! Gas......$0.23 Per Gal!

How 'Bout it anyone else?

[Puke]

[quote]Originally posted by Mark the Merciful:

Originally posted by Puke:
[qb]I remember the days when things could only add up to 100%. Of course even then, nobody liked a smartarse...

what? whats that over there? LOOK, A COW!

hey, i think you need to check the validity of that quote, i think you doctored my statement.

[Gryphin]

Puke,
Reguarding this thread getting you down:
My interpretation is that most of the wars including the Crusades were for economic power. Even the American Revolution was motivated by the merchant class who stood the most to gain from it.
On a positive note:
As for regulating meat: Did you ever read Sinclare Lewis's description of the meat packing industry in the US? I have forgotton the name of it.
Positive note:
Comunications as fast as a ship:
Remember how many people died at the Battle of New Orleans 3 days after a peace treaty was signed.

It is my Optimistic Cynical positon to quote,
"Times Change, People Don't"
I do feel the quality of life improves. The people who talk on cell phones in a restaurant, well, I don't know about them.
I feel people still take as much leasure time as they would have 200 years ago. Work a holics existed back then as they do now.
In short: The pase of life has not increased. Our capacity to fill it has.
Disclamer: I could be way off base here. I just choose to belive all of the above os true.
Life Gets Better.

[Atrocities]

You could go to school and kick some kids arse and not have to go to therapy afterwards to discuss your pent up rage at your mother for not giving you a bottle when you were two or something.

When you could say what you wanted to say and not fear getting sued for not being politically correct.

When the term "Politically correct" just ment your political party won the election.

[ October 01, 2002, 00:56: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[Baron Grazic]

How's this! Gas......$0.23 Per Gal!

How 'Bout it anyone else? [Big Grin]

What do you mean? I bought Gas for my car on Saturday for "39 cents"

Mind you I meant LPG Gas and not Petrol and it was by the litre.

[Skulky]

btw sinclairs novel was (and acutally still is) called The Jungle.

I'm only 17 so i don't ahve the greatest persepctive on life, however i will add my 2c in like 2 days when i finish writing 20 million different essays because next week is homecoming week and since we arn't supposed to have homework then they just double it the week before. Good logic ehhh?

not that you guys care much for high school life.

[Ruatha]

I remember when the Turbo button unpressed disabled the Cache and made the computer go slower.

I remember learning that there goes two nibbles on one byte, but altough I programmed alot of assembler I never had any use of that knowledge.

I remember my second computer , the Amstrad CPC-464 (Aka Schneider) and it had colours.

I remember playing Civ-1 a month ago becourse it still beats civ-3.

I remember being an unsecure teenager, never sure of anything.

I remember that things was worse before and now they are great.

I remember that some time ago I hadn't heard of SE4.

I remember when companies didn't have any enviromental ethics, now they atleast say they have.

I remember when equality between sexes and feminism was something extreme, now it's political correct.

I remember that it sucks when the reserve parachute doesnt work, and when it finally opens and you land you realize you packed it wrong yourself.

I remember staying up at nights becourse the kids wouldn't sleep, I remember things are much better nowadays

[ November 06, 2002, 08:20: Message edited by: Ruatha ]