Sounds vaguely familiar. I think it was more than just pong.

It’s been so long. I honestly don’t remember :(

Salt.

Pong on some device in the late 70s. So that might not count.

Oregon Trail on a computer store Apple ][.

Finally Wizardry I on my own Apple ][+. Early 1982 iirc.

Probably a fine dye so long as you don’t mind everything you own being that color. Not to mention the smell. And being dead of course.

I haven’t really played the board game, as my wife and I usually get caught up in longer ones. But I do have childhood memories of killing many a brave group of pioneers with poor planning and too much bad meat.

YOU HAVE DIED OF DYSENTERY

My cat named børt

My cat is also named børt.

Bort

One of my former WoW guild members and I worked for the same company and had coordinated a job for me out of state (couple day install) a week before I met them at our first guild meet. Huge multinational and we had never interacted prior nor worked in a situation that we would.

Repeatedly.

I worked in retail only very briefly in the 80s and never had any major issues. I consider myself very lucky for that.

Even before covid, people seemed to be treating retail staff as some kind of lower life form far worse than I remember, but it’s absolutely gone insane since.

You mean the birthplace of the labor movement where the US government used artillery on stinking miners?

The current government sucks, but the history has some truly glorious and revolutionary moments.

I’m older but in the same boat. Unless those younger people are part of proud technological illiterati, which really pisses me off for some reason. Probably those 30 years of being an IT drone…

MAXIMUM Derek!

I’m lucky to have both.

The pain gets worse every year, but I’ve been dealing with it for closing in on 50 years so… meh I’m mostly used to it.

The tinnitus has a similar timeframe but seems to be getting worse MUCH faster. And is so much more distracting and ruinous to quality of life.

Yellow fatty bean…

Are we to believe that famous actress Margot Robbie doesn’t have some sort of connection for bulk medieval weaponry?

I am shocked and dismayed.

Same! Such an utter disappointment.

When I was doing the cliche sourdough deep dive during the height of covid lockdown, I really enjoyed Joshua Weissman’s videos about it. He was a little silly and very informative.

Everything I’ve seen in the past couple years have been off putting. He tries WAY too hard to be ‘funny’ and it just comes off as smarmy.