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An Xbox 360 with a VGA adapter and Dead Rising. My TV at the time was one of those gigantic old 90s video editing CRTs, the kind that take all sorts of analog inputs like RCA and S-Video and even did HD if you could convert something to BNC, but pointedly would not do Component or HDMI. A few days prior I’d learned that VGA can be repinned directly to BNC, and then when I was wandering through Best Buy I saw they’d gotten some 360 VGA adapters in. I stopped, flipped a coin, called heads, it landed heads, I bought it.

I’d figured I’d get some minor fun out of it, basically just bought it because I really wanted to play Dead Rising. Instead I wound up using the ever loving hell out of my 360. Still have it, still works, no RROD or anything.

Elon: Let the free market decide.

Free Market: *decides*

Elon: Wait, no, not like that

I mean… Werner Herzog telling a man to eat his own fingers was pretty great. But otherwise yeah.

As a Stallone movie it’s entertaining in a “brain off eat popcorn” way, same sorta feel as Demolition Man (which was fun). It’s only once you understand the material that it’s supposed to be adapting that you feel like you were cheated.

If you like it you should check out Guy Ritchie’s previous film, 2005’s Revolver. It’s a little more “experimental” I’d say, but some of the film’s choices are really cool, especially how it depicts how some characters remember and interpret events differently than others.

Aye, the 2012 movie staring Karl Urban, not the 1995 dumpster fire starring Stallone.

Dredd. Karl Urban absolutely nailed that role, and all without ever showing the top half of his face.

I was so ready to see Buckaroo Banzai take on the World Crime League.

Gotta justify that printer ink budget.

I’m not sure how the numbers were doled out, but in 2000 it was a big deal having a sub-9-digit ICQ number.

86336930 checking in. Pretty sure I remember the password, but it’s not like I can check now.

You will be missed, ICQ. When no other messaging service worked, you always did.

Are your smoke detectors linked to each other? Could be faulty wiring in the circuit, or a completely different smoke detector failing and sending out an alarm that triggers the others. The latter happened in my home when I was growing up: the living room smoke detector kept going off a few seconds before the rest of them would chime in, but it turned out it was the one in the nearest hallway that was failing and sending out bad signals. The living room detector was just the next in the circuit.

Guessing they used Sonarr, Radarr, qBittorrent, maybe an NZB client…

Would you look at that, I’m sophisticated now.

It’s like having a corporate seder for rosh hashanah or an eid al-Fitr: guaranteed to go badly.

Good point. Even if they stick within the “rules” the risk of it coming off poorly is too high, same as any cultural-specific holiday.

Damn Leftists. They ruined Leftism!