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Svperstar··on Why People Become Internet Trolls
When I was 14 and got online I liked trolling websites that I knew had older userbases. Like one time I had a 50 year old man reacting to my troll posts it was hilarious to see
Svperstar··on 'Into The Wild' bus removed from Alaska wilderness
>Since 1992, only two people have died trying to reach the bus

He wasn't just speaking of the bus, he meant the whole state of Alaska

Svperstar··on Remembering Windows 2000
I was just starting college and Windows 2000 was all the rage. I installed it but I had a nasty issue where I kept getting a BSOD randomly in games after 5-30 minutes of gameplay.

I updated my drivers for everything and spent hours looking for a solution. No dice. Went back to 98 till XP dropped.

Svperstar··on Julian Assange in Limbo
>I wonder what caused them to turn.

He wanted Trump to win the 2016 election.

Svperstar··on FortressOne: Quake Team Fortress (1996) mod still under active development
My internet was so bad I couldn't even really play. I joined the games lagged around and died.
Svperstar··on FortressOne: Quake Team Fortress (1996) mod still under active development
One of the first mods I ever got into was the original TF. Too bad I pinged like 200 m/s from the majority of the servers so at best I could log in and spam grenades before I died. lol.
Svperstar··on OK Doomer
I was heavily into CS starting in 1999. The mad dash at the beginning was fun to some players but being forced to bunny hop to be competitive got old really fast.
Svperstar··on Every classic Half-Life game is now free on Steam
There are fixes listed for problems with the game here: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Half-Life
Svperstar··on Hiren’s BootCD Based on Windows 10 PE X64
I tried to use the old hirens about 5 years ago and it was too out of date. Glad to see its still chugging along.
Svperstar··on I Lost My $50k Twitter Username (2014)
I got into ICQ when it was really new so I had an ICQ number in the 15,000s. I changed my password once and it broke.

I reached out to ICQ support and they sent me an email saying "Thanks for reaching out, your current password is:

Have a nice day!"

Gave up after that. lol.

Svperstar··on 20th anniversary of José Bové’s 'attack' on a McDonald's in rural France
That wasn't the free market. The US decided to make it cheaper to ship goods from China to the US then it is for businesses in the US to ship inside the US. Government intervention all the way.
Svperstar··on Toshiba Introduces New Tiny NVMe SSD Form Factor
Its crazy my 2.5" SSD died last week and I opted to go from 2 different SSDs to 1 2 tb nvme SSD. I too have a USB to Sata adapter but now I can't use it on my personal computer.

I do have a thunderbolt external nvme adapter they have got a lot cheaper.

Svperstar··on Tokyo's audiophile venues (2016)
A bar that plays nothing but experimental and drone sounds amazing.
Svperstar··on Another death on trail to 'Magic Bus' from Into The Wild won't stop adventurers
This is incorrect. Jon Krakauer who wrote Into the Wild pulled this out of his ass. The dude just starved cuz he had no idea what he was doing. He was a pretty shitty person all around.
Svperstar··on The Trouble with “Finding Your People” Online
The problem with something awful is their early success went to their head. I was around in the late 90s when SA really took off and became the reddit/4chan of its day.

I know people who used to be massive cheerleaders for SA forums who eventually got sick of the mods. SAs business model used to be banning people for minor infractions and they could then pay $10 to get unbanned. Something as simple as saying "I went and saw MovieX it was 7/10 I thought not amazing" could get you banned for "trolling"

I'm out of the loop now as last time I even spoke to someone about SA was 10 years ago but when they were the top dog of internet forums it totally ruined the culture.

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