Posted by Rambly

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i was never scared of black cats tho, they're freakin adorable. fuck the haters

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Even though I admitted to being superstitious, this is not one that I ever held... black cats are my favorite

Posted by Darkhero

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not me?

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Ahh.... in my defense, I've known Danielle longer

Posted by Danika

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Do they have cats in space?

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NASA is covering up that the cats landed on the moon first!

Posted by Darkhero

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does Dexter want to go to space?

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A furry cat doesn't like leaving the apartment, let alone the Earth

Posted by Danika

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How long can a cat remain in space?

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Just as long as a human; indefinitely, as long as they're supplied and have a proper environment-- otherwise, only a very short time

Posted by ゼンガー・ゾンボルト

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Do you own Fallout 4?

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Nope; though I appreciate Boston being in more video games, I don't appreciate blowing it up, plus I've never been able to get into Bethesda RPGs.

Posted by Danika

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Who's your favorite chonky boy? 🐱

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You know, it's legal to ask me questions about things other than a furry cat!

It was my half-birthday today!

Posted by Epele

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Posted by Nicolyn

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It was my half-birthday today!

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You keep track of that?

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It's easy when your birthday is in June!

...though, maybe I should reconsider that assumption, if you don't keep track of yours

Posted by Darkhero

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favorite 6502 machine?

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The Apple ][, for sure. ][_plus especially, mostly for nostalgia's sake.

The NES would make this a difficult competition; thankfully, it doesn't have a 6502 proper

Posted by Danika

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Ever had frustrations with a hard drive in an old machine?

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When reviving my childhood computer; did manage to save everything off the drive, though But that computer now spends most of its time running off of a CF card.

Posted by DarkWitchClaire

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why do people get so pedantic about decades and centuries anyway? the whole calendar is retroactive

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The human mind likes to be correct; this is generally a good drive, since it leads to people want to figure out the truth about things...

The problem is, that it's really easy to get sidetracked when the thing you're arguing about is a definition, which are inherently arbitrary and only exist among consensus anyway. Anytime you see someone arguing over what a word "really means", realize that it's the same thing as arguing when "the decade starts".

Also, our really terrible decision to count centuries by ordinal numbers means that anyone who wants to use common words like "the 21st century" has to get used to a system where the first two digits of the year don't match the century number, because oops we have strictly-defined centuries and ill-defined decades, inconsistency also drives the human mind mad :p

Posted by Danika

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Anything in particular you're looking forward to?

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I'm looking forward to the summer! Need warmth....

Having some people over for New Years'

This means I can't cancel due to anxiety-- as I'd be ruining their plans as well

But I really want to cancel

thx anxiety

Welcome to the site! Feel free to jump in wherever

I caught Dante! Time for me to get him to write a new Divine Comedy, where this time it's my enemies who get to be tortured forever in hell

Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats, from the motion picture soundtrack.

Dexter does not like this song. He must not be a jellicle cat.

Posted by Danika

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Would you ever visit Cincinnati?

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I don't speak Cincinnatese

Happy new year!

And an excellent use of post #20k!

Kafuka: Now with 2020 vision

Posted by DarkWitchClaire

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what neo geo games would you put in a 4 slot MVS?

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Windjammers, Blue's Journey, King of Fighters 2000, Metal Slug 3

Now that'd be nice to have in my living room!

Posted by Danika

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What games do you wish were on the Sega Genesis Mini?

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Phantasy Star II and Sonic the Hedgehog 3

Posted by Danika

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Is Michael Jackson to blame for the nonappearance of Sonic 3 on remakes, collections or the Genesis Mini?

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I'm not sure-- the recent beta release shows that Sonic and Knuckles Collection was probably not using the music to avoid Michael Jackson, but just because the developers were working off an old version.

And it also shows that Sega has plenty of backup music they could use instead-- given the level of hacks done on the Wii Virtual Console to remove things like the Red Cross logo, it seems like they could have easily made a hack to play the MJ-free music instead. (They wouldn't even have needed to have a copy of the beta lying around) Admittedly, maybe they just think that's too much work. (But S3&K is widely-- though not by me-- considered to be the best 2D Sonic, so if any game would be worth it...)

If anything is to blame, I don't think it's Michael Jackson himself-- he repudiated his involvement and denied it, rumors say he wasn't happy with the Genesis sound chip. I'd say it'd probably be his death that caused the problem, since now any rights that he might have held belong to his estate, which I bet cares less than MJ does about his artistic reputation, and more about whatever remnant rights they might hold to the game.

Of course, I'm not a lawyer, I'm definitely not Sega's lawyer, I don't have any special knowledge here :p just making guesses based off of rumors I've read.