There's a "Free for Gold" game on Xbox Live right now (for Xbox One) called "Superhot". At first glance, it's sort of a strange time-warping first-person shooter against robots in an all-white virtual world.
As you probably know, Synchronet has had an AI-chat feature called "Guru Chat" since 1991. Coincidence?
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As you probably know, Synchronet has had an AI-chat feature called "Guru Chat" since 1991. Coincidence?
Man I gotta say... I've had many a chats with the Guru back in the 1990s.
Hahaha!
Your software is etched into my youth. The very first BBS I ever
dialed into (thanks brother) was The Guardian BBS from Alabama. All I had was an external 9600 baud modem even though they were up to 14400 by then. Bama was the SysOp. Synchronet was the software. What a time to be alive!
I'll stop blabbing now. Memories!
As you probably know, Synchronet has had an AI-chat feature called "Guru Chat" >since 1991. Coincidence?
Bama was the SysOp. Synchronet was the software. What a time to be alive!
As you probably know, Synchronet has had an AI-chat feature called "Guru Chat" since 1991. Coincidence?
I was perusing my guru logs the other day, and had a couple users recently fooled by it. I customized mine a few years back for my daughters, and this new user was trying to explain to the Guru that she wasn't related to the sysop. :)
There's a "Free for Gold" game on Xbox Live right now (for Xbox One)oh i had a friend tell me about that game a while back. it's supposed to be pretty fun.
called "Superhot". At first glance, it's sort of a strange
virtual world.
There's a "Free for Gold" game on Xbox Live right now (for Xbox One)
called "Superhot". At first glance, it's sort of a strange
virtual world.
System requirements: 20TB HD Min 12G Ram Wahoo 2873 Turbo Graphic Card HD Monitor...What am I missing?
System requirements: 20TB HD Min 12G Ram Wahoo 2873 Turbo Graphic
Card HD Monitor...What am I missing?
Wat? From the interwebs, the system requirements for that game are an Intel Core 2 Quad (a fairly old processor now), 2.40GHz, 4GB RAM (far from 12GB), GeForce GTX 650 graphics card (definately not the highest-end, space. Where are you getting those system requirements you mentioned?
been on Twitch or whatever it's called. You can watch them play games live. Unreal. I think the name of it was Twitch? Correct me if I'm wrong. The graphics and speed of the games were unreal. Looked like a hell of a lot fun!
I'm wrong. The graphics and speed of the games were unreal. Looked
like a hell of a lot fun!
I've heard of Twitch but I've never used it. For video games, I tend to have more fun playing them rather than watch other people play them..
I've heard of Twitch but I've never used it. For video games, I tend to have more fun playing them rather than watch other people play them..
I've heard of Twitch but I've never used it. For video games, I tend to have more fun playing them rather than watch other people play them..
I used it several times to watch ppl play a new game... decide it was nothing for me... saved me some bucks.
Perhaps I come from a different era. Back in the days, we enjoyed playing games just to see if we liked them ourselves. I don't get this whole "unboxing" and "watching others play games" culture. Where is the fun in that?
unboxing something myself, but sometimes it's interesting to see an unboxing video just to see what's in the box before I purchase something.
Perhaps I come from a different era. Back in the days, we enjoyed playing games just to see if we liked them ourselves. I don't get this whole "unboxing" and "watching others play games" culture. Where is the fun in that?
Re: Superhot
By: Nightfox to dmxrob on Sat Apr 07 2018 04:56 pm
unboxing something myself, but sometimes it's interesting to see an unboxing video just to see what's in the box before I purchase something.
I always assumed what was in the box was what was stated on the label/packaging. :-)
I used it several times to watch ppl play a new game... decide it was nothing for me... saved me some bucks.Perhaps I come from a different era. Back in the days, we enjoyed playing games just to see if we liked them ourselves. I don't get this whole "unboxing" and "watching others play games" culture. Where is the fun in that?
unboxing something myself, but sometimes it's interesting to see an
unboxing video just to see what's in the box before I purchase
something.
I always assumed what was in the box was what was stated on the label/packaging. :-)
I'm 45 atm. The unboxing is also not for me. I don't watch others to see them playing, I just watch to see if the game is for me. The youtube reviews are so directed and not honest, Twitch you can actually see someone play it.
Perhaps I come from a different era. Back in the days, we enjoyed playing >games just to see if we liked them ourselves. I don't get this whole >"unboxing" and "watching others play games" culture. Where is the fun in that?
Well yes, but sometimes there may be other things included (or not). For >instance, some electronics include a power supply, some don't, etc.. So it's >good to see what extras they might include beyond just what the box says.
You are the same age as I, what I refer to as "still young at heart" age range.
Makes better sense now that I've heard explanations from a few folks.
dmxrob - BBSing from St. Louis, Missouri USA since 1988
Well yes, but sometimes there may be other things included (or not). For >>instance, some electronics include a power supply, some don't, etc.. So >>it's good to see what extras they might include beyond just what the box >>says.
I'm 45 atm. The unboxing is also not for me. I don't watch others to
see them playing, I just watch to see if the game is for me. The
youtube reviews are so directed and not honest, Twitch you can
actually see someone play it.
Makes better sense now that I've heard explanations from a few folks.
Didn't Apple buyers start the unboxing video trend? Admittedly, their packaging
is pretty amazing when compared to a generic electronics manufacturer.
I'm 45 atm. The unboxing is also not for me. I don't watch others to see the playing, I just watch to see if the game is for me. The youtube reviews are directed and not honest, Twitch you can actually see someone play it.
Watching others play a game isn't fun. I can waste my time doing plenty of other things rather than watch someone play a game that I probably won't buy anyway. The days of Blockbuster were great.. "Is this a good game? Let me pay $5 and try it out for the weekend."
My daughter watches these "Let's Play Minecraft videos." The "content creators" are so obnoxious... and how in the hell do they have 1m+ views?!?
Hey, a fellow St. Louis BBSer! Nice to see you here. What boards did you call back in the day?
I mostly agree. If I am unboxing something.. great. If it's someone else.. I don't care.
My daughter watches these "Let's Play Minecraft videos." The "content creators" are so obnoxious... and how in the hell do they have 1m+ views?!?
Now you are making me think! LOL. The very first board I ever called was the MASH 4077 with my Tandy and 300bps modem. Then there was a ton of others.
Some I can remember are Land of Oz, Fire Escape's HQ, The Batboard. I was mostly a WWIV guy, but hung around other baords a bit. Back in those days I used the handle of Mr. Microchip.
Some I can remember are Land of Oz, Fire Escape's HQ, The Batboard. I was mostly a WWIV guy, but hung around other baords a bit. Back in those days I used the handle of Mr. Microchip.
I remember hearing about Sega having some kind of game downloading service (the Sega Channel on cable TV) for their Genesis console where you could download games for the Genesis and play them. I'm not sure exactly how that worked (and I didn't have a Genesys myself), but I thought that sounded interesting. I just looked it up now, and it looks like it used a cartridge that was an adapter for the cable channel.. I suppose it could have used a flash ROM or something and could have received data from the cable channel.
I remember at the height of the BBS era, the WWIV wars that seemed to be fought out in St. Louis. It was a fun time, a lot of great memories.
I remember hearing about Sega having some kind of game downloading
service (the Sega Channel on cable TV) for their Genesis console
where you could download games for the Genesis and play them. I'm
How big were those old 8 bit games? I can't imagine very large. Could do some sort of serial comms via audio over cable - modems without the phone line. As long as your data wasn't big, it would work.
I was on Etsy a while ago looking at something, and ran across a Timex Data-link watch. Remember those? They did data transfer using flashing lines on a monitor - didn't work with LCDs, though.
I have an old archive of my BBS under Maximus from 1995, wish I'd saved a copy of the Telegard incarnation from earlier. I suspect it would look pretty bad, though.
I heard about those Timex data-link watches, but I had never used one myself.
It's fun to look at those old archives. I still have a backup of my RemoteAccess BBS from 2000 that I burned onto a CD-R when I took that BBS down. Sometimes I think about setting up my old BBS to run as a door from my current BBS, but I haven't gotten around to that yet.
Oh, one other thing I meant to say: There's at least one BBS still running in St. Louis! Mine: gdmxrob - BBSing from St. Louis, Missouri USA since 1988
Oh, one other thing I meant to say: There's at least one BBS still running in St. Louis! Mine: guardian.synchro.net.
Re: Superhot
By: poindexter FORTRAN to dmxrob on Thu Apr 12 2018 10:27 am
I have an old archive of my BBS under Maximus from 1995, wish I'd saved copy of the Telegard incarnation from earlier. I suspect it would look pretty bad, though.
It's fun to look at those old archives. I still have a backup of my RemoteAccess BBS from 2000 that I burned onto a CD-R when I took that BBS do Sometimes I think about setting up my old BBS to run as a door from my curre BBS, but I haven't gotten around to that yet. I'm not really sure it would serve much purpose besides being an interesting historical reference.. And not sure if anything like file transfers would work from it, if anyone were ever try that.
Nightfox
I have a copy of Fido BBS that I fire up sometimes just to remember what it was like; I used to call Tom Jennings' BBS when I started out.
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Nightfox <=-
It's fun to look at those old archives. I still have a backup of my RemoteAccess BBS from 2000 that I burned onto a CD-R when I took that BBS down. Sometimes I think about setting up my old BBS to run as a door from my current BBS, but I haven't gotten around to that yet.
It's interesting to read the echoes, remember some of the old names,
and recall exactly how much echomail flowed at the height of Fidonet.
I have a copy of Fido BBS that I fire up sometimes just to remember
what it was like; I used to call Tom Jennings' BBS when I started out.
I remember hearing about Sega having some kind of game downloading service (the Sega Channel on cable TV) for their Genesis console where you could download games for the Genesis and play them. I'm not sure exactly how that
Watching others play a game isn't fun. I can waste my time doing plenty of other things rather than watch someone play a game that I probably won't buy anyway. The days of Blockbuster were great.. "Is this a good game? Let
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