Thanks for the info! I had no idea this existed!
I’m old and haven’t grown out of video games and now enjoy playing them with my kids! Video games rule for all ages!
Thanks for the info! I had no idea this existed!
I’m old and haven’t grown out of video games and now enjoy playing them with my kids! Video games rule for all ages!
Awesome! I just discovered retroachievements for my newly created counter top arcade machine!
I love it.
No worries! I always thought of a “joke” as something that was intended to make me laugh. When I first saw this, I laughed as I didn’t expect a reference to her old show. So I personally consider it reasonable to call it a joke. Either way, this all has made me want to go back and watch an episode or two of Married with children. Cheers!
The voice actor for Leela (Katey Sagal) played Peggy Bundy in the tv show Married… with children, which was hugely popular in the 90s. The above picture was a very common scene from the tv show. Peggy with huge hair, sitting on the couch with her husband watching tv and eating junk food. So, it’s a fun reference to her previous work.
Hive / 2 players / Requires basically zero setup. Game is easy to pickup and a bit strategic
Star Realms / 2 players / Requires shuffling, separating some cards out and dealing out a few cards. Rules look daunting at first, but it’s pretty straight forward after a few games. There’s a mobile app if you want to try the digital version.
Fox in the Forest / 2 players / minimal setup
Play these with my wife and they’re all good for a relatively quick game. We’re not a big fan of largely random games and prefer something a bit more strategic.
In our first game of Dead of Winter, the person setting up the game made a mistake and introduced too many betrayer cards. We ended up with 2 out of 4 of the players being betrayers… making for some really confusing conversations.
Was a fun game despite the absolute chaos.
Fuck that robber
I hate watching videos! So I asked some AI to provide a summary.
In this YouTube video titled “The Arcade Game that Crashes Itself for Anti-Piracy Reasons,” the speaker discusses the anti-piracy measures implemented in the arcade game Tempest. These measures include checksums used to verify the integrity of the code and copyright strings, as well as checks for genuine hardware. The speaker explains the checksum calculation process, provides examples of the code used, and discusses how the game detects genuine hardware by auditing random number generation in the POKEY chips. The purpose of these measures is to deter piracy and make it more challenging for hackers to modify the game. However, it is now easier to disable or delete these anti-piracy measures, although finding unmodified versions of the Tempest arcade cabinet remains challenging.”
Pretty interesting that they leveraged how the random number generation happened to determine if the hardware was authentic or not.
I had a lot of fun playing ZeeMud back in the day. Apparently it’s still running, but the last time I checked it was mostly a graveyard. I tried to get back on and play a bit… but it feels depressing… like going back to your old home that’s now abandoned…
Submit the PR to fix it! The link to the GitHub is right there