Seen on the internet

[Catoptric]

On Facebook, posted 5 days before this pizza truck caught fire (claiming he "didn't hear the tank bounce up and down the freeway until it caught a spark and lit up") he posts "IYKYK" which stands for, "if you know, you know," where many of the commentators literally suggests something involving pizza catching fire?

Was this some insurance "job?"

https://www.facebook.com/gepettopizzatruck


I've been seeing similar sketchy ass shit with some neighbors recently who seem to always have a new car with either a bumper damaged or removed on the front of it, along with what appears to have been a garage catching fire (where a car parked in front of them on the other side had to park a long way down the street because fire trucks were investigating what happened,) perhaps hoping for a payout? I'm not sure how that works for long-term strategy, but it does seem pretty absurd.

I know that gas tanks (especially the newer kind that try to contain emissions) will bulge and heat up and potentially start to pressurize, which can concentrate vapors inside which could light up with a water heater pilot light (hypothetically) but I'm not sure this is what happened, only that they had a destroyed garage door that had some wooden boards attached all along the front of the garage.

They might have moved to an RV to "cook up" some meth, for all I know.

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A free RPG inspired from SNES RPGs (or circa 90s)


http://www.theiarpg.com/

Download:
https://missingseven.itch.io/theia


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This saved a lot of time:

I only got it for PowerRenamer but it has some other interesting stuff worth checking out.

Download
https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/ ... ag/v0.96.0

Basically enabling it allows you to highlight a folder and all it's contents with the option of searching and excluding specific names without altering any other part of the name. I believe some console commands had a similar function, but this seems a more clear approach.


Not sure if the Github just organizes all of the options for Windows (because Windows seems a bit unclear when it shouldn't be,) though it does appear to be an official Microsoft program.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windo ... owerrename



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[HighlyIrregular]

Eclectic mix in this hood.

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[Catoptric]

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Apparently you can find fruit trees/bushes around the area to harvest.
https://fallingfruit.org/





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Captain Lasewrhawk The G.A.M.E. (? retro inspired game online?)
https://edenonline.ubisoft.com/



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A 3D0 game called Firewall was a Korea exclusive, made by LG, though localized on DOS in English (hence the absence of a woman in the 3DO version, despite English being used for a Japanese 'Scientist' character in China (so a bit confusing about the circumstances, though basically it's a "worldly" existential crisis they are facing.

It's just a lower quality fmv from even the Laserdisc arcades games from a decade prior, and equally if not more frustrating, since controls really limit you on whatever version of the game is played.

The DOS version via browser:
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Firew ... chine_1996

(Since it can be confusing what to type in command prompt for DOS ISO games)


And since the 3D0 version (via 4D0 emulator) isn't much different, I'm not sure if using the command prompts from DOSbox and installing it would really benefit much (though using a mouse might be a better alternative, since I did notice some games just lag significantly due to the latency, it wouldn't help significantly simply because all games controlled badly (and some could argue that's by design, such as Resident Evil still being what it is, which increases the scare factor.)

Another game that is considered abandonware is called Ecstatica (which also had a sequel which looks much better) which basically has an abandoned medieval village attacked by rapacious monkeys, and you have nothing but the numpad to move around and figure out the controls (since the only indications of what buttons do what are in the manual.) and you can't move forward and turn simultaneously so it is even worse than Resident Evil controls.

So basically, if you don't have a numpad on a keyboard, this game can only be controlled from the the top row (which would only make it significantly more unplayable.) It is kind of a rare game worth checking out though.

Ecstatica (online)
https://playclassic.games/games/surviva ... line/play/

An alternative is installing this (modified executable install requiring override which seems 100% safe) that makes it compatible with modern Windows:

1st game
https://archive.org/details/ecstatica-patched

2nd:
https://archive.org/details/ecstatica-ii-mr-abandonware

[HighlyIrregular]

Porch-bird man's candidate lost the election in 2024.

[Catoptric]

Some of the most random things (mostly clothing, but sometimes church offerings from Salem Massachusetts circa 1800s random.)

They even use a splash page of what looks like vomit and a beanie cap. . . Just so you know what you are getting into. Mostly ragged clothing that looks like it could have come off a corpse.

https://sumshitifound.com/


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Reposting a BBS documentary from the What Are You Watching section.

BBS the Documentary (Jason Scott, 2005)


It would have originally been on 3 discs, or in episodic format, but the Youtube video probably makes the most sense, compared to what's found on Archive org.