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I use it to role play historical counter factuals, like how I could win the battle of Cannae through tactics, or how I could invent the telegraph in 13th century France. It’s worth every watt <3

Don’t have to imagine it when you can just remember it. Getting online in the late 90s was a horror show, seriously dialup was super unreliable. And that was 20 years after it’s inception, it was shit but also extremely popular.

Nah the thing you’re trying to describe is just basic social awareness.

OP asked for advice, not horny role play. You leaning into their kink is icky at best.

I usually do, but in general they’re dead for lack of demand

If you have access to real debrid, sometimes they have insanely old torrents in cache. I’ve resurrected quite a few decades old bangers from the pirate bay that way.

It was when dialup started taking off in France, so probably 95 or 96. I had a computer at home, but only my uncle had a modem. When we would go to his place for a family dinner I’d take a few floppies and fill them with midi files from some website.

We had a sort of sneakernet going with a couple friends at school, just a disk we’d pass around to share whatever cool file we found. Let’s just say having Metallica and Nirvana songs (even if it was just a midi version) put me on top of that game for some time…

Not GP but thanks for this great resource!

No irony, this is a core skill when you’re in tech leadership. If you’re the people pleasing type, always replying immediately is a classic trap.

Social media bros virtue signaling the most basic social skills, episode 3257

I get where you’re coming from but it sounds like a cop-out to me. The OP reads more like “I can’t handle frustration and not being the center of attention” than “i’m neuro-divergent”.

But of course that’s just interpretation from a few lines of text so…

who said this is a competition? this makes no sense

OP made it a competition. They haven’t even arrived, they don’t even know the kids in question, but they’re already calculating whether they will siphon off attention away from them. That screams immaturity to me.

your initial comment indicates clearly that OP does not deserve attention and respect in your opinion

My comment says nothing of the sort, and i am sorry if it can be interpreted that way.

Let me rephrase it : OP sounds super high-maintenance. If i am meeting with another adult, it’s not to baby-sit them. It’s not to always be wondering whether i am giving them enough affirmation, or whether they are getting agitated because they feel i’m not focused 100% on them. That’s what kids are for.

That is not to say you should meet with someone and completely ignore them. But when adults meet, there’s this tacit understanding that everybody’s got their own shit going on, and there may be the odd interruption or the occasional shift of focus. Your work phone may ring. A kid may get hurt and need a hug. Hell, maybe someone from your Minecraft group hits you up on Discord for some urgent topic. I don’t give a shit, i’m not the center of the universe, and i can look at my phone for 10 minutes while you get your stuff out of the way. Apparently OP is wildly unprepared for this kind of completely normal and benign situation.

Well that’s exactly my point. If you’re ready to compete for attention with a newborn and a toddler, I’d say you’re not approaching the situation with respect and genuine interest for the other adult.

That has never been true for Google. That’s what other search engines did in the late 90s, and Google’s success comes precisely from implementing smart ranking rather than just being a directory.

They were also early adopters of semantic search using NLP and embeddings, way before LLMs became popular.

It sure sounds like OP needs to be the focus of the occasion because they need constant attention

That’s a beautiful quote thank you

For me that’s badly played hardcore punk with an extremely loud drummer :/

He’s also one body shift away from being a giant dragon with adamantium scales…

I like the implication that it is possible, we know how to do it, but we’re chivalrous enough to only do it when the plot absolutely requires it

Hokuto No Ken, not because it’s particularly unhinged but because in France it was programmed in the morning cartoon segment with dragon ball etc… it was so out of place that the dubbers had an obligation to tone it down in the translations and add jokes and puns.

It went about as well as you would expect, just a layer of absurdist humor on top of the ultra violence and gore…