As famously modded in 2600 mag, they were useful for a while...

https://phonelosers.com/redbox/tonedialer/

https://hackaday.com/2014/09/05/radioshack-phone-dialer-red-...

> As famously modded in 2600 mag, they were useful for a while...

And now that you remind me, that's totally why I bought one, but at the time I lacked the tools and electronics skills to do the mod.

I've always tried to apply "The Internet gives a fuck about what you don't like" when it comes to commenting, but it's also helpful to remember it's not just the Internet.

Contrasting this with the similarly fantastic and ridiculous GPU Box Art from the 90's kind of shows how in 15-20 years at least back then, "the more things change, the more they stay the same."

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/relive-the-d...

I’d blame this behavior on Office OpenXML becoming the standard in 2007, legendary for generating unnecessary nested tags.

Dominion is licensed in various online incarnations anyway.

With limits on expansions and other rules, it is possible to get Dominion competitive enough to study games and optimize for turns, the original isotropic had a decent ranking and rating system (RIP and add’l shoutout for their implementation of the Innovation card game):

https://dominion.isotropic.org/leaderboard/

I wound up typing that entire listing at least three times before I gave up and never saw the errata. Definitely worth the satisfaction of youtubing or googling the output decades after.

I remember having to figure out how port magazine and book BASIC code between the various dialects between the various spaces I spent time in. In the 1980s, my uncle first taught me BASIC on an IBM PC. At school we had an Apple ][+ while at home I had a Coco II and later an Amiga. Another friend had a Vic 20, while another had a Commodore 64. Then came QuickBASIC, QuickC, Microsoft C, C on the ICONs, Aztec C, gcc... 6502, m68k, 8086, i386... Learning about the quirks across systems so early on turned out to be an invaluable experience.

I love so much you all found each other. Someone create a meetup,or whatever the kiddies do now for us.

Grateful it wasn't as long as Infinite Paperclips or Cookie Clicker, but still worth it. Great site!

In Animal Crossing, the characters' audible speech seems like it's speaking the first syllable or two of each word in the text dialog and sped up, and the pitch control varies between characters, so while it generates amusing gibberish, some of it is lightly comprehensible and interesting and OP's link is a pretty good replica of it.

Coppola secured a lot of funding for Apocalypse from United Artists. Megalopolis still follows the rule.