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Posted September 03, 2020
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Leroux: More among adults than kids, I guess. But kids still know and play them occasionally (definitely not as often as we did back in the days, I would think, but of course it depends on the family).
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Serren: I honestly can't say I know a single person who still plays them. When I was young, everyone had them. Now, as far as I can tell, it's a retro niche for millennial hipsters.
Don't forget all the board gamers also have big dumb noses and bad breath! I mean, you don't know any of them that don't, right?
Post edited September 03, 2020 by Breja
Posted September 03, 2020
Cassette tape and a pencil...
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Posted September 03, 2020
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Leroux: I'm not sure what those M1-3 buttons are on yours?
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vv221: I do not know either, it did not came with the manual ;P

It’s actually a gift from a friend, that he brought to me when my previous phone died. I do not even remember when I last used a phone to call someone, it’s only there so I can receive calls (mostly from family).
Should be pretty easy to find the manual, assuming the model's right?
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dtgreene: By the way, having a landline seems to be a lot less common these days.
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Leroux: True. And especially having a landline phone that doesn't need to be plugged into a power outlet because it has no display and no special functions.
Uhhuh... And seeing as the old phones still worked when the power was down and these don't, the landline itself would work as a backup for a contact method in case of emergency, and also a way to get information about or report power outages, but putting such a phone on it defeats that purpose.
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Breja: Cleaning this.
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Prah: Now that brings back memories, I actually used a mouse with mouseball up until 2015! Now remember back when they didn't have the scrollwheel either? ;)
... And when they had an actual middle button. I still wish mice would have one again, and have the scroll wheel between it and the right button, so you can properly middle click without accidentally scrolling sometimes. Keeps pissing me off when I do that, so keep wishing for that basically ever since scroll wheels appeared.
Post edited September 03, 2020 by Cavalary
Posted September 03, 2020
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dtgreene: You can still do that, especially since you can now get one with an Arduino or other programmable microcontroller.
That isn't the type of kit I'm talking about.
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Breja: Don't forget all the board gamers also have big dumb noses and bad breath! I mean, you don't know any of them that don't, right?
I certainly don't, however that wasn't a connection I would have ever made. If those are traits that you ascribe to that particular demographic, then you know some oddly specific groups of people.
Post edited September 03, 2020 by Serren
Posted September 03, 2020
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Serren: I honestly can't say I know a single person who still plays them.
You're one person, so your personal experiences are 100% meaningless on a broad scale. Especially this year; board game sales have skyrocketed since March. But even before then, board game sales have been increasing steadily for a while (e.g. board game cafés are a rising trend globally), and were estimated to hit $21 billion by 2025. That's some "niche", huh?
Posted September 03, 2020
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vv221: This is how my phone looks like, not something you can use to call anyone using a single button push ;)
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vv221: I do not know either, it did not came with the manual ;P

It’s actually a gift from a friend, that he brought to me when my previous phone died. I do not even remember when I last used a phone to call someone, it’s only there so I can receive calls (mostly from family).
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Cavalary: Should be pretty easy to find the manual, assuming the model's right?
Ah, see? You actually can call people using a single button push, even with your phone! :)
Posted September 03, 2020
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Serren: I certainly don't, however that wasn't a connection I would have ever made.
Why not? I mean, you already draw your conclusions from thin air and against all reality.
Posted September 03, 2020
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trentonlf: Cassette tape and a pencil...
Ha yes.

I also remember tape to tape recording. Had one mixtape with the news playing in the background as the two tape players were just pushed together (speaker to mic)!
Posted September 03, 2020
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BreOl72: Using nail scissors to cut out a small rectangle of the old 5.25" floppy, to make it doublesided.
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toxicTom: I had a punching machine just for this.
Oh, so you come from a rich family? A floppy disk puncher was pure luxury. We had to make do with nail scissors.

;-)
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BreOl72: And not to forget: pulling out your wallet after playing these games to pay for a new joystick.
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toxicTom: John Madden Football killed two of them, Speedball 2 another one.
I gave up counting at some point. But it were a lot of wrecked Joysticks.
But then the Competition Pro came along, and things got better. I never managed to wreck one of these.
Posted September 03, 2020
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BreOl72: Oh, so you come from a rich family? A floppy disk puncher was pure luxury. We had to make do with nail scissors.

;-)
Well I had Commodore 166 in East Germany before the fall of the wall. Privileged kid ;-)

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BreOl72: I gave up counting at some point. But it were a lot of wrecked Joysticks.
But then the Competition Pro came along, and things got better. I never managed to wreck one of these.
Yeah I too wrecked a lot more. But those stayed in my mind: "RUUNNN YOU SON OF BI...." *crack*... :-D

I also had a Competition Pro, and it's indestructible. But I hated the thing. Holding it gave me cramps in my hands, no trigger button, no autofire switch...
Posted September 03, 2020
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toxicTom: I also had a Competition Pro, and it's indestructible. But I hated the thing. Holding it gave me cramps in my hands, no trigger button, no autofire switch...
The lack of an autofire button could be circumvented with a little DIY knowledge: http://pitsch.de/stuff/magicdisk64/8712_dauerfeuer/MD8712_dauerfeuer.pdf
Posted September 03, 2020
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BreOl72: The lack of an autofire button could be circumvented with a little DIY knowledge: http://pitsch.de/stuff/magicdisk64/8712_dauerfeuer/MD8712_dauerfeuer.pdf
Yup, stuff like that was even sold (mail order) :-)
Still preferred my Quickshot Pro and others (until the next *crack*).
Posted September 03, 2020
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eric5h5: You're one person, so your personal experiences are 100% meaningless on a broad scale. Especially this year; board game sales have skyrocketed since March.
Oh, the irony.

And skyrocketed where exactly? Any sources with figures on actual numbers of people playing then vs now? Making the claim that board games are more popular now than ever before seems suspect.
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Breja: Why not? I mean, you already draw your conclusions from thin air and against all reality.
Because not everyone shares your rather unique experience of knowing large numbers of board gamers with 'big dumb noses and bad breath'. It seems like that should be perfectly clear, but perhaps I am overestimating your comprehension abilities.
Posted September 03, 2020
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Serren: And skyrocketed where exactly? Any sources with figures on actual numbers of people playing then vs now? Making the claim that board games are more popular now than ever before seems suspect.

Because not everyone shares your rather unique experience of knowing large numbers of board gamers with 'big dumb noses and bad breath'. It seems like that should be perfectly clear, but perhaps I am overestimating your comprehension abilities.
I won'pretend to know what this is about, but...board games are a huge market nowadays.
Much bigger then they have been ever before.

Edit: https://www.statista.com/statistics/829285/global-board-games-market-value/
Post edited September 03, 2020 by BreOl72
Posted September 03, 2020
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BreOl72: I won'pretend to know what this is about, but...board games are a huge market nowadays.
Much bigger then they have been ever before.

Edit: https://www.statista.com/statistics/829285/global-board-games-market-value/
Board games are huge now. There are stores selling nothing but board games (and I mean actuall birck-and-mortart stores). There are pubs devoted to board games with huge collections of games to be played by the customers. There's plenty of channels on YT reviewing board games, talking about board game history, even streaming people playing board games. But hey, Serren says board games are dead so they must be :D
Post edited September 03, 2020 by Breja
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