The speeding up of the game in Space Invaders was a result of memory being freed up as players killed aliens. It worked well for the game, so they left it in.
GTA was originally just a racing game, but constantly crashing into things made the developer just decide to say the driver was a bad guy, and voila.
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Posted: Sun May 04, 2025 8:58 pm
by TheCatt
Leisher wrote: ↑Sun May 04, 2025 8:33 pm
The speeding up of the game in Space Invaders was a result of memory being freed up as players killed aliens. It worked well for the game, so they left it in.
I didn't know that either, was a pretty cool mechanism
Enjoy a thread of nice things to look at. There's even some in there for Cake.
Putting it in Spoiler tag because the very first post is NSFW.
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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2025 11:08 am
by Leisher
Irving Gordon put over 3.4M miles on his 1966 Volvo 1800S. Yes, that's a world record.
Huge, huge miss by Volvo not featuring this guy and his car in ads.
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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2025 12:42 pm
by TheCatt
Leisher wrote: ↑Mon Sep 08, 2025 11:08 am
Irving Gordon put over 3.4M miles on his 1966 Volvo 1800S. Yes, that's a world record.
Huge, huge miss by Volvo not featuring this guy and his car in ads.
Gordon purchased his Volvo P1800S in June 1966 from Volvoville, a dealership in Huntersville, New York.[1][2] He had owned two new Chevrolet Corvair models, but was dissatisfied with their reliability.[2] At the time, Gordon's daily commute was around 125 mi (201 km).[1][2]
Gordon decided to maximize the car's mileage after hitting 250,000 mi (400,000 km), having never had to repair the car outside of its routine scheduled maintenance.[1][2] The car's engine was rebuilt after 680,000 mi (1,090,000 km) – Gordon insisted on the service as a precautionary measure, despite the dealership advising it was unnecessary.[1] It transpired there had been nothing wrong with the engine, and Gordon said he "learned his lesson" about unnecessary maintenance.[2]
He set the record for most miles driven by a single owner in a non-commercial vehicle in 1998, when he had driven 1,690,000 mi (2,720,000 km) in the car, claiming the Guinness World Record.[1][2][3] He had driven 2,000,000 mi (3,200,000 km) by 2002, and 3,000,000 mi (4,800,000 km) by 2013.[1] The car had a second engine rebuild in 2009, when wear on bearings and piston rings led to pressure loss.[2] Its bodywork also had to be repaired after it was damaged by a freight company who were transporting it to the annual SEMA show to be displayed at the Volvo stand.[2][4]
..However, Volvo took greater interest in Gordon and his P1800S as the car approached 1,000,000 mi (1,600,000 km) on the road, gifting him a new Volvo 780. Gordon drove the 780 for around 450,000 mi (720,000 km) before selling it.[1][2] He was later gifted another two cars: a Volvo C70 after passing 2,000,000 mi (3,200,000 km),[4][7] and a Volvo XC60 after passing 3,000,000 mi (4,800,000 km).[8]
After setting the record, Gordon regularly collaborated with Volvo and appeared at their events.[6][7] He also promoted Castrol, his preferred brand of oil.[6]
The car was returned to Volvo after Gordon's death.[9][5]
That's pretty amazing.
I want to say I remember seeing him in ads for Volvo in the 90s? With medal-looking things that had mileage? Though I couldn't find any such thing in a quick google search.
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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2025 12:56 pm
by Leisher
He should be to Volvo what [REDACTED] was to Subway.
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2025 10:21 am
by Leisher
I knew it should be white, but I don't know if I knew why. Now I do.
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2025 10:26 am
by TheCatt
What if they are just bleaching the pasta to make it white?
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2025 10:31 am
by Leisher
Good question, but let me respond with 2025 corporate reality:
Bleaching pasta costs additional money, and thus, negatively impacts the bottom line. Most consumers have no idea that pasta should be white, so it's not worth it.
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2025 4:42 pm
by Leisher
I googled and it says VA does do this. WTF?
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2025 5:09 pm
by TheCatt
Leisher wrote: ↑Mon Oct 06, 2025 4:42 pm
I googled and it says VA does do this. WTF?
Are there places that don't do property taxes? I pay them on our cars ever year.
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2025 6:41 pm
by Cakedaddy
Property (home), yes. Things we own? No. We do pay registration/tags every year, and I believe they are based on the car you drive, or the year, or something. But newer expensive cars have higher registration fees than old busted cars.
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Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2025 8:25 pm
by Leisher
People on SNAP benefits are more overweight than working people not on SNAP.
It's around 40-42% to 57%.
If you're able to get fat or maintain a fat body off of a government "assistance" program, that program is broken.
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Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2025 9:39 pm
by TheCatt
Leisher wrote: ↑Mon Nov 17, 2025 8:25 pm
People on SNAP benefits are more overweight than working people not on SNAP.
It's around 40-42% to 57%.
If you're able to get fat or maintain a fat body off of a government "assistance" program, that program is broken.
It's cheap to get calorie dense, processed food.
The healthy food is expensive.
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Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2025 11:37 pm
by Leisher
That's absolutely true, but there are videos that exist of people making better choices with their SNAP.
Also, it seems like if the government has to pick up the medical bill for these folks, perhaps they should be doing more to ensure quality food is affordable?