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[Scott DeWar]

it never will be the same. I played pac man alot at the arcadade in the 80's

 

[megamania]

I remember waiting hours to play Pong at the local country store.

First video game (non-arcade style) was Atari 2600 Tank Wars (pong but with tanks)

First 32 bit was the original Sonic The Hedgehog

 

[megamania]

Baseball cards aren't worth much these days - the same thing happened to them that happened to Star Wars toys. Too many people buying them just to collect them, so now everybody has an X in mint condition still in the shrinkwrap.
The Goodwill near my house has an entire endcap on one of their aisles full of bags of baseball cards, priced at 50/$1. Plus, it's a safe assumption that anybody who dropped off a serious weight of baseball cards in a HeroScape box probably sold off whatever was worth selling before they ditched them.

Pre mid eighties are still collectable ( I think). Cards went the way of Comicbooks. Once it was widely known they could gain higher prices EVERYONE bought them and manufactures MADE more of them. Over production on the market killed it.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I remember waiting hours to play Pong at the local country store.

I first encountered Pong just off the lobby of a hotel in which we were staying. I pumped so much change into that thing, my parents had no problem figuring out my next birthday present.

 

[Mad_Jack]

I once found an old pre-Atari 2600-era game system at a yard sale - can't remember the name of it, but it had two built-in knob controllers and was hardwired to play four different versions of Pong... I wish I'd kept it, lol - I could have sold it to a museum or something.

So...

New Years Eve, I was headed down the sidewalk (which has a slight downward slant at the end) to my driveway when I slid on the ice. Having quick reflexes and good balance, I instinctively dropped down into a crouch to minimize falling distance, and thus just basically tipped over onto my butt.
However, at some point I somehow managed to hit the lower part of the point of my left knee on the ice. It didn't hurt much, I still had full mobility, and didn't even leave a visible bruise.
And yet, almost two weeks later, it still hurts in the spot where I hit it, and the area below my kneecap has that tingly, stretchy feeling when I bend it.

I have determined, with my massive amount of medical expertise (and a Google search to confirm my diagnosis), that I have slightly strained my patellar tendon and slightly bruised my patella...

This is... irritating. It bothers me when I move around too much, or brush against something. My back and my other knee start bothering me when I sit or lie down too long, even when it's not cold (and I keep my house at 58 degrees F all winter to save money), so I can't really get entirely comfortable no matter what I do.
People assume that, because my hobbies include things like mini painting that take a great deal of time and care, I have a correspondingly great deal of patience. This is decidedly not the case. I especially hate having to wait on things I have no ability to hurry along or the completion/progress of which is dependent on other people, particularly when doing so interrupts my ability to do other things.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

That's mad, Jack.

 

[Blackrat]

Today I realized, I have never before actually heard the original Rick Astley version of rickroll. I usually keep the voice down on my computer and only turn it on if I need it. So whenever I've been rickrolled, I never heard the song. But I've read the words so often that I know the "famous part" by heart, just like I imagine quite a few people do. So today, driving home, I was listening to the radio and was singing along "never gonna give you up..." etc, when I realized what song it was, and that I have never before actually heard it. So, a radio station, Radio Nostalgy (translated from finnish) is actually the first to really rickroll me!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

So much evil in the world!

(Actually, I kinda dig Rick.)

 

[Random Bystander]

I think it should be a rule that random Youtube links do not count for "Rickrolling", nor any link or post that contains no hint or clue there may be a "Rickroll". Otherwise it is the conversational equivalent of randomly screaming and then saying "But I scared you good, didn't I?" Well, yes, but randomly screaming takes no skill or effort, in the same way that random Youtube links take no skill or effort. And random screaming should not be something one expects, in the same way one should not have to check Youtube links against some theoretical database of "Rickroll" links.

...@overanalysis.com

 

[Darkness]

nor any link or post that contains no hint or clue there may be a "Rickroll".

Good point. This video may not be about quite the same issues, but I think it's close enough to serve as food for thought.