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/dev/random / Re: The Good Old Days thread

« Last post by |iR|Focalor on October 01, 2024, 06:02:23 AM »

Remember baseball cards?

Remember Pete Rose? One of the greatest baseball players ever until they kicked him out for betting on his own games. His nickname was Charlie Hustle... Better Call Saul got it from Pete Rose.

1986 Topps Pete Rose card.



(Pete Rose passed yesterday.  Dunno the cause of death yet. Rest in peace, Charlie Hustle.)

I'm about 90% sure I've still got this one in a binder somewhere as well as most of the entire set of the 1986 year Topps.

Remember baseball cards though? You used to be able to find them at grocery store checkouts, gas station checkouts, etc. And for a while there in the 90's, you could actually find baseball card and sports memorabilia stores that would BUY them for close to what their value was. Doubt you could find anyone to buy them for what they're worth anymore... unless it's older stuff - 1970's and before.

Oldest one I have in my collection that I remember... 1959 Topps special 3-player Cleveland Indians card  featuring Minnie Minoso, Rocky Colavito, and Larry Doby, "The Destruction Crew."



I have no foggy idea what it's worth.

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/dev/random / Re: Hurricane Helene

« Last post by |iR|Focalor on October 01, 2024, 05:16:50 AM »

Foc - how did you make out?

Easy-peasy here. The old farm pond next door that usually overflows during heavy rains filled right up to the rim and looked like it was juuuust about to spill over and go through my yard, bypassing the dam like it sometimes does,... but it never quite made it. My Neighbor had a small little tree on the property line that split down the middle, and on his other side, he had a younger oak (maybe 40-50yrs) growing against the bank of a culvert that uprooted. I still have 2 or 3 pretty ancient live oaks (200+ yrs probably) and some southern red oaks, they all made it. We got a good bit of rain, but it only lasted a day or two - I guessed that the storm would halt in place and dump water on us for probably 3 full days nonstop, but it moved on through luckily. Some folks around here might've had the odd tree down, but we never even lost power.

I went to Ingles yesterday to do grocery shopping and had to head into town to hit up a bank first to take out 400 bucks cash because they had a sign at the door saying "we are accepting cash only right now, no credit cards or checks." Ingles is a southeastern only chain with stores in NC, GA, SC, and TN. Their home office is either in Asheville or Black Mountain NC - both are completely underwater.

Looks like the storm held on to crazy amounts of water and waited until it got up to the smokey mountains to drop it all. All that water came washing down off the mountains and into the valley all at once. All the little towns through the main valleys just turned into rivers. Somebody posted before and after pics in discord of Chimney Rock NC. It's 100% gone, the WHOLE TOWN, nothing left. If the news is saying it's really bad... they're still understating how bad it is. The entire smokey mountain tourist area is likely completely gone. Like you said, there's likely a lot of people that are never going to be found. The interstates through there are major trucking arteries too and there are lots of spots destroyed that will take a long time to rebuild, so this is probably gonna effect some shipping around NC SC and northeast TN mostly.

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/dev/random / Hurricane Helene

« Last post by Sgt. Dick on September 30, 2024, 09:09:35 AM »

Wow - small towns basically washed away.  Areas of complete devastation from Florida to North Carolina.
The death toll is now over 100, but will most likely go much higher.  IMO - some people may never be found.

I'm on the East Coast of Florida and we got very little from the storm.  I have family in GA, both middle & north GA.  Everyone in my family survived the storm, but are dealing with heavy damage in some cases. 

The scenes from the mountain areas are terrible.  Some people who survived the storm may not survive the days after.  Many people are cut off from assistance, without water, food, power, phone, etc.  Florida sent air rescue resources to NC and other support is coming in from many other areas.  Hopefully, the death toll won't climb to much higher.

Foc - how did you make out?

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/dev/random / Re: The last movie you saw....

« Last post by |iR|Focalor on September 10, 2024, 03:15:30 PM »

One of the all time greats.



Last movie I saw with him in it... probably Conan or Coming to America, I love those. Conan was a classic, cannot be remade, I don't care WHO you put in it. You'll never get a hero as great as Arnold, and you'll never have a villain as great as James Earl Jones playing Thulsa Doom.

He was also in The Sandlot and Field of Dreams, two good baseball movies, also forever classics.

One of my favorites of his that some people may forget about...

A Family Thing - 1996 - James Earl Jones, Robert Duvall - Synopsis from IMDB: When an old woman dies, she leaves a note for her apparent son (Robert Duvall) which tells him that his biological mother died giving birth to him. She begs him to make peace with his half-brother (James Earl Jones) living in Chicago.

Currently available on tubi for free:
https://tubitv.com/movies/312415/a-family-thing


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65tMREjQXAQ&ab_channel=VideoDetective

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Quake / Re: Has anybody ever heard of a mod that...

« Last post by rikwad on September 09, 2024, 11:37:12 PM »

NIQ - That is a blast! My favourite mod. I liked to config the blaster to do 200 damage.

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DOWNLOAD MAPS HERE !! / Re: q3t2 - q3tourney2 for Quake2

« Last post by sparkq2 on September 08, 2024, 11:25:49 AM »

You can test the map "q3t2_d" on servers:
93.183.94.219:27915
93.183.94.219:27914

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DOWNLOAD MAPS HERE !! / Re: Dust2 (d2)

« Last post by sparkq2 on September 08, 2024, 11:21:23 AM »

Map "d2" updated 07.09.2024 - bugs fixed.
Now works with r1q2 client too.

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Quake / Re: Has anybody ever heard of a mod that...

« Last post by Kyper on September 08, 2024, 09:39:03 AM »

The remaster/rerelease has a Game Modifier -> Random Weapons ("g_dm_random_items") setting that seems to switch out weapons every so often. It also switches out armors/powerups to other items of various usefulness like the silencer and Dualfire Damage from the Reckoning expansion.

This seems to be adapted from the original code in the Rogue/Ground Zero expansion which uses the "randomrespawn" cvar, with an improvement so it works with Weapons Stay. I can't seem to find any other modifiers for it though.

Somewhat related but not quite what you're looking for, I remember a mod called NIQ - No Items Quake. As the name implies, it removes items from the map and instead spawns everyone with a random weapon for a configured duration.

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Quake / Re: Has anybody ever heard of a mod that...

« Last post by Sgt. Dick on September 07, 2024, 10:05:35 PM »

The Red Armor becomes 1 red shard right before you go to grab it 

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Quake / Re: Has anybody ever heard of a mod that...

« Last post by haunted on September 07, 2024, 09:50:42 PM »

I don't think I've come across a mod like that.

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