Back in the golden age of the internet no one used to care about old games that were no longer being sold (who would want that old stuff?) and many were archived in large collections. But once large companies discovered that there was money to be made in nostalgia they clamped down on 'piracy' of old games so hard and fast it made everyone's head spin. Up until even five or six years ago if you wanted to play an old Atari game or DOS game you could easily find it on one of several rom sites, but now most of the major ones are gone and so are the games. Nintendo really put the fear in everyone. Who wants to lose their life savings and possibly be put in jail for 5+ years for hosting some ancient roms? Some have be released for play on official emulators on various consoles and software portals but many of the less popular ones are now unavailable. They're too unpopular to bother offering for sale (or have other copyright issues) but they can't allow it to be downloaded off a random site or it would set a bad precedence. Private torrent sites (the few that still exist) or paying out the ass on ebay for an old copy that you hope still works are the only way to get these games anymore.

My main area of interest is archiving and cataloging unreleased classic games. I used to have no problem doing this as game companies didn't care about unreleased games (many of which were unfinished and only partially playable anyway). But lately even those unreleased/unfinished games are seen as potential profit by whatever mega corp owns the rights to a long defunct company and the owners of some of these prototypes (some of which may be the only copy left in existence) are afraid to let anyone archive it because they might get sued. I've actually been contacted by companies asking for my help in locating roms for unreleased games that they now own the rights to. It's funny because if it wasn't for the 'piracy' they're working so hard to clamp down on they wouldn't have the roms for some of the games their own games.

Are they trying to bore a hole into the Dark One's prison? That new power source is a trick, don't do it!

When they first announced this thing I thought that it sounded amazing, but the price was insane. How many people are there out there that are willing to drop that kind of cash on a Star Wars themed 'experience'? Sure you have your well to do nerds that will jump at the chance and maybe some rich parents with Star Wars nostalgia that they're trying to impart on their kids, but those run out after a while. I wondered, how long can this thing last at those prices? A year apparently. I'm a huge old school Star Wars fan, but there's no way I'd drop $2500 a night on this no matter how neat it was. At those prices you're half way to a decent European vacation that you'll have more fun on and remember much longer.

I understand that the cost of having an entire crew cosplay 24/7 has got to be a bit expensive, but surely they could have done something to keep the price down a bit. Maybe they weren't willing to 'cheapen' the experience? I wonder what the heck they're going to do with it now though, maybe turn it into a regular star wars themed hotel without the 'immersive experience' part?

Looking at the box office numbers for the original Trek movies I guess the 'dad jokes' paid off because 4 is the second most successful right behind 1 which had the benefit of being the first Star Trek movie ever.

I guess 'poor acting' is a poor choice of words. It seemed like to me that the crew in 6 were just tired and sort of phoning it in. Maybe that was point, but they all come off to me as being disinterested in the movie they're in. I will say this about 3, it has my favorite 'WTF' piece of acting in it of the entire series. When they're all stealing the ship back with Uhura's help, the guy playing the lieutenant in the transporter room delivers his lines like he's doing a bad Jack Nicholson impression. It's the weirdest thing and my favorite part of the movie.

It's funny you should say that. After recently re-watching TOS movies after not seeing them in over 10 years my opinion on which ones are the 'good ones' has changed. Like most people I thought 2, 4, and 6 were the best ones and 1, 3, and 5 were the worst, but now I've kind of warmed up to the odd numbered Treks and was surprised at how much 4 and 6 didn't seem to hold up as well as I remembered (2 will always be the best IMHO). 4 in particular just seems so out of place to me now with all it's sitcom style humor, it's almost jarring. I loved it back in the day, but then again I was a kid when I first saw it. I still think that there's a good movie in 5 somewhere hidden behind the laughable special effects and weird religious overtones. 3 is just a lost cause in my book, it's only saving grace is Christopher Lloyd's weird take on a Klingon which is kind of amusing. 1 is alright but really does feel like the TV episode turned into a movie it was. 6 has some good times that are overshadowed by the ridiculous plot and poor acting (I still like it though).

First of all, good choice of movie. It's one of my favorites.

I agree that any law, no matter how well intended an be twisted or abused. That unfortunately you can't legislate away. But that doesn't mean you just throw out the laws. That way leads to even worse abuses.

>>Cops are not, and should not, be in the business of preventing crime.

Which would you rather hear?

"We prevented your loved one from being murdered"
or
"We caught the guy who murdered your loved one"?

To me the weird thing about Reddit is all the ModBots that are employed by the various sub-eddits. There are bots that will ban you for mentioning a taboo word, there are bots that will scour your membership history and ban you if you're a member of certain subreddits, there are even bots that will correct your grammar. I find it all creepy and weird. It's got a 'Big Brother is always watching you!' kind of vibe going on.

RuPauly? Isn't she that drag queen?

>> I put it in a full-size quiet case, what did you use to contain it?

I have a full sized case, I can't remember the manufacturer (Apevia maybe?). One thing I've learned is that while blue LEDs were cool when they first came out, they're kind of bright and obnoxious now. My next case will be a little more on the functional side and less on the 'cool' side.

Indeed, this is why I'm still running a 13 year old computer that I put together myself. It was a decent computer at the time (i7 920, 6GB of RAM, NVIDIA GTX260) but even now it does all I need. The only improvements I put into it were 6GB of extra RAM because it was cheap and a slightly better video card Radeon 7770) because the original card died on me. I run Linux as my main OS (dual booting to Windows 10 when needed) so it's still a pretty peppy system. About the only thing I can't do is run current games, but I have consoles for that. I'm sure I'll have to upgrade eventually, but that most likely won't be for another 5 or so years (or when components start failing). The requirement/need to upgrade your computer every 5 years is long gone unless you're running some specialty applications or are a gamer.

I actually still use mine for taking pictures off a CRT because the camera doesn't catch the retrace like the HD one in my 12 does.

I had a 5S and saw no need to upgrade it (my wife was on an ancient 3GS she refused to part with), but we ended up getting new phones last year when AT&T got rid of their 3G network. We were told that our phones would no longer work and truth be told, they were acting a bit weird (texts and calls sometimes wouldn't go through for reason). If this is true, then what use is a 5S anymore other than for offline purposes?

I still have milk delivery from a local dairy. They deliver it is glass bottles too.

Feel free to try and enlighten me then.