1989 vision of the future

um, 2 days ago?

i realised a short while after i posted it that i rented a movie 2 weeks ago. i didnt want to delete it and look like a faggot. if i had the wits to post it in the first place it stays, same with anything i do with consciousness in that matter.

If i say something with some logic making sense whilst thinking it, it will stay when i say it. Even if i looked like a faggot saying it, i don't look like a pussy who can never be wrong and tries to excuse my way out of it.

Don't get me wrong, I still thumbed you. You had a valid point, it just didn't apply to me. Though I do respect that you are willing to go down with your post.

One thumb for honesty

it was a add from 1989, that was how people rolled back in the days

You sir, are the definition of confidence.

I rented 10 games from blockbuster only so they can go out of business leaving me with 10 awesome games.

Yesterday... Hunger Games on Blu Ray. Netflix won't stream it and Amazon tries to charge $14.99 for it, no rentals. I got it at Redbox for $1.07 instead. I'd pirate but I'm too stupid to find the HD virus-free stuff.

The Pirate Bay.

There, now you know how to find the virus-free HD stuff.

Thepiratebay is safe, yeah? I never got a virus from them. Can't bust through Avast and Malwarebytes at the same time.

When Blockbuster.

Until Netflix slayed Blockbuster.

Yesterday. I rented 3 movies.

About 4 hours ago

A few days ago, rented it from the Apple store with my friend.
It was the recent Silent Hill movie with Sean Bean in it.

A week.

Well i just hit up a red box five minutes ago... rented a kids movie of some kind for my nephew... in about 2 hours i'll be returning it

Rogers on Demand... last week

I work at the movie theater, so I get free movie/game rentals.
The perks of being a janitor...

I love pirating things onto my VCR tapes.

I WANT IT NOW!

may I direct you to Zero Punctuation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPk7gllRZm4

how i imagine yahtzee spends most days.

game's horrid, don't say you weren't warned.

FAIR WARNING

Zero Punctuation actually has a lot of credibility, and it's not just him
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_Colonial_Marines
bottom right is ratings, EGM is the only one in that list with a positive review, they're all credible
Just saiyan, fair warning

don't say we didn't warn you

MFW
actually its not like hell playing it or anything its just not the aliens game we all wanted
personally the AvP game from 2000 something is a lot better

hey now meg calm down I was just offering a suggestion but don't come crying to us when you get a mediocre FPS with a dumb as fuck A.I. for 60 bucks

Christ man im not like ripping it out of your hands or anything and you haven't even played it yet you don't know how the A.I. works

hey its a pretty looking game no arguments there but the A.I just charge you like morons they don't sneak up on you like they should and like three courters of the enemies are just people with guns

fine it's sixty bucks to be spent on crack whores but your money your call

holy shit, someone's buttmad.

where can i get one of those??

vimeo.com/user16664577

allegedly, that's the guy that made it

tfw

That game has some damn good music too

Thats actually pretty damn awesome

I'm fairly certain those were found to cause cancer.

cool

yfw

i bet today's visions of sci-fi futuristic computer screens will be nothing compaired to what they look like when that time rolls around

Yeah and they had that holo-deck, that thing is so antiquated.




A lot of the equipment that I see used in military/science expeditions are in black/white still.

Actually, have you seen the "You will" commercials from the 90's? Or 2001: A Space Odyssey? Some things are wrong, yeah. But a lot of people were right on the dot with what technology we'd use and how we'd use it.

You watched Rambo 22?

not rambo 22. rambo 2. I meant I watched it as in a rambo movie, not rambo 22.

is it a crime to own a VCR and watch tapes on it?

Gee, why don't you tell me how Rambo XXII was. I haven't seen that one. I must have missed the past 18 of em.

I did not mean I watched rambo 22, I meant it in that I watched the last of the Rambo movie to be released on VHS.

Lol. And 2007 is pretty specific (and long ago). I watched few VHSs just last year.

VHS tapes were so much better than DVDs (except you couldn't play video games with a VHS). You could throw one of those things down the stairs and nothing would happen. Keep DVDs for the games, I want my VHS tapes.

Are fucking kidding me,the VHS is worst than the dvds.It had worst quality and you have to rewind them and they are bigger the only good thing it has is nostalgia, I remember when i was a kid me and my brothers used to pretend to build buildings and roads
We have alot ALOT of VHS

so, you have to rewind them? Who gives a flying fuck? And more importantly, perhaps if we were to put more development into VHS tapes the quality would be better.

(Who gives a flying fuck?) EVERYONE we are the lazy genration in the age of speed

People need to stop being lazy, we need to motivate them to raise up and take on the tasks at hand!

i can confirm his story, i too have seen Rambo 22, it wasn't as good as the 15th, but still pretty good.

It was a bit in style to do that when talking about something futuristic, especially after the year 2000.

God forbid we should loop around and be watching movies on our VCR's during the stone age.

I think it's how you operate the cooling fan =P

thats the scroll wheel in the mouse

i think it's where we get the term hard "drive"

As a CS major I lol'd at "Fortran language."

what is fortran..or should i just go ask wikipedia?

It's an old language from the 70's-80's. It's still taught today because some older businesses have infrastructure built around Fortran systems and they need people who can read it so they don't have to pay to update it. But it's becoming fairly rare to find people who still use it anymore because it's a purely logic-based language (it's all about simple computations) and it doesn't support object oriented design (like C++, C#, or Java).

FORTRAN IS OUR OLD GOD!

All hail fortran!

Shit was mint back in the day

ah ..ok i see
im just a marine major ..with a hobby in motors..come to think of it im better with motors
[small]im gonna pretend i understood all of that when in reality i barely got the gist of it[small]

a well laid plan to fuck with people of the future

It's like an evil lair!

I'm kind of glad they died. I hope comcast dies too. the second something even close to it comes along everyone will jump ship.

It was also the size of a fucking record. That didn't help it any.

yeah as miwauturu said, it was too big. It was just CD technology made bigger to fit an uncompressed 480p video....

As good as laserdisk was as the time (It's kinda like Flakk to MP3's today) it was never going to take off, but had amazing potential. Not saying Flakk won't take off... but it does have some problems also

And they already had high quality Betamax, quad tape, U-matic, as well as the first 3 D-formats.

Many of these are still used today in the making of movies and TV, but they aren't common household formats, because they are bulky and expensive.

We already have itunes and amazon, places to get tv shows and movies without needing a 'physical copy' as you say.

Those places are pretty damn popular. You're still paying for it, it's still yours, but there's no need for bulky physical copies, all of them can be stored on a laptop or other device.

Most consumers, however, don't. Otherwise online media stores and ipods which hook in to the itunes store would be going bankrupt. Cutting out the middleman and getting right to the media on whatever device has become very fashionable. It saves both time and money, the industry of course follows whatever the consumers want.

In the future I expect that companies will be forced to do away with the concept of buyers permanently "renting" a video, which is what netflix is already doing. After all once a song is downloaded onto an ipod it cannot be removed from that ipod, except by the consumer's choice. Instead of having to buy a bulky CD and then put it into the ipod, the CD has been taken out of the equation, thus making them more and more irrelevant.

I respect your opinion, though.

Not particularly, you're just afraid that it'll be taken away from you by a company that calls it nothing more than a rental. I'm also assuming you're nostalgic.

Consumer backlash will fix that problem, though a new solution will have to found so that you don't own the copyright to that video and therefore cannot make money off of downloading and selling it.

I heard some official call it a "permanent rental". what?

Thats basically what I meant, yeah. You can only watch it. You're not allowed to rip it, record it, play it on anything that isn't 'HDCP-compliant', or do anything else with it. So they effectively market it as this great, new, amazing format, but in reality you can't really do shit with it.

Or you could use AnyDVD.
But yeah, RIAA and MPAA are dicks.

Nice roll.

I still have at least three VHS players just sitting around. But not a single tape...
Like how the fuck does that even happen?

lucky you, I need a working VHS player because I want to watch Jurassic Park I & III all over again, and in VHS just for nostalgia even though I can watch it in the internet, it's not the same