I had used like four different flavors of BASIC by the time I got a IBM compatible PC, but I ended up getting on the Borland train and ended up with Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, and Turbo ASM (and Turbo C++ that I totally bounced off of). I was in the first class at my school that learned Java in college. It was the brand new version 1.0.6! It was so rough and new, but honestly I liked it. It’s wildly different now.

Sounds very similar to my own experience though there was a large amount of Pascal in between BASIC and C.

The list is honestly bizarre and the rank placements are all over the place. Most of your later examples of that I completely agree with. I just think that the mainline FF games not being on the top 100 list of PC games is fairly understandable, and I say that as a huge fan of the series. Ironically, FF14 is quite literally the only game in the series that I haven’t played.

Regarding the FF games, I think it’s actually fine considering some of the more notable omissions. Most FF games didn’t get released anywhere near when they were relevant.

figures lmao

I had no idea Apollo got resurrected. I gave up hope after a few months when it went down many years ago.

DALnet and EFnet were both great for that

Absolutely agreed

RED and the defunct Apollo both welcomed WCD refuguees at first, but they filled up fast.

Me too. It didn’t mention that side of things, but I doubt he is up for more Black Mages either.

I was a gifted kid, I’d say most our class was really freaking weird in some way or another. There were definitely those weird ultra good rule followers on one side and the totally weird misfits/defiant troublemakers on the other with very few seeming “normal” kids in the middle. Despite having higher IQs, I don’t think that the students were generally more successful than other students in life. In fact, based on those that I am still in touch with, they might be below average in that respect.

I want to make some sort of Poopster’s Billions joke, but nah that’s too crass. Also that would imply he actually had that much money.

I’m partially with you on this. I was so confused by people being in love with Goldeneye as I had been playing FPS games multiplayer for many years at that point, Quakeword and its many mods were light years better. That being said, it was highly novel for console-only gamers and the game itself was fun enough once you got over the horrid controller.

I haven’t seen anything like that on a pizza since I moved to the midwest. They do seem obsessed with pickles though.

It would go excellent with his salads he loves so much.

I don’t recall Arena having many patches, but since there wasn’t a great way to distribute patches back then, they probably had no choice but to get their shit at least mostly stable before shipping.

Sounds like a Genitorturers concert!

That is both hilarious and bizarre if true.

I used to work two jobs and the middle of the night was the only time I could shop and I still don’t want them to go back to that.

Funny you say that, because Amazon seems to cancel the few shows I get invested in.