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…my game gear did fine with the external rechargeable battery pack, which was admittedly cumbersome but wasn’t to extend battery life so much as it was to save the expense of buying batteries, but even using AAs i never had a problem with them not lasting through a full play session…

…that’s the POWER model: the unit posted above is the consumer version with the SX chip, no math coprocessor and fewer function keys…

…IGN goes from 6.5 to 9.5…

…no, cartridges hadn’t yet been invented for my first console and my first NES was actually the mid-nineties redesign, so i never experienced blowing dust off the contacts…

…i did get to play with ROM-swap developer cartridges on my atari 2600, though…

(i still have my original four grey controllers with rumble packs for the lot)

…pilotwings 64 and a quiet night home alone…

…that’s some clever gastroetymology…

…they’re called bollards, and you’d be surprised how robustly they must be constructed to stop large trucks…

Coronation, Starscream? This is bad comedy.

…seriously, the guy’s out there trying to build clean energy and transportation infrastructure but optimus keeps showing up with his gang of hooligans just to f*ck sh*t up…

#OptimusPrimeIsATotalDick

…the elise’s 2ZZ-GE is nearly as highly-strung as the F20 (splits the difference from the F20C at 8500 RPM) but it’s also 10% less displacement, which may make the most difference in fuel economy compared to pushing 40% more weight in the S2000…

…i wish my mazdas revved so high!..

…i’m surprised to read that; my elise and MX-5s all get around thirty miles per gallon on the street, it’s only on tracks where fuel economy drops precipitously…

…hey, that’s just like my library’s old PET 2001, my first computer!..

…our orange kitty does the same, but he’s the smartest cat we’ve ever known: perfectly adept at opening doors on his own, so we must keep them all deadbolted lest we find wild critters brought into the house, which has happened on several occasions…

(he’s also pretty good at operating our ipads and desktop computers; he’s sent gibberish text-messages more than once and i worry that someday he’ll buy something online!)

…all that and you don’t even mention that he’s been an open russian asset for eight years?..

…the blunt truth is that he’s in too deep, as are most of the remaining republican party, and the only way to keep their heads at this point is to double-down on seizing the apparatus of state to dismiss their criminal culpability…

…i bought a mazda 2 ten years ago and it was fantastically practical, agile, efficient, and affordable; came time for a new car and they’d replaced it with a f*cking SUV…

…are you presuming her gender?..it’s a woman’s right to grow a beard if she chooses…

…just ripples in the carbon cycle, momentary standing waves until we lose coherence…

…i don’t doubt it: when i left the bay area for cheaper lands twenty years ago, 650sf apartments were going for $1600 and i’m sure prices have only inflated since…my data points are all the cheap minima on my housing curve over the past three four decades…

edit: …f*ck, i forgot how old i am; it happens on the north end of the century mark…

…most low-earth-orbit photos are shot with a wide-angle lens, which exaggerates the curvature of the earth and makes local features appear disproportionately large relative to the horizon…