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jeron113-Jun-19 5:18

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13-Jun-19 5:18

Only to doctors who can stand pudding up with them.

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lopatir13-Jun-19 6:01

lopatir

13-Jun-19 6:01

figured they would split to get second and third opinions

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DRHuff13-Jun-19 6:18

DRHuff

13-Jun-19 6:18

Only on sundaes

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Alina Popa13-Jun-19 20:25

Alina Popa

13-Jun-19 20:25

This is some wonderful stuff Big Grin | :-D

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Member 1433107613-Jun-19 4:19

Member 14331076

13-Jun-19 4:19

This post[^] made me realize - the time to download an ISO around here is usually longer than the interval between power outages (Google it if you don't know what those are).

Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

OriginalGriff13-Jun-19 4:26

13-Jun-19 4:26

Hah! You're lucky!

Back in the day we had dial-up, which crashed out if somebody else in the house lifted the phone ... or the wind was blowing ... or the stars were out of alignment.

I bought a copy of Half-Life back then, only to find it was this new-fangled "Steam app" thingy, and it wouldn't run until Steam had updated itself each time (do note that Half-Life was not an online game). Since it took considerably longer than the average "time to die" of dial up to download the steam update - and no, it didn't resume - I never got to play the game at all ...

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glennPattonWork313-Jun-19 4:33

glennPattonWork3

13-Jun-19 4:33

I had, probably still have somewhere, Half Life as I recall you didn't need to dial up, I didn't have a modem then. It was a bu**** never finished it... Laugh | :laugh:

OriginalGriff13-Jun-19 4:34

13-Jun-19 4:34

No, you didn't need dial up for H-L, you need it for Steam. And H-L wouldn't run until Steam was up to date ... Mad | :mad:

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glennPattonWork313-Jun-19 5:38

glennPattonWork3

13-Jun-19 5:38

If memory serves it had a version of Steam that it was happy with...

dandy7214-Jun-19 2:52

dandy72

14-Jun-19 2:52

It must have. It's been decades, so I might be fuzzy on the details, but I remember installing the game from CD and playing it, without ever having gone online.

That said, I might have downloaded patches from elsewhere, burnt them on CD and brought them home to install from there. But I don't recall Steam being part of the vocabulary back then.

glennPattonWork314-Jun-19 5:56

glennPattonWork3

14-Jun-19 5:56

I seem to remember that, A CD nothing more... you wanted a game you went to the shops handed over money and got media! Imagine telling kids in the futre you had Monkey island on 8 5.25 discs, 4 1.44 & 1 CDRom!.. Poke tongue | ;-P

dandy7214-Jun-19 6:02

dandy72

14-Jun-19 6:02

glennPattonWork wrote:
you wanted a game you went to the shops handed over money and got media

That's still how I roll. No media? No purchase.

Mind you, I hardly play games anymore - but always make an exception for whatever becomes latest installment of the GTA franchise.

Although by now, it's had so many patches I'm not sure there's a single file that came from one of the eight DVDs that still matches what's on the hard drive.

Member 1433107613-Jun-19 4:41

Member 14331076

13-Jun-19 4:41

In a way you're right, we couldn't afford a computer (and didn't need one either) back when dial-up was the only connection available.

And steam was what we got when we boiled drinking water to kill the contaminants. Smile | :)

OriginalGriff13-Jun-19 4:46

13-Jun-19 4:46

Member 14331076 wrote:
steam was what we got when we boiled drinking water

We couldn't afford to boil water.

There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road.

Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Forogar 13-Jun-19 4:56

Forogar

13-Jun-19 4:56

You had a shoebox? You were lucky!

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Rick York13-Jun-19 6:11

Rick York

13-Jun-19 6:11

We were so poor when I was young I had to build the house I was born in.

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pkfox13-Jun-19 6:41

pkfox

13-Jun-19 6:41

Did you get thrashed wit broken bottle ?

We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP

stoneyowl213-Jun-19 15:01

stoneyowl2

13-Jun-19 15:01

Well, we would set a pan of Boone's Farm wine out at night so it would freeze and we could pour off the 180 proof flavored alcohol. Blush | :O

Plus, it was a contest every morning to see who would get up first to warm up the terlet seat after the 20 below (Fahrenheit) nights. $Shucks | :-\$

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Johnny J.13-Jun-19 4:37

Johnny J.

13-Jun-19 4:37

OriginalGriff wrote:
no, it didn't resume - I never got to play the game at all ...

I had that very problem with po... eh, educational material!!! Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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kmoorevs13-Jun-19 7:03

kmoorevs

13-Jun-19 7:03

Back in the day when I would fix computers for the wife's friends, one of her managers brought me his kid's system and a new video card so he could play WoW. One of their problems was that the patch for the game was something like 2.5GB and they didn't have broadband...so they used my bandwidth to enable a teenager to play games. I was supposed to get a free meal out of the deal but that never happened...wife wound up firing him soon after for improper cash handling. Smile | :)

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Tim Deveaux12-Jun-19 20:01

Tim Deveaux

12-Jun-19 20:01

Second quarter tie? (4,2,5)

pkfox12-Jun-19 23:25

pkfox

12-Jun-19 23:25

Thought I had it with "Draw a blank" but I drew a blank

We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP

OriginalGriff12-Jun-19 23:29

12-Jun-19 23:29

The only ones I could come up with were "LOVE IS BLIND" and "TIME IS MONEY" - and neither of those fit the rest of the clue ...

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Fueled By Decaff12-Jun-19 23:38

Fueled By Decaff

12-Jun-19 23:38

Erm, think again, you got it, I believe.

OriginalGriff12-Jun-19 23:59