kinda looks like this

Still a thriving market here. Some people might have to travel a bit though.

I believe that was in relation to phones–they said they never had to use T9 mode on phones that had only numbers, and went straight to qwerty phones.

Oh boy, sound blaster. As much of a pain getting everything to work back in the day was, I’m also nostalgic for it.

I am too. I ran across a yt vid the other day talking about how in the DOS games era apparently there was something called the MT-32, which cost around the equivalent of $2000 USD, but the sound was amazing. Instead of the tinnier output of sound blaster, some DOS games actually had full music tracks in their games.

Still though, think of how much less memorable that sound would be if we didn’t have it.

He goes through and compares PC speaker, Sound Blaster, and MT-32 for a bunch of games like King’s Quest IV, Monkey Island, Space Quest 3, one of the Leisure Suit Larrys, and even an Indy Jones game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R14XeuTXwaU

The .world domain appears to be unblocked, at least on some of the test sites.

https://www.chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl=lemmy.world
https://www.cloudwards.net/tools/chinese-firewall-test/

Even then, some people are just basically nocturnal. When I have long vacations my sleep time pushes later and later until I pretty much go to sleep close to dawn and wake up around noon or early/mid afternoon. Really sucks when work punches me in the face again after that though.

I don’t even know wtf the LDP does. Apart from continuing to block gay marriage, the only policy they’ve had in the past decade is to raise taxes every year. It’s to the point where people are feeling the squeeze enough that the ultranational populist fascists just gained seats, and yet they still keep winning. How they keep getting the majority is beyond me, but then again idiots in plenty of countries vote against their own interests.