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james_tigerwoods
10,850 posts
67 months
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Negative Creep said: Command and Conquer was a great game, and still fun to play today. Once you figured out that the AI always attacked the Northernmost target, or that you could sandbag them in, cheap victories could easily be attained. Some of the Covert Ops missions were absolutely brutal though, and I'm still yet to complete some of them I didn't know that about the northern most targets... I did know about sandbags and extending your base with them - but the covert ops were really hard...
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Ray Luxury-Yacht
6,515 posts
86 months
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Sticks. said: Morningside said: Here you go. Welcome to the mid 90s with my state of the ark laptop and fax machine.  State of the ark, like that  Not sure I should admit this, but at work quite some time ago (ahem) we used a ticker-tape syetem to link us to the central computer. Haha cool! A freind who was / still is a geek, had me in awe of his setup back in about '89, when he had a system at home to be able to connect to the computers at his work (IBM). A phone cradle with rubber seals, into which he placed the handset of his rotary-dial landline telephone! Lika dis: 
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james_tigerwoods
10,850 posts
67 months
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Ray Luxury-Yacht said: Haha cool! A freind who was / still is a geek, had me in awe of his setup back in about '89, when he had a system at home to be able to connect to the computers at his work (IBM). A phone cradle with rubber seals, into which he placed the handset of his rotary-dial landline telephone! Lika dis: War Games? 
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jeff m2
980 posts
21 months
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Ray Luxury-Yacht said: Haha cool! A freind who was / still is a geek, had me in awe of his setup back in about '89, when he had a system at home to be able to connect to the computers at his work (IBM). A phone cradle with rubber seals, into which he placed the handset of his rotary-dial landline telephone! Lika dis: I bet he speaks fluent Fortran Punch card readers and of course the punch card operators 
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robsa
913 posts
54 months
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So many things! As a teacher, I see the final destruction of mankind first-hand. Here's a few things that shook me up: 1) Email. The future? Nope. All the school kids don't use it. They just IM! 2) Music. I asked a student whether she used CDs still, or just iTunes. "neither, Sir. I use youtube" Same response from the next student... and the next... and the next... 3) Books. They don't read them. No, I mean seriously - they really don't! They look at me as if I'm mental when I urge them to read a good book like the Count of Montechristo or Great Expectations... For all these reasons I now live in fear of the day they take over the running of the country  PS Farah's rock! Wish I could find a pair!
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Sticks.
3,148 posts
121 months
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I found Great Expectations hugely disappointing.
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Negative Creep
11,346 posts
97 months
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james_tigerwoods said: Negative Creep said: Command and Conquer was a great game, and still fun to play today. Once you figured out that the AI always attacked the Northernmost target, or that you could sandbag them in, cheap victories could easily be attained. Some of the Covert Ops missions were absolutely brutal though, and I'm still yet to complete some of them I didn't know that about the northern most targets... I did know about sandbags and extending your base with them - but the covert ops were really hard... When playing the NOD campaign, always leave one minigunner* north of your base and the GDI airstrikes will target him every single time - it always bugged me they were called this, since they quite clearly used rifles
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AndyT77
1,257 posts
32 months
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robsa said: So many things! As a teacher, I see the final destruction of mankind first-hand. Here's a few things that shook me up: 1) Email. The future? Nope. All the school kids don't use it. They just IM! 2) Music. I asked a student whether she used CDs still, or just iTunes. "neither, Sir. I use youtube" Same response from the next student... and the next... and the next... 3) Books. They don't read them. No, I mean seriously - they really don't! They look at me as if I'm mental when I urge them to read a good book like the Count of Montechristo or Great Expectations... For all these reasons I now live in fear of the day they take over the running of the country PS Farah's rock! Wish I could find a pair! The thing is though unless you teach at somewhere like Eton, they won't be running out country. Anyway, im answer to the original post: When your pubes start turning grey!
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johnvthe2nd
1,098 posts
67 months
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RedLeicester
5,475 posts
115 months
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CharlesdeGaulle said: When you get irritated that some f  kwit has quoted the whole f king lot. Think man, think. Context my boy, context!
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Kermit power
14,969 posts
83 months
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robsa said: So many things!
As a teacher, I see the final destruction of mankind first-hand.
Here's a few things that shook me up:
1) Email. The future? Nope. All the school kids don't use it. They just IM! Ask them what will they do when they start working and need to progress matters with multiple people, often in multiple time zones with people not online all the time, and also with the need for attachments being sent and received? I (at the age of 41) use both email and IM all day. Both have their different values, and neither is going to replace the other. It just happens that on the whole your kids don't need email yet. robsa said: 2) Music. I asked a student whether she used CDs still, or just iTunes. "neither, Sir. I use youtube" Same response from the next student... and the next... and the next... How do they listen to music on the move if they don't have a data connection? I'm struggling to see how Youtube would work for them on the tube, for example? robsa said: 3) Books. They don't read them. No, I mean seriously - they really don't! They look at me as if I'm mental when I urge them to read a good book like the Count of Montechristo or Great Expectations... Do you mean they don't read stories, or just that they don't use physical paper books to do so? My 9yr old would bankrupt me with the amount she would spend on Kindle given a free rein!
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stackmonkey
4,880 posts
119 months
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...when you get a kitchen knife sharpener as a birthday present....
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Laurel Green
15,009 posts
102 months
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When they no longer let you have knives. 
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james_tigerwoods
10,850 posts
67 months
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I asked for socks for my birthday and got them - Tragically, I wanted them....
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RedLeicester
5,475 posts
115 months
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When you go looking at Lego on Ebay, and discover all the stuff you played with / chewed on / blew up is marked "vintage" and "collectors items"!
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VictorMeldrew
Original Poster
8,293 posts
147 months
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AndyT77 said: When your pubes start turning grey! I seem to have skipped that and gone straight to white. Oddly I have very little grey on top, and yes despite the medications I do still have my own thatch.
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james_tigerwoods
10,850 posts
67 months
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RedLeicester said: When you go looking at Lego on Ebay, and discover all the stuff you played with / chewed on / blew up is marked "vintage" and "collectors items"! Tragically, I seem to have bought a load of these...
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Marcia
4,610 posts
60 months
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You wake up with a bruise and you can't remember where you got it,this happens to me alot
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Kermit power
14,969 posts
83 months
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Marcia said: You wake up with a bruise and you can't remember where you got it,this happens to me alot That used to happen to me when I was young! I don't get to go to the pub as much any more though.
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RedLeicester
5,475 posts
115 months
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james_tigerwoods said: RedLeicester said: When you go looking at Lego on Ebay, and discover all the stuff you played with / chewed on / blew up is marked "vintage" and "collectors items"! Tragically, I seem to have bought a load of these... I have managed to restrain myself. Thus far....
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