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[–] 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not the Speak & Spell. You leave that one alone.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    My first encounter with AI.

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    What did you play this on? It looks like Atari.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Looks like the chess game we had on our old “ibm compatible”

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    That screenshot is specifically from the Atari 2600. You can tell because sprites that are next to each other are offset by one vertical pixel, which was a common effect used to help with hardware limitations.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    IIRC, the 2600 didn't have a graphics processor. So, you had to "chase the ray" with CPU instructions, which made for some interesting limitations.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    It has the TIA, which is as close to a picture processor (and also audio synthesizer) as you can get, but due to the 128 bytes of RAM, there was not enough RAM to form a framebuffer, hence the need to race the beam.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Teddy Ruxpin did nothing wrong.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    It would have cost you nothing to not post this.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    Cleary they value more than the mere material currency of this realm.

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    The woe of mortals is a shared delicacy, some other mortals appreciate it as well.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Fear is a form of appreciation.

    Jokes aside, I don't get the "furby = evil" things. Much like clowns, or Taco Bell giving people diarrhea (present bullshit excluded). Memes gonna meme I guess.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago*

    Did you ever have a furby?

    As agameanonymous says... there are many... unsettling quirks about having one long term.

    I had one.

    Woukdn't stop fucking yammering, clattering its beak, clicking its eyes.

    Took it outside, doused it in fire accelerant, burned it till it stopped making noises.

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    Teddy Ruxpin just moves the mouth in response to sound. There's no AI going on there (at least in the original ones).

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Without the Farmer says See N Say we'd never have this great Soundgarden intro.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhESD3cU4GU

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    You'll take my Teddy Ruxpin from my cold dead toddler hands

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    Ok Altman, Thiel, Jensen? We know it's one of you guys!!!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    If you time travel and take out the ENIAC, you likely deprive the US of working nuclear weapons during WW2.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC

    ENIAC was designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory (which later became a part of the Army Research Laboratory).[7][8] However, its first program was a study of the feasibility of the thermonuclear weapon.[9][10]

    ... choose wisely.

    Can you predict what would have happened, then?

    ...are you sure?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago*

    Perceptron: Seer of Light

    [ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ 400/400 ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ]

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    My first experience with creepy tech was those talking furby toys.

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  • "John Conner?"

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I also just saw Toy Story 5.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    You just have to erase the first letter of "emeth".

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    Call me t-1000 then

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    No! Not my Teddy Ruxpin! 😭

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