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You never played games to see how far you could get?
To see if anything special happen at level 100?
To see what strange symbols they would use in level names?
Heck, my own father and a friend played Atari 2600 Pacman a whole night just to see what happened when when you got maximum score, and he was no gamer.

adblock doesn't work on mobile it's still there.

Back then, you kept playing the game you rented over the weekend, no matter if it was good or bad.
But hey, if you cant stay alive for 4 hours in Donkey Kong, then you probably cant get the killscreen in Duck Hunt as well.
https://youtu.be/tQ168Wsui_U

You basically live in ancient ruins with no technology or people

There's gotta be a reason why nobody wants to live there.

What's the catch?

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/presicce-italy-pay-to-move/index.html

Towns across Italy have been racing to launch clever schemes aimed at luring new residents to revive their fortunes in recent years.

From dilapidated homes selling for little more than a dollar, to ready-to-occupy houses at knockdown prices, there's been a frenzy of competition.

The picturesque town of Presicce in the sunny region of Puglia is the latest to enter the game with a tantalizing offer. Officials say they will pay people up to 30,000 euros (roughly $30,000) to buy an empty dwelling and take up residency.

Even better, the houses up for sale as part of the deal are priced from around 25,000 euros. Like other cheap properties on sale across Italy, they've been long abandoned by their original owners.

And as an added bonus, the location is incredible, surrounded by the nature of the Salento area in the heel of Italy's boot and close to the powder beaches and turquoise clear waters of Santa Maria di Leuca.

Authorities in Presicce hope the offer of a cash incentive will breathe new life into their depopulating town, where newborns are fewer each year.

"There are many empty homes in the historical center built before 1991 which we would like to see alive again with new residents," local councilor Alfredo Palese tells CNN. "It is a pity witnessing how our old districts full of history, wonderful architecture and art are slowly emptying."

The details of the deal are currently being finalized, Palese adds, but authorities are ready to launch applications in upcoming weeks when information will be available on the town hall website.

"We will be offering up to 30,000 euros to people willing to move here and buy one of these abandoned dwellings," he says. "The total funding will be split in two: it will go partly into buying an old home and partly into restyling it, if needed."

Palese says a 2019 merger with an adjacent community to create the larger town of Presicce-Acquarica has bequeathed it with extra money to ensure the project can continue for years to come.

"After the merger, as per Italian law, our wider territory will be blessed with more public funds, roughly 1,000,000 euros per year for several years forward, which we intend to invest to revitalize the old district," says Palese.

Together, Presicce and Acquarica now have some 9,000 inhabitants but only half of the population live in the older part of the community.

The town hall has already launched other schemes to lure more residents, including tax benefits to set up new business activities and baby bonuses for families with kids.

To qualify for the 30,000-euro incentive, buyers must take up residency in Presicce and purchase one of a selection of properties built before 1991, which have been mapped by authorities.

According to Palese, house prices start at 500 euros per square meter. Around 25,000 euros should be enough to secure a 50-square-meter dwelling in need of some repairs.

'Green gold'

Presicce traces its history to the middle ages, when settlements spread out around a Saracen fortress built by monks who dug crypts and underground olive mills as shelters for pirate raid survivors.

It gained a reputation as Puglia's "city of green gold" for lush olive groves that yield premium extra virgin olive oil, flourishing during the Renaissance as a prosperous fiefdom also known for its fine wine, cheeses and cattle trade.

Many locals lived underground, digging caves into Presicce's rocky terrain.

Beneath the main piazzas and lavish Baroque palazzos lies a network of 23 secret chambers and olive mills in which farmers, known as trappettari, spent months during harvest season, pressing olives in stone mills pushed by donkeys.

Many historical buildings have private access to underground chambers where massive mills still stand. Guided tours through the subterranean city are a tourist highlight.

In the ancient district, wide elegant streets are crisscrossed by winding narrow alleys. Stately decorated gold-colored buildings with wrought-iron balconies and inner courtyards mingle with simple white dwellings.

There are frescoed palazzos, chapels and votive columns built by the rich rural bourgeoisie out of white-reddish rock.

The vecchi curti (old courtyards) are typical dwellings located in two picturesque neighborhoods of the old center called Corciuli and Padreterno with private gardens, subterranean mills, citrus trees and exotic plants.

Presicce's countryside offers the best of rural Puglia with ancient solitary dome-shaped stone chapels, byzantine crypts, olive groves with massive twisted tree trunks, purplish dry stone walls and fortified masserie rural farms where peasant families once lived under the protection of powerful lords to escape pirate attacks.

Festivals and food

Trekking and biking routes unwind through bucolic scenery dotted with sheep-grazing fields and abandoned stone forts. Salento's pristine coastline, running between the seaside locations of Gallipoli and Santa Maria di Leuca, is a stone's throw away.

In addition to the tours of subterranean oil mills and festivals with olive oil and food tastings, attractions include a museum of peasant civilization, which showcases objects from the past.

There are annual festivals featuring Salentina folk music, dances, antique crafts and food fairs.

Presicce's fried fish delicacies, linked to the cult of Saint Andrew, are a gourmand specialty, alongside the iconic handmade pastas, orecchiette and strascinate. Other local delicacies include pittule leavened pasta pancakes stuffed with shrimps, cod, vegetables -- or made alla pizzaiola, with olives, capers and cherry tomatoes.

I bet you never got the Kill Screen in Donkey Kong, but you cant deny that it exist.
https://youtu.be/E1k_h1_gnFY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwipPJqh8S4

This is what happens when Miyamoto doesn't flip tables.

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There is so much sugar in our food, it's crazy.
Even shit you wouldn't think has sugar in it is loaded with the stuff.

In 2002 you bought full games.

Bear may best be known for the Forge of God books or his Halo Forerunner Saga trilogy.

https://gizmodo.com/obituary-greg-bear-sci-fi-author-1849806303

Author Greg Bear has passed away, reports his wife Astrid. The 71-year-old novelist underwent surgery earlier in the month, and following the successful process, doctors discovered hed had a stroke from clots that had been building in his body since surgery he had in 2014. He remained unconscious until November 18, at which point Astrid said she chose to follow his advance directive and end life support, and he passed two hours later.

I will spare you daily updates until that time, but know that Ill be there as much as I can, as he journeys to the undiscovered country, wrote Astrid on November 18. Thank you for all your love and support. They mean a lot, and Ive shared your messages with him. Image is a sunset, a liminal space.

Bear began his writing career at the age of 15 after selling his short story Destroyers to the publication Famous Science Fiction in 1967. Early on, he also had published artwork (including the cover for his 1988 reprint of his novel Psychlone), one them released in an early version of the Star Trek Concordance reference book. In 1970, Bear helped co-found San Diego Comic-Con with Shel Dorf, Ken Kreuger, Mike Towry, Richard Alf, Barry Alfonso, Bob Sourk, and Ron Graf.

Beginning in 1979 with Hegira and the aforementioned Psychlone, Bear would go on to write over 50 books and win five Nebula awards. Due to the level of scientific detail in his books, they would come to be known as hard sci-fi, with much of his books being about accelerated evolution or artificial universes. Though most of his works were original, he had written books set in someone elses world: hes written for Star Wars (2000's Rogue Planet), Isaac Asimovs Foundation (1998's Foundation & Chaos), and Larry Nivens Known Space (1991's The Man Who Would Be Kzin). From 2011-2013, he wrote a trilogy of Halo novels that focused on the Forerunner race and served as the narrative background for 2012's Halo 4. His final book, The Unfinished Land, was published in February 2021.

Along with his wife Astrid, Bear is survived by his daughters Chloe and Alexandra. Our thoughts go out to them at this time.

I don't think the genie can give wishes. IIRC, it's a summoned unit that's invincible or something.

Yvan eht nioj!
https://youtu.be/nH8Vpei_UpQ

Is anyone still alive from that show?

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/18/entertainment/robert-clary-actor-holocaust-hogans-heroes-scli-intl

Paris-born actor and singer Robert Clary, who survived 31 months in Nazi concentration camps but later co-starred in Hogans Heroes, the US sitcom set in a German World War II prisoner of war (POW) camp, has died at the age of 96.

Clary, who played strudel-baking French Corporal Louis Lebeau on Hogans Heroes during its six seasons from 1965 to 1971, died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles, his granddaughter told the Hollywood Reporter.

Robert was an amazing gentleman and incredibly talented not just as an actor but also a performer and a gifted painter, said David Martin, his former manager.

Clary was 16 in September 1942 when he was deported from Paris to Nazi concentration camps with 12 other members of his Jewish family. He was the only one who survived. Clary spent 2.5 years in the Ottmuth, Blachhammer, Gross-Rosen and Buchenwald concentration camps, enduring hunger, disease and forced labor.

He was freed when American troops liberated Buchenwald in April 1945, but then learned that his family members, including his parents, had died in the Holocaust.

It was with some irony that Clary achieved his greatest fame playing for jokes in a TV show set in a German POW camp. He said he had no concerns about being in a show that mocked the Nazis.

His character was one of the POWs who outwitted their dimwitted German jailers and conducted espionage and sabotage to aid the Allied cause.

The show was a satire set in a stalag for prisoners of war, where conditions were not pleasant but in no way comparable to a concentration camp, and it had nothing to do with Jews, Clary told the Jerusalem Post in 2002.

Showbiz is like a roller coaster and you take what roles are offered to you, Clary added.

Hogans Heroes starred Bob Crane as American Colonel Robert Hogan, with Richard Dawson, Larry Hovis and Ivan Dixon playing other POWs. The main German characters were bumbling camp commandant Colonel Klink, played by Werner Klemperer, and pliant guard Sergeant Schultz, played by John Banner. Both actors were Jews and had fled Europe because of the Nazis.

Clarys character was known for his burgundy beret and his cooking skills, which were used to distract German officers with delicious cuisine while his fellow POWs were up to mischief.

Hogans Heroes was popular with TV viewers during its run on the CBS network and for decades afterward in syndication even though some critics considered it in bad taste.

One of the lucky ones

Clary was born as Robert Max Widerman on March 1, 1926, the youngest of his Polish tailor fathers 14 children from two marriages. He became a professional singer as a teenager.

In the camps set up by the Nazis to eradicate Europes Jews, he was tattooed with the number A-5714 and forced to dig trenches, work in a shoe factory and sing for his captors. The singing earned him a few extra morsels of food, Clary said.

I was one of the lucky ones, he told the Asbury Park Press in 2002. First of all, because I survived. Secondly, because I was in camps that were not as atrocious as others. I did not suffer. I did not work as hard as people were working in salt mines on quarries. I was never tortured. I was never really beaten. I was never hanged. But I saw all these things.

After the war, Clarys singing career took off in France. He moved to the United States in 1949 and comedian Eddie Cantor gave him national TV exposure. Clary later married Cantors daughter Natalie.

Clary performed on stage, in small film roles and in guest spots on TV before being cast in Hogans Heroes. His biggest film role was in director Robert Wises The Hindenburg in 1975, starring George C. Scott.

In 1980, alarm over people trying to deny the Holocaust prompted Clary to end his self-imposed silence about his experiences. He spent years traveling to schools in the United States and Canada speaking about the Holocaust. He also wrote an autobiography, From the Holocaust to Hogans Heroes.

We must learn from history, Clary told the Reno Gazette-Journal in 2002, which we dont.

None of what you said changes anything.

What you originally referenced, a persons constitutional right to travel freely without taxation from the government, has zero to do with what an airline requires to travel.

Holy cow at those temperatures some of you lot are posting and I thought it was cold here in Glasgow Scotland where I am.

It is currently 6Celcius (43Fahrenheit) with a high today of 7Celcius (45Fahrenheit).

Thats not what that right covers, thought.

The right is based on the GOVERNMENT not taxing you/charging you a fee or requiring paperwork. Which is why there arent checkpoints at state borders like there are when going into Canada or Mexico.

Airlines provide a service. That service has set requirements. Some of those requirements cost money to obtain.

That has zero to do with what you keep quoting from the Constitution, particularly this point:

There are no papers/card necessary to travel from point A to point B within the US. No one is stopping you from walking, running, biking, etc.

To travel by privately owned airlines? Yes there is.

Taking a plane to get there is a privilege.

Traveling is a privilege, not a right.

Some privileges are expensive.

You either deal with it or you dont travel.

If it makes you feel better, legit like 90% of the young population has no idea what a real id is either. No matter how many times you explain to them at the DMV what the real id does, they just refuse to understand.

is kingdom of loathing related to west of loathing?

God I miss the pre-normies internet.