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captain_aggravated , in I miss console ads being this weird
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Not much can top the 3DFX VooDoo graphics card boxes.

YaDownWitCPP , in I miss console ads being this weird

That's a lot of ecstasy.

A_Union_of_Kobolds ,

It's gonna be a fun night followed by a hard, sleepy day

SidewaysHighways ,

She gonna need some water

jballs ,
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe ecstacy is actually dehydrating. Dancing at a rave for hours on end without drinking anything is though.

Crismus ,

Just like SSRI's, Ecstasy does interfere with your hypothalamus and temperature regulation. So, small energy expenditures creat oversized responses.

You would still sweat heavily doing more than lying down with a fan blowing on you.

sp3tr4l ,

Yeah, another part of the problem is that you cannot tell that you are hyperthermic and or dehydrated.

Thats how you get the people that dance all night and then just die, or go comatose or pass out.

Your body stops telling you wow, i am way too hot and wow, i really need water.

Sort of like that rare condition where you literally cannot feel pain, and children with it will break their fingers because it feels weird.

kwomp2 ,

Looks more like a few hours of cramping body and soul followed by 3 days of emotional hangover

rez_doggie ,

Drained

Rai ,

Ehhhhh so this was in 2000. Your standard ecstasy pill (we’re assuming they’re not pipers; these don’t look shiny and they’re not shaped or outpressed) have between 70mg MDMA and 120mg (if they’re absolute fire.)

This would be about 400mg of MDMA total. While that is quite a lot, you’re not going to have a horrible time—I just wouldn’t do it in public because you WILL be a chattering mess. It’ll still feel amazing, though.

Source: oldhead, last time I rolled it was a total of about 450mg but spread out over hours and I was absolutely not in public, just writing naked with my partner)

kwomp2 ,

I was gonna add "these days" but didn't

Rai ,

Oh GOD I fully agree in that case. Rolls nowadays have up to 300-400mg in a single pill (sounds like you already know that, but I’m just saying this for context in case another reader doesn’t)

That’d be like eating a gram or more of Molly at once, and THAT is for sure not safe and not a good time.

not_that_guy05 ,

Eh, not double stacked so it's ok.

Rai ,

AKSHULLY that wasn’t a thing in the 2000s, just marketing hype. Rolls back then had between 70 and 120mg of MDMA, and 120 is a basal amount you want to take if you fully want to get rolling.

Now it’s TOTALLY a thing, tons of rolls have 300-400mg in a single pill now. It’s insanity.

dditty ,
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Damn that is insane. My skin would slink off if I did 300+

Rai ,

Recently did 400-450 each with my partner in a night but over the course of a couple hours… definitely not something to do in public hahaha. We were naked, quivering piles of hedonism, writhing in bed for hours in absolute insane, well, ecstasy. It’s aptly named, that’s for sure.

For once, got incredible sleep afterwards and felt awesome the next day! Thank you, sleep.

person420 ,

Worse than that, that one website dance something that would test pills found that a huge percentage of the "ecstasy" people took didn't contain MDMA. A surprising amount didn't even contain illegal drugs. Just over the counter speed.

Rai ,

Yah, there were TONS of pipers going around (BZP/TFMPP) when that was legal to buy. I’ve never had one because I could instantly tell when a pill was a piper (shiny, hard, outpress, or shaped.) I could also tell by the taste if I licked it. Headache city apparently.

mox ,

Curious. When I last looked (quite a while ago) most of the tested pills were MDMA, with many containing caffeine as well. I guess it varies a lot over time.

https://dancesafe.org/

https://www.drugsdata.org/

person420 ,

Dancesafe.org was it! I'm going back over 20 years to the late 90's early 2000's. I can't comment on the state of ecstasy today, I haven't rolled in over 20 years.

HootinNHollerin ,

This is how the girl from that Mitsubishi eclipse car commercial started her night

Jimbabwe , in I miss console ads being this weird

Everything reminds me of her..

_sideffect , in Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics Revealed for PS4, Switch, And PC | Retro Gaming News 24/7

Not PS5?

ktec OP ,
@ktec@lemmy.zip avatar

Well spotted. No PS5 - https://www.capcom-games.com/marvel-vs-capcom-fc/en-us/

It's an interesting omission.

_sideffect ,

Damn...

picandocodigo , in Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics Revealed for PS4, Switch, And PC | Retro Gaming News 24/7
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I love Marvel Vs. Capcom and I didn't really play the second one much. This is a day one purchase for me on the Switch!

Anticorp , in I just ordered a 3ds from AliExpress - Wish me luck.

I ordered an iPod from Alibaba back in the day and it was most certainly not an iPod. I think they're more reliable than back then, but who knows. It's always a gamble ordering from those kinds of sites.

One time I ordered a PS2 kit from some janky-ass Chinese site. The kit converted it into a flip top and included a CD that would let you play burned games. After a couple months of it not showing up, I figured I got ripped off, which I half expected anyways. 3.5 months later the kit showed up at my doorstep and actually worked. Haha! I used that thing for years after making the conversion.

taiyang , in Finally playing with POWER.

Keep those eyes out for working CRTs in thrift stores and garage sales. Or, I guess, estate sales? Or idk, whatever it's called when they give dead old people stuff away. It's a dying breed.

Point is, you need a curved screen and crazy strong scan lines. 4:3 ratio or bust.

mechoman444 , in Finally playing with POWER.

Dang even your cable box is classic!

Gerudo , in Finally playing with POWER.

Get you some plastic restore to take that yellow out.

Unless that's your jam.

shinratdr , in I just ordered a 3ds from AliExpress - Wish me luck.
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I bought a 2DS on AliExpress. It was fine, original shell but a little scratched up. JP model. One dead pixel.

$211CAD so about $150USD. I’d do it again, I didn’t end up using it much as I had plans for it that didn’t pan out but I had no issues with it.

PunnyName , in Finally playing with POWER.
cyberpunk007 , in Finally playing with POWER.

Shouldn't your hands be all wrinkly or something?

just_another_person , in Finally playing with POWER.

I don't see a Power Glove. You're only at maybe 10% total power without the Power Glove. It has THAT much power.

Lost_My_Mind ,

Its no coincidence that the 80s was the decade of greed and indulgence, and it was the same decade the power glove was released, but never replicated.

rebelsimile ,

had one as a kid, it was terrible even by kid standards. I used to pretend to be a cyborg cop with it and my gray light gun though.

realbadat ,

Get rid of the plastic, attach it to one of your own gloves.

Way better experience. Also really good for home grown vr in the early 90's (combined with some LCDs nabbed off camcamcorders and a VGA to s-video (or composite) converter).

i'd love to see a new powerglove. Though I think at this point an esp32 and some sensors could do all the same tricks... Hmmmm...

burgermeister , in Finally playing with POWER.

Love the ps1 tho

clay_pidgin , in Finally playing with POWER.

Is there an extension cable involved!? Fabulous.

Lost_My_Mind ,

From THAT distance? I don't see why there would be. The most inaccurate thing about the NES Classic was it's rediculously short cable.

The original was like "Hey, want enough cable to throw out your window, into your neighbors house, and they play from their bedroom? WE GOT YOU!!!

I'm exaggerating quite a bit, but it helps paint the difference between 80s and 2010s.

dual_sport_dork ,
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You should check out an original Famicom, then. Not only are the controller cables only about two feet long, but they're also permanently affixed to the console. Well, unless you're willing to dismantle it, anyway.

It seems Nintendo expected gamers to keep the console in front of them and connected to the TV via a cable running across the floor, rather than our now familiar methodology of keeping the console under or next to the TV and only bringing the controller(s) with you. The limited amount of space in Japanese households may have also had something to do with it.

Anyway, if you're a modern western gamer nowadays it's annoying as hell. Big N made the right choice when they brought the system to the US in not only making the controller cables significantly longer, but also unpluggable.

Rhynoplaz ,

Maybe not that long, but they were long enough. We didn't have 70" HD screens back then, and if you sat further back than 3' you couldn't see shit!

atocci ,

Definitely not long enough for me to sit on the couch and play in the living room. I had to get a bluetooth adapter for that.

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