Yeah, from the very early 80s, it was Milton Bradley, most of them disappeared, and it's rare for the Tower to continue to work (I've seen mint, sealed ones go for $500 ...)
Pretty interesting history:
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Yeah, from the very early 80s, it was Milton Bradley, most of them disappeared, and it's rare for the Tower to continue to work (I've seen mint, sealed ones go for $500 ...)
Pretty interesting history:
Could it be played solitaire?Yeah, from the very early 80s, it was Milton Bradley, most of them disappeared, and it's rare for the Tower to continue to work (I've seen mint, sealed ones go for $500 ...)
Pretty interesting history:
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Yes! You're playing vs. The Tower, so you'd move, gather keys, do the final tower battle, and that's the win/lose.
I mean, it's super primitive by today's standards, but it was mind blowing at the time, and according to Wiki, $750K-1M was spent developing it way back when (and it sold for like $55-65 new back then which was super expensive).
I've been following the development of a sequel being released in 2021, some great gaming vets working on it, was a Kickstarter with a $850K target and they raised $4M!
@yaxomoxay Oh glad you saw this, I was coming back to @ you
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And that display isn't an LED or anything, it's a light bulb behind translucent rings, and it has motors that rotate them, so it makes all sorts of hysterical buzzing and clunking sounds ...
Of course I saw it, I'm very envious here, especially since I'm still scarred from a Mansions of Madness session from yesterday, so I'm in boardgame geek mode!
Dark Tower is a true classic.
There were sour Altoids?
This is SO CUTE...(I miss owning cats). >>>
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Another good thing about the job: 17% employee discount on my Verizon wireless bill (which will either pay for the iPad cellular plan or paying off mom's 6s+ depending on the month). It's nice to qualify for that again.
This is SO CUTE...(I miss owning cats). >>>
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Another good thing about the job: 17% employee discount on my Verizon wireless bill (which will either pay for the iPad cellular plan or paying off mom's 6s+ depending on the month). It's nice to qualify for that again.
I am gaining weight... and it's not muscles...
I'm fasting for two days. This junk food binge from anxiety and cabin fever is not doing me good.
Ah, I just responded to you in another thread about the fasting thing..... This clarifies things for me a little, but I am still concerned. Refraining from eating junk food (whatever your definition of that may be) and abstaining from eating all food (fasting) are two very different things. Is there a way you can simply not have junk food in the house and just have your normal meals, with maybe healthy snacks in between if you feel an urge to eat something? Perhaps drink some sort of protein drink or fruit-and-protein-based Smoothie if you want to ingest something but are hesitant to eat food as your snack out of fear of triggering an urge to binge on junk food? Fasting and abstaining from food totally can trigger all sorts of unpleasantness and is not at all good for anyone. Please take care of yourself and your health!
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Not a huge candy person, but I was wondering this a few weeks ago. I was perusing the candy aisle at a supply store and kept looking over the mints section hoping they were around. Turns out they haven't been made in years. The closest I've seen to them were these Austrian or Estonian candy drops that weren't sour and made from fruit juice.
On my mind: the portfolio/resume prep class I took a couple years ago where, due to overwhelming feedback, I changed all of my social media and web addresses from "angerdanger" to something less off putting.
I just thought the eye rhyme was funny, but I didn't want to scare off potential employers. It seems ironic in hindsight.
I just thought the eye rhyme was funny, but I didn't want to scare off potential employers. It seems ironic in hindsight.
Were there ever!
Homely, I've tried different diets but only abstaining gives me temporary relief. It's hard to deal with but intermittent fasting has benefits as long as I don't let myself become dehydrated. I'll be getting another opinion for my pain and bodily issues once this pandemic is over. I'm okay.
Me neither, but for whatever reason, I have really fond memories of these. Yeah, I think I came across the same candies. If you want to see something freaky, check out how much sour Altoids are currently going for on eBay.
Perhaps you should meet with a registered dietitian and see if he or she has some good advice to offer....
My wife occasionally has to resort to fasting (apart from water and nettle tea). Not something I’d embrace. I like eating too much. But IBS is not great.
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Apart from this site I’m not on any social media. So any potential employers will probably think I’m either a spy or in a witness protection program!On my mind: the portfolio/resume prep class I took a couple years ago where, due to overwhelming feedback, I changed all of my social media and web addresses from "angerdanger" to something less off putting.
I just thought the eye rhyme was funny, but I didn't want to scare off potential employers. It seems ironic in hindsight.
Were there ever!
"Overwhelming feedback" tells its own tale.
To be quite candid, I'd expect that this response was - if anything - even more pronounced from women, not least because female employers and potential colleagues, above all, would be likely to react with dislike, distaste and concern over such a handle, in the hope that it would not reflect an uncomfortable and unwelcome reality.
Me, as I walked down an aisle in a grocery store.
After years of going to & working comic book conventions, and seeing soap & hand sanitizer completely sold out.
Would it be too much to ask that God forbid there's another pandemic it include the need of deodorant to combat it?
Thought eBay was supposed to be blocking gouging listings. At least for more essential things like thermometers. If they let the gougers run free, they will just keep buying out the items, so no one else can even have a chance.
tbh i only ever thought the name was cool because it highlights one of the many pitfalls of the English language for those learning English as a second language. Anger Danger is an eye rhyme but not an aural one, any more than is Hanger Danger, for instance.
In British English, caught and draught are equally misleading for those learning ESL.
And there is cough and tough...
The problem with eye rhymes is that if you stare at them long enough you begin to forget how to pronounce the words in question never mind remember what they might mean.... even if English is one's first language!
"The Tough Coughs as He Ploughs the Dough" is the title of a Dr. Seuss collection of early works.
It's fun to cycle through (heh) the different pronunciations:
The tough cuffs as he pluffs the duff.
The toff coughs as he ploffs the doff.
The tau cows as he plows the dow.
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I remember hearing that English is one of the harder languages to learn when it isn't native, due to oddities like above - and I remember vaguely recognising the complexity of English for e.g. different tense, etc when taking Japanese at high school.
However, having now spent the better part of 8 years (trying to) learn basic Thai, I'll say with confidence that when it comes to 'hard to learn' languages, English hasn't got **** on Thai - and I'm just trying to learn a bit of spoken language - I have zero expectation of ever being able to read or write the language.
Different pronunciation of soft/hard vowels is nothing compared to words having vastly different meanings depending on the tone of your voice.
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Man, I hated portfolio reviews/crits.
Especially the crits that were peer ( all the class chips in ) oriented.
You never learned anything about art, it was more networking. The more people that liked you, the more positive feedback you tended to get, deserved or not.
That's what I was going for!
I think it was a holdover from DangerMan, a superhero and friend and I created as a joke. DangerMan's alter ego was Dan German, and a hapless investigator was trying to uncover his identity.FWIW, I've moved on from eye rhymes; my current English quick fixation is with contronyms—words that have two contradictory definitions. E.g. An apology can either be a statement of contrition or of defense, and aught can mean all or nothing.
I've been trying to figure out the term for something like "Extraordinary," though. When "Extra" is the prefix, it means to superseded the oridinary. But if you treat "Extra" as an adjective, it becomes especially ordinary. Maybe something like an affix contronym?
Me too! It was never a popularity contest per say, but the fact that providing criticism was optional ensured that criticism came from my most confident peers but not necessarily the most insightful.
We were graded on our abilities to update our designs based on feedback, so if you only got one piece of feedback, your grade might suffer for not incorporating it in a revision.
When we presented our personal branding in class, one very (and inexplicably) self-assured student said mine seemed narcissistic for containing an abstracted version of my face as the logo. My personal brand was narcissistic.
I realized I could avoid having to only listen to the most confident students by asking the class as a whole to raise their hands if they agreed with any piece of criticism. Nobody else thought my logo was was narcissistic, and the next day that one dude showed his branding, featuring pictures he'd taken of himself through a grimy mirror.
Not the same as Danger Mouse, I guess.That's what I was going for!