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Those rugged PCs look quite Oldschool Cyberpunky, right?
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Yes, very. 

My wife has an old issue of Homer's Iliad (1910 or so). Each chant begins with an image. Here are two of them.



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Those rugged PCs look quite Oldschool Cyberpunky, right?
Oldschool, yes. Cyberpunky, not even slightly. Cyberpunk tech is all about wearable and body mod technology.
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It sure is a lot about augs and wearables - but not only. It's the newest hot stuff but that doesn't mean the more traditional tech has disappeared.



I'd love to have one of those and mod it so that it works as a modern IP-phone.
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My house is full of shit like this.  I love it.
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That looks like the sentry gun ammo counter from Aliens.
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I believe the prop for the movie was actually based on a GRiDCase laptop, not this exact model but very close, yes.

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If you watch "the computer chronicles" episodes made around the time when the first laptops came out you'll see some cool shit.  Like cellular modems mixed with monochrome screens.

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That auto turret was one of the coolest things in a movie packed with awesome.

Sucks that Alien 3 was such a let down. But the marines in Aliens were excellent.
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This guy descanned the slit screen photography from 2001 Space Odyssey, retrieving an approximation of the original panels used to create the shots in the film by Douglas Trumbull and Stanley Kubrick.
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One of my favourite pastimes is reading about cognitive biases and logical fallacies. I consider it training in thinking, implying of course that knowing about a bias will make me less susceptible  to it.
What I noticed instead is that I'm usually applying this knowledge to others and hardly if ever to myself. And when I notice a cognitive bias at work, in someone else's thought process, it makes me feel either smug or frustrated, depending on whether I can change their mind.

Now there's an old game me and my friends used to play when hanging out stoned in the park, that you probably know and it relates to this. We called it "Blättchenspiel" because we played it with zigzags. It's also known as Who am I? and it's closely related to a charade.

In this game everyone gets to experience the curse of knowledge from both sides and it helps to deal with the frustrations of bridging this gap in a humorous way. Lately I've been playing it again with my 10 year old neighbor and this effect became very apparent ("I JUST DON'T KNOW!!"). But it's even more fun to play with intellectual peers.
Do cats eat bats?
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This bat is currently sleeping, attached to the ceiling stucco in my living room. One of my cats dragged her in last night and not being hungry let her go.

While I like the Gothic vibes she gives to the place, I hope she will fly out the open window when she wakes up tonight.
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When it grew dark Edda (as we named her) threw herself from the ceiling and started flying circles round the room in absolute silence while my wife and I watched from the couch (me occasionally shrieking under a blanket). I couldn't hear a single wing flap despite the fact that she flew only a meter past me at times. It took her at least 50 round trips to finally escape through the window and into the night. Edda has now left the building.
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pretty sure some art has been posted here and there, like that one where the player is in the cargo bay area, standing on a box surrounded by protodroids, holding an empty gun, despair on their face.

we should really collect and store these somewhere.

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I went on a Shock fanart hunt a few weeks back and found some goodies I hadn't seen in my previous searches. Some are inexplicable.

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