This is just barely in the 1990’s, but The Conversatron comes to mind.

There was quite the cottage industry around Quake in the 1990’s. From GameSpy for finding matches/servers, to news and modding sites for which I can’t quite recall the names.

There’s also countless companies and startups that either went bust or were eaten by other companies.

Meanwhile, there’s stuff still online from then that has no right to be. SpaceJam comes to mind.

Yes. This has been theorized, but with the obvious limitation of building anything big enough to attenuate the sun’s output to a visible degree.

Right now we look for periodic dimming of distant stars, in order to ID exoplanets as they orbit and block light. We also look for any wobble from the gravitational pull of a large orbiting body, like Jupiter-sized things.

As for artificial dimming, that more or less falls under the concept of a “Dyson Swarm/Sphere”, and is something we’re keeping an eye out for too. Your signal concept would be carefully orchestrated windows in that swarm, as it orbits. But the energy and sheer mass requirements (measured in substantial fractions of whole planets) are at a level of civilization well beyond anything we can do at present. So there may be something out there, but we’re in no position to do the same.

Glad you enjoyed it.

Relevant: When your house is haunted but the rent is cheap.

Not only is this a solid horror send-up of a sort, but it also speaks to everyone that has ever rented/bought a crappy house and developed a skill-set around making that work.

Further failure domain segmentaion.

If we add unstable governments or government interference to that list of possible disasters, it starts to make a little sense.

Maybe? Probably? For all I know, a solar-sail effect might help it stay in orbit.

Those only solve for gravity, or not having to pay for fuel to keep things in orbit. Other heavenly bodies are further away, so latency becomes a big problem, followed by exponentially more power to transmit (radio) in order to maintain the same bandwidth. That and cooling: the possible candidates range from as bad as orbit to worse and much worse, all with increasing latency and power needs to boot.

Overall, even the in-orbit version is a bad idea.

What’s sad is that Stanley did a remarkable job of putting a vacuum flask in the literal hands of millions of Americans. It shouldn’t be hard at all for everyone to figure out why this is the case, but here we are.

That or they read Neuromancer and came away with all the wrong lessons in their head.

that’s not going to be enough to justify a definitely-$1k+ PS6

I’m inclined to agree. They might be able to sweeten that with a one year PSN voucher or something. Otherwise, you’re just paying for access to exclusive content, access to PSN, and the ability to say “I have a Sony.”

This is the way to go. Make sure to get the drive serviced so it doesn’t crap out prematurely. There are so many PS2s out there, you can probably still get one cheap.

This is kind of a big deal for other parts of Sony. This was partly propping up Sony’s disc manufacturing arm. All they have left is whatever DVD and CDs are still in production, assuming that’s still a thing.

I think you hit the nail on the head there. IMO, it’s very much late-night drinking/partying food. It’s right up there with the Rochester Garbage Plate, Jumbo Slice in downtown D.C., or those hotdogs they serve on the street in Reykjavík.

Yes, but more like “kimchi to taste”. For the typical Kraft box, I’d say more like half a cup of kimchi, but please do sneak up on what you think is a good amount if its your first time. For reference, a lot of Korean dishes serve at least a quarter-cup per serving.

Exactly. It’s like watching the gas station across the street and quietly setting your prices to the same thing. The moment you set it one cent lower than the other guy, it’s a race to the bottom and everyone makes less money.

It’s also not as big a leap as one might think. There are all kinds of chaat that are basically small rounds of bread that are just wrecked with toppings. They may as well be pizza with 100% Indian street food ingredients.

Do it. It’s incredible.

Kimchi Mac N Cheese

For those reading and thinking “what the actual fuck”, don’t knock it until you’ve tried it. This is in steady rotation at my place. You’d think American cheese is a bad fit for asian food, but budae jjigae has been a staple comfort dish in Korea since the war and proudly boasts this flavor combo.

Anyway, this dish is incredible. The kimchi funk is mellowed by the other ingredients and contributes acid, spice, and seasoning to the overall dish for practically zero effort.

Top and finish as you like. Here, we like to take it deeper into East Asia by adding chopped green onions, fried shallots, peanuts, and chili crisp.

Jeez. I recall prices like $1.47 and $1.65 in the same year (or close to it). That’s cheap.

No worries. I’ll delete it.