Hey Tucker,

[Maggot]

We've got a section for 'Movies' how about one for 'Books' or 'Good Reads"?

My last semester at UVA I decide to challenge myself and took 3 upper level philosophy courses, a seminar open only to 4th year philosophy majors, and a graduate philosophy course. After that I really couldt read much for several years, but have just gotten back into it and finished Somerset Maugham's 'Then and Now' and oone called 'The Loop'. Im now getting into 'Point and Counterpoint' by Aldous Huxley.

It would be nice to have a place to kick around and discuss other good reads.

 

[Limedust]

Second. We have the books thread, but it isn't quite the same as having the "Sniper's Hide Library, "Reading Room" or some such. Stickies on a good marksmanship reads, fiction and non-fiction, etc. would be nice and even helpful.

 

[Maggot]

I hadnt seen a 'books thread'?

 

[Dewey7271]

Maggot,
Here you go.
https://www.snipershide.com/shooting/threads/recommend-books.6719472/

 

[fx77]

I would like a Books Thread...do they come with crayons?

 

[Bender]

Only magazines with boobs please

 

[Maser]

Better yet how about a section for video games? For fuck sakes they been around since the 1960s! It's not like they're new!

 

[Alphatreedog]

I think Maggs wants the pop up lick n taste This Is a Dick book .
Yeah startin shit but after those last couple a safe space and save my virtue threads . ?

 

[FS1]

I think Maggs wants the pop up lick n taste This Is a Dick book .
Yeah startin shit but after those last couple a safe space and save my virtue threads . ?

He can read? Who knew?

 

[Maggot]

I think Maggs wants the pop up lick n taste This Is a Dick book .
Yeah startin shit but after those last couple a safe space and save my virtue threads . ?

Nah, just books. I dont engage in your personal perversions.

 

[Alphatreedog]

He can read? Who knew?

Tongue brail on da hachy sack .

 

[Tucker301]

I can't create new sections here. Not on my decoder ring.

 

[Maggot]

I can't create new sections here. Not on my decoder ring.

Damn, we need to upgrade that ring. Do you think LL would do that? Seems like a separate column for 'Reads' would be a nice addition...it would avoid having to look for the thread. Perhaps you would pass the idea along?

 

[Tucker301]

@Lowlight

 

[Maggot]

@Lowlight

Done, we shall see.

 

[Alphatreedog]

Check out the author Chuck Tingle .

 

[Maggot]

Check out the author Chuck Tingle .

So you are into that sort of stuff? Not my forte', but I respect your choice.

 

[P-Squared]

Better yet how about a section for video games? For fuck sakes they been around since the 1960s! It's not like they're new!

Only if you consider pong a video game and I believe it came out in the early 70's. I remember building one with discrete components and hooking it up to my parent's RCA console TV. Remember those behemoths?

 

[Maser]

Only if you consider pong a video game and I believe it came out in the early 70's. I remember building one with discrete components and hooking it up to my parent's RCA console TV. Remember those behemoths?

Pong you say?

 

[P-Squared]

Yup, Pong. Only mine was in an aluminum project box that I mounted a circuit board that I designed and etched and then drilled the holes. Single layer, no plate through holes, definitely old school with a lot of stuff bought at Radio Shack when it was really Radio Shack... ahh the old days.

 

[Lowlight]

when I get home I will see how I feel

 

[powdahound76]

First book listed should be Point of Impact by Hunter.

Thanks Lowlight for considering it.
Swing by JCs Cafe on South Golden Road for breakfast and you will feel great!!

 

[Maggot]

when I get home I will see how I feel

Safe travels.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

Better yet how about a section for video games? For fuck sakes they been around since the 1960s! It's not like they're new!

Wait... what video games were around in the '60s? All I remember is Etch-a-Sketch...

In the late 1970's... I played both Star Trek and Castle Wolfenstein.... AFTER programming them into a computer using a cassette tape and code published in BYTE magazine.

What video games were available in the '60s? Or do you mean video games played BY people born in the '60s?

Cheers,

Sirhr

P.S. I second or third or whatever the concept of a books section to complement Movie Theater. Yes, there is a good books thread there. But nothing wrong with a section.

 

[Maggot]

^^^I guess I got to it late, the first video games I remember were PacMan.

No not Manny Pacquio...

 

[sirhrmechanic]

First I played on an arcade was Asteroids. Long before that, I programmed in two games into an Apple 2... using Byte code. Debugging was fun. Our medium was cassette tapes, but later 12" floppies. Yes... they were that big.

Star Trek and Castle Wolfenstein were both really fun. Mind bending, in their way. Periods, splats, carrots... and text. Typing in coordinates. And trying to find Klingons. Then engaging in text. Responses took... seconds.

In 1979... those things were, really, rocket science. For an HS student whose closest experience was Battleship, Monopoly and Dungeons and Dragons (Yes, I played that a lot)... Wolfenstein and Star Trek were life changing.

And when Choplifter came out... and Spyhunter on arcade? Holy crap on a cracker. You'd have thought we'd have woken up in Jetsons future!

Cheers,

Sirhr

 

[W54/XM-388]

Those old "High Res" graphics on the Apple II for simple games.
Fun times, seeing where something had gotten typed in wrong in Basic.

 

[Maser]

What video games were available in the '60s? Or do you mean video games played BY people born in the '60s?

Well, it's kind of a stretch, but it was either the late 50s or early 60s, but there was technically a video game that was made from old radar equipment. Ironically enough it was a Tennis game which explains where Pong got it's origins.

 

[Va_Gentleman]

We've got a section for 'Movies' how about one for 'Books' or 'Good Reads"?

My last semester at UVA I decide to challenge myself and took 3 upper level philosophy courses, a seminar open only to 4th year philosophy majors, and a graduate philosophy course. After that I really couldt read much for several years, but have just gotten back into it and finished Somerset Maugham's 'Then and Now' and oone called 'The Loop'. Im now getting into 'Point and Counterpoint' by Aldous Huxley.

It would be nice to have a place to kick around and discuss other good reads.

See... that's the difference between Wahoo's and Hokies....

They read philosophy, practice medicine and have interesting discussions about papers. We Milk Things, Build Things and Kill Things.

But, these differences are what make Virginians great... and I'll gladly buy a twice distilled bourbon for my esteemed cousin from C-Ville.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

We Milk Things, Build Things and Kill Things.

Especially the Vietnamese ones...

 

[Maggot]

See... that's the difference between Wahoo's and Hokies....

They read philosophy, practice medicine and have interesting discussions about papers. We Milk Things, Build Things and Kill Things.

But, these differences are what make Virginians great... and I'll gladly buy a twice distilled bourbon for my esteemed cousin from C-Ville.

Thats funny, and not inaccurate.

I dont read much philosophy anymore, Im too busy working on my own.

Check your pm, cuz.

 

[Maggot]

Especially the Vietnamese ones...

Thats cold.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

I'll just save you guys the trouble...

Cheers,

Sirhr

 

[Va_Gentleman]

Especially the Vietnamese ones...

Ouch.... still hate that fucker... I wished I would have been there.. I had mentoring sessions in that Hall in Grad School... pure evil mofo...

 

[Maser]

Especially the Vietnamese ones...

Wow! What an ugly Saints Row create-a-character!