The case.

Cracking and sending it in again is possible, although I think the vast majority of thieves want a quick payday and would not be willing to invest money and wait the months or years (backlog) for grading.

There’s people who like to buy graded cards and “liberate them from their prisons” to be played. The whole collectors’ grading system is insane. See also: the massive fraud in video game grading by Wata and Heritage Auctions.

The card itself doesn’t get serialized, but the card gets “slabbed”; put in a plastic case that is serialized and can’t be opened without damage.

Indeed. It’s not the white “USA” hat, it’s the “white USA” hat.

I think they are implying that the far-right Paxton would mobilize left-wing voters more than the not-quite-so-far-right Cornyn.

Phonetically, 'za should be short for lasagne, and 'sa for pizza… or people can just say the damn words.

Whatever, I guess. Peeps gon’ slang slang, for real, for real. 🤦‍♂️

That reminds me of the court scene in Ghostbusters. “It’s true, your Honor. This man has no dick.”

There was also a kids’ animated series and action figures based on Toxic Avenger, which is definitely not a kids’ movie.

Kellyanne Conway, U.S. Counselor to the President, in 2017.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_facts

Of course companies wanted people to share the free demo versions but some full games did have annoying protection schemes in the '80s. Obfuscated data and purposely “bad” sectors on floppy; cardboard decoder wheels; asking for word #x from line #y of page #z of the game’s manual, or, similarly, a page of codes printed in black ink on dark maroon paper to prevent photocopying… leading to folks distributing cracked versions and the cracking tools themselves!

To be fair, it was a pretty ridiculous time. Computer club meetings just turned into floppy-copy-fests.

I got to meet Legaia’s creator Hidenori Shibao. He also created Lennus (“Paladin’s Quest” that I enjoyed on SNES in my youth) and its sequel.

The company that made my TV is engaged in copyright infringement, you say? Transmitting copyrighted images over the Internet for profit?

Huh.

God can’t seem to get much done without the US Military 😬

Yeah… Bad headline; this is completely precedented.

Religious zealots can’t be allowed to have nukes. You have to at least masquerade as a well-adjusted nation while you develop the nukes and slowly massage your zealots into positions of power over a few decades. Those are the rules.

In this administravesty: botox good, vaccines bad.

Phones’ modems have their own firmware that gets flashed by the cell provider, so I think spies would target that.

https://www.npr.org/donations/support

It’s lemmy.ml that censors it. I see it just fine here.

Commodore 64. My father traveled for business and eventually brought home an SX-64 that I still have! Castles of Dr. Creep! 😁

Grandparents had a Visual Commuter with no LCD.

Grade school had a few TI-99/4As and one Apple //e, until the computer lab was installed with IIgses served by a Mac.

Castle Adventure

I played this on a Visual Commuter (with no LCD?). Amber monitor with nice long phosphor persistence. My grandmother loved to point out the typos… “You are in a Cooridor.”

Co-starring White House Press Secretary Propaganda Minister Karoline Leavitt as TACO Belle