Refresh my memory, Lamuness...

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#1901

I can think of some people who’ve been stirring up trouble. Anyway, sorry to see our Hawaiian resident flee for your life. Can’t be helped. This board… does things to you… Even I’ve been getting a little pissed off, which is why I’ve been posting more in some places and less or not at all in others. Although it probably wasn’t noticeable to anybody else. :shrugs: It’s even gotten to the point where I don’t respond to a couple people. But oh well, that’s life.

Anyway, hopefully, your decent into darkness isn’t forever and come back eventually. In the meantime, eat some Guri-Guri and no worries, brah.

We’re losing all our vets… Waaaaaaaaaaaah! :sniffs:

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#1902

Farewll, ekylo. May the lemons give you spring freshness in your home, whereever you decide to make it.

#1903

So long ekylo safe travels.

#1904

I understand the feeling, ekylo. Some of the recent posts make me wonder if the tenor of the board is changing. Take a break and remember you always have friends back here!

#1905

Sad news, ekylo!

So, first it’s Olf and now you… Why are it always the best that leave us first?

Well, at least this rule gives me plenty of time until I finally have to leave…

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#1906

http://www.centennialbulb.org/facts.htm

I wonder what exactly are the reasons for a light bulb burning out…It’d be interesting to try to figure out why this happens.

#1907

I doubt this is one of those bulbs, and this is something that had been forgotten until reading about this bulb but back around 8th grade there was an article on “interesting historical oddities” or something within I think an old Scholastic Magazine, which I am trying to track down again. The article mentioned that at one time a company did make or claimed to make light bulbs that were guaranteed “never” to burn out with “normal” usage.

For perhaps one obvious reason, the company went out of business. The story goes, that it was a local company around the early 1920’s, and it’s product worked a little too well, once the company sold to all the locals they never did have to go back for more of the product.

This story might have been tied, along with the historical oddity aspect, into why companies have never tried to make “everlasting” products since, and some even go so far as to have built in fallibility, to ensure repeat business.

But it does not answer your question why they do burn out, it was just something triggered by reading the link you posted.

#1908

I’m not sure how much I would believe that “eternal lightbulb” “guaranteed never to burn out under normal usage” part. It’s pretty much not possible to guarantee that.

I am interested in the techical reason for this, though. I’d be interested in exploring this.

#1909

Actually that “a company made an eternal lightbulb” thing is some kind of urban legend.

http://www.snopes.com/autos/business/carburetor.asp

(The reference is near the bottom - the actual item documented on that page is something similar concerning carburators.)

#1910
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Originally posted by Nandemonai:
I am interested in the techical reason for this, though. I'd be interested in exploring this.
As described here, the tungsen filament in a standard lightbulb eventually evaporates with continued use. The carbon filament in the Livermore bulb has a much higher melting point, coupled with the fact that it only has to dissipate 4 watts. I actually went to see this 19th century technological relic a few years ago. It's more like a glowing thread than a real light source. Equally impressive is the fact that they were able to supply it with continuous power for 100 years through countless blackouts before the advent of the UPS (uninterruptable power supply).

#1911

When were backup generations, rather then the uninterruptable power supply first used? Could that have been part of the way they kept it lit all those years or is that not possible?

#1912

And now for something completely different…

Good People. Go to Google.com. Type “Weapons of Mass Destruction” Click on the "I’m Feeling Lucky Button."

Oh, I’m sorry, did you get an error page? Read it again. All of it. Thoroughly.

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#1913

LOL! That’s great…

@ekylo
Bye, ekylo. We’ll miss you. I’ll always remember you as the first person who replied to my first thread.

#1914

This was getting a little low so just decided to bump it to keep it alive at 50 pages.

#1915

So lately I’ve been replaying Chrono Trigger, and I have one question.

How did Chrono Cross suck so bad in comparison?

#1916

I haven’t played either, but it wouldn’t be the first time that I’ve run across “related” games that seemed to have been written and produced by two entirely different groups of people (one of which was obviously a group of demented chimpanzees on hallucinogens).

#1917

Never played Chrono Trigger, Wolfson?
You must play this great game.

#1918
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Originally posted by Wolfson:
I haven't played either, but it wouldn't be the first time that I've run across "related" games that seemed to have been written and produced by two entirely different groups of people (one of which was obviously a group of demented chimpanzees on hallucinogens).

I can definitely disprove the demented chimpanzees on hallucinogens theory. If the creators had been on hallucinogens the game would be more interesting; the problem was it was too pedestrian and uninspired.

#1919
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Originally posted by Benoit:
Never played Chrono Trigger, Wolfson?
You must play this great game. [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img]

Agreed, you should. It puts many PSX RPGs to shame. It is a stunning example of essentially flawless game design; you can tell (if you know where to look) that the game is incomplete. No, not incomplete; they more or less finished the game. But it isn't as polished in some areas - you can tell they wanted to do more but weren't able to.

But what IS there, is close to perfect. There really isn't ANYthing wrong with the game design that I can think of, and they wrote the game design into the plot wholly naturally (a rarity).

#1920

“Also Sprach Zarathustra” by Richard Strauss starts playing. Suddenly a large black rectangle appears. When the sun hits the rectangle it lights up to reveal a popular bishoujo game. A monkey with a computer mouse in his hand walks up and starts whacking a keyboard which goes flying into the air. It magically starts rotating in slow motion.

Sorry, couldn’t help myself. It’s not often a thread reaches 2001 posts.

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