Let's Settle This

@narfcake I thought we settled that years ago on this forum.

@shahnm Thank Jod that was settled.

@shahnm I will forever and always prounce it with a soft ‘G’, as the person who supposedly invented the file format at CompuServe intended.

@PooltoyWolf
/giphy testify!

@shahnm Jif is peanut butter

@heartny
/giphy peanut butter

It’s also a gif…

@PooltoyWolf @shahnm
But since the G stands for “graphics,” it SHOULD be a hard G!

@Kyeh @PooltoyWolf @shahnm So giga- is derived from gigantic. Do you pronounce the first G as soft G (like Doc Brown in BTTF) or as hard G?

@Kyeh @macromeh @PooltoyWolf
/giphy mic drop

@Kyeh @macromeh @PooltoyWolf @shahnm
A ginger giant sipping on some gin and juice agrees.

@Kyeh @macromeh @shahnm You said it better than I could!

@macromeh @PooltoyWolf @shahnm
Yes, but “giant” and “giga” followed different etymological paths (French vs. Greek.)
Gif’s pronunciation was a gimmicky choice, for whatever reason:

Wilhite stated that the intended pronunciation deliberately echoes the American peanut butter brand Jif, and CompuServe employees would often quip “choosy developers choose GIF”, a spoof of Jif’s television commercials.

Honestly, though, this girl doesn’t really give a damn and is beginning to want a good gimlet to get sloshed to the gills.

@Kyeh @macromeh @PooltoyWolf Geeeez…

@Kyeh @macromeh @shahnm Your direct quote settles it once and for all

@macromeh @PooltoyWolf @shahnm
Nah.

@Kyeh
No.

@mike808
Yes, but if it has a crispy yellow u-shaped shell, it’s not a “taco”.

@mike808 Potato?

@sammydog01
/giphy potato taco

@mike808 Pork

@mehcuda67 They’re edge brownies, deluxe ones.

@Kyeh @mehcuda67
There’s a serpentine pan for people who want all of their brownies to be edge brownies. I prefer the centers.

@Kyeh @mehcuda67 @werehatrack center brownie is the correct answer

@Kyeh @mehcuda67 @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack
However, the center is completely the wrong answer for Imo’s pizza. IYKYK.

@mehcuda67 @werehatrack Yeah, I’ve seen those!

@Kyeh @mehcuda67 @mike808 @werehatrack i like both the edge and the center of Imos for different reasons

@tinamarie1974
The center just has no place to hold it. However, that is offset by having more stuff on it, especially that roof-of-your-mouth scorching melty deliciousness called provel.

@PooltoyWolf
/image GameCube

/image starfox assault gamecube cover

@mike808 Two of my most favorite games! I replay the Prime series on the regular.

@PooltoyWolf no mention of Atari?!?!??! (Some of us are old l

@tinamarie1974 IYKYK.
Hey, WTF is on Channel 3?

@mike808 @tinamarie1974
Squirrel!

@mike808 @werehatrack oh, a shiny object

/giphy shiny

@tinamarie1974 @werehatrack
If you really remember that Atari, then you remember having to tune the TV to Channel 3 and then flip the game switch.

The car racing game on ice was the most fun. It was drifting before that was even a thing.

@mike808 @werehatrack yup! But I do NOT remember the car racing game.

I was a DK, Mr/Mrs Pac Man kinda kid

@mike808 @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack I do not recall a car on ice… But yars revenge, jungle hunt, and for beating you siblings, combat with the paddle controllers

I bet it’s still at my parents house in the case with all the cartridges and still works. Was definitely less blowing on the cartridges than the NES.

Which we of course had RCA to coax adapter for…
https://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/nes/hook_rftotv_nes.jsp

So we could plug that into a coax to fm adapter…

@mike808 @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack well did Enduro have ice anywhere? I don’t think so but that was our racer. Dodging tail lights lol

@tinamarie1974 @unksol @werehatrack
It was called “Indy 500”. The “track” was light blue, and the cars drifted around the turns, so as a kid, we always thought it was an ice rink.

@mike808 @unksol @werehatrack oh I remember that. My grandma had that at her house for us kids to play

@mike808 @tinamarie1974 @unksol @werehatrack
I seem to remember an arcade version of that game. Lots of complex tracks to choose from? Or they got more difficult as you progressed?
But the car, its motion, and the sound were the same.

@mike808 @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack

Oh we had indy 500 too… I think I’m in a weird gap. I’m googling dates and realizing NES came out before I was born. By a few years.

So. We had dad’s Atarii collection from idk. Case with the 30 cartridges underneath don’t break it. No complaints. We loved that…

Picked up an NES at a garage sale in the late 90s

I think it was when the AMD K6 Came out in 98/99 I convinced them to buy a PC and I ran some command and conquer and shitty MOH over a modem on AOL/Zeronet 40 hour CDs

NES was the last console. I was building PCs in 2000

@mike808 @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack we had that but Enduro was just pass cars. Google says there was ice.

/youtube Enduro attari

@SEGAStaRBiTS64

@narfcake P o t a t o

@narfcake @SEGAStaRBiTS64 Potahto?

@Kidsandliz @narfcake A s s t h e t i c c

@Kidsandliz @narfcake @SEGAStaRBiTS64
Po-tay-toes! Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew… Lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish.

@Kidsandliz @narfcake @SEGAStaRBiTS64 Spud

@Kidsandliz @macromeh @narfcake C l a p p i n M r . P o t a t o H e a d t h i c c a s s c h e e k s

@Kidsandliz @narfcake @SEGAStaRBiTS64 @werehatrack @macromeh

@chienfou 48/66, but since I’ve never married or had kids I missed a pretty big chunk

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@chienfou @tinamarie1974 52/66, also no kid, so I guess I’m alright.

@chienfou
57 and on indefinite hold. (Okay, I could conceivably take a helicopter ride to add one, but the rest are pretty much out of my control.)

@chienfou 60/66 - I guess it could be 61/66 depending on how Travel the World is defined.

@chienfou
missing:
gaduate college (unless an associates is considered)
meet an idol (not many idols in my life)
run a marathon
play an instrument (played the flutophone in elementary school if that qualifies. Messed around on a piano/guitar/drums but not really ‘played’ them)
explore a cave (been in lots of them, but not really ‘explored’ them)
haven’t retired …yet (but old enough to)
haven’t turned a 100.

@chienfou I took it to mean graduate FROM college because they also said “graduate high school.” So you got that one.