Convecticus

I thought that was the sensible solution, though – you have your own domain names, but then use some reputable e-mail provider for the actual server.

E.g., I use mxroute, and wouldn’t imagine setting up the e-mail servers myself, even though I still wind up having to muck about in the DNS records when getting things set up.

On the note of corporate addresses, I remember that I had a bigfoot.com e-mail address, that was supposed to be “permanent”, and work as a forwarding thing, as I switched between various ISPs for my e-mail address.

It was significantly less permanent than having my own domains. And, with Google, we never quite know when they’re get bored or run into money issues. But some of my domains? I’ll probably have them as long as I’m alive, and that’s probably long enough.

I’ll second that. I’ve been using them for 4 or 5 years, and have been pleased.

There even was a day where there was an outage for my server, and they made it right by giving everyone credits roughly equal to 3 years of service or something. I thought that was overkill, and I guess they’ll take a loss on it, but… the instincts are nice. It seems like a place where it’s some dude taking care of servers, rather than a giant corporation who is more focused on extracting money than providing a great service for a reasonable cost.

Agreed!

As a child playing this, I got to be decent at the arcade version (biggest hint is to not use nitros, unless doing so would directly result in winning, because otherwise the computer starts speeding up because of them.), and would happily play for an hour on only a few tokens.

And, yeah, it was fun that steering was, “…and now go spin as fast as possible, and grab onto the steering wheel to stop when the truck has turned the correct direction.”

It wasn’t really accurate, but I liked Super Mario Kart (SNES) and Stunts (PC) for driving things, and a certain amount of unreality was part of what made them fun.

But this post was about the console versions of it, none of which I was able to get into, probably because of it not being like the arcade.

All the same, it’s a bit of a white whale for Lynx, and I’d jump at the chance to own it for any moderately-reasonable price. Even though, obviously, I’d want to own four copies for the one random time when I had enough interested people together in the right place to play the game.

Hah! This is kind of like how the one non-telepathic person is still completely unaware. Really is nice that The Onion keeps track.

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Hah, fellow human! I am definitely not a robot and do not need to pass the Turing test.

I, too, am certain a human, and not a robot, who finally got my instance working a couple days ago.

But my server has all of four completely-normal humans (totally NOT robots!!!) who have signed up, so far.

But, yes, it would be nice if more humans like me were to sign up, rather than bots.