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    I know way too much about the propagation of plasma in fluorescent lighting. When you first hit a fluorescent tube with high voltage you need some cosmic radiation to rip off the first barium ion off the cathode which causes a tiny little lightning strike of plasma that skitters across the inner surface of the tube. Once it makes its way across the length of the tube to the anode you now have a conductive path. This path then grows tremendously until it envelopes the whole cross section starting from the anode and works it’s way back to the cathode until the whole tube is filled with wonderful plasma that makes light when it excites the phosphor coating.

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    Morse code. Did a science project back in middle school with wires, buzzers and tappers on a board. Then I taught it to my boy scout troop for a badge. Then lost some of it before joining the army in communications (as well as a ton of other outdated means of communication) and then in Iraq, me and another commo guy wired up our rooms for it so we could talk shit about our leadership even if they were in the room. Anyways, after working with it that many times over a stretched out time frame, I’ll never forget that. Or the phonetic alphabet.

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    My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas was the mnemonic when Pluto was still a planet. I suppose not totally obsolete but I find myself ending at “nine” instead of something you’d serve beginning with N.

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    In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni.

    Latin palindrome, roughly “we enter the circle at night and are consumed by fire”.

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    In NFS Underground 2, if you place an empty file named “FOOBAR” with no extension in the game directory, you can bypass disk verification and the game just launches.

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    Morrowind on the original Xbox came with cheat codes. Put the cursor over the health, magicka, or fatigue bar, enter the codes with the black and white buttons then hold A until the bar fills. If you close the menu before you let go of A, it will continue to refill constantly until you open your menu again.

    Health: B, W, B, B, B, A

    Magicka: B, W, W, B, W, A

    Fatigue: B, B, W, W, B, A

    You could actually use the magicka code for all 3, but I liked that there were 3 different codes.

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    Adjusting a carburetor.

    I was never really good at it, I never actually went through with selling my soul to Satan to gain true knowledge of that black art.

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      If that’s your idea if fun, I can recommend the game My Summer Car. It’s basically a simulator for Finnish country life in the 90’s.
      You spend most of your time drinking, going to the sauna, driving a crappy old Datsun hatchback (which you first have to rebuild in excruciating detail) down country roads, and adjusting your car’s carburetor.

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        I looked up a gameplay series, and there is so much minutia remining me of Norwegian country life as well. The ticketing machine on the bus is exactly as I remember it from the 90’s.

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        Sounds like how I spent my summers in Canada, but substitute a Chevette hatchback and a hottub.

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    Open NFS MW 2005

    In the titlescreen (Do not press Enter yet) type

    • burgerking (unlocks hidden challenge)

    • castrol (shows hidden castrol themed Ford GT)

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    Boolprop testingcheatsenabled true/false

    Testingcheatsenabled true

    And finally testingcheats true

    The entire shortening of the Sims cheat codes.

    Also motherlode.

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    The password to reach Mike Tyson / Mr dream in Punch-Out! is 007-373-5963. Burned into my brain.

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    My ICQ number; various employee numbers and alarm codes long since changed from previous jobs; procedures and rules from those jobs; all kinds of cheat codes from games that I no longer play or own; various old computer protocols, port names/numbers, etc. that no longer matter; and I’m sure more stuff (and some other stuff that, living in Japan, isn’t relevant to anyone here).