Luke getting upset about the short jokes becomes 100 times funnier if you are tiny yourself
Because imagine if you've been being called tiny and chihuahua by a group of brothers and then they get a friend one day and you meet them and they are like the same height as you and the brothers just treat them like everyone else, no short jokes, nothing
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Charles Oscar Carlos top 3
Russell out qualifying Hamilton
Checo out qualifying Verstappen
Franco out qualifying Albon
Ollie out qualifying Hulkenberg
Lando knocked out in Q1
i am already loving this weekend
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So i was tinkering with the Ameprod TVG-10 pong console i got, and was curious to test out if any of my AY-3-8500 chips are working, as the original one in the console started to malfunction (the score part of the picture lost started going shaking around the screen, like it lost it's synchronisation).
So it turns out that, all other 2 AY-3-8500 chips that i have bought (because of an earlier repair attempt) are all in working condition:33 (which means money was spent unnecessarily).
And i was curious to test out the original AY chip that was in the first Pong console that i bought (Universum TV Multispiel 2010, the one that looks like a tv pilot/phone, and is basically a clone of Radio Shack TV scoreboard without lightgun capability), and OMG it also works!!
And so (for now) i have only 1 faulty AY-3-8500 chip
(I assume produced in 5th week of 1983)
This would have been an expensive repair in Poland at the time, as these could only be bought via foreign currency (idk how to translate dewiza to English).
In 1980, Elwro (which was the company responsible for producing computers/calculators/precision electronics), bought around 10k IC's from General Instruments, and around this many consoles were produced.
After the supply of bought IC's ran out, Elwro reached out to Ameprod (which was a Polish company functioning in the USA, and mainly imported western commodities to Poland), and after some adjusting to Polish laws about trading (both companies had to do work with producing each unit of the console, so for example the case and main board was manufactured in Poland, then was sent to Ameprod which soldered and screwed it all together), the production lasted all the way till end of 1983, with 100k units produced total.
It was the first and only mass produced (as there small test runs of other video game consoles previously, even back in 1977) polish video game console.
It's easy to say that it was many people's first ever encounter with a video game (or even the possibility of being able to control the picture on the screen i suppose), as then almost no one owned a home computer, and that really haven't changed until the mid-to-late 80's (in Poland).
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the magisterium timeline makes no sense. Someone tell me why the wiki says the war against the enemy had been on for almost a DECADE when Call was born, yet he was most likely born in 2001. You know what was ten years before that? 1991, WHICH WOULD BE AROUND THE TIME CONSTANTINE EVEN STARTED SCHOOL. HE WAS LIKE ELEVEN..
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