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Yeah, video game weapons are a diverse sort. If a fishing lure and an umbrella count, so does a blackjack. S'honestly quite nice to see variation beyond the fairly normal stabby/shooty stuff.

Would weapons from games you haven't actually played count? Never played katamari damacy, but as weapons go the katamari ball is one of the concepts I like better than many.

Incomes didn't really rise at a rate matching inflation, that's what.

Umihara Kawase's fishing lure.
Mischief maker's more or less entirety of surrounding environment.
The umbrella in that one fantranz'd SNES game that's a fairly lengthy platformer revolving around a dude with an umbrella.
That one combination of spells in magic maker that turns (or turned, no clue if more recent versions have nixed it) you into a screaming pinball of unstoppable death.
Basically everything in that one game involving mice, cheese, and impromptu social experimentation, that I've forgotten the name of -- landscape, other mice, explosives, shaman abilities, whatever.
The massive buggeroff laser in Liberation Army -- also the macross missile massacre rocket spam one.
LINE weapons in Gearhead 2.
The warlock knife in hammerwatch.
Grenade machine gun in Infantry's Combined Arms.
Plasma Cannon in several different Infantry zones.
That one weapon in CA that shot the canisters into the air and dropped irradiated death in a v-shape afterwards.
Masers in general in Infantry.
Also the man-portable artillery.
And most of the sonic based weaponry, but especially the cannons.
Probably more Infantry stuff, too. Damn but the fancier stuff in that game was satisfying.
Galaga's laser thingy. Pew pew pew.

... that's good for a representative sample, I guess. Could probably keep going for a long, loooong time.

First one almost sounds like herzog zwei, but that's even earlier than '96.

Second one I definitely remember, but gods if I can recall the name

They are giving them to me under teacher supervision with the promise that the first thing to happen is the destruction of the harddrive (physicaly not clearing the stuff on it but destroy it)

Jeez but that's just... wasteful. Hellishly wasteful. Re-purposing the things (The DBAN followed probably with a slim linux OS install, maybe a small suite of useful software) and, hell, giving them out as charity to poor families or something would be the way to go if they're still functional. Y'don't recycle still functioning computers, imo. Use the buggers 'till they break, then take whatever parts are still working and use those.

Or just mail the hard drives to me or somethin', I could use a few dozen spare hard drives. Lots of people could. Get a nice docking station for 'em, plenty of extra space~

... but yeah, have you considered consulting local recycling centers? They might have a better idea how to squeeze materials out of an old computer, and if you're really lucky you might even be able to talk one of 'em into sending someone to campus to show you the ropes. If y'needed extra moxie to convince the faculty, could sell it as some kind of seminar, get other folks in on it. Extra credit out the wazoo.

Silly people. Jesus doesn't frown upon masturbation, he frowns upon not knocking up your brother's widow. Onan would have been fine if he didn't have a sister in law to screw.

Does anyone else have PMs dating back to before July 01, 2010? I wonder if they got deleted at some point.

Furthest back I've got is August 2010. Does look like their might have been a loss or somethin'.