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Introvertigo said:

Mike Preston, actor known for staring in the movie Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior as settle leader Pappagallo, died at the age of 93 on June 8th of this year. Also that is the second death this year, relating to Mad Max 2.
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Ride eternal, shiny and chrome. This is a message to me to do a Mad Max marathon soon. And to finally watch Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn, a movie I've known about for decades, but still have somehow never seen.
 
God's drunkest driver said:
RIP John C. Dvorak, No Agenda show host and columnist.

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This made me sad. I have a backlog of a few episodes to listen to and John is the highlight of the show for me. Now I know after the few episodes I have left it just won't be the same.

Just last week he made me chuckle in the crew lounge while I was doing paperwork and prompted me to "hit someone in the mouth" (told the guy sitting across from me about the show when he asked what I was listening to).
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Damn, he was one of the OGs of ZDTV, before it became TechTV and long before it became the faggotry that was G4.
 
Pioneering female scuba diver, underwater photographer, and actress Zale Perry passed away on July 20th at the age of 93. She appeared in TV shows like "Kingdom of the Sea", "Sea Hunt", and "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", as well as "Wagon Train" and "Peter Gunn". In 1957 she doubled for Sophia Loren in the underwater scenes for "Boy on a Dolphin".
 
Troonos said:
Damn, he was one of the OGs of ZDTV, before it became TechTV and long before it became the faggotry that was G4.
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I was too young to know him from his now famous Computer Chronicles appearance, but I was just old enough, and autistic/nerdy enough to know him from Silicon Spin on ZDTV. That show was great. If you can find old episodes online it's really funny watching him give those silicon valley yuppies shit with his typical incredulity and snark. Been an avid fan since then. Real Computing, Cranky Geeks, TWiT (only ever watched if he was on), and No Agenda.
 
Troonos said:
Damn, he was one of the OGs of ZDTV, before it became TechTV and long before it became the faggotry that was G4.
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I remember reading John C. Dvorak's articles in PC World about 35 years ago. That's how much of an OG tech journo he was, back when being a journo was still a somewhat noble profession. RIP.
 
moocow said:
While there were exceptions (like Dvorak) to prove the rule, journalism has never been a "noble" profession.
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Not entirely, and there was a hint of sarcasm in my remark (which probably didn't land on account of Dvorak being one of the good ones).

Back then, serious journos still did some excellent work. Of course there was always a clown show element thanks to the Murdochs of the world, and now we're in a place where opinion informs the news rather than the other way round. Funny how this happened around the same time the loudest anti-free speech voices started coming from the left rather than from the right.

Gimme dat Moai head.
 
Introvertigo said:

Mike Preston, actor known for staring in the movie Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior as settler leader Pappagallo, died at the age of 93 on June 8th of this year. Also that is the second death this year, relating to Mad Max 2.
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he can give speeches about maggots in the afterlife now :(

in the mad max game theres an achievement called you are what you eat related to eating maggots lol fun fact

 
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God's drunkest driver said:
RIP John C. Dvorak, No Agenda show host and columnist.

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This made me sad. I have a backlog of a few episodes to listen to and John is the highlight of the show for me. Now I know after the few episodes I have left it just won't be the same.

Just last week he made me chuckle in the crew lounge while I was doing paperwork and prompted me to "hit someone in the mouth" (told the guy sitting across from me about the show when he asked what I was listening to).
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The former NoAgenda fediverse server has been commemorating

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originals:

The hosts of the show had a falling out with the original No Agenda Social server, and so there was a name change and a big move/migration. There's been some of animosity between the users on there and the show for a while, but it's nice to see that in the end, they can all commemorate about JCD's life.
 
Troonos said:
Damn, he was one of the OGs of ZDTV, before it became TechTV and long before it became the faggotry that was G4.
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Ah shit, used to watch him on Computer Chronicles and so on, damn. He was still tweeting I think about anti-woke. Fuck. And reed those PC magazine ads which had the 386 at $4k when you have the Pentium MMX and knew that would play 3x better for 50% more cost. And over time P3's 4's would be far less to build a system than those days.

RIP Dvorak, sad.

 
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Another fishtank live community member and Kiwi Farmer might have passed away @Metabolic Melody. I recognized her art on twitter and KF years ago, I never mentioned it. She occasionally mentioned Jersh and KF on her twitter. Her name was Jami and she was very active in the fishtank live community on xitter and a farmer. Rest in peace Jami.
https://kiwifarms.st/members/metabolic-melody.150652/
https://www.tumblr.com/cruelsun/819520409910280192/if-you-were-a-follower-of-jami-c-please-please
https://archive.ph/dqXbi
https://kiwifarms.st/threads/post-your-art-thread.116/post-17470945

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Super-Chevy454 said:
Oliver Jones, jazz pianist have died at the age of 91.
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Impressive resumé:

The Montreal-born Jones won two Juno Awards — in 1986 and 2009 — several Félix awards and received six honourary doctorates.

In 1990, he won the Montreal Jazz Festival's Oscar Peterson award, named after his fellow jazz legend and his lifelong idol.

Jones was appointed an officer to the Order of Canada in 1993, a knight for the Ordre national de Québec in 1994 and a commander for the Order of Montreal in 1996.
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I never really got into jazz, but maybe I'll check some of his stuff out.
 
Troonos said:
Damn, he was one of the OGs of ZDTV, before it became TechTV and long before it became the faggotry that was G4.
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Pee Cola said:
I remember reading John C. Dvorak's articles in PC World about 35 years ago. That's how much of an OG tech journo he was, back when being a journo was still a somewhat noble profession. RIP.
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I also remember his magazine columns back when the internet was young and new, and the most common way to get news was still print newspapers and magazines. I actually didn't know ZD started a tv channel, guess it wasn't carried on my cable provider at the time.
 
Autistic Joe said:
I also remember his columns in PC World back when the internet was young and new, and the most common way to get news was still print newspapers and magazines. I actually didn't know ZD started a tv channel, guess it wasn't carried on my cable provider at the time.
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It didn't. Ziff-Davis existed since the 1920s. The TV channel started in 1998. It was freaking amazing.
 
mlanguishi said:
Ah shit, used to watch him on Computer Chronicles and so on, damn. He was still tweeting I think about anti-woke. Fuck. And reed those PC magazine ads which had the 386 at $4k when you have the Pentium MMX and knew that would play 3x better for 50% more cost. And over time P3's 4's would be far less to build a system than those days.

RIP Dvorak, sad.

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Thanks for the video, he was definitely the same old JCD until the end. I may have seen some of his articles over the years, and possibly something on techTV in the very brief exposure I had to it, but I don't distinctly recall, and that video is before my time. It was all No Agenda and DH Unplugged for me.
 
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