Great they may be, but sneaking into the Gorgs’ garden to retrieve them is such a hassle.

What if there’s a QR code on the card? Then it’s basically the same amount of work as getting that NFC tap.

I feel like a business card is something physical to hand people so they have it to look back at later. If you’re just looking to NFC tap your contact info onto people’s phones, why wouldn’t you just use your own phone to do it?

This reminds me of something tangentially related. In the late 1990s I worked at a small business where some vendor came in to solicit interest in his business’ services, and left a working CD-Rom business card. That mildly impressed the manager because CD-ROMs were still pretty fancy and nobody had seen it before, and when run the card had some simple Flash-like slideshow thing with a little video clip or two about their business (which was still impressive when you couldn’t really have embedded video clips on your average dialup-friendly website.) Around a week later that same vendor returned asking for the card back because “they’re pretty expensive to make and I want to give it to my next prospect,” and the management’s impression of him went from mildly impressed to thinking he was too hilariously amateurish to bother engaging with.

Hacker Kevin Mitnick had a famous metal business card for his computer security firm which was a set of lockpicks. The lockpicks really worked if you knew how to pick locks.

No, this is the Krusty Krab.

I use paper business cards all the time. They’re fun and cheap.

Also, plain boring unimaginatively-designed business cards are so ubiquitous that if you’re using a design that’s at all interesting yours will easily be way ahead of most of the other business cards people will get.

NFC cards are far more expensive than printed paper business cards.

No kidding, we’ve had 16K since the 1980s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IagZIM9MtLo

Which is why in Latin, “Jehovah” starts with an “I.”

The Mines of Narshe music from Final Fantasy VI still comes to my mind whenever I’m wandering around someplace suitably grim.

Their last big cartoon came out seven months ago, and it was a big celebration of the idea of going back to playing on individual websites instead of just being fed the same handful of social media crap.

Emulated Flash version on the h*r site - YouTube video version

Holy crap! I played with that Barney page for hours back in '95. I had no idea it was still up and running!!

43-Man Squamish.

This one?

I’m in my late 40s, and have so many Doctor Who toys on desks and shelves.

My spouse is sweetly tolerant of the sheer quantity of TARDISes in our small apartment (which is, alas, not bigger on the inside) and has even gifted me some of them.

I’m picking nits, but Impossible Mission didn’t use voice synthesis (where a computer creates the voice sounds from scratch.) It was using really low-fi by modern standards (but amazing for the time) recordings of actual speech provided by an unknown actor.

From this interview with the programmer:

The speech in the game was real, digitized speech. The performances were provided by Electronic Speech Systems, who also provided the software for reproducing the speech on the Commodore 64. I told them what I wanted the game to say, and when they asked me what kind of voice I had in mind, I said I was imagining a fiftyish English guy, like a James Bond villain. I was told that they happened to have such a person on their staff, so, instead of hiring an actor, they let him take a whack at it, and I thought he was just fine. I never met the guy who provided the voice, but, to my knowledge, the recordings were not altered or processed, apart from being digitized. It is certainly possible, though, that Electronic Speech Systems could have tweaked them without my knowledge. There are no other digitized sounds in the game.

The “Final Cut” rerelease added voice lines for (I think) all the characters.

Even the turrets!

Finally, a chance to romance Foul Ole Ron.