fools! HD loads faster

Then there's the AD40K out fighting for the emperor.

What about people with AD8K then

Back in my day all we had was ADVGA.

DVDA peeps are keeping their mouths closed.

I liked the upgrade to ADHDMI.

And the AD&D trying to convince people that THAC0 made sense.

ADSD.

Not to be confused with ADSD Cards.

VGA is also the name of a specific resolution, it just happens to also share the name with a connector. The whole letter soup for resolutions was a dumb idea and I’m glad it died out. For example, did you know the Game Boy Advanced had a screen with HQVGA resolution? No, none of the letters stand for what you think they do. Of course that means Half Quarter Video Graphics Array.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_display_resolutions

But original VGA could be 640x480, 800x600 or 1024x768.

Also I think it supported a 320x240, and then later on it would support much higher resolutions.

Ok moneybags, I had ADMONOCHROME

It took me longer than I want to admit to get this

I don't know that aych-deez are, but I've got 80 of them

I mean, it would if human brains didn't hate subtraction

And here I am, with glorious AD240p

THAC0 was more a symptom of a deeper flaw - that in Second Edition, it wasn't consistent whether a higher number or a lower one was better. Worse, the awkward intersection between the two happened to be in the most critical part of the rules, checking if an attack lands. THAC0 as an intermediary score was little more than a band-aid over those design flaws, and later editions embraced "higher = better" as a universal rule.

But also, "You find a set of magic scale plate. Its armor value is two less than what you're already wearing." "YIPPEE!" will never not sound weird.

Does that mean for you , what it means for me? Because what I’m thinking of certainly has nothing to do a medical diagnosis.

I'm old enough to have been diagnosed with ADD, or I guess now that's "ADSD".

Adderall for the adderall god.

Maybe too fast

huehuehue - indeed it is not a medical diagnosis.

But it could certainly lead to one

Gotta get the ADQHD for the optimal balance of resolution and refresh rate

Gotta support ADDP for its open ecosystem

They can revel in all of their 60Hz

The irony of this image being 640×613.

Again, thats the stupid part. VGA means only 640x480. SVGA is 800x600 and QVGA is 1024x768.

All of those resolutions can be successfully sent through a….VGA cable.

ADCAM

THAC0 is WHAC0!

“My nephew has HDADD. High Definition Attention Deficit Disorder. He can barely pay attention, but when he does it's unbelievably clear.”

• Steven Wright

And here I thought I was special with my AuDHD

It is. That's the gold plated version

Do it enough and they'll give ya one at some point.

Didn’t EGA also support some of those resolutions?

That’s why I always said “hooray!”

You are. My wife is. It's extra fun.

The two times I've been officially diagnosed the provider has told me that I am the most severe case they have ever seen.

With my first diagnosis, my wife had been investigating the idea because her friend told her that she thought I should get checked out. And then once she agreed to that the friend said, oh and by the way, you should also get checked out.

So when she got her diagnosis that provider said she was the most severe he had ever seen until he met me and then it changed to me. LOL

I like how the two guys in the background are kind of blurry.

I'm going to blow past escalating to EGA and CGA and go obscure to ADHerculesD. Hercules was a monochrome system that could emulate CGA/EGA in monochrome with different brightness levels :)

Even CGA had at least a couple of different modes because you had the mode with four colors. But you also had a higher resolution mode that was just black and white. Or maybe it was black in one of the colors. I don't remember. It's been too long now. But even CJ had at least two different resolutions

This is exactly why the acronym for display standards was so terrible.

The Extended Graphics Adapter (abbreviated XGA, obviously) by IBM was introduced with multiple resolutions available, named XGA and various deritives.

EGA came earlier and was colloquially used to refer to 16-color display modes, but wasn't used to define a specific resolution.

More specifically, EGA was a color palatte that had 64 colors available, 16 of which could be displayed at one time.

And then there's CGA which came prior to EGA, but like it referred to color modes rather than resolution.

Oh man, hope you're surviving the declining empire capitalist hellscape

THAC0 did nothing wrong!

Same. They made me a fucking zombie for about 6 months when they decided I needed Ritalin. I kinda wish I could get my Adderall back, but I doubt I could afford it with my crappy insurance.

Never heard of ADSD. What's the S?

Avenge Little Kitten!!!!!!

That's a lot of words to say that Gary Gygax was a gatekeeping math nerd.

it's a play on the HD/4K thing. SD for televisions is "standard definition", or what we had before HD: good 'ol NTSC.

Edit: sorry to hear about your med situation. Personally, I can't do any of the uppers for this because they wreck my gut, and leave me feeling strung out at the end of the day.

Gotcha, thanks. I thought I had missed something in the DSM, or that they had updated something, lol.

Meh, I'm getting through it. Moving to California for cheap and legal weed, and making myself my boss have let me muddle through to a decent retirement in the next couple years. I'm just not able to get a weeks worth of work done in a day anymore.

They have ADSD

It makes sense why you guys were attracted to each other.