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[–] christian@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

So it's a writing app?

[–] christian@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm more bothered that the game will not let me name them! I jump through some hoops to get this thing and I can't even personalize it?

[–] christian@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

My first thought is The Fortress of Doctor Radiaki for DOS.

A game I never played but is still memorable is early 2000s there was a game in Babbages in my local mall called "Prison Tycoon" that had a cop beating a black man on the box.

[–] christian@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

The game was fun to some degree, just required an unfair time investment. The final fight was a memorably bad experience though. I was like eleven years old when I made it to the end and swear I spent almost a full hour clawing at Scar before I figured out that I wasn't actually doing damage.

[–] christian@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is not what you are talking about, but reading this reminded me of the "Super Noah's Ark" rom I downloaded in high school which was a reskin of the original Wolfenstein where all the animals were restless meaning that you (Noah) would need to shoot feed at them so they could take their naps.

[–] christian@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm aware that at some point sourceforge went down the toilet, but in the early 2000s it seemed to be a pretty reliable website for open source software. I had gone a few years coming across more and more evidence that any software I was downloading from sourceforge was much less likely to be a load of shit than software downloaded anywhere else. At some point I made the connection that maybe open source software is better in general. That made me curious about the experience of using an entire operating system that was open source. Either 2012 or late 2011 I installed Fedora to dual boot with windows (like 70% sure it was win7, might have been vista). Over the next year or two I sampled a bunch of other distros, and also PCBSD (not sure if that still exists) at one point. In retrospect I was really sampling DEs, but I didn't know the distinction.

Discovering the philosophy behind GNU was what led me to abandoning windows entirely. I think I had already had some of the core ideas of free software, albeit in extremely rudimentary forms (gee, these EULAs sure do seem like they're deliberately obfuscated), floating around my head for a while. The concept of free software resonated with me, so that's when I finally removed my windows partition. I stopped distro-hopping and settled on Trisquel for two or three years.

Afterwards, I decided to move to Parabola because I thought it would force me to learn things, but the main thing I learned was how to read documentation just well enough to get everything working by trial-and-error tinkering.

I've kind of moved on from free software at this point. I do still agree with the ideals, but I think the goals are somewhat inconsistent with a capitalist economy to begin with so I'd rather be concerned about that.

Today I use arch and still have no idea what the hell I'm doing, but I've had a stable system for years and I'm too comfortable with it to switch to a friendlier distribution.

[–] christian@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

I remember I thought it was awful when I read it in seventh grade, but tbh I trust the opinion of a random stranger online more than I trust seventh grade me.

The one thing I remember was the kid Kenny who sat next to me in english period looked at the page I was on and picked out a sentence that was something like '"God damn it!", the cook ejaculated." and made a big thing about it and the teacher started yelling at us to quiet down. I genuinely don't think I'd remember the book existed otherwise.

[–] christian@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The couch cushion works fine. Couch cushions appear in real-life situations all the time and simply having one in the movie cannot be construed as making a statement on the kind of conduct that we as a nation are willing to accept from our vice-presidential candidates.

[–] christian@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Do your work for you, you say?

That reminds me, tomorrow I will need everyone here to proofread the latest revision of my screenplay for the "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt" horror movie.

[–] christian@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I have absolutely zero interest in making this movie political.

[–] christian@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

This is inexplicably the best answer yet. Everyone else is working so hard to think outside the box that the box is inside-out.

[–] christian@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

-day/night, etc

Once she pieces together that dusk and dawn are in there too she'll figure out day should be mid-day and night should be mid-night. She's right there to becoming history's second timecuber. All she needs to do is take that step past duality, from two to four.

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