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It’s the endgame.
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Hes gonna die from carbon monoxide poisoning anyway, with his generator running in-doors
Or the room it’s in is vented. It appears to separate from everything else.
Laughs in GOG installers and good old physical media
Shakes hand in FOSS and reusing disconnected cables to create neighbourhood LAN.
“This Age of Empires II session will now cone to order…”
Playing chess over LORAWAN
Now i want lorawan…
Yup. This is where the physical vintage gaming collection comes into play.
My PCs don’t even have optical drives.
Ok, my bad, one of them has one. I passed it to my SO who insists on using Windows (because architecture software that’s a bitch to run in anything else) and I had forgotten about that one. My bad. But I can’t game on that one, so my point stands.
You could rip the game/movie/media off the cd and store it on your pc?
Currently, my main machine (which has no optical media), has around 12 or 14TB of storage. That machine is currently offline because we’re rebuilding our home, so I’m living off my laptop and my SO has an actual PC (although it’s kind of old, [and running Windows, per her instructions], it’s still a fairly decent machine, with 16GB of RAM, something like 2 or 4 TB of storage (not sure now), a GTX1070 (yes it’s old, but it’s still a decent card if you’re not gaming).
However It’s the only machine with an optical drive, or with a plug and play drive interface (you can plug disks on the top of the case, it’s really convenient).
External DVD drives are like $30 and external and networked storage are things too
Aside from my old PCs that have optical drives, I also have an external USB one. I think I might have a USB floppy drive kicking around somewhere, too. It’s always good to be prepared.
I really should invest in a USB drive.
I’m certain you could find one.
You can get a mobile USB DVD R/W for 14 bucks from AliExpress and you can even get the blank DVDs for recording from there too (I checked as I was curious) and a spindle of 25 is (hilariously, IMHO) more expensive than the DVD R/W hardware.
I was putting together a replacement Mini PC for somebody with a really really old PC and just got two, one for myself, and it works fine.
That said, if you recorded CDs or DVDs back in the day the chance that they still work isn’t all that great (the data layer will age and degrades with light) but old pressed CDs/DVDs (which have an aluminium data layer) should be fine.
I wouldn’t at all recomend that as a means to store game installers (I’ve been using external HDs for a decade now, but I suspect SSDs easilly outlast HDDs in the long run since they don’t have moveable parts), but if you have some old games in a physical pressed CD or DVD they should work fine.
Remember: DRM is theft.
“There was time now…”
Would have been cool if they made a modern day remake of this episode when the series came back.
Every attempt to reboot The Twilight Zone has failed miserably.
You can’t improve on perfection.
Idk the scary door isnt bad
The one right before the pandemic was good.
Zombie apocalypse is a good litmus test for ownership.
Civilization VI will probably last me at least until the next civilization.
Civ games last forever
Especially if you play them on the Switch, since it loads so slowly.
Marathon Deity Domination victory.
I have a stalemate game I’ve been playing on and off for the past 5 years.
Laughs/cries in EU4.
There was time now, I finally had time!
And then he went and broke his glasses.
It’s OK, he can still read the large print books.
Eyeballs fall out
“At least I know how to read Braille.”
Hands fall off
I would teach myself coding with books just so I could learn how to crack the DRM
Then you realize you don’t have any compilers installed so the best you can do is batch
Time to start writing a compiler.
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That’s nixos
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But all crackers had to learn to code
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That’s more descriptive, but I prefer the spirit of my comment, friend.
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Yea, I doubt anyone is learning how to crack stuff these days without the internet.
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I thought the point of the Internet is that in case nuclear apocalypse happened, that there will still be a reliable mode of communication?
Nuclear explosions emit massive EMPs. enough to kill a lot of electronics
Could always go back to the old BBS routine. Dunno if itd work with cell service but since most plans have unlimited calling, a BBS could help a lot of people connect at least at a basic level
Imagine thinking you could get a wireless gaming controller and wireless headphones to work with windows xp
The fact that the comment section wouldn’t load for me for a while just for this post 🤌
The first frame is such a funny picture
in sight of the mushroom cloud? I have cans of soda fuck off I dont care
There’s a fun 1980s short film called Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em about a big punk rock party in a nuclear bunker after the apocalypse. The first frame reminds me of the ending of the movie.
For when that happens, we’ll have Open Transport Tycoon.
MFW I start a single player game
SC Broodwar and WC3 DOTA on LAN is gonna be big again
