Just your typical internet guy with questionable humor

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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Most of the stuff was whatever demos came with those magazine CDs. Half wouldn’t run on the family computer - none of LucasArts’ adventure games did. Some that did run and I remember playing were:

    • Diablo (only the 1st level of the dungeon available, the Butcher would also show up and kill you after you cleared it, got out and went back)
    • Age of Empires (3 small scenario maps, which I played to death)
    • Stargunner (only 3 levels and most of the equipment wasn’t available)
    • Raptor (some weapons were locked but, weirdly enough, one time the game “registered itself” and all weapons were unlocked. No idea wtf happened)
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    • (EDIT) Capture the flag (yes, the game’s name was just that. A turn based capture the flag that really left me wanting that level editor! Also, that’s a link for the developer’s site, he’s still selling his games)

    One of the few things we had was Lion King’s Activity Center (Brazilian version, Centro de Atividades). I distinctly remember that, for whatever reason, the VA for Rafiki was different from the movie

    At my dad, I played a lot of Lemmings and some of those Arthur interactive books. To my then non-english-speaking ass, the story reading was mostly pointless, but most scenes would let you click around to see what happened, characters would either say something or do something funny (I personally loved one where you clicked DW and she’d ride her bike over a small hill, crashing then coming back)

    Also this one, which I don’t think I enjoyed as much as Arthur for whatever reason

    (That picture immediately made me “smell” crayons. Is there a word for when a picture reminds you of a smell?)







  • Does a WoW subscription count? I’ve played on private servers for a looooong time, that alone would’ve been some 20+ months of sub.

    It’s tricky for me to estimate because the majority of my piracy happened around 2004-14, so lots of stuff I don’t remember, plus some of the games I pirated back then I ended up buying later on at a discount (Jazz Jackrabbit, SupCom, UT2004, X3TC). I still don’t own a legal copy of Age of Empires 2, so you can add that one to my debt.

    Oh, that reminds me, if I add the many, many, MANY emulated roms to that list, boy, that’ll be a lot of debt. Some 500 games times ~40 dollars average, that’s 20k.

    There are also the many anime episodes that simply didn’t exist as available for purchase, so “at original price” I guess it’d be zero.



  • Not enough to fight the bigger fish, but 1 billion dollars is more than enough to make public works that aren’t just a front (all these assholes have some foundation that is, at best, a zero sum charity), making better community spaces so they’ll actually see you as a “good guy” instead of yet another fucking greedy asshole.