9mo ago

The world just ended.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14465880

It's the endgame.

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Hes gonna die from carbon monoxide poisoning anyway, with his generator running in-doors
- That's why he's not worried about stuff running out
  
  He has more than enough supplies for the rest of his life
- 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.
  
  go the Cuban way and share it all with usbs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Paquete_Semanal
  
  "This Age of Empires II session will now cone to order..."
  
  Playing chess over 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 removed 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?
  
  Obligatory FreeCAD
  
  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'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.
- Time enough at last...

Zombie apocalypse is a good litmus test for ownership.

Now the best game begins: hacking.
- And there is no internet to look up anything. ULTRAHARD!
  
  God damn it. I am nothing without ChatGPT and Stackoverflow.

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.
- I have bought Civ 6 but still haven't tried it, too busy one-more-turning Civ 5
- 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.

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.
- Just buy a 20TB HDD or two and stock up on every console game up to PS3
- Yea, I doubt anyone is learning how to crack stuff these days without the internet.

Imagine thinking you could get a wireless gaming controller and wireless headphones to work with windows xp

For when that happens, we'll have Open Transport Tycoon.

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.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU9raAVgNCw

MFW I start a single player game

SC Broodwar and WC3 DOTA on LAN is gonna be big again

Cory Doctorow, When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth
- nice one!

Muties don't know about my Sauerbraten, 0AD and minetest stockpile.

Time to play Rimworld then I guess?

Not me hanging on datahoarder, collecting apocalypse libraries.
- I won't be satisfied until my media library playtime is longer than my current life expectancy

We must survive to get placed into a retirement home with a lan setup

World still plugging along out here but still no internet for gaming so yeah

Yes. You should all stop using steam. They are a monopoly, killed off discs for PC, and everything will break should they not be around.
- They’re not a monopoly, discs for PC sucked and there’s a lot of DRM-free games on there.
  
  You go ahead and don't release your game on steam. Good luck making money and surviving the screaming from the community.

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