nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 Was thinking of her when writing the post
Btw you can't make fun of me I get it early AND free because my friends sister works at Microsoft
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haha everyone, look at this nerd, she's so nerdy she makes friends with people whose sisters work at microsoft LOL :smug2:
nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 nostr:npub1jacntdqvalt27vngj9hwhjyqzppeayq7hnm2xmf7747t84yz32as4czppv The rune code changed every time you opened the game so they'd have to figure out every possible question coded in and write the answer for each one.
>I'm curious if there was an in-universe explanation for why the enemies became immune to (physical) attacks? "You tried to summon the spirit of magic but you fucked up the incantation so you summoned Beelzebub and now he dwells in every enemy."
I think some games had in universe explanations but not Wizardry
nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub1jacntdqvalt27vngj9hwhjyqzppeayq7hnm2xmf7747t84yz32as4czppv I only just now realized how smart it is to use a rune code as the game manual DRM. It's not easy to describe runes in plain ASCII text, and I assume there's enough of them that it'd be a pain to ask your friend to scrawl them all on the disc. Actually it'd be epic if you scrawled all the runes on the disk and then it started glowing eldritch red...
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> bullying someone for pirating something OR for spending money on it
where's bot when you need her?
nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw It's the best manual because it still doesn't have all the important information in it while still being absurdly dense.
nostr:npub1ecj3mfr9lzvx7wh6fmh59vz6eet324mdtdlp9qxzqvwuvpglwnxqv6fchy nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw textbookmoding paperpilled academiachad manual writers
nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 nostr:npub1jacntdqvalt27vngj9hwhjyqzppeayq7hnm2xmf7747t84yz32as4czppv Back in the day it was much easier to distribute copied discs of games than to distribute the manual you had to read to play the game, so to stop piracy devs would ask you to enter information that was only found in the manual. So for example when you open Wizardry 6 it shows you magical runes and asks you what each one symbolises, the only way to figure that out is reading the magic section of the manual. If you answer wrong the game assumes you’re a pirate and makes all enemies immune to attacks. Funnily enough some people still pirated the game and beat it by exclusively using mages since spells still worked. Fun challenge run.
nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub1jacntdqvalt27vngj9hwhjyqzppeayq7hnm2xmf7747t84yz32as4czppv Thank you for the explanation. I imagine the game manual DRM becomes useless the moment someone posts the rune code online (or just writes it on the top side of the ripped disc). Then again actual DRM is useless the moment it's cracked, so.
I'm curious if there was an in-universe explanation for why the enemies became immune to (physical) attacks? "You tried to summon the spirit of magic but you fucked up the incantation so you summoned Beelzebub and now he dwells in every enemy."
nostr:npub1jacntdqvalt27vngj9hwhjyqzppeayq7hnm2xmf7747t84yz32as4czppv nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 Oh yeah I guess games were expensive af back then and game manual DRM was always fucking ya
nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub1jacntdqvalt27vngj9hwhjyqzppeayq7hnm2xmf7747t84yz32as4czppv I am sitting here pondering what the hell "game manual DRM" means. Does it mean that you can't read paper unless you have physically bought the paper? Are books just nature's DRM?
nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub1jacntdqvalt27vngj9hwhjyqzppeayq7hnm2xmf7747t84yz32as4czppv we do what we can. I tried to help my crush with math but quickly cut my losses
nostr:npub175dlmjzxq6fgswh73qym7epwcll0dlrkpvcd479u9fc3yrzgxrqsjdwrtj nostr:npub1jacntdqvalt27vngj9hwhjyqzppeayq7hnm2xmf7747t84yz32as4czppv nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw me too brother. There were a few weeks when I was seated across from her and one day she was really struggling with graphing two-variable inequalities on the x-y plane, like x + 2y >= 5 or something.
The teacher was teaching a complicated way of figuring out which half to shade in. She wanted you to pick a 'test point' and my crush was getting hung up on how to choose the test point.
I said, look, you just put it in y = mx+b form as usual, and if it says y is greater than "something" you just shade in the upper half, and do the opposite if y is "less than something". Her eyes lit up and it gave me joy.
Then our teacher spent 5 minutes ranting about how this isn't the method the book teaches, and she doesn't know if my method will always give the right answer, so if you use mist's method on a test and get everything wrong don't come crying to her.
And my crush, dejected, never used the simple method.
nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 nostr:npub1jacntdqvalt27vngj9hwhjyqzppeayq7hnm2xmf7747t84yz32as4czppv How autistic 7 year olds flirt fr
nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub1jacntdqvalt27vngj9hwhjyqzppeayq7hnm2xmf7747t84yz32as4czppv when I was a kid I had a crush on a girl in my class and there was a really hard vocab test coming up so I made her a vocab review packet with a bunch of example sentences and funny memorable definitions I thought of myself, but then she didn't want it
I got a perfect score on the vocab test and she didn't
nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 nostr:npub1jacntdqvalt27vngj9hwhjyqzppeayq7hnm2xmf7747t84yz32as4czppv One time someone invited me to his house as a kid so I went over and he sat there playing Oblivion for 3 hours while ignoring me until my mom came and picked me up
nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub1jacntdqvalt27vngj9hwhjyqzppeayq7hnm2xmf7747t84yz32as4czppv I hope he gets a Bloodborne illness
nostr:npub1wkwhx86vqdp2zel4uepr0uhs8rzm9mmn4jhdsnw4vnn5gy8zdedsh2y9sj Same. I'm okay with it being obscure if it feels logical and there's hints to it, but the Wiz 6 good ending is just wtf
nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub1wkwhx86vqdp2zel4uepr0uhs8rzm9mmn4jhdsnw4vnn5gy8zdedsh2y9sj maybe they want the greatest victory to go to the players who want to lose the game
nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub1jacntdqvalt27vngj9hwhjyqzppeayq7hnm2xmf7747t84yz32as4czppv my brain was trained to be that way because I spent way more time in childhood watching others play games than playing them myself!
nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 You befriend his daughter and then he kills himself which is actually quite a nice ending but it's clearly designed to sell game guides to pre-internet people
nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw tfw I have read entire game guides for games that I have never owned or played
nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw sounds like they wanted the good ending to only be seen by demon incest ntr enthusiasts, whom I will NOT tag in this post
nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 nostr:npub1wkwhx86vqdp2zel4uepr0uhs8rzm9mmn4jhdsnw4vnn5gy8zdedsh2y9sj I can imagine what other peoples voices sound like in my head but my own voice in my head is some sort of abstract representation of voice as a concept
nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub1wkwhx86vqdp2zel4uepr0uhs8rzm9mmn4jhdsnw4vnn5gy8zdedsh2y9sj Highly relatable. This reminds me, sometimes I talk to myself in someone else's voice to get out of a creative rut, like asking "what would Jesus do?"
nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 nostr:npub1wkwhx86vqdp2zel4uepr0uhs8rzm9mmn4jhdsnw4vnn5gy8zdedsh2y9sj Yeah I listened to some Poe audiobooks and they were so fucking bad. I even listened to one done by THE LEGENDARY SUPER SPY CHRISTOPHER LEE, and it was pretty eyerolling. Feeling the own rhythm on your tongue is so much better, it's orgasmic
nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub1wkwhx86vqdp2zel4uepr0uhs8rzm9mmn4jhdsnw4vnn5gy8zdedsh2y9sj I just gave the Christopher Lee audiobooks a listen and his voice is beautiful but distracts me from the text. I understand better if its a voice + accent similar to my own. But I'm not sure what exactly that voice is because when I actually talk it never comes out exactly the way it sounds in my head. Could it be I have an inflated self-image which physical reality can never live up to? It would explain my dark triad scores.
nostr:npub1wkwhx86vqdp2zel4uepr0uhs8rzm9mmn4jhdsnw4vnn5gy8zdedsh2y9sj nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub1jacntdqvalt27vngj9hwhjyqzppeayq7hnm2xmf7747t84yz32as4czppv nostr:npub1e5rgj93kqzll2xfwqc2yzwswrd90x2sjcpvc4eppg9kwj3jrnspqdwk5ld Clout Chaser has lifelike dream of getting likes and reposts on fedi, wakes up convinced the post was real ;)
nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 nostr:npub1wkwhx86vqdp2zel4uepr0uhs8rzm9mmn4jhdsnw4vnn5gy8zdedsh2y9sj nostr:npub1jacntdqvalt27vngj9hwhjyqzppeayq7hnm2xmf7747t84yz32as4czppv nostr:npub1e5rgj93kqzll2xfwqc2yzwswrd90x2sjcpvc4eppg9kwj3jrnspqdwk5ld my benis is named excalibur
nostr:npub1j3vtkuurx77yzs33ufzzc08syhrqca8aawa5p4afnfqxrnzvugmqrmqxec nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub1wkwhx86vqdp2zel4uepr0uhs8rzm9mmn4jhdsnw4vnn5gy8zdedsh2y9sj nostr:npub1jacntdqvalt27vngj9hwhjyqzppeayq7hnm2xmf7747t84yz32as4czppv nostr:npub1e5rgj93kqzll2xfwqc2yzwswrd90x2sjcpvc4eppg9kwj3jrnspqdwk5ld I guess your quest is to the southern lands
nostr:npub1wkwhx86vqdp2zel4uepr0uhs8rzm9mmn4jhdsnw4vnn5gy8zdedsh2y9sj nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 WHY IS ASMR GOOD FOR YOU ITS JUST SOMEONE DOING LIKE SCRITCHY MIC SCRATCHES OR WHISPERY WHISPEROOS
nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub1wkwhx86vqdp2zel4uepr0uhs8rzm9mmn4jhdsnw4vnn5gy8zdedsh2y9sj for me it's silent reading > reading out loud > audiobooks, but recently I listened to some Poe short stories as audiobooks because I had to make some long trips and I enjoyed them. I get what you mean about preferring your own delivery, though, and the offerings seem especially bad with a 'horror' writer. They're trying too hard to be either sCaRy or british.
For plays I find whispering out loud to be better than silent reading
I want to hear some morally bankrupt congressman policymaker thinktank globalist asmr (pic related)
nostr:npub1wkwhx86vqdp2zel4uepr0uhs8rzm9mmn4jhdsnw4vnn5gy8zdedsh2y9sj My grandma used to get very violent if you suggested she should get care but the dementia has progressed so much that she doesn't realise it's a nursing home. She thinks that it's her house and the nurses and cohabitants are her tenants 🥴
nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub1wkwhx86vqdp2zel4uepr0uhs8rzm9mmn4jhdsnw4vnn5gy8zdedsh2y9sj Based grandma charging the nurses and cohabitants money for the privilege of staying in the same building as her. It wasn't government-assisted until your grandma decided it was 😎