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alexiorsay:

ppl are always like “no game is perfect you can’t please EVERYbody” but when was the last time you heard a motherfucker complain about portal

I’m only complaining about it because Steam claims it will now run Portal under Linux, but I’ve been trying to get it to work for three or four days now and it still won’t run. The game’s good (I got maybe two-thirds of the way through it back on Windows, Land of Things Just Working), if you can get it to start.

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#Portal #gaming #damn you glgeterror #on the bright side I found out during this that I was supposed to have upgraded my Ubuntu version three months ago #(on the dull side it was supposed to *notify* me three months ago) #I think I have now officially tried every fix (for 32-bit machines) I could find #nothing’s worked

Oregon trail

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outofcontextdnd:

Barbarian: I’m just saying, if the game was more like the old dos games back in the day, we’d move a lot faster.

GM: Alright, we can do that. Roll a d20.

Barbarian: *rolls* 13.

Gm: Congrats! you have died of dysentery.

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#Oregon Trail #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(though Oregon Trail is in that uncomfortable place) #(where I was just old enough to remember *that* I experienced it) #(but not old enough to remember anything *about* the experience) #(not a pleasant feeling that) #(but in any case I’ve heard enough second-hand dysentery jokes to get this one)

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cobrall:

neopets is honestly a horrifying and disturbing look into the faults of late capitalism and the unfettered exploitation inevitable in unregulated economic systems

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#Neopets #interesting #I haven’t played in ages #haven’t seen what’s been going on there

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eqad-mod:

a-little-melancholy:

chaz-gelf:

sixmilliondeadinternets:

Gandhi has been historically the most aggressive character in Civilization due to an original bug in the first game that caused him to go all-out once he reaches democracy. They just kept the thing going ever since.

To further explain this bug, because I was chatting with mothmonarch about Civilization and other strategy games last night and I never got around to explaining this fully, but I love this story:

Gandhi’s AI in the original game had its aggression set to the absolute minimum (0 on a scale of 0 to 10, I believe, I may have this wrong but the basic idea I’m about to explain is accurate, as far as I can tell). Adopting democracy lowers an AI civ’s aggression by 2 points, so when someone who is fully peaceful loses two points of aggression, they should still be nice and polite, right?

Except this is an old DOS game, and so computer math is in place. What actually happened was that Gandhi’s aggression level ticked backwards two steps, from 0 to 255. On a scale of 0 to 10, Gandhi is now 255 points of pure nuclear rage.

And that’s the story as I recall it, but again I may have gotten some details wrong, so feel free to correct me! After that, as the original poster said, the devs loved the bug so much that they just kept it in as a running joke!

“On a scale of 0 to 10, Gandhi is now 255 points of pure nuclear rage.”

I about pissed myself laughing at this.

That’s amazing.

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#I am beginning to understand why this blog {{@stuckinabucket, from whom I reblogged this}} keeps popping up on the auto-generated list of recommended blogs #and occasionally in people’s reblog chains

GeoGuessr – Let’s explore the world!

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justice-turtle:

eponymous-rose:

Okay, this is a really entertaining game – it drops you at a random location in Google Street View and has you guess where you are based on your surroundings.

The ones I get right are either the ones with shop names in, so I can see the language, or the ones with distinctive geological features. (Where by “feature” I mean “type of bedrock as indicated by hill shape and/or visible outcrop”. ^_^ Quick, everybody act surprised.)

Ooh. All the sleuthy fun of Mapcrunch, but much shorter rounds and official score-keeping (though I’m not sure quite how they convert crow-flight distance to points).

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#game #a word of warning #if they drive on the left #and all the signs are in English #including the sign that says Port of East London #so you think Oh hey England! #don’t #it’s not England #it’s South Africa #you’re 9800km off #(why do British colonists have such a hard time coming up with original names for their towns)

new idea for pronouns

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wearemagneton:

skyndilega:

goodson:

replace actual words with guttural noises

ex: nobody can beat mrrgf at turmac roll, gggh is simply the best

can I be ‘sssss’

Dibs on the swedish-chef BORK.

NO WAIT PM can have the bork, I want a crunchy-pickle noise. C:

-Tabs

I want the Spongebob Slidewistle.
—Tom 

What does it say about me that my reaction to this was, not anything about pronouns or word usage, but rather “I wasn’t unbeatable at Turmac Roll, but I was pretty good. I haven’t played Turmac Roll in ages. I should go play some.”

*leaves to play Turmac Roll*

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#tangents #Turmac Roll

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lydiarts:

 

stitchmedown:

closetextrovert:

voodoo-otter:

adriofthedead:

Anyone who doesn’t want to play Apples to Apples is not a person you want to have as a friend.

I have never played Apples to Apples.

But I can see no reason why you couldn’t get wasted playing Apples to Apples at parties.

There isn’t one, really. Heck, that would make the game even more hilarious.

Drunk Apples to Apples is fucking A. :D :D

(Is Apples to Apples even technically a board game? Seeing as how it has no game board?)

I have literally played Apples to Apples on my living room floor. With my friends. That I have.

(We weren’t drunk, though. Not that I’d admit it if I had been.)

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#I’m not legal for another…*counts on fingers*   #seven and a half months   #Apples to Apples