game-related lolz of some fashion

https://www.filfre.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/lm2-6.png

(from this fantastic article at Digital Antiquarian - breaking down exactly why i had to follow all those instructions to make all those boot disks circa 1990-1993...)

the other week i got lost in that site. highly recommended

oh god that article. i lived through the era - i remember tweaking for EMS, XMS, etc - and it's killing me reading it

God yeah, boot discs! DOS=HIGH,UMB is real Proustian madeleine stuff. And sometimes resigning yourself to playing something without sound or mouse, because the game needed the memory those drivers would otherwise be taking up. Where did I learn to do this stuff? Feel like it can only have been through readme.txt files, we definitely weren't googling it (and ahem I rarely had manuals for the games I was playing in those days either).

LshiftOshift2starshift2comma8comma1

i have perpetually toyed with "load quote star quote" and "comma eight comma one" as either artist or album names for myself, should i ever finish any more music and need names for it. such powerful, imprinting incantations. what did they mean? why couldn't you just load? who knows! i always typed them. sometimes the disk had written instructions on it to type something else and i did that too. my great proustian cue though is the sound of the c64 disk drive in action.

i think a lot of the boot disk know-how was circulated via BBS and/or by friends of friends, sort of like how pirate copies seemed to get around even though we didn't know THAT many other people with computers. some of it may have even been in game manuals or otherwise provided by the publishers. hilariously, i think the toughest time i ever had getting a game to work was in the late 90s when i picked up a vintage copy of Serpent Isle --- back when it came out, origin had had its games' exectuables load their own proprietary memory manager to strongarm the system into giving the game the resources it wanted. utterly incompatible with windows 95. we got there eventually but the real solution was to rebuild a state-of-the-art 1992 machine, which i then mostly devoted to wing commander replays.

Great band name ideas, Dr. C. We're clearly on similar Proustian ground.

(I knew this was happening but I forgot it was happening and now I learn that it's happened: the C64 Mini.)

Oh, Jesus, that's a nice idea. Kind of a wretched collection of games but one assumes it'll be hackable to the full library. Maybe someone can make a plug-in with recordings of disk drive noise and then we'd really be talking...

xp Note: The keyboard keys are non-functional

;_;

https://i.imgur.com/If0M0AV.jpg

Gahhhhhhhhhhh

awful

I’m more comfortable and capable of looking at the president’s dick pics than trying to rescue him, tbh, so I am as bad of a dude as that makes me

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7CY1tvXLwk

For the Miyamoto one obviously.
https://www.clickhole.com/find-out-what-ariana-grande-diane-keaton-shigeru-miya-1825125261

Is that "one million troops" guy still around?

http://www.adultswim.com/videos/infomercials/final-deployment-4-queen-battle-walkthrough/

sort of the "too many cooks" of walkthrough videos

wow, that was great! took a few minutes to develop but worth it

haaaaaaaa.

Dag.

a+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-E7kz9I0wk&

hah i had seen that but with the MGS music that is perfect.

haha, perfect

I've watched the original video about five times and it still makes me crack up.

https://www.pcgamer.com/grow-and-sell-weed-with-this-stardew-valley-mod/

https://www.facebook.com/tshepo.mkhabela.73/posts/1856468191051491

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIK2jM0Dg28

Could you never do that again, please

i gotta admit these videos make it look fun

this "Wario paints other nintendo characters" thing is pretty funny
http://tinycartridge.com/post/176416023902/how-wario-paints-others-vs-how-he-paints

https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/17/17719962/waluigi-movie-script-wario-super-smash-bros

https://i.imgur.com/kcnZqZ1.jpg

right???

truthbomb

Ha, I like the ambiguity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9VnKhSnmbA

lol

that little girl has such a "what IS this shit" facial expression

One compelling argument for the sale is that being owned by a company with deep pockets will offer Obsidian stability and resources the likes of which it has never had before.

“We do not comment on rumors or speculation,” said a Microsoft spokesperson.

“Unfortunately, we don’t comment on rumors or speculation other than to say that the Rumors album by Fleetwood Mac still holds up,” said an Obsidian spokesperson.

kinda lol, kinda ??

what kind of alien says something like "the Rumors album by Fleetwood Mac" was my question when I read that

i appreciate that dad joke

> what kind of alien says something like "the Rumors album by Fleetwood Mac" was my question when I read that

have you seen battlestar galactica?

what kind of alien says something like "the Rumors album by Fleetwood Mac" was my question when I read that

― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby)

the kind of alien who is specifically addressing rumours in a non-fleetwood mac context and so needs to clarify

what kind of alien spells the Rumours album by Fleetwood Mac "Rumors"?

How in the fuck pic.twitter.com/20MgGBB158

— Imran Khan (@imranzomg) October 18, 2018

https://kotaku.com/my-quest-to-be-gay-in-assassins-creed-odysseys-ancient-1829997425

http://i.imgur.com/NqHkkXN.gif

Lmao what is that

one of the many gifs doing the rounds from The Quiet Man, a disaster of a game recently published by Square Enix. I watched a let's play of it the other day and it really is fucking terrible, like a David Cage game with even less gameplay and yet somehow even more pretentious and casually racist. people are already comparing it to The Room.

Dane can’t actually hear anything, but he can at least read lips so he’s able to communicate with other people he meets. However, no subtitles are provided for the player. This results in long cinematic sequences where people are clearly seen conversing and yet the player has no idea what they’re saying.

wow