I actually did revisit it last winter around time of release. If anything, my lack of ability to summon up interest in it was one of the starting stepping stones of my realization that gaming just ain’t it for me anymore.
I don’t dislike it, mind you - neither gaming nor DF - it just doesn’t fulfill like it used to, nor possess the same attraction.
I agree with lots of what’s already been said and haven’t got much to add to those extant conversations, so let me try to add in some that I’ve not seen:
RuneScape is a candidate. I started way back with RS Classic (the sprite-based one!).
Oh, and Dwarf Fortress too. That began in 2009.
Achaea and/or Lusternia are way up there but I don’t imagine anyone but me can share the experience.
Oh, as well, Mount & Blade: Warband. Quite the adventure(s).
I don’t really game anymore. But this thread did dredge up some memories, old and new.
Thank you.
Only a dozen?
Kinda tired of hearing about Linux tbh
Amberlynn Reid reactions/ commentary.
Never the woman herself, mind you. Ew.
It was, though not in the way you may be thinking - even so, Okinawa was a US territory until the seventies and still houses several bases.
Red in tooth and claw…
Since I rarely have coins handy, I use a clock (if I don’t know the current time, obviously): “If the minutes are odd, yes. Even? No.” (Eg. 2:53 = yes, :54 = no).
To me the previous one felt forced and dead. Only the first was “authentic”.
This one? A mockery.
It means this person is trying to grind their 'keyboard warrior" skill, which to my mind is a waste of spec points but maybe they’re running some gimmick build.
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In my early life I was raised in Kansas fundie hell. I graduated to 4chan. To call me racist would have been an understatement; “proud white supremacist”, more like. (LOL I used the term “race nationalist” then)
Perhaps my proudest personal achievement has been unraveling that disgusting tapestry of who I was.
Not corporate-owned…yet.
In my experience, which is pretty similar to the author’s, it always finds a way.
Until then, pull up a chair.
Same. Hard to see it as a problem because “exercise is healthy!”
While workouts feel nice, failed attempts at rest days just are awful. I haven’t had one for months. I can’t stop.
There won’t be a “we” to look back on them, so I wouldn’t worry about it.
I was just the right demographic and everything for Halo. Had an Xbox. Had the game. Had 4 brothers to couch co-op with. Was a weird backwards military-obsessed family.
Played it a bunch. A BUNCH. But while I enjoyed it, it didn’t really leave any kind of impression. I thought its story was shallow and its characters unremarkable caricatures even at age 13. Years later when I saw people going on about how DEEP its world-building was and how BADASS Master Chief was and how ICONIC the game was I was just kinda…nonplussed? Whole game was just mediocre to me. I mean, that’s not to say I didn’t like it or whatever, but it wasn’t groundbreaking for me the way it was for (apparently) many others.
Make of that what you wish!
Oh geez, mine came back and back and back and while it has been about a decade since then, the last operation (which I guess was the one that worked) ended up with my ass looking like someone just carved a hunk out of the living flesh with an ice-cream scoop.
Dopamine and serotonin.