In a lot of modern guides on dungeon design, they stress thinking this stuff out. Yeah you should definitely have some idea why the inhabitants are here and not elsewhere, where their supplies come from, and how they interact with whatever else calls this place home.

They should have a place to sleep, eat, maybe recreation even. While the PCs poke around, the dungeon denizens shouldn’t just be waiting around in preset rooms, fully ready to fight like MMO mobs. They could be on patrol, raiding their neighbors, sleeping, arguing, partying, whatever.

There’s even fun things you can do with this like inter-faction conflicts between floors or other regions. Do the Orcs fear the dragon at the bottom of the dungeon?

Do the bandits have an uneasy non-aggression pact with a lich? Or are they constantly embattled with seemingly limitless undead because they’re struggling for a legendary artifact?

Somebody’s gotta reset all those traps, too.

Players should definitely feel like trespassers in a living place. Few people enjoy that ancient style of dungeon delving anymore, where you slay a band of kobolds, answer a sphinx’s riddle, then bust in on a vampire who’s as confused about why they’re there as you are!

Where are the toilets?

Maybe the hallway but the local gelatinous cube roombas it up. (Eeeeeww) … Or a room has holes dug dropping into an underground river. Or just a really deep pit, or a convenient portal to the Abyss LOL.

You can have fun with this stuff.

Hahahahahhahaha! 😂😂🤣

Yep. Pretty much. 😐😞

Some pearl-clutches said “won’t somebody think of the children”, and then made the social media companies figure out how to implement the ban.

Bingo.

It’s never about “the children.” It’s a way to normalize handing over biometrics and anonymity to an assumed authority to use the internet.

It’s always about control, control, control. It’s about tying real identities to online activity, then it’s about wholesale harvesting your secrets you didn’t even know you were keeping.

Then it’s yet another instrument to make sure you shut up and don’t step out of line or else.

First they take us away from our kids by necessitating that entire households need full time careers to survive.

Then as a substitute for education and actual parenting we’re so eager to offer up our childrens’ futures in the name of “protecting” them from the inevitable consequences of parentless households.

As a millennial I honestly just miss how something like MySpace was basically a micro blog, and otherwise, we just chatted with friends-only programs like Yahoo! Messenger / MSN / ICQ/ whatever. There wasn’t really some motive to “connect” you to a million “randos” and make you slavishly compete for their fickle approval.

Growing up in a weird kinda rural/suburb hybrid area, the Internet was my gateway to the world outside of school.

It definitely had its problems and drama, but mostly we chatted with people we actually knew (Yahoo chatrooms notwithstanding. Yikes lol) and didn’t care about what was “trending” across the world. Algorithms didn’t control and force perception of our reality then.

It was literally just about enabling communication.

Outside of that, there was also a much better culture of maintaining privacy and anonymity online, and that everything you see online is BS until proven otherwise.

Of course, this was before techbros decided we should use our real identity everywhere for all to see.

Nowadays it seems like every service is about using your friends as bait to connect you to some hivemind of toxic manipulation to farm you for ads. It encourages creating cults and scams and brainrot bullshit because it’s all about harvesting people’s already-strained attention for profit, instead of just being a communication platform.

TL;DR: I remember the Internet as a place to log in and hang out, then log off, when meeting with friends outside of school was a logistical nightmare reserved for things like birthday parties if you were lucky.

A lot of damage is already done, but I think if we obliterated the Facebooks and Instagrams and TikToks of “social media” and instead it focused on augmenting existing relationships rather than siloing people as a billion lonely socially-starved individuals in a crowd, we’d see it much differently…

This. I feel so bad for teenagers.

They’re at a time in their lives where community and free association are vital to them, and yet since they’re not necessarily a profitable demographic, they’re kicked out and shunned by everywhere that’s not home or school, because all that’s left is “commercial spaces.”

People then wonder why teenagers flip off society and get up to no good, and then maybe wonder why we all turned out to be lonely adults with like maybe one long term friend if we’re lucky…

“nice” is what you exclaim after discovering what your colleague meant by “I put a little something special in there just for you.” with a wink.

Better arrest me too since riding the bus is proof of murder now

“Bitch I might!”

–American Law Enforcement

Yeah like, everybody needs a hobby. Sheesh!

This is true.

Source: I’m Luigi.

“We’ll get around to the first hearing in about 15 years.” (Gavel pounds)

Oh that’s really cool! I’m gonna search for that! Maybe my library has it, or I can bug them to get it. :)

EDIT: Is it the BBC one you’re talking about?

That’s awesome! Thanks SO much for pointing me to that! I too wonder what the 2GB size is. It looks like they have two different sets of packages, one being a “source archive” that’s just a raw CD dump.

I can see it, since the game was on like, 4 or 5 CDs back then, and involved a lot of heavily compressed video!

I have a fun feeling that maybe I can run this really well in Bottles, it ScummVM alone doesn’t do the trick. :D

Here’s a link I found to the soundtrack in “CD Quality”, with a download link, if you’re interested.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbSFnTrLHtkp8Yj7bSdaN_jQUy7iOXscq

That 90’s crystal-synth is the most gorgeous thing…it reminded me very much of the soundtrack to Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time. :D

Yeah, the sheer insanity here is that $120M is like, losing a comparative 12¢ to him.

Wikipedia puts the worthless cur’s “worth” at ~470B.

I’m no mathematician but…

470,000,000,000

−120,000,000

=469,880,000,000

OoOOOoo way to go. You go make sure he pays that huuuge fine. I’m sure he’ll lose sleep over this one!

Fine him 12% of his net worth and THAT would at least be an actual penalty.

Maybe this’ll strengthen the worldwide film industry.

Maybe I should finally see if Who Killed Captain Alex lives up to the hype. 🤔

I mean, the Vegas Strip has always been disgusting…but the fact that (more than?) half of it is owned by Amazon now is absolutely insane to me. . .

Netflix crap never comes to DVD.

I dunno if it’s a thing exclusive to libraries or not, but at my public library I’ve seen some Netflix movies, and things like Stranger Things and Castlevania come through.

Not sure if those discs hit traditional media shelves or not.

“add me on stoat!”

“Yeah bro I’m so stoakt!” Huh, that’s almost a better name LOL.

First Riot chat, now Revolt.

Funny how rebelliously flavored chat alternatives that challenge the centralized status quo keep getting put down!

Heeheeheehee!

…

… But wait how did Eve take a bite first?

I hope this becomes a big deal and snowballs hard enough to hurt these monsters.

It’s just so sad, some jaggoff kills your family member on a whim. Just to feel macho. For friggin “branding.”

And the most reasonable power you have is to “file a complaint.”

Like, souls are gone. Families torn apart. Grief and anguish beyond comprehension, and legally the only recourse against this sheer bottomless evil is

“Hey, that wasn’t cool. We’re officially very upset about this. We disagree quite much with your decision to murder our families. Thank you for your time.”

God, the helplessness just tears at my heart. I couldn’t even imagine.

There will be no justice until these nazis join their ill begotten brethren in the eternal fires of the deepest pits of hell.

So much this, although I really regret not just finishing college whilst all this crap was still in its infancy. Student exploitation is absolutely nuts these days.

“Turnitin”, the “Lockdown Browser” and its fellow RAT rootkit malware ilk, one time use serial codes to do the “homework” in $300 textbooks.

It’s absolute insanity. Especially nowadays when schools and wider society forgot what education was about, and run with the idea that it’s all to earn a lottery ticket to potentially landing a job that might one day pay off that exploitation.