The roasters nearest to me were all out by the time I watched the announcement video, so I won’t be joining in. I think it’s a neat idea though, and I hope everybody has a great time.

I really enjoy Mini Metro. I’ve been addicted to Dots for years, it’s the very best digital fidget.

I paid for a Need for Speed game some 8 years ago and that was pretty OK for a few hours.

A Dark Room is also really good.

That’s about it, to be honest. If you want to pick up a controller, there’s a decent library of older PC or console games that run on phones now - emulators are also an option.

I’ll play it with an Xbox controller on PC, but what I mean is the thematic impact of playing it while so much of the world is also isolated isn’t - hopefully won’t be - repeatable.

It’ll always feel like a relic of that time, won’t it? I wonder how we’ll talk about it in 20 years…

I played a chunk of it then on PS4, but found the text exhausting and put it down. One of these days I’ll have to play it on PC, but it just won’t feel the same.

I suspect they latched onto the 401 return code and made no determination on whether the author is or isn’t blind.

“It sounds like they want to use this for a bot - they can’t be blind!”

It feels, to me, like they thought the author was trying to get an accessibility cookie for a bot.

Yeah, the vehicles and battlefield chaos are really well executed. It feels genuinely grandiose today, so it must have been mind blowing at the time. I can also tell the campaign is meant to teach you how to play multiplayer, which other games would go on to do in the years to come.

There’s a lot of Battlefield 3 in there. Or the other way around, more appropriately.

I played a bit of Infinite coop - that game is super faithful, by way - and that was a lot of fun. Playing this in 2001 with a friend must have been fantastic fun.

You know, having just played the Library level, I get the feeling that it was thematically necessary to drive home the scale of the cosmic horror you’re facing. It needs to be exhausting, overwhelming, unending…

I tried it on PC in 2004 and all I got was a slide show.

Incredible, I’m sure. Especially for people who weren’t playing on PC before - it generally stands up to Half-Life in a lot of ways, including the enemy movement and maybe even AI, but the cutscenes have that more traditional cinematic look. I love the constant immersion of Half-Life, but this feels like watching an awesome sci-fi action movie, like Aliens. There’s enough survival horror and cosmic horror vibes as well to keep you going.

[crosses legs and hums]

Halo: Combat Evolved. I get what all the hype was about. This is a good game!

Interesting, thanks for the tips. I’ll try to get something halfway decent, if for nothing else than to be able to say “you’ve tried it, now go get some actually good coffee.”

Yeah, you make a good point about familiarity. Even if it’s not the optimal technique, I’m likely to execute it better than a technique I don’t know.

My guess is it’ll be fine, maybe a little funky. My friend has tried my Ethiopian espresso and won’t be blown away for no reason - not the way I expect a lot of people who go from Nespresso to this stuff would be.

One Prime95 later, you are absolutely correct.

Hm… So it could be “we haven’t needed to allocate swap space” more so than “we don’t know what swap is?”

I guess ill try hammering it hard to see what happens.

That’s fair, I’m just kind of flabbergasted.

I’d like to know:

1. Has anybody else experienced this?
2. Why would swap be disabled?
3. How do I enable it?

You can add captions to images inside text posts - those are used for alt text. You can’t add alt text to image posts though.

Trust me, I would know.

Incidentally, they’re automatically adding the subreddit and post title together for the image’s alt text, which still doesn’t include OP’s name.

You saved me a click, thanks.

Importing esthetic preferences over accessibility tells me a lot about the content…

Huzzah!