IFNKOVHGROGHPRM! It was IFNKOVHGROGHPRM in the original AGI version!

Yep. That’s how I played Maniac Mansion!

Roberta liked fairy tales and the first KQ game was just as many of them crammed into one place as possible. Did she not think that the Rumpelstiltskin puzzle was not crazy? There was one hint in the game of ‘sometimes it is best to think backwards’ but who the fuck would get it?

Also Rumpelstiltskin’s name had to be spelled with the alphabet backwards! That made no damn sense!

Lucasarts was much cleaner. We finished DOTT as kids without hints.

But ye can’t get ye flaske!

The puzzle were often moon logic or ‘oh shit! You mean THAT is what I must do?’

Sierra online had great games with great stories and characters but their puzzles were… Yeah…

A very common thing even back then. Finishing a game was not a given. It was an achievement.

I briefly played it. It was fun.

Would this work with a grapheneOS phone?

I just heard that, too.

Which is why they are going to war against it.

I hope that they just fail in their half-assed attempts and the prices fall again.

Mame and pre-2001 gaming FTW!

They don’t care. They will literally throw people under buses at this point.

And literally no one is doing shit to stop this. It is almost like personal property rights, privacy, and everything else are now dirty words that will make you look like a criminal.

I hastily got a pixel 10 so I can have grapheneOS on it. I am glad that there is some good news.

Vancouver? Portland?

Fun fact: Dell now offers their ready made desktops in linux and windows. That never happened before. Windows had to really suck to get that shit go that bad.

Age verification is identity collection.

No shit. I don’t understand how anyone falls for this.

Also them using stuff like ‘online safety’ and ‘child safety’ in their legal titles needs to be used against them. Remember: Right-wing people NEVER use the words you want them to use, they always use their own. When copyright laws in the 90s were being reformed, many copyright/entertainment lawyers derided the laws by referring to them as the ‘Mickey Mouse copyright act’ because of Disney’s massive hand in how they were written and how they disproportionately benefited them.

Call it for what it is. Call it the survellience act, call it the child endangerment act, call it the transgender discrimination act. Don’t fucking fall for their ‘oh so you want anyone to groom children online’ talk through them, not to them. That is what they do to us anyway.

Or just use real CSAM from their own private collection and place it on your machine. Or even make a deepfake using your face pasted on theirs and those of your children or young relatives or random kids pasted onto the children. If you point out that this is a deepfake and you have the technical knowledge to prove it, they will use that as proof that you are actually trying to frame THEM.