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Roosevelt posted:an otter could just as easily have taken a finger. those things are vicious Weasels are well known for their flesh-ripping abilities, too
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do people still have dedicated classes/tools to learn typing or do they just pick it up from using phone/ipad
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Progressive JPEG posted:do people still have dedicated classes/tools to learn typing or do they just pick it up from using phone/ipad i learned everything i need to know from Mario Teaches Typing
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Roosevelt posted:i learned everything i need to know from Mavis Beacon
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but actually aim
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Captain Foo posted:but actually aim yeah same. took some rudimentary typing class in elementary, didn't click. tried mavis beacon or some similar, didn't click. but having to keep up with my friends' conversations forced me to go faster and faster, using more and more fingers, until i could type normally just don't look at my "home row" positioning, or lack thereof, lmao
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i learned in the battlefield of irc
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i never learned to type properly and now i use a bunch of dumb ergonomic gear to ward off RSI (while still not actually typing properly). works4me
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I was joking about mavis beacon, I actually learned to type on an Apple II with a cover over the keyboard while our teacher called out letters to hit.
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i had a few typing classes but i credit my current typing skills almost entirely to the forums.
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i learned to type from using icq and talking poo poo on video games never bothered with any of that poo poo pushed on you by Big Home Row
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Beve Stuscemi posted:I was joking about mavis beacon, I actually learned to type on an Apple II with a cover over the keyboard while our teacher called out letters to hit. same for me, but instead of a teacher it was a nun and they eyed everyone diligently checking we weren't peeking  i still glance to reset myself while typing and the rest is muscle memory
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i honed my typing skills on the battlefields of irc you gotta type as much bullshit as you can before you’re kicked and banned when you’re out trolling
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warforged typing abilities
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i played a lot of typing of the dead
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njsykora posted:i played a lot of typing of the dead this is the best answer
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their stupid giant battery backpacks are the best
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they weren't batteries, they were dreamcasts. apparently in the mac version they were macintoshes which sounds bad for the spine
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I learned to type when I was around nine or ten, on our old IBM PC. We had a typing game that involved castles or something? I might be confusing it with another game we had, "Adventures in Math."
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I remember playing someath game on the school's old apple iis in the basement. Math blasters maybe? I remember conveyor belts
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polyester concept posted:Big Home Row 
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njsykora posted:they weren't batteries, they were dreamcasts. apparently in the mac version they were macintoshes which sounds bad for the spine there is a cartoonishly oversized yellow and black battery powering each dreamcast in your very screenshot.
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But they're labeled Dreamcast, and the Dreamcast was not a battery. 
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Kitfox88 posted:I remember playing someath game on the school's old apple iis in the basement. Math blasters maybe? I remember conveyor belts everything we had were some sort of 'muncher or racing game powered by words or math, which was incredibly formative
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number munchers!
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Beve Stuscemi posted:number munchers! 
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Beve Stuscemi posted:number munchers! hell yeah
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Beve Stuscemi posted:number munchers! Oh yes
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njsykora posted:i played a lot of typing of the dead https://store.steampowered.com/app/246580/
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Progressive JPEG posted:i learned in the battlefield of irc same; it has done wonders for my teams chats at work
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realising I could run winamp in the background on games so I could listen to Spybreak while playing Max Payne it was loving siccckkkk also my typing is completely dogshit and getting worse, I genuinely need to go download typing of the dead 2023 or something.
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I had a pirate version of Max Payne with some mods already installed, and it took me many years, until I've played the game from Steam, to learn that during bullet time a very loud fragment of "Smack my bitch up" doesn't play in the original release
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laserghost posted:I had a pirate version of Max Payne with some mods already installed, and it took me many years, until I've played the game from Steam, to learn that during bullet time a very loud fragment of "Smack my bitch up" doesn't play in the original release This reminds me of the pirated version of Alpha Protocol (should probably buy it and play it again) where all the UI sound effects were replaced with an injury "Ugh!" sound Edit: wasn't there a game that had an anti-piracy thing make the game unbeatable a few hours in? I remember the idea was that the crackers would only play the first level so they wouldn't realize they hadn't fully cracked it Gubbinal Girl fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Aug 15, 2023 |
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i had a pirate copy of Kingpin that had been compressed by converting all the textures from .tga to jpeg. so all the alpha channel info was gone and the chain link fences were no longer transparent, so you'd walk into an area and immediately get killed by a bunch of enemies you couldn't see
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Gubbinal Girl posted:This reminds me of the pirated version of Alpha Protocol (should probably buy it and play it again) where all the UI sound effects were replaced with an injury "Ugh!" sound http://media.earthboundcentral.com/2011/05/earthbounds-copy-protection/index.html Earthbound would crash on the final boss and delete your saves.
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Mantle posted:http://media.earthboundcentral.com/2011/05/earthbounds-copy-protection/index.html Yeah, there's a few of these. Apparently Spiro's devs sprinkled a ton of little traps all over so that cracking groups never even encountered them, they just assumed "ah, this MUST be it!" then got flamed about it. I still like Arma's copy protection of "the game gradually degrades into you turn into a seagull and fly away"
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Arkham Asylum disabled Batman's cape glide for the cape gliding tutorial, leading to a lot of "How do I cape glide?" posts with "Buy the game instead of stealing it" as an answer.
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One of the early scene releases of Deus Ex had a bunch of NPC chatter stripped out for size, but the trigger to end the first level was when the NPC boat captain spoke to you, famously leading to 10,000 "how do I get on the boat?" forum posts. I think there have also been a number of strategy games that just silently give the CPU a huge advantage in resources and build time and make the game unwinnable Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Aug 15, 2023 |
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I think one of the "pizza tycoon" games (maybe it was Pizza Syndicate?) upon being cracked improperly, was able to "break down" the more you played. Only read about it in the magazine, though. Pirated Red Alert 2 had a functional tutorial, but in the campaign/skirmish mode all your units exploded after a minute. So maybe I should post about the quite local thing of "russian localizations" of pirated games. PC games piracy was an industry in the Eastern Europe on a scale that I don't think could be compared with any other place, except maybe Asian markets like Hong-Kong, with their own bootleg games for long-dead systems. Russia was absolutely leading in the markets here (I live in Poland  ), so of course when we were kids we were going "to the Stadium" (now replaced by the current national stadium in Warsaw), the "greatest market in Europe", to buy the games, in foil envelopers, with cheaply home-printed covers. I have inherited a collection of those "releases", someday i should scan at least the covers and upload them somewhere.One thing that official distribution had over pirated games was more and more titles being localized, with movie/theater actors doing voices for stuff like RPGs and adventure games. So the Russians have come up with their own localisations. Russian and Polish are quite different langauges, but because of centuries of shared history, there is quite a big range of understanding between our people. But still, the cheap, "russo-polish" localizations were obvious when heard/read. Heavy accents, obviously young dudes reading from the piece of paper, no acting whatsoever, and of course, the fluid mix of both languages were an absolute hit. People here to this day reminsence those bad translations, with some of the phrases entering the common language. Classic example is "Ruchać się biegiem", due to bad variation of "ruch" (move), so instead of "poruszać się biegiem" ("to move quickly"), was morphed into "ruchać się", meaning, and I am serious, "to gently caress in a hurry". The game was a seminal hit, Commandos: Behind the Enemy Lines. A lot of kids my age saw this on their PCs. Commandos got their official translation here few years later, as a part of re-release with the sequels, iirc.
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