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Greetings from my hovel on the shores of the Bow.
Today I am thinking about the MSDOS games I loved as a lad. Commander Keen! Crystal Caves! Jazz Jackrabbit! Duke Nukem (and later, Duke3D). Hugo’s House of Horrors! God, there were so many. Primitive, obviously, but I spent hundreds if not thousands of hours on them. Eventually there were CD compilations of hundreds of shareware games and I’d spend entire weekends just scrolling through those discs, occasionally finding some gem and spending hours playing the first installments.
I think of this mainly because one of the tiny anarchists who live in my house watches a lot of youtubers who play, what can ONLY be described as utterly dogshit advertisement delivery platforms in the guise of computer games. These “games” are janky, ugly and boring. Occasionally, I will cave and allow him to acquire and play one of these wretched things himself. Without exception they turn out to be garbage. One assumes the youtubers are being paid by the con-artists who develop these “games”. (the anarchist in question is also a devotee of Minecraft, lest you think he’s completely without taste). I hate that the software targeted at him are at best such lazy pieces of shit and at worst slot machines designed to deliver ads and extract money (shit’s locked down, he can’t actually spend any of my money).
I know every generation says “things was better in my day”, but in this very specific example? I think they probably were.
Currently Playing: LEIDUNGR – “Odainsacre”
Currently Reading: RECORD OF LODOSS WAR: THE GREY WITCH, Ryo Mizuno
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