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As far as I am aware I have not had Covid and are fully vaccinated but yes it is starting to feel like an inevitability at this point unless I don’t go anywhere.
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I've come to terms with it. I'm triple nano-boosted and am just going to dive headfirst everywhere at this point, daring covid to TRY me bITCH
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Jan 11, 2022 19:21
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I tested negative on a take home test last night, but it's been over a week since I started symptoms so that's expected. Still like 60% that I got covid I think. I maybe missed the "first computer game" stuff but my first computer game on a PC was Zork. My sister and I also got given a Pong game by our grandparents, but that was at the time that the atari 2600 was already out, they were just badly out of touch. We got a Colecovision not long after that. When I finally got my own PC, in about 1992, I installed Rogue, Space Quest III, and started downloading pirated games off of the local BBSes too. My buddy and I actually played through Space Quest III together, we wanted to find all the hilarious different ways to die. God that was a good game.
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Jan 11, 2022 19:31
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3 DONG HORSE posted:I've come to terms with it. I'm triple nano-boosted and am just going to dive headfirst everywhere at this point, daring covid to TRY me bITCH I feel the same way, I'm just loving tired y'all.
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Jan 11, 2022 19:31
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"We're all gonna get it anyway" seems to be an increasingly common attitude, it's very understandable, but it also more or less dooms everyone who is immunocompromised or otherwise cannot be vaccinated, so we still gotta keep doing what we can to limit the spread. We've also desperately got to flatten the curve (again) because the hospitals can't take it.
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Jan 11, 2022 19:35
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I'm definitely not giving up, but inside my own head I'm increasingly preparing myself for the fact that I will likely catch it at some point. Just due to how probability works. Not gonna change any part of my cautious behavior but at one point it seemed legit possible to never get covid. That may not be a thing eventually.
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Jan 11, 2022 19:40
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My first game was Doom The First because my dad worked part time at Egghead while he was going through night school. SO he built us a PC on the cheap and would get us an endless supply of demo discs. The second game I remember playing was Duke Nukem, lol. Shake it, baby!
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Jan 11, 2022 19:42
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Manoueverable posted:I feel the same way, I'm just loving tired y'all. Same. Kiddo finally had her test after being a close contact last Wednesday and I can't imagine it comes back positive at this point because she hasn't had any symptoms. But I got a call from the school nurse today that my daughter said she was nauseous and had a headache, so I agreed to have her take a rapid test. They said they'd call back if it came back positive so I guess thankfully that's a no. Everything still feels kinda hosed and I'm worried about her. My sister and her wife had to go back to work on Monday after 5 days of quarantining and she says they both still feel like crap. Oh well, number must go up I guess.
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Jan 11, 2022 19:46
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Home test came in negative this morning, so still batting 1000 in staying free of COVID-19. Also my sore throat is subsiding so things are looking good for me! I was playing old DOS games (IIRC Dungeon and the ever classic Oregon Trail) when computers first came out. I remember when data storage on home computers were on cassette tape. 
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Jan 11, 2022 19:51
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Android Apocalypse posted:I was playing old DOS games (IIRC Dungeon and the ever classic Oregon Trail) when computers first came out. I remember when data storage on home computers were on cassette tape. I used to manage an Irish-themed bar in Galena, Illinois. Each night, I had to back up the night's receipts on a data tape.
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Not my first PC game but I remember my family's Windows 98 machine coming with a dope pack of puzzle games, the name of which entirely escapes me right now. I think we got a pretty hefty software bundle with it too, including bangers like the first Age of Empires and The Neverhood.
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Jan 11, 2022 19:58
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Everyone remembers the Oregon trail, but I loved playing the Yukon Trail and Amazon Trail games. Other childhood PC games: - Warcraft 1 and 2 - mechwarrior 2: mercenaries - Diablo 1 - kings Quest games
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My wife worked with an asymptomatic positive person last week and she's the only person out of the other three in the ambulance she was on that hasn't gotten it. She's also the only boosted one. Boosters work y'all. My 2yo daughter had a close contact in her daycare Friday and they just down for this week. She's now stuffy with a light fever. She'll be tested Thursday. Her class has also had a number of kids with plain old colds so I'm really, really hoping that's it.
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Jan 11, 2022 20:04
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Good memories: playing Starcraft with my cousin and we are playing 2 v 6CPUs and just going ham on them with fully upgraded carriers and battleships. Yeah the CPU AI was garbage and didn't have any way to fight late game heavies, I didn't care, we smashed them all.
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Jan 11, 2022 20:20
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Kings Quest! I also played a shitload of Ultimate Underworld before ultima was a huge multiplayer deal. Prime gaming for me was a lot of AoE, Civ2, Half-life and TFC.
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Pron on VHS posted:Everyone remembers the Oregon trail, but I loved playing the Yukon Trail and Amazon Trail games. For sure. The gambling game in Yukon Trail was a fun way to amass a ton of money. And I spent HOURS trying to find all the animals to take a picture of our whatever to fill out the booklet. As for other computer games, I have both fond and frustrating memories of Magic Carpet that came with my Compaq Presario lol. And +1 for all the Shareware game collections. drat those were fun.
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CannonFodder posted:Good memories: playing Starcraft with my cousin and we are playing 2 v 6CPUs and just going ham on them with fully upgraded carriers and battleships. Yeah the CPU AI was garbage and didn't have any way to fight late game heavies, I didn't care, we smashed them all. Also not close to the first computer game I ever played but Master of Orion 2 came out just at the right time of my life where it was possible to have a bunch of morons shuffling around an 8 person turn based hotseat game. It helped that there was a foosball table in the room so you could also hotseat in and out of that while standing around waiting for your turn.
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Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:My wife worked with an asymptomatic positive person last week and she's the only person out of the other three in the ambulance she was on that hasn't gotten it. She's also the only boosted one. Boosters work y'all. The cold vs allergies vs low symptom covid game is pretty annoying
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Driving or flying to Phoenix at the end of the month for work (25/26-28)...any recommendations?
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The Glumslinger posted:The cold vs allergies vs low symptom covid game is pretty annoying Extremely. Add a toddler to the mix, who gets colds like it's going out of style, and my life is in constant panic about getting COVID. No infections yet though.
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Childhood PC games: This terrible X-men game I had on our 386, lost it when our house got broken into and the pc was stolen... which worked out pretty well because we got a 486 But seriously, look at how bad this poo poo was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J25t0owHsaU A ton of Wolfenstein 3d. Dad knew you had to teach kids the right way to be, and that way was killing nazis. Lots and lots of games growing up. Daycare I was at when I was really young had a commodore 64, so played a bunch of terrible games on that. Eventually ended up with a 486/100 in my room with a 1 speed CD-rom drive that was my primary pc until college. Went to Hong Kong to visit family often. I'd go to the golden arcade in Sham Shui Po and buy tons of cds of god knows what. So many game roms, nonsense japanese games I had no hope of figuring out, old roms and so much pornography. Oh, and most of the cd's had tons of viruses, so I got really good at reinstalling dos / windows 3.1 / windows 95 and figure out how to get things working through those things. Man that place ruled so much. They cracked down by the mid 90's and instead of this giant mall full of piracy, there'd be guys at the entrance of the place that'd ask you if you wanted software, and they'd take you to fake store fronts and eventually (kinda scarily) random rear end apartments where you'd get all the poo poo you'd want.
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Try a kindergartner who still sucks her thumb, before covid was a cold every few weeks from day care.
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The Glumslinger posted:The cold vs allergies vs low symptom covid game is pretty annoying Yeah, this isn't our first rodeo, but with all the close contacts in short order it's making the anxiety through the roof. I know the vast majority of people who get it have no long term issues but we've made it this far, I'd like to be able to say we protected her all the way through. They need to hurry up on that under-5 vaccine 😕
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Kalli posted:Man that place ruled so much. They cracked down by the mid 90's and instead of this giant mall full of piracy, there'd be guys at the entrance of the place that'd ask you if you wanted software, and they'd take you to fake store fronts and eventually (kinda scarily) random rear end apartments where you'd get all the poo poo you'd want. But the cocaine is Photoshop 6.2
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3 DONG HORSE posted:Driving or flying to Phoenix at the end of the month for work (25/26-28)...any recommendations? Hockey tickets are cheap because the Coyotes suck. The area is close to State Life Stadium if you wanted to go into the Cards team shop in Glendale. Plenty of parks and trails for walking. Barrett Jackson Classic Car Auction is in Scottsdale that week. Mill St in Tempe is the student area if you want to feel old and you are close by to the Tempe “Beach” on the Salt River.
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Did anybody ever play Hodge ‘n’ Podge That game rules
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Pron on VHS posted:Everyone remembers the Oregon trail, but I loved playing the Yukon Trail and Amazon Trail games. Diablo 1 was my jam. I think I mentioned it in last year’s thread but I bought the remaster of 2, turned the “original graphics” option on, and immediately  ’d as it made me feel 1000 years old.
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My parents had a DOS PC made by... Hyundai or something, built in 1986. We had a ton of games there that we'd get from Shareware stores in the mall. A lot of games I remember: - Commander Keen - Adventures of Captain Comic - Cloud Kingdoms - Duke Nukem - Crystal Caves - Helicopter Simulator - World Class Leaderboard, a golf game I also remember playing a lot of the Super Solvers games, like Operation Neptune, Midnight Rescue, Challenge of the Ancient Empires, and Treasure Mountain. Can't believe I had fun learning things.
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I was just saying the other day to my SO that it was shocking that we hadn't gotten COVID yet here in Brooklyn. Lo and behold, a person we saw here at the apartment on Saturday night just told us that she tested positive today. Womp.
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scorched earth played SO MUCH scorched earth
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Leperflesh posted:scorched earth Yes absolutely. I remember my dad getting frustrated trying to tell me that I should aim at 45 degrees to get max distance as all my ICBM shots splatter way short of the enemy tank
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seiferguy posted:My parents had a DOS PC made by... Hyundai or something, built in 1986. We had a ton of games there that we'd get from Shareware stores in the mall. A lot of games I remember: Same. Played a ton of Commander Keen, Crystal Caves, Dark Ages (with the super buff blonde mullet guy), and I specifically remember Monster Bash because it was like 5 floppy disks and it was just inconceivable at the time that a game could be that big. It was probably like 10 megs lol I actually never played the Oregon Trail, we didn't have it. But like Shoah I played a ton of Yukon and even moreso Amazon Trail and always tried to get a picture of every single animal and tree in the game before I'd die of malaria. Don't think I ever actually did it.
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My first video game played was Adventure on Atari because my step dad at the time had it for some reason. I can't remember how old I was, pretty young. The second game I played was ET on Atari and I played it once for 10 minutes and then never played it again and I'm surprised it didn't turn me off to games completely. My first PC games were O'dell Lake and Oregon Trail When I got older and got my own PC it didn't have hardly any space on it so I would have to uninstall a game to install another. I figured out where the save files were stored so it wasn't really much of a problem. I'd swap between Raptor: Call of the Shadows (which still owns) and Leisure Suit Larry.
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Myst. I wonder how that game holds up.
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Probably better then Pyst https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fo-DH8VlsM
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swickles posted:Myst. I wonder how that game holds up. I played it recently and it’s still good. You can get it cheap on Good Old Games
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swickles posted:Myst. I wonder how that game holds up. I LOVED Myst. SB bought me the sequel, Riven, for Christmas one year when we were still dating. Puzzle games are my jam.
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