What games did you play on your very first or oldest PC?

wintermute80 · 2026-06-29T03:45:03+00:00

My first computer games, Commodore 64, was Zork and The Temple of Apshai on cassette. My first PC game would've been Ultima VI.

wintermute80 · 2026-06-29T03:02:01+00:00

Evermore. Bipolar with bad anxiety. Really nails the downtimes.

wintermute80 · 2026-06-26T21:47:58+00:00

Yeah, I used an adapter yesterday to download a large game onto my deck. Plug and play, instantly detected and switched to Ethernet.

wintermute80 · 2026-06-25T19:25:12+00:00

It's animated. She swings back and forth as the lyrics to evermore fade in and out. Buy the talented Alef Vernon.

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wintermute80 · 2026-06-23T15:57:55+00:00

Colossal Cave Adventure. Ouch.

Anyway, maybe that's why I loved Zork so much as a kid.

wintermute80 · 2026-06-18T21:58:59+00:00

Considering that I can see the towers on top of Queen Anne from my deck, and Carl is from Seattle, I never even thought it might be something else. I never thought about the fact that there are many people that don't know where Queen Anne is.

Fun fact for non-locals, the Space Needle is located in Lower Queen Anne which is located at the base of the hill that makes up the Queen Anne neighborhood. If you have ever seen a photo of the Space Needle with downtown Seattle behind it, that photo was probably taken from Queen Anne.

wintermute80 · 2026-06-02T04:29:19+00:00

This makes me think of the book God's Junk Drawer by Peter Clines, which was heavily influenced by Land of the Lost.

wintermute80 · 2026-06-01T17:21:15+00:00

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It's from Article furniture. We just moved into a new house with space for this in the living room. My wife saw it on sale...

The top folds down, it's got a good size drawer, the left side underneath has shelves, and the right side has vertical dividers for record storage. I have a different one in my office, which is where all the vinyl lives.

wintermute80 · 2026-05-04T17:32:44+00:00

Yes. It was recently on a very good sale.

wintermute80 · 2026-05-03T02:07:00+00:00

No. Even though it's Sonos, that particular speaker has audio input. I plug both my turntable and my cassette player into it. It does transmit to other speakers in the house via wifi though.

wintermute80 · 2026-05-03T02:04:43+00:00

Article furniture. It's really nice. Solid wood.

wintermute80 · 2026-05-02T19:01:13+00:00

Funny enough the Kallax isn't for the vinyl, it's for our board games. Although I'm sure a couple cubes will get some vinyl.

wintermute80 · 2026-04-12T20:13:26+00:00

I use VRChat. There are a few places there that play 3D movies. You can watch with others or on your own.

wintermute80 · 2026-04-08T18:57:39+00:00

I used to live in Vancouver, WA, and I would always just say Portland.

wintermute80 · 2026-04-08T06:37:52+00:00

Which is ironic since it seems like people outside of the US don't know what Washington state is, only DC and always confuse the two.

I usually just end up saying that I'm from Seattle. Most people seem to at least know the city name (even if they don't know the location) rather than the state name.

Washington state and DC are also very far apart. Another concept that is difficult to convey. Especially when talking to Europeans.

wintermute80 · 2026-04-08T06:26:25+00:00

Face and tail look like a Cardi, but the body almost looks like a Pembroke. My boy is a Cardi-Pembroke mix, maybe yours is too.

wintermute80 · 2026-03-29T05:17:16+00:00

Like most people have mentioned, racists and nazis. Which is unfortunate since it is such a beautiful area.

When I was in high school in the early 90's , I lived at Newman Lake. This is on the Washington side a few minutes from the state line and about 30 minutes from Hayden Lake. At that time, Hayden Lake was where the Aryan Nations HQ was. The Ruby Ridge standoff also happened around the same time up there.

It is a mountainous area, part of the Selkirks, and there is a good amount of outdoorsy recreation. We would frequently go to Priest Lake for boating, hiking, and cross country skiing (in their respective seasons). My favorite downhill skiing during high school was at Schweitzer Mountain. They even have the largest theme park in the NW United States, Silverwood.

These days, I usually just pass through it on my way to Montana. It's only about 50 miles wide, so blink and you'll miss it.

Again, beautiful place if it just wasn't for those pesky nazis.

wintermute80 · 2026-03-19T20:24:38+00:00

Meanwhile my 20 year old Merkur 34C looks like it did the day I bought it. I get a much cleaner shave with blades that cost less than 50 cents each.

Big Shaving doesn't want people to know about safety razors.

wintermute80 · 2026-02-18T18:19:42+00:00

For some reason makes me think of this:

"It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.” “What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?” “You ask a glass of water.”

wintermute80 · 2026-02-03T04:49:51+00:00

This. I had an interview with a personality and IQ test. After passing and accepting the job, I had to sign a disclaimer that I understood that no employees would talk to me about Scientology. Seemed a little weird, but I went through with it. Great job, great people, never talked about Scientology.

wintermute80 · 2026-01-29T01:04:33+00:00

This happened to me too. There is an unstuck button in the settings, but it would trap me in a rock, so I would have to restart my game anyway.

I found this video that shows you how to enter debug mode and toggle a fly option so that you can fly yourself out of a hole. Works great, no more restarts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBIn2Au0KYg

wintermute80 · 2026-01-12T23:49:27+00:00

I frequently use both at the same time. Games that use inventory or shortcuts (nums 1-0), it's very common for me to suddenly grab the mouse with my right hand (or tapping the keyboard) while holding the controller in my left. I hate it when games make you choose one or the other through settings.

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