• Gloomy@mander.xyz
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    4 months ago

    Insects. At night there would be plenty of insects under every singe street lamp. The windscreen would be full of yellow goo after driving in summer.

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    4 months ago

    Games used to come with books to read, and their anti-piracy measure was to give you a page number and tell you to enter the first word on the page to activate the software.

    Of course, you’d copy that floppy and write the code word on the label for your friends.

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    4 months ago

    When you turned the TV on you had to wait a minute for it to ‘warm up’. The black and white image would slowly emerge out of the darkness.

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      4 months ago

      And then it made that “warm up” sound, like a “klank!” Or something clicking inside the tv

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      4 months ago

      Big caveat, printers have always been unholy hellish abominations that sense your fear and exploit it right before delivering that so important THING you need to print

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    4 months ago

    Let’s listen to this radio station play an unholy noise for about 30 minutes, record it in a cassette tape, and play the game recorded in those BAUD BOIS